Institute of Cornish Studies Seminar Series for 2021-22
ICS Seminar Series 2021-22
The Institute of Cornish Studies (ICS) Seminar Series will be held on the second Thursday of every month at 4pm. There will be a different speaker each month, which will include staff, postgraduate students and honorary research fellows. The speakers for the 2021-22 programme will be looking at new research areas of the Institute and will cover topics such as Cornish place names, dialect, language and landscape.
About the seminar series
Dates: 9 December 2021, 13 January 2022, 10 February 2022, 10 March 2022, 12 May 2022 and 9 June 2022.
Time: 4 – 5pm (GMT) on the above dates.
Location: In person events on the Penryn Campus.
Format:
Summary of seminar speakers and topics
Theme: Matt will talk about investigating the impact of war on Cornish coastal communities.
Location: Exchange Blue, Penryn Campus
Time: 4 - 5pm (GMT)
Theme: An Anatomy of Cornish Brittonic Place Names: Monothematic and dithematic forms and their Prevalence.
Location: Exchange Blue, Penryn Campus
Time: 4 - 5pm (GMT)
Theme: Dr Lucy Ellis will be talking about The Language and Society Unit of the Institute of Cornish Studies.
Location: Exchange Courtyard 9, Penryn Campus
Time: 4 - 5pm (GMT)
Theme: A Fear of Falling: The Disused Mine Shaft and the Politics of Everyday Danger in Modern Cornwall.
Location: Daphne Du Maurier building, Seminar C, Penryn Campus
Time: 4 - 5pm (GMT)
Theme: Dictionaries and Dramas: 19th Century Publications on the Cornish Language.