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This conference aims to explore questions on the relationship between creativity, art, and language development. We have invited researchers, practitioners, and artists to create a platform for knowledge exchange. Some of the questions we will focus on include: 1. Can creativity and art help us to understand more about the way...

Part of Being Human, the UK's festival of the humanities, and Explorathon '20

Join our creative writing workshop with Scottish novelist and Senior Lecturer Alan Warner on Tuesday 10 November from 1pm-2.30pm (GMT). Explore and share your creative writing by submitting small excerpts of your work to Alan, which can then be explored together during a very informal live, online session. We will look...

Event for all LLMVC staff and students

This year’s Annual Public Lecture is part of the WayWORD Festival, and will take the form of an online discussion, reading and Q&A session with novelist and essayist Jenn Ashworth. Jenn will be talk about writing, and failing to write, about challenging the restraints of genre, and about the importance of...

How well do you know the world? Join us for a multiple-choice quiz on a mix of languages and cultures for a chance to make some friends and have some fun. The team-based quiz is open to all students, whether or not you are thinking of studying a language. We will make...

Great news! A new UoA festival for the 525th anniversary - WayWORD Festival 23-27 September 2020 - is a student-led literary arts festival brought to you by the WORD Centre for Creative Writing, featuring Lemn Sissay, Eimear McBride, Jenni Fagan, Alan Warner and many more... Author readings, performances, panel discussions and...

Dr Katya Krylova has co-organised a virtual conference (together with Dr Ernest Schonfield, University of Glasgow) on the landmark Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. The conference, entitled 'Thomas Bernhard: Language, History, Subjectivity' (originally scheduled to take place at the Goethe Institute Glasgow in June 2020) will take place on 17-18 September...

The 黑料网 will hold a Virtual Postgraduate Open Day on Thursday 19 March. It is open to everyone who is interested in Postgraduate Taught and Research study.

I am very pleased to announce the next Centre for the Novel event. On Wednesday 18th March, 11:00 (MacRobert 055), Professor Jeannette King will deliver a research paper: 'Conquistadora! Love and Conquest in Isabel Allende's Inés of my Soul'. All welcome, light refreshments will be provided.