35.2643, Confs: 'Wonders of the World': The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society Conference 2024

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Subject: 35.2643, Confs: 'Wonders of the World': The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society Conference 2024

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Date: 26-Sep-2024
From: Naomi Adam [naomi.adam at nottingham.ac.uk]
Subject: 'Wonders of the World': The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society Conference 2024


'Wonders of the World': The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society
Conference 2024
Short Title: LTS

Date: 25-Oct-2024 - 25-Oct-2024
Location: MS Teams, Online, United Kingdom
Contact: LTS Conference Organising Committee
Contact Email: pg-lts at nottingham.ac.uk
Meeting URL: lts-wow.eventbrite.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Ling &
Literature; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     English (eng)
                     Malay (zlm)
                     Scots (sco)
                     Tagalog (tgl)

Meeting Description:

The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society is delighted to open
announce that registrations are now open for our 2024 conference,
centred around the theme 'Wonders of the World'.

The one-day, online event will showcase cutting-edge research
conducted by postgraduate students and early-career researchers
working in the disciplines of linguistics, modern foreign languages,
literary studies, cultural studies, and more.

The conference will comprise four panels of paper presentations, a
poster session, a publishing-focused roundtable, a keynote lecture,
and a virtual pub quiz to round off the day. The keynote will be
delivered by Dr Jess Norledge, who will speak about 'A Darker Kind of
Wonder'.

All are welcome and inivited to browse the full programme and sign up
for free at lts-wow.eventbrite.com.

‘Wonders of the World’ | The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society
Conference 2024

9.30–9.45*    Welcome and introduction

Kat Rolfe & Qizhu Zhao | University of Nottingham
Conference organising team


9.45–10.45      Panel 1. Histories and Herstories

‘“Out On Their Geg”: Women, class and popular performance in Belfast’
Claire Murphy | Queen’s University Belfast

‘An Ironic Representation of Women as “Edifices of Nature” in
Mahapatara’s  “Summer” using Peter Hühn’s Narratological Framework’
Sai Vaishnavi & Dr. Maitali Khanna | Sri Sathya Institute of Higher
Learning

‘“I had found no beauty, no wonder to equal the cliff edge […] we had
just passed”: Hilda Doolittle, WWII, and the Wonder of Britain’s Royal
Air Force’
James Stevens | University of Nottingham

10.45–11.00     Comfort Break

11.00–12.00     Panel 2. Words across Worlds

‘Let’s Talk about “Class”: A perceptual study of UK biases towards
social class and personality traits’
Lucy Jackson | University of Glasgow

‘Echoes of Rebels: Singlish and Scots as Linguistic Identity’
Nicole Love | University of Edinburgh

‘From Beijing Streets to National Speech: The Role of Érhuà’
Sijie Mou | Queen’s University Belfast

12.00–13.00     Lunch Break

13.00–14.00     Panel 3.  Viewing Anew

‘Stereoscopic Views of the “American Wonders”’
Lewis Young | University of Nottingham

‘The Square Model as an Analytical Tool – Videogame Localisation from
a Multimodal and Interdisciplinary Perspective’
Guo Yu | University of Nottingham

‘The Fourth Perspective and the Transnational Police Procedural Novel’
Nina Bhadreshwar | University of Dundee

14.00–14.15     Comfort Break

14.15–15.15     Keynote

‘A Darker Kind of Wonder’
Dr Jess Norledge | University of Nottingham

15.15–15.30     Comfort Break

15.30–16.00     Poster Session and Publishing Roundtable

‘Trapos on the way: Political linguistic landscape in south-central
Philippines’
Rene Bonifacio | University of Nottingham

‘Community Wellbeing as a “Wonder of the World”’
Maggie Whittaker | University of Dundee

‘Speaking Volumes: How to Publish with LTS’
The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society Editors

16.00–16.15     Comfort Break

16.15–17.15     Panel 4. Wondering the World

‘Hobbes’ Metaphors – The Peak District, Rabelais, and Freud’
Rory Brooke | University of Dundee

‘Weird and Wonderful: Human/Tree Encounters in Richard Powers’ The
Overstory’
Teodora Noszkay | University of Manchester

‘Underbelly of the Taj: A socio-spatial study of the Dalit community
in Agra’
Shakshi Singh | Queen’s University Belfast

17.15–17.30    Closing remarks

Dr Naomi Adam | University of Nottingham & University of Liverpool
Conference organising team

18.00 onwards   Virtual Pub Quiz/Social

*NB: All timings are in BST



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