University English AGM 2023
We are delighted to be back in person for the first time since 2019. Join us on April 14-15th for a programme covering the use of technology in teaching; the ongoing impact of the pandemic on students and how best to support them; working with data; content warnings, and developing research environments. We will have a keynote speaker on the current state of English, and the UE Book Prize will be awarded. We will also be holding a business meeting where we can update you on UE activities and our responses to the current difficult context in which many departments are finding themselves.
Delegates’ fees are £100. If any ECR colleagues wish to attend, and you are unable to have your costs covered by your institution, we have a limited number of travel bursaries for which you can apply. Please contact Gail Marshall (g.marshallATreading.ac.uk) with details of your anticipated travel costs.
PROGRAMME
UE AGM, 14-15 April Senate House, London. Hosted by the Institute of English Studies
FRIDAY
12-12.30 Registration
12.30-2 Content Notes, FOI requests and teaching sensitive topics
Ashleigh Charles (Nottingham), Michael Meeuwis (Warwick), Anne Schwan (Edinburgh Napier), Samantha Matthews (Bristol)
2-2.15 TEA
2.15-3.45 Teaching and New Technologies
Clare Hutton (Loughborough), David Berry (Sussex), Lisa Gee (Birmingham)
3.45-5 Keynote Lecture
Stefan Collini (Cambridge), ‘Justifying “English”: scenes from the history of a discipline’
5 Drinks reception, and UE book prize presentation
SATURDAY
9.30-11 Covid-teaching in 2023: how normal is the new normal?
Michelle Jayman (Roehampton), Debbie McVitty (WONKHE), Abigail Shinn (Goldsmiths)
11-11.15 COFFEE
11.15-12.45 UE Business meeting, including up-dates on work with SUMS and PR consultants
12.45-1.45 LUNCH
1.45-3.15 Departmental research environments: learning from the REF
Cathy Shrank (Sheffield), Isabel Davis (Birkbeck), Katharine Craik (Oxford Brookes), Paul Crosthwaite (Edinburgh)
