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

1900 to 2030

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

12:45 to 16:30

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

12:45 to 16:30

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.

Amy De'Ath: Poetry Reading 15 February

Tuesday 15 February 2011

7:30pm

Amy De'Ath: Poetry Reading 17 February

Thursday 17 February 2011

7:30pm

UCAS Day: 23 February

Wednesday 23 February 2011

12:45 to 16:30

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.

Amy De'Ath: Poetry Reading 24 February

Thursday 24 February 2011

time: TBC

Amy De'Ath: Poetry Reading 26 February

Saturday 26 February 2011

7:30

UCAS Day: 9 March

Wednesday 9 March 2011

12:45 to 16:30

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

4pm to 6pm

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

12:00PM to 15:00PM

Find out more about Languages in our new Learning Centre

'Cultures in Contact' Research Forum (Ann Heilman)

Thursday 9 February 2012

6PM
Ann Heilman, Hull University

'Cultures in Contact' Research Forum (Jane Aaron)

Wednesday 29 February 2012

4PM
Professor Jane Aaron, University of Glamorgan

Languages on the Move

Wednesday 7 March 2012

1:30PM to 2:30PM

Introducing the new MA programmes in English Literature and in Creative Writing

Wednesday 14 March 2012

4PM
Professor Justin Edwards, Dr Paul Vlitos and Dr Churnjeet Mahn

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

06:00PM
Professor Fred Botting

‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Galya Diment)

Monday 19 March 2012

5PM
Professor Galya Diment, University of Washington

‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Robert Hampson)

Wednesday 28 March 2012

4PM
Professor Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway

English Revision Boot Camp

Saturday 31 March 2012

09:30 to 13:00

Evening Language Courses Open Evening

Monday 16 April 2012

7PM

The linguistic relativity of social action

Wednesday 2 May 2012

2PM
Jörg Zinken (University of Portsmouth)

‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Jennifer Coates)

Wednesday 9 May 2012

04:00PM
Professor Jennifer Coates (University of Roehampton)

Surrey Poetry Festival

Saturday 19 May 2012

2 PM to 8 PM

‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Emma Parker)

Wednesday 23 May 2012

04:00PM
Dr. Emma Parker (University of Leicester)

‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum (Carole Edwards)

Thursday 7 June 2012

04:00PM
Dr. Carole Edwards (Texas Tech University)

Jon Ronson to speak as part of the annual University of Surrey English PEN Lecture series

Thursday 14 June 2012

5PM
Jon Ronson, best-selling author of The Psychopath Test, The Men who Stare at Goats, and regular contributor to The Guardian

World of Work (WoW!)

Monday 18 June 2012

10AM to 2:30PM

Dickens and the Visual Imagination

Monday 9 July 2012

09:15AM to 17:00PM

Evening Language Courses Open Evening

Monday 24 September 2012

7pm to 8:30pm

'Yeats Early and Late' by Bernard O'Donoghue

Thursday 4 October 2012

6PM to 7PM
Bernard O'Donoghue

English PEN Event: BONES WILL CROW

Thursday 25 October 2012

6.30PM

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.

Surrey LACES Language Café

Wednesday 7 November 2012

17.00pm

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

fashion designer Ronaldo Fraga and Pamela Church Gibson of London College of Fashion

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

6:45pm

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.

Alumni Foreign Film Night

Wednesday 14 November 2012

6:45pm

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

17:00pm

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.

Paving your way in the translation industry

Wednesday 21 November 2012

1500-1700

SEL PGR Rest meeting

Wednesday 21 November 2012

14:00-15:30

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

6:45PM

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

17.00pm

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

12:00 to 13:00
Rosina Marquez Reiter

Alumni Foreign Film Night

Wednesday 28 November 2012

6:45pm

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

17.00pm

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

15:00 to 16:00
Christian Krekeler

Rendering implicit film dialogue meaning in AVT

Wednesday 5 December 2012

1500-1700

Surrey LACES Language Café

Wednesday 5 December 2012

17.00pm

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

4PM to 6PM

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.

Working in the language services sector

Wednesday 12 December 2012

1500-1700

South East Morphology Meeting (SEMM)

Friday 25 January 2013

9:00 to 17:00

The Surrey Morphology Group (SMG) is organizing the South East Morphology Meeting (SEMM) on 25 January 2013, here at the University of Surrey.

Languages Open Day - Drop-In Event

Wednesday 30 January 2013

12:00 to 15:00

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

5PM

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!!

UGPN: TRANS project Workshop

Friday 15 February 2013

10:00 to 16:00

A Political Peter Pan

Monday 18 February 2013

17:00-18:30
Professor John Milton, Sao Paulo Univresity

Language Cafes

Tuesday 19 February 2013

17:00

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.

Research Seminar 'Novels Without Borders'

Wednesday 20 February 2013

17:00
Professor Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos, professor of English, University of Sao Paulo

All staff and students are welcome to attend!

Language Cafes Feb_26

Tuesday 26 February 2013

17:00

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

17:00

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: 'Understanding and Translating Style'

Wednesday 6 March 2013

15:00 - 17:00
Professor Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia

Cultures In Contact: Modernist Intermediaries of Stirnerian Insurrection

Wednesday 6 March 2013

17:00

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

17:00

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

15:00 - 17:00
Dr Piotr Kuhiwczak, The Red Cross UK

Staff LACES Language Cafe

Wednesday 13 March 2013

12:00 to 13:50

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

11:30 to 12:30

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

13:30 to 14:30

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

14:30 to 15:30

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.

Flash Reading Mob

Friday 15 March 2013

15:40 to 16:00

A flash mob with a literary twist!  

Surrey New Writers' Festival Launch Party

Friday 15 March 2013

17:30 to 22:00

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

11:00 to 11:30

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

11:45 to 12:45

This panel features Stephen Mooney, Alwyn Marriage, and David Ashford.

Lunch with Author Liam Bell

Saturday 16 March 2013

12:45 to 13:45

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.  

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Humour and Writing Panel

Saturday 16 March 2013

13:45 to 14:45

Laugh along with humour experts Paul Vlitos, Cornelius Medvei and Tim Miles.  This panel will be moderated by Chris Stevens.

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Editing and Being Edited

Saturday 16 March 2013

14:45 to 15:45

This panel features Alison MacLeod, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Michael Bedo.

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Agent's Corner

Saturday 16 March 2013

16:00 to 17:00

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. 

Buy tickets

Language Cafes19March

Tuesday 19 March 2013

17:00

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

17:00
Dr Catherine Wynne

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.

Cultures in Contact: Conrad and Cosmopolitanism

Wednesday 1 May 2013

17:00

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.

Cultures in Contact: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Literature

Wednesday 5 June 2013

17:00

Connie Scarborough, Professor of Spanish and Mediaeval 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.

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

Mike Hulme (University of East Anglia) Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University) Catriona Sandilands (York University, Canada)

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