The European Society for the Study of English
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The European Society for the Study of English
The ESSE Messenger
The Board of the European Society for the Study English expresses its shock and dismay at the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine and the devastating escalation of violence. We fully support the statements published by UNESCO and by FILLM, the Fédération Internationale des Langues et Litératures Modernes, of which ESSE is a member association. We would like to convey our sympathy and solidarity to the people of Ukraine.
ESSE Book Awards 2022
For books first published in 2020 and 2021 (date on imprint page of published book)
ESSE Book Awards Ceremony
Monday, August 29, 2022, 14.00, Mainz
ESSE-16 Conference opening 13.30
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Bowers, Will. 2020. The Italian Idea: Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815–1823. Cambridge University Press.
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Faculty of Languages and Humanities, Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, is looking for a four-year full-time PhD researcher in the field of literary studies as part of the FWO funded research project “Broadcast Biographies. Innovations in Genre and Medium (1945-2020)”.
1. Project
This project is situated at the intersection of life writing, literary radio studies and cultural memory studies. It examines the literary radio biography in Britain and (West-)Germany in the period 1945-2020 along three complementary lines: its production and reception history, its genre and media conventions and its cultural memory function. Despite the rich history of biographical writing on and for radio, little research exists on the radio biography as genre, let alone on its role as a potential catalyst for genre and media innovation. Neither the vast scholarship on life writing nor the field of radio studies have paid systematic attention to biographies created specifically for the radio. Still, as this project aims to show, the radio biography gives us a unique insight in the ongoing mediation of life narratives and the history of radio itself. By writing lives for the radio, literary authors such as Alfred Andersch, Martin Esslin, Gerhard Rühm, Angela Carter and Tom Stoppard also chronicle the life of radio itself, reflecting on the possibilities and limits of both genre and medium.
In this project, we mainly focus on productions by (post)modernist and neo-avant-garde authors. We aim to study the genre and function of the broadcast biography, including its role in the transnational exchange between the two central national broadcasting cultures.
2. Position description
We offer a four-year full-time PhD position (subject to annual positive evaluation). The successful candidate will carry out the project as a doctoral researcher in close collaboration with the two supervisors at the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) at VUB. The candidate will write a doctoral dissertation on the subject of the literary radio biography, carry out archival work on selected authors and productions (in the UK and Germany), (co-)publish the results of the research in academic articles and books, present at national and international conferences and co-host scientific meetings. The candidate will complete the doctoral training programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at VUB and is expected to defend their doctoral dissertation in 2026. Please be aware that the position requires you to be present in the department on a regular basis (3 days per week).
3. Profile
4. Offer
5. Application procedure
Applications should include (in one PDF file):
Also include (in a separate PDF file) a writing sample (e.g. your MA thesis, a research paper or academic article). Clearly mention your name on your writing sample.
Please send your application by e-mail to both supervisors, Prof. dr. Inge Arteel (Inge.Arteel@vub.be) and Prof. dr. Birgit Van Puymbroeck (birgit.van.puymbroeck@vub.be). The deadline is 16 August 2022 (midnight, CET). Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in the week of 29 August 2022 on the Humanities Campus of Vrije Universiteit Brussel or online.
If you have any questions, please contact Inge.Arteel@vub.be or birgit.van.puymbroeck@vub.be
The FB06 of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germersheim Campus) is seeking a Lecturer with a specified function, part-time (75%), for our faculty’s British Studies (Anglistik) programme. We are looking for a lecturer who is a native speaker of English, with a focus on foreign language learning, translation and cultural studies (permanent position, from 01.10.2022). The deadline for applications is 10th July 2022. Details of the position and how to apply can be found here:
https://stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/HPv3.Jobs/jgu/stellenangebot/24983/Lehrkraft-fur-besondere-Aufgaben-m-w-d-im-Fach-Englisch
The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Debrecen University Press, and
The Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen
announce
a New Series of Peer Reviewed, Open Access scholarly books by HJEAS Books to be published by the Debrecen University Press in English.
The series will debut 21 June 2022 with It’s Time: What Living in Time Is Like by Donald E. Morse, Oakland University, USA and University of Debrecen.
To be followed by: “A wretchedness to defend”: Reading Beckett’s Letters by Erika Mihálycsa, Babes Bolyai University, Romania in November 2022, Negotiating Age: Aging and Ageism in Contemporary Literature and Theatre edited by Maria Kurdi, University of Pécs, Hungary in April 2023, and Central European Immigration to Canada, edited by Balazs Venkovits, University of Debrecen.
Future books will include: “COVID19: The Crisis in Care,” edited by Eszter Ureczky, University of Debrecen, “Perceiving-Thinking-Writing: Merleau-Ponty and Literature” by Donald Wesling, University of California, USA. Other titles in preparation include: “Coetzee and Dostoyevsky,” “The Female Detective,” “Ecocritism,” “American Free Verse,” and “Contemporary Irish Literature.”
All HJEAS Books are Open Access and are Peer Reviewed.
HJEAS Books will feature monographs, single author studies, and edited editions.
For further information see the HJEAS website: https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/aboutbooks Send all proposals to the relevant editor: https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/bookseditorialteam
Title: The English Verb Equation – An Easy Six-Step Logic to Get Your Verb Forms Right
Author: Cécile Cosculluela, Ph.D. (University of Pau, France)
Publisher: ESL Academy
Date of publication: 2022 (April)
Link to the book online (paperback, hardcover, and ebook): https://www.amazon.fr/English-Verb-Equation-Six-Step-Logic-ebook/dp/B09ZPW3TM6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1653391299&sr=8-1
How to get your verb forms right in English?
By understanding the simple and fundamental logic inherent in all verb forms.
This book shows that any time we put a verb in a sentence, we intuitively follow a basic six-step process that can be referred to as the English Verb Equation. It consists of a short sequence of operators that combine to create all possible verb forms in English. The Equation is simple because it is logical, and it is fundamental because it is at the core of any verb form. Once we know what the Equation is, we know for sure whether any of the verb forms we produce is correct or not, and it also gives us the keys to turning any incorrect verb form into a correct one. Applying the Equation is all it takes: either the verb form matches it, or we make it match it by following the steps.
The English Verb Equation is the fruit of more than two decades of research and practical applications with students of E.S.L. (English as a Second Language) in French Universities. It has been designed with and for those language learners who want to get clarity on how to give a form to a verb in order to produce only correct verb forms. It is also a didactic tool devised for teachers and professors of E.S.L. who lead their students towards understanding how to deal with verbs. Indeed, the Equation is a tool that exposes at a glance the simple logic behind any verb form in English, thereby offering a synoptic overview of the creation of any possible verb phrase. It is an easy-to-grasp fundamental logic summed-up in a holistic six-step formula that presides over the creation of finite verb phrases in English.
The English Verb Equation is ready for you to master your verb forms! Are you ready for it?
The English Verb Equation is book 1 of an English verb triad of books.
Book 2: The English Verb Formulas
Book 3: The English Verb Matrix
For further information, contact Cecile Cosculluela at semeiolinguistics@gmail.com
and watch her videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Lbn96dGFgOsicCRuGva1Q/playlists
InScriptum is a bi-disciplinary, multi-lingual online journal welcoming research on a broad spectrum of topics in literature and linguistics. Papers are published in English, Italian, Polish, Spanish, German, French, and occasionally other languages. Uncommon in its assay, the journal aims at inclusiveness and promotes cross-specialty enrichment. InScriptum is published by the Jan Kochanowski University Press with the support of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (USA), the University of Bergamo (Italy), and Jan Kochanowski University (Poland). Full text versions of articles published in the journal are freely available courtesy of the publisher in the open-access mode.
If you would like to publish your research with us, do send your contribution directly to inscriptum@ujk.edu.pl, or at either magdalena.ozarska@ujk.edu.pl or mozarska@gmail.com preferably by the end of June 2022, or – if you wish your paper to be considered for publication in subsequent volumes – at a later date. If you do not receive confirmation of receipt within two or three days, feel free to resend the material.
Information for Authors is to be found at
Information on our double-blind peer review policy:
For more information, see https://inscriptum.ujk.edu.pl.
Contact person: Cristiano Broccias <c.broccias@unige.it>
Subject: Assistant Professor in English Language and Linguistics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
University or Organization: University of Genoa
Department: Modern Languages and Culture
Job Location: Genoa, Italy
Web Address: https://lingue.unige.it/
Job Title: Assistant Professor in English Language and Linguistics
Job Rank: Assistant Professor
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics
Required Language(s): English (eng)
Deadline for applications: 16th May 2022 at noon
Prospective candidates must have:
Åbo Akademi University wishes to appoint a university lecturer in English Language (universitetslektor), including linguistics, starting from September 1, 2022, or as agreed.
Description of the position
The university lecturer will have a wide ranging responsibility for teaching, including courses in sociolinguistics, English linguistics, and applied linguistics, as well as in the social and historical context of English-speaking countries. Teaching tasks will also include courses in spoken and written skills. Additionally, the lecturer supervises and examines Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on language-related topics. Depending on the competences of the candidate, teaching duties may also include participation in courses that are provided jointly for all students in the faculty.
The university lecturer will be expected to participate in a variety of administrative tasks, such as coordination of the students’ language practice and exchange programmes with overseas universities.
A university lecturer may be given the opportunity to conduct research for a maximum of one third of the contract hours. The university lecturer will participate in departmental research seminars and contribute to the research activities of the subject.
The university lecturer has a total working time of 1,612 hours per year, and the work tasks will be defined in detail in an annual work plan. A trial period applies to all new employees.
Qualification requirements and evaluation
In accordance with the University Board’s decree, a university lecturer is required to have a doctorate in the subject they are teaching or in a closely related discipline, as well as pedagogical competence.
Application
The application should be submitted electronically in the University recruitment system (www.abo.fi/rekrytering) no later than 23 May 2022 at 3 PM (Finnish time) with the following enclosures:
The full announcement is posted at https://abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index.php?jid=544&key=&o=A_RJ&rspvt=p0bmodttrascsggcscck0wkcwg4gosg
By María José Luzón and Carmen Pérez-Llantada
Finally a definitive guide to academic genres online! Covering an impressive range of digital practices, this insightful and inspiring book masterfully demonstrates the connection between the affordances of digital media and the exigences of scientific communication.
– Christoph A. Hafner, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
This book presents an overview of the wide variety of digital genres used by researchers to produce and communicate knowledge, perform new identities and evaluate research outputs. The book explores what researchers can do with these genres, what meanings they can make and what language(s) they deploy in carrying out all these practices.
María José Luzón is Senior Lecturer at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Her research interests include genre analysis, digital genres, academic discourse, and English for Academic Purposes.
Carmen Pérez-Llantada is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Her research interests include genre analysis, English for Academic Purposes, academic writing, and rhetoric and composition.
Get 75% off when you order on our website before 31st March with code DGAKPC75: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781788924719.
The 2021 CDE conference officially opened with the welcoming words by the conference organiser Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg), followed by a welcome by Christiane Fäcke, the Dean of the Faculty of Philology and History at the University of Augsburg. The President of the society Ute Berns thanked the conference organisers for their work and commitment. Martin Middeke and Martin Riedelsheimer then introduced the conference theme.
The evening continued with the conference’s first keynote: London-based playwright Ella Hickson in interview with theatre critic Aleks Sierz (London), chaired by Martin Middeke and followed by Q&A. Hickson spoke about her path to becoming a playwright, and the provenance of her 2016 play Oil.
The second day of the conference started with the first panel (chaired by Ute Berns). Helen Gilbert (Royal Holloway, University of London) spoke on “Climate Change Theatre and the Conundrum of Time”. She traced instances of plays chronicling climate change in the Antarctic, such as the large-scale E. M. Lewis’s Magellanica (2018) on the one hand and the microdramatic short plays emerging from Chantal Bilodeau’s Climate Change Theatre Action project (2015-ongoing). Patrick Lonergan (NUI Galway) then spoke on “Staging the Great Acceleration: Carly Churchill’s Far Away on Spike Island, 2017″, suggesting to see the final act of the play as the current stage of the Anthropocene, and the first two acts as a kind of archaeology of how we arrived there.
The panel was followed by the second keynote, by Carl Lavery (University of Glasgow), who spoke on “Ecologising Theatre” (chaired by Martin Riedelsheimer) in the context of agency, politics and ethics.
In the afternoon, the second panel was chaired by Dorothee Birke. Christian Attinger (University of Augsburg) spoke on “An Ecology of Plants: the Post-Manufacturing Age in Philip Ridley’s Shivered and David Eldridge’s In Basildon“, discussing the way in which theatre points at the corporate social and ecological responsibilities of transnational corporations and might offer counter-reactions to the “Capitalocene”. Julia Rössler (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) then spoke on “Embodiment, Atmosphere, and Materiality: Ecological Aesthetics in the Theatre of Adam Rapp”, giving an overview of Rapp’s body of work by historically deriving it from Gertrude Stein and Richard Schechner and then focussing on Rapp’s 2004 play Faster.
The third panel (chaired by Anette Pankratz), brought together Kerstin Howaldt (University of Erfurt), Anna Street (Le Mans University) and Ramona Mosse (FU Berlin). Howaldt spoke about “Diffracting ‘Stabilized/Stabilizing Binaries’ of Climate Change Theatre (Plays)”, Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London and Richard Bean’s The Heretic in the context of Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway. In their paper “To Be Like Water – Material Dramaturgies in Unthinkable Environments”, Street and Mosse used three case studies of performing water to argue for fluidity and connectivity relate to notions of the unthinkable.
The day closed with the conference’s third keynote, chaired by Martin Middeke: London-based playwright Martin Crimp in interview with Aleks Sierz, followed by Q&A. Crimp spoke on theatres as an ecology, as a trans-European network.
The CDE Annual General Meeting took place in the morning of the third day.
The conference’s fourth panel took place in the afternoon and was chaired by Merle Tönnies. Leila Vaziri (University of Augsburg) spoke on “Alienation and Disgust – The Capitalocene in Contemporary Eco-Drama”, referring to Dawn King’s 2011 play Foxfinder and Tanya Ronder’s Fuck the Polar Bears (2015) to draw a line from Kristevan abjection theory to the human-animal divide and the alienating effect on the connections between humans and nature. Jill Gatlin (New England Conservatory) then spoke on “Performing Reception Justice: Audience Disturbance and Ecological Toxicity in Cherrie Moraga’s Heroes and Saints“, outlining how the play invites audiences to evaluate their privilege and potential allied action.
The fifth panel followed immediately afterwards (chaired by Clare Wallace). Linda Heß (University of Augsburg) spoke on “Playing the Petrocene: The Toxicity of National Discourse in Leigh Fondakowski’s Spill (2014) and Ella Hickson’s Oil (2016)”, arguing, alongside Judith Butler’s concept of grievability and Timothy Clark’s notion of scale, that both plays allow spectators to explore their own capacity for empathy and their entanglement into the ecological crisis on a global scale. Chukwuemeka Rowland Amaefula (Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike) then spoke on “Eco-Drama, Multinanational Corporations and Climate Change in Nigeria”, exploring the effects of climate change on the country through the lens of Greg Mbajiorgu’s ecodrama Wakeup Everyone (2011).
This panel was followed by the conference’s fourth keynote, by Theresa May (University of Oregon), who spoke on “Kinship and Community in Climate Change Theatre” (chaired by Martin Riedelsheimer). Referring to Marie Clements’ Burning Vision (2002), Chantal Bilodeau’s Sila (2015), and her own play Salmon Is Everything (2018), she argued for ecodramaturgy as a praxis, presenting theatre as a crucial tool of democracy for the Anthropocene.
Sunday morning saw the conference’s fifth keynote, chaired by Martin Middeke. Vicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University) spoke on “Writing in the Green: Imperatives towards an Eco-n-temporary Theatre Canon”. Angelaki suggested in-betweenness as a key element towards understanding humanities’ contemporary role and responsibilities.
The keynote was followed by the conference’s sixth and last panel (chaired by Eckart Voigts). Jamie Harper (De Montfort University) spoke on “Performing Resilience”, comparing the neoliberal approach to the concept with the one taken by ecological sciences and exploring radical transformation through evaluation of a research residency at a community orchard. Solange Ayache (Sorbonne University) then spoke on the merging of the brain, the stage, and the forest in her paper “‘It’s the Intricacy of the Forest … That’s the Treasure’: Devising Ecological Theatre with Simon McBurney’s The Encounter“. Simon Bowes (University of Greenwich) then gave a paper on “Embodiment, Occupation and Solidarity: Theatre Environment as Territory in three Tim Spooner Performances”, in which he outlined Spooner’s refashioning of the theatre environment as ‘territory’ in his performances The Voice of Nature (2018), Cuteness Forensics (2018), and Dead Nature (2019). Bowes proposed that Spooner occupied nature and, by extension, the theatre.
The conference closed on Sunday mid-day. The next conference will take place in Paris (organised by our sister organisation RADAC) on 23-26 June, 2022.
Veronica Bonsignori, Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli, Denise Filmer (Eds.)
Contemporary society has witnessed radical changes in the field of communications in terms of how messages and meanings are disseminated. Digitalization and the Internet have signalled an exponential rise in the circulation of multimodal texts in which different semiotic resources are orchestrated together to construct meaning in all areas of social life, across languages and cultures, and in diverse specialized discourse domains. This has foregrounded the need to examine the semiotic functions, affordances, and issues at stake in a range of multimodal discourse forms, while simultaneously highlighting the importance of critical multimodal literacy in audiences and learners.
This volume develops and extends pioneering research on the intersection between multimodality and specialized discourse. Eight newly commissioned studies offer innovative perspectives on multimodal research methodologies and applications in a variety of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) contexts for practitioners and scholars alike. The volume offers a glimpse at future directions in this dynamic and ever-evolving area of investigation focusing on the synergy between verbal and non-verbal modes of communication in the digital age. Each chapter explores an original area of application: academic, economic, scientific, marketing, legal, medical, political, and tourism. The contributors approach multimodality from a range of theoretical and methodological viewpoints including synchronic and diachronic corpus-based and corpus-aided studies, critical discourse analysis, and systemic functional linguistics. Analytical tools such as multimodal (critical) discourse analysis, multimodal transcription, and multimodal annotation software capable of representing the interplay of different semiotic modes – speech, intonation, direction of gaze, facial expressions, gesturing, and spatial positioning of interlocutors – are employed. The diversity of research strands contained in the volume illustrates just some of the vast areas of multimodal knowledge dissemination that are still unmapped. As a cornerstone of communication, multimodality needs exploring in all its facets. These contributions aim to further that cause.
ISBN: 978-1-64889-103-8
Updated January 2022
The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) will launch a series of books to be published by Debrecen University Press beginning in 2022 that will reflect scholarship in the areas covered by the Journal, which include but are not limited to the literature, film, art, history, and religion of the United States, Canada, Ireland, England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand. All books will be published as Open Access ebooks and as printed using Print on Demand. They will be kept in print. Continue reading “HJEAS Books, New Series”
ROLLING CALL FOR PAPERS
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Starting from January 2022, The ESSE Messenger will have a new Editor. Her name is Dr. Laura Estaban Segura from the University of Malaga, Spain. Her email address as Editor is the known one, namely esse.messenger [at] uma.es.
In parallel, the new ESSE Webmaster will be Dr. Adrian Radu (the former ESSE Messenger Editor) from Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His email address is essenglish.webmaster [at] gmail.com.
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals, and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.
Scott Fitzgerald proposes that “[t]hat is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” Literature is unique but it is limitless in its extent, for “literature is life,” as Robert A. Nimmo puts it. ‘We belong’, as literature is human. Human narrates the story and is told in the story. Human makes hi(s)tory and is told in hi(s)tory. Literature is human/ities and it “is the question minus the answer” for “the birth of the reader,” as Roland Barthes suggests. We come to set sail for new articles, new writers, and new readers. We come to take responsibility for the space we belong to.
Continue reading “Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies”It is a pleasure to announce the creation of the Journal REIIT Revista Educación Investigación, Innovación y Transferencia, which is structured around three main sections: Research, Innovation and Transfer. This is an annual publication where each contribution will follow a double-blind peer review. Each issue will comprise three research articles, three articles dealing with innovative practices and one or two revolving around knowledge and society transfer. All the articles must contribute to research on the area of education at the national or international level and they can deal with different education stages and levels from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The submissions will take place online and the deadline for this first issue is April 15, 2021. It is necessary to be registered and logged in on the following website: https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/eiit/submission/wizard in order to send any article and check the submission status. The submissions will not exceed 9,000 words, including footnotes, references and graphics, charts or images. Submissions are accepted in Spanish, English and French. They should be original and they should not be undergoing any process of revision for other publications. In addition to this, the authors have to send another document indicating the name of the responsible author as well as the postal address, ORCID, telephone number and email address of all the co-authors (if any). More information regarding the publication guidelines, the recommended format for the articles and the nature of the journal can be checked on our website https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/eiit.
It is an honour for the IDEA Association to launch its academic journal: IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies.
IDEAS is an international, electronically published and peer-reviewed journal devoted to English literary studies. The journal aims to supply a highly qualified academic platform for the exchange of diverse critical and original ideas on any aspect of literatures written in English, cultural studies, and literary theory. The first issue will be published in April 2021.
Original articles, interviews and book reviews will be considered for publication.
Papers will be submitted through the submission system available on the website.
The deadline for the submission of papers for the first issue is 15 January 2021.
Please visit the journal website for further information about the journal: https://www.idea.org.tr/ideasjournal
The deadline for the Winter 2021 issue was extended to 15 December 2021. The issue is dedicated to the proceedings of the ESSE Doctoral Symposium.
The Nominations Committee of the ESSE Board seeks applications for the positions of Secretary and Treasurer, which fall vacant in January 2023. The usual term of office is three years. Candidates, who should preferably have been involved in ESSE affairs or have had similar positions in their national associations, should submit, as e–mail attachments:
Each national association can also nominate candidates for any of these two positions (only one candidate for each position). In this case, national associations will submit, as e–mail attachments:
Applications and nominations must be submitted electronically, by 30 April 2022 at the latest, to the members of the Nominations Committee:
From the applications and nominations received, the Committee will select the best candidates (maximum of three for each office). The two officers will be chosen by vote at the ESSE Board meeting in Mainz, 28–29 August 2022.
Here is the list of ESSE research support schemes for 2022:
There are also two newly established support schemes for the national associations:
Please also note the details of ESSE-16 conference in Mainz, from 29 August to 2 September 2022. More details at https://esse2022.uni-mainz.de/. The call for individual papers at various seminars, round tables and poster sessions is now open with the deadline January 31, 2022. More details at: https://esse2022.uni-mainz.de/files/2021/09/ESSE-2022-Mainz-Call-for-Papers-Poster-Sessions-Roundtables-and-Seminars.pdf.
