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In January 2026, two Northumbria colleagues, Billy Clark and Tony Williams will take part in a special session on ‘Producing and Evaluating Style’ at the Modern Language Association (ML…

The next speaker in our Institute of Humanities research seminar series is Professor Joanna Gavins from the University of Sheffield. The talk’s title is Every little ‘help’: understandin…

Telling stories, communicating, getting your message out, making your voice heard...is it an art or a science? Could it be both? This evening we will be jo…

Telling stories, communicating, getting your message out, making your voice heard...is it an art or a science? Could it be both? This evening we will be jo…

The next speaker in our English Language and Linguistics research seminar series is Professor Robyn Carston from University College London The talk’s title is Polysemy, Pragmatics and Word Me…

The next speaker in our English Language and Linguistics research seminar series is Professor Natalie Braber from Nottingham Trent University The talk’s title is ‘Is our language part o…

Babel Lecture 2024

Synopsis The orphan Cole wanders the world, seeking the fabled Underground City which he has promised his love Sigrid he will find. Somewhere else entirely, Niven sits in a palace garden taking lesson...