Date

Speaker

Title

15th October, 2007

Richard Ingham (Birmingham City University)

Bilingualism and language education in medieval England

5th November, 2007

Professor Karl-Gunnar A. Johansson (Oslo)

To re-write the present. The transmission and transformation of Old Norse genres in a European context

Stefka Georgieva Eriksen (Oslo)

Re-writing and reception. Translation and communicative strategies in the riddarasögur

10th December, 2007

Jimmy Lowther (Bristol)

The Political Context of the Vernacular revival in late Ricardian England.

4th February, 2008

Aidan Keally Conti (University of Bergen)

Rudis maternae linguae gravedo: Choosing Latin or Norse in early Christian Scandinavia

3rd March 2008

Sarah Rees Jones (York University)
Elizabeth Tyler (York University)
Bart Besamusca (Utrecht University)
Paul Wackers (Utrecht University)
Carol Symes (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)

Round Table discussion on Multilingualism in the Low Countries.

17th March

Serge Lusignan, (University of Montreal)

The Picard French in the North West of Europe: language of public administrations and language in contact with Dutch

21st April

Keith Busby (Madison-Wisconsin)

Medieval Francophonia