Events
We run a variety of events, from regular research seminars, schools activities to international conferences. You can see what events we have coming up by looking through the event calendar.
Open Evening
Monday 10 January 2011
Visit the department, share a glass of wine with the tutors and ask any questions you may have about the courses.
UCAS Day: 19 January
Wednesday 19 January 2011
The Department of English will be hosting UCAS Days for prospective students. Other UCAS Days will take place on 9 February, 23 February, and 9 March.
UCAS Day: 9 February
Wednesday 9 February 2011
The Department of English will be hosting UCAS Days for prospective students. Other UCAS Days will take place on 19 January, 23 February, and 9 March.
UCAS Day: 23 February
Wednesday 23 February 2011
The Department of English will be hosting UCAS Days for prospective students. Other UCAS Days will take place on 19 January, 9 February, and 9 March.
UCAS Day: 9 March
Wednesday 9 March 2011
The Department of English will be hosting UCAS Days for prospective students. Other UCAS Days will take place on 19 January, 9 February, and 23 February.
6th Form Language Routes into Christmas
Thursday 15 December 2011
An after-school session to give an insight into the study of a language at University by means of a short lecture. To be followed by a taster language in a more unusual language e.g. Chinese, Greek or Japanese and the opportunity to talk with staff and students about studying a language at University.
Open to everyone from Year 12/13 studying French, German or Spanish at A/S or A level.
Contact Liz Avis for registration and further details at e.avis@surrey.ac.uk
This event is sponsored by Routes into Languages.
Languages Open Day
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Find out more about Languages in our new Learning Centre
English Literature, English Literature with Creative Writing and English Literature with Languages UCAS Day
Wednesday 8 February 2012
'Cultures in Contact' Research Forum (Ann Heilman)
Thursday 9 February 2012
English Literature, English Literature with Creative Writing and English Literature with Languages UCAS Day
Wednesday 22 February 2012
'Cultures in Contact' Research Forum (Jane Aaron)
Wednesday 29 February 2012
English Literature, English Literature with Creative Writing and English Literature with Languages UCAS Day
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Introducing the new MA programmes in English Literature and in Creative Writing
Wednesday 14 March 2012
In October 2012 the School of English and Languages at the University of Surrey is intending to launch two new one-year Master's Programmes:
- The MA in English Literature
- MA in Creative Writing.
On the 14th March 2012 there will be an opportunity to find out more about these new programmes.
Professor Justin Edwards, Dr Paul Vlitos and Dr Churnjeet Mahn will be introducing the programmes: What does studying for an MA in English Literature or an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Surrey involve? How and why might you decide that either programme is the right next step for you? What opportunities might an MA in English Literature or Creative Writing open up or lead on to? How should you go about applying?
‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Fred Botting)
Thursday 15 March 2012
‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Galya Diment)
Monday 19 March 2012
‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Robert Hampson)
Wednesday 28 March 2012
The linguistic relativity of social action
Wednesday 2 May 2012
‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Jennifer Coates)
Wednesday 9 May 2012
‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Emma Parker)
Wednesday 23 May 2012
‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Carole Edwards)
Thursday 7 June 2012
Jon Ronson to speak as part of the annual University of Surrey English PEN Lecture series
Thursday 14 June 2012
Dissemination workshop on Alor-Pantar languages
Friday 14 September 2012
The Surrey Morphology Group is holding a dissemination workshop on the Alor-Pantar languages at the British Academy in London.
Visual Texts: Links between Painting and Literature in the Victorian Period
Wednesday 10 October 2012
Felix Ustorf (Xerox Global Services): Technical translations at Xerox Global Services - a day in the life of a professional technical translator
Wednesday 24 October 2012
‘Novel Adaptation: Eliza Haywood and the Literary Marketplace’ Dr Holly Luhning, University of Surrey
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Defaults and Discreteness in Morphology
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Surrey Linguistics Circle is delighted to present a talk by Professor Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University.
South East Morphology Meeting
Wednesday 24 October 2012
SMG is hosting a South East Morphology Meeting: 'Computational Approaches to Morphological Complexity'. To be held at the University of Surrey
English PEN Event: BONES WILL CROW
Thursday 25 October 2012
At a turning point in Burma’s history with the release from detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and an amnesty given to some imprisoned writers, the University of Surrey’s English PEN Society presents a performance of Burmese poetry read in English by staff and students.
Linguists' question time - Professional translators and interpreters on the practical aspects of working as a freelancer
Wednesday 31 October 2012
Getting started in-house - Project management and quality control in an international localization company
Wednesday 7 November 2012
‘Sisterhood and Female Friendship in a Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany: Constance Aston Fowler’s Manuscript Anthology’
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Surrey LACES Language Café
Wednesday 7 November 2012
LACES is the University’s Language and Culture Exchange Scheme. We’ll help you find a language partner who speaks the language you want to learn or improve. In return you can help them practise your first language.
A TALE OF THREE CITIES
Friday 9 November 2012
Our Brazilian Lector Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva together with Maria Claudia Bonadio (Senac, Fapesp) and Pamela Church Gibson (London College of Fashion) are organising the first ever conference to look at contemporary Brazilian fashion in England, and in the context of globalisation.
Alumni Foreign Film Night
Friday 9 November 2012
You are warmly invited to the first of four Alumni Foreign Film Nights in the University of Surrey. The event is free and open to all University community.
What I wish I'd known at the start: Practical aspects of starting out as a freelance translator
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Alumni Foreign Film Night
Wednesday 14 November 2012
This is the second of four Alumni Foreign Film Nights in the University of Surrey - all welcome! The event is free and open to all University community.
Surrey LACES Language Café
Wednesday 14 November 2012
LACES is the University’s Language and Culture Exchange Scheme. We’ll help you find a language partner who speaks the language you want to learn or improve. In return you can help them practise your first language.
SEL PGR Rest meeting
Wednesday 21 November 2012
REST stands for Research Students and is a series of meetings meant for PGR students to support each other in a friendly environment. The meetings are separate from PGR trainings organised by the School and are a means for students to catch up on their work, practise presentations or discuss relevant problems.
Alumni Foreign Film Night
Wednesday 21 November 2012
This is the third of four Alumni Foreign Film Nights in the University of Surrey - all welcome! The event is free and open to all University community.
Surrey LACES Language Café
Wednesday 21 November 2012
LACES is the University’s Language and Culture Exchange Scheme. We’ll help you find a language partner who speaks the language you want to learn or improve. In return you can help them practise your first language.
In search of good value for money: fabricated ignorance to the rescue
Wednesday 21 November 2012
Alumni Foreign Film Night
Wednesday 28 November 2012
This is the last one of four Alumni Foreign Film Nights in the University of Surrey - all welcome! The event is free and open to all University community.
Surrey LACES Language Café
Wednesday 28 November 2012
LACES is the University’s Language and Culture Exchange Scheme. We’ll help you find a language partner who speaks the language you want to learn or improve. In return you can help them practise your first language.
Plagiarism in academic writing - the role of culture
Friday 30 November 2012
Surrey LACES Language Café
Wednesday 5 December 2012
LACES is the University’s Language and Culture Exchange Scheme. We’ll help you find a language partner who speaks the language you want to learn or improve. In return you can help them practise your first language.
6th Form Language Routes into Christmas
Tuesday 11 December 2012
An afterschool session to give an insight into the study of a language at University by means of a short lecture. To be followed by a taster language session in a more unusual language (Chinese, Greek or Russian) and the opportunity to talk with staff about studying a language at University.
South East Morphology Meeting (SEMM)
Friday 25 January 2013
The Surrey Morphology Group (SMG) is organizing the South East Morphology Meeting (SEMM) on 25 January 2013, here at the University of Surrey.
Morphophonology
Friday 25 January 2013
South East Morphology Meeting (SEMM) on Morphophonology
Languages Open Day - Drop-In Event
Wednesday 30 January 2013
Do you know which language attracts the highest number of students to our School? Is it French, German, Spanish or something more exotic such as Mandarin Chinese, Arabic or Japanese?
Actually, it’s none of these – it’s English!
Language Cafes are back every Tuesday 5pm!
Tuesday 5 February 2013
After the success of our LACES Language Cafes last semester, we're starting a new series of Language Cafes in Semester 2.
The first one will start on Tuesday 5th February 2013 and they will run every Tuesday at 5pm, with the last one being on 19th March.
Please come along!!
A Political Peter Pan
Monday 18 February 2013
Language Cafes
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Improve your language skills at these weekly meetings!
What do you need to do?
1) Just turn up and start talking. It's all languages every week to help you set up regular groups, but we'll sign post some languages to get you pointed in the right direction.
2) Bring your friends! The more people, the more successful it will be.
The lexical semantics of nouns and adjectives and variation in property concepts
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Surrey Linguistics Circle is delighted to present a talk by Andrew Koontz-Garboden,University of Manchester on 'The lexical semantics of nouns and adjectives and variation in property concepts'.
Research Seminar 'Novels Without Borders'
Wednesday 20 February 2013
All staff and students are welcome to attend!
Computational approaches to Morphological Complexity
Friday 22 February 2013
Surrey Morphology Group is holding a one-day workshop on computational approaches to morphological complexity, hosted by Paris, Sorbonne
Language Cafes Feb_26
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Improve your language skills at these weekly meetings!
What do you need to do?
1) Just turn up and start talking. It's all languages every week to help you set up regular groups, but we'll sign post some languages to get you pointed in the right direction.
2) Bring your friends! The more people, the more successful it will be.
Language Cafes_March05
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Improve your language skills at these weekly meetings!
What do you need to do?
1) Just turn up and start talking. It's all languages every week to help you set up regular groups, but we'll sign post some languages to get you pointed in the right direction.
2) Bring your friends! The more people, the more successful it will be.
Reconstructing elements of early human language
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Surrey Linguistics Circle is delighted to present a talk by Tania Kuteva (jointly with Bernd Heine and Gunther Kattenbock), Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf
SEMINAR: 'Understanding and Translating Style'
Wednesday 6 March 2013
Cultures In Contact: Modernist Intermediaries of Stirnerian Insurrection
Wednesday 6 March 2013
In this seminar, Dr. Contance Bantman, from the University of Surrey presents: ‘Charles Malato: portrait of an anarchist intermediary’.
Dr. David Ashford from the University of Surrey presents: ‘Modernist Intermediaries of Stirnerian Insurrection’
All staff and students are welcome to attend!
Language Cafes12March
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Improve your language skills at these weekly meetings!
What do you need to do?
1) Just turn up and start talking. It's all languages every week to help you set up regular groups, but we'll sign post some languages to get you pointed in the right direction.
2) Bring your friends! The more people, the more successful it will be.
SEMINAR: 'Interpreting and translating for the British Red Cross Refugee Services'
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Staff LACES Language Cafe
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Are you keen to learn a new language or improve existing skills? Staff LACES (Language And Culture Exchange Scheme) is great opportunity to do this. The online network aims to help you find a language partner who speaks the language you want to learn or improve. In return, you can help them practice your first language.
Chris Stevens Workshop
Friday 15 March 2013
Take part in this FREE workshop and discussion with Digital Designer and Author, Chris Stevens. Chris Stevens is the CEO of Atomic Antelope and designer of "Alice for the iPad". The session will conclude with a Q & A.
Garrett Turner - Spoken Word Artist
Friday 15 March 2013
This is another free event brought to you by the Surrey New Writers' Festival consisting of a performance, talk and Q & A with spoken word artist and Marshall Programme Speaker Garrett Turner.
Panel Discussion: Modes and Modalities of Audiovisual Translation
Friday 15 March 2013
Panel Discussion: Modes and modalities of audiovisual translation: Audio description and Monolingual Subtitling with Veronika Hyks, Audio Describer; Helen O'Brien, Subtitler; Dimitris Asimakoulas, lecturer in Translation Studies.
Surrey New Writers' Festival Launch Party
Friday 15 March 2013
Join in the party and celebrate the first ever Surrey New Writers' Festival! The evening includes readings by Paul Vlitos, David Ashford, and Holly Luhning, and a performance by Festival Songwriters-in-Residence, the Unicorn Lazers.
The Unicorn Lazers - Busking Session
Saturday 16 March 2013
Join the Surrey New Writers' Festival Songwriters-in-Residence for a busking session on Guildford's high street! The performance is likely to take place near Tunsgate Arch.
Poetry and Publishing Panel
Saturday 16 March 2013
This panel features Stephen Mooney, Alwyn Marriage, and David Ashford.
Lunch with Author Liam Bell
Saturday 16 March 2013
Come and have lunch with author Liam Bell and discuss his latest novel, "So It Is", which is our featured "Festival Book". Liam will offer some insights into the process of writing and the life of an author. He will also be available for Q & A and a general discussion about his novel.
Humour and Writing Panel
Saturday 16 March 2013
Laugh along with humour experts Paul Vlitos, Cornelius Medvei and Tim Miles. This panel will be moderated by Chris Stevens.
Editing and Being Edited
Saturday 16 March 2013
This panel features Alison MacLeod, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Michael Bedo.
Agent's Corner
Saturday 16 March 2013
Discussion and Q&A with Samantha Haywood, literary agent with and partner in the Transatlantic Literary Agency. This discussion will be moderated by Holly Luhning.
Language Cafes19March
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Improve your language skills at these weekly meetings!
What do you need to do?
1) Just turn up and start talking. It's all languages every week to help you set up regular groups, but we'll sign post some languages to get you pointed in the right direction.
2) Bring your friends! The more people, the more successful it will be.
Cultures in Contact: Bram Stoker, Magic and Illusion
Wednesday 20 March 2013
The ‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum brings academics from across the UK and overseas to the University of Surrey to present and discuss their research. It provides a valuable opportunity for us to welcome scholars whose work connects with our own research strengths across literature, communication, theory, and creative writing.
The format is usually a formal lecture (50 minutes) followed by questions and discussion.
Evening Language Classes
Monday 15 April 2013
Brush up a language for your summer holiday, or embark on learning a new one.
Please join us for a glass of wine and a chat with a language tutor of your chosen language.
Courses in Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, starting week beginning 22 April for 8 weeks.
Open to all with no formal entry requirements.
Agreement in Archi
Friday 19 April 2013
The Surrey Morphology Group will be holding a one-day workshop on agreement in Archi at the University of Surrey.
Looking for Trouble - Translation as Problem-Solving
Wednesday 24 April 2013
Translation is seen as a core element of many modern language degree programmes, and in a sense is central to language learning. However, the skills developed in applied translation classes are valuable across all disciplines, as the focus is on finding and solving problems. In this presentation, we will look at how students can learn how to identify problems, as well as how to solve them. We will also consider how this approach can help students to develop critical and analytical skills, which are of value in other areas of the curriculum, and of life.
Cultures in Contact: Conrad and Cosmopolitanism
Wednesday 1 May 2013
Professor Robert Hampson from Royal Holloway, University of London presents a seminar on ‘Conrad and Cosmopolitanism’, as part of the English department's research seminar series, Cultures in Contact. All members of staff and postgraduate students are welcome to attend.
Going for plural: the piecemeal emergence of a fourth number value in Nen
Friday 3 May 2013
Surrey Linguistic Circle is delighted to present a talk by Nicolas Evans, Australian National University
Title: "Going for plural: the piecemeal emergence of a fourth number value in Nen"
Comparing what isn't there: Distribution and interpretation of null subjects
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Surrey Linguistic Circle is delighted to present a talk by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr "Comparing what isn't there: Distribution and interpretation of null subjects".
Cultures in Contact: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Literature
Wednesday 5 June 2013
Connie Scarborough, Professor of Spanish and Medieval Studies at Texas Tech, presents a seminar on ‘Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Literature’, as part of the English department's research seminar series, Cultures in Contact. All members of staff and postgraduate students are welcome to attend.
R(eference)-impersonals in Mauritian Creole
Wednesday 5 June 2013
Surrey Linguistic Circle is delighted to present a talk by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr entitled R(eference)-impersonals in Mauritian Creole with Muhsina Alleesaib (UMR 7023)
Surrey Poetry Festival 2013
Saturday 8 June 2013
Tickets are available from the University Box Office:
T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk
The third annual Surrey Poetry festival will take place in the beautiful, historic Guildhall in central Guildford. Featuring an international line-up of poets including Maggie O’Sullivan, Steve McCaffery, Karen Mac Cormack and William Rowe, book launches, poetic papers and a student showcase, it offers an opportunity to enjoy the varied and creative work produced by some of the most exciting, thoughtful and questioning UK poets.
Gothic Technologies/Gothic Techniques
Monday 5 August 2013
Recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies associated with Gothic literary and cultural production. Its presence is witnessed in how techno-science has contributed to the proliferation of the Gothic: the publishing and print culture disseminating Gothic texts, eighteenth-century architectural innovations, the on-line gaming and virtual Goth communities, the special effects of Gothic-horror cinema.
ASLE-UKI 2013 Biennial Conference
Thursday 29 August 2013
