Dr Catherine Emmott (University of Glasgow) will be giving a series of conferences on Language understanding, text processing and narrative worlds at the Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3. She is Assistant Editor of Language and Literature, the international journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).

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A Russian language narratological online journal "Narratorium" has been founded.
The editors are Wolf Schmid (University of Hamburg; wschmid@uni-hamburg.de) and Valerij Tjupa (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow; v.tiupa@gmail.com). 

The first issue is available: http://narratorium.rggu.ru

UK 2012

One full scholarship (covering fees, travel and accommodation) is now available for current or future PhD students to participate in the 2012 Translation Research Summer School UK which will take place in Edinburgh, UK, from June 18-29, 2012.

'Language and Psychoanalysis' is a new journal that aims to further the
understanding of the interaction between Linguistic Analysis and Theory &
Psychoanalytic Theories and Techniques. It is the only interdisciplinary journal
with a strong focus on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of language and
psychoanalysis. The journal is also inclusive and not narrowly confined to the
Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

RRENAB (Réseau de la Recherche en Narratologie et Bible), an international network of about ten French speaking universities (Lausanne-Genève, Louvain-la-Neuve, Paris, Lyon, Quebec, Montréal, Ottawa,Montpellier, Paris) announces the sixth meeting in Louvain-la-Neuve (May 24-26) on the role of the reader in the interpretation of Biblical texts.