[Corpora-List] Workshop Announcement: S=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E3o_?=Paulo, 7 and 9 October

[Paul Thompson]

Workshop Announcement: "Corpora and Society: opportunities and 
challenges for using corpora in interdisciplinary research"

Co-organised by:
University of Birmingham (UniBham)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC)
Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)

7th and 9th October, 2013

The workshop will take place at the Universidade de São Paulo, in Room 
260, the USP Prédio de Letras.

It is a free workshop. If you are interested in attending, please 
contact Paul Thompson (p.thompson at bham.ac.uk). The primary purpose of 
the workshop is to bring together researchers  from Birmingham and from 
Sao Paulo and other parts of Brazil, all of whom have strong interests 
in the use of corpora for social science research, or who are involved 
in social science research and want to explore the potential for using 
corpus resources and techniques in their work. Researchers from other 
institutions/countries are also welcome.

Programme

Monday, 7th October 2013. Room 260, USP Prédio de Letras.

9.00    Registration and Introduction to the workshop
Prof. Malcolm Press (Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge 
Transfer and Chair of the International Board at the University of 
Birmingham)
9.30    Dr. Paul Thompson (UniBham) 'Transcending disciplinary 
boundaries: corpus perspectives on interdisciplinarity and applications 
of corpus approaches across disciplines'
10:10    Prof. Malcolm Coulthard (UniBham and UFSC) 'Using Corpus 
Techniques in Forensic Authorship Attribution'
10:50 - 11:10    Coffee break
11:10 - 11:50    Dr Tony Berber Sardinha (PUC) National cultures in 
Google books: A multi-dimensional perspective
11:50 - 12.10    Renata Condi de Souza (PUC) 'Variation in TIME magazine 
cover stories: reflections of social, cultural, economical and political 
changes'
12:10 - 12.30     Marcia Veirano (PUC) '80 years of American culture 
through its cinema: A multi-dimensional perspective'
12.30 - 13:30    Lunch break
14:00    Dr Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard: (UniBham and UFSC) Semiótica 
Social Crítica:  o uso de corpora em discusos sobre envelhecimento
14:30    Lynn Mario Trindade Menezes de Souza (USP) and Walkyria Monte 
Mor (USP) Recent Research in Applied Linguistics at the DLM-USP
14:40    Coffee break
15:10    Dr Gabriela Saldanha: (UniBham) Brazil through Anglo-tinted 
lenses: a critical look at the Anglophone reception of Brazilian literature
15:40    Dr Sofia Malamatidou (UniBham) Adapting science for a Brazilian 
audience: Cultural identities in image and text

16:00    Coffee break
16:10 - 17:30    Panel on Building and exploiting multilingual and 
translational corpora for social research
17: 40    General Discussion


Wednesday, 9th October 2013 (Room 263, 30 places, USP, Prédio de Letras.

10:00    Welcome and opening remarks by Professor David Eastwood, 
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, followed by brief 
reports on the outcomes of the first day of the workshop and outline of 
strategic plan to be presented by the workshop coordinators.
11:30    Coffee  break
11: 50- 1 pm    Small group discussion
1-2pm    Lunch
2-4pm    Strategic plans to be completed (including, funding bodies to 
be targeted, lead investigator, aims)





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Dr Paul Thompson
Director, Centre for Corpus Research
Department of English
Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Phone: +44 121 4145688

Exams Officer, Department of English
Co-Editor, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
URL: www.elsevier.com/locate/jeap
To arrange a meeting, http://meetme.so/paulthompson
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