NB: For the 2020 instalment of our Strike School see this page here.
Planned events include a series of talks on language and politics, language and prejudice, and other topics related to the strike. In general, it's a good idea to bring a device that can connect to the internet without wifi (e.g. phone, tablet with 3/4g), because some venues may not have a wifi network.
Events will take place after the end of the picket line every day of the strike, starting around 12:30. They will all be located in the neighbourhood of Chandler House.
Finally, we'd like you to know that the pubs are letting us have their space for free. We'd like to thank them and encourage them to support good causes in future, so buy a drink for a student, lecturer, or colleague, buy something to eat, and let them know you appreciate it.
Come chat with your lecturers, learn something new, and support the strike while you're at it!
Week 1's schedule is as follows.
Planned events include a series of talks on language and politics, language and prejudice, and other topics related to the strike. In general, it's a good idea to bring a device that can connect to the internet without wifi (e.g. phone, tablet with 3/4g), because some venues may not have a wifi network.
Events will take place after the end of the picket line every day of the strike, starting around 12:30. They will all be located in the neighbourhood of Chandler House.
Finally, we'd like you to know that the pubs are letting us have their space for free. We'd like to thank them and encourage them to support good causes in future, so buy a drink for a student, lecturer, or colleague, buy something to eat, and let them know you appreciate it.
Come chat with your lecturers, learn something new, and support the strike while you're at it!
- Monday, Nov 25 2019: 12:30 pm upstairs at the Lamb, Zoë Belk will present a talk entitled "The struggle for Yiddish"
- Tuesday, Nov 26 2019: 12:30 pm in the basement of the Harrison, Klaus Abels will present a talk on Kîîtharaka: Why it's of interest to syntacticians, and what's being done to support it.
- Wednesday, Nov 27 2019: 12:30 pm, meet outside Chandler House. Depending on weather, we'll head to a local park or a local pub for a participatory reading of Harold Pinter's play "Mountain Language". Some copies of the script will be provided, but you can also access them on your own device via the library's subscription. The play will be followed by a discussion of its themes.
- Thursday, Nov 28 2019: 12:30 pm in the basement of the Harrison, Florian Breit will present a talk entitled "Of Blue Books and Welsh Nots: How to diminish a language"
- Friday, Nov 29 2019: 12 pm at Malet Street, we'll gather with striking UCU members to march to Parliament Square under the banner "Pay, Pensions, Planet". This event is part of a larger march for action on climate change, and incorporates School Strike marches and the larger Campaign against Climate Change. If you want to attend with friends, you can join striking staff members outside Chandler House for the end of the picket, and head over as a group.
Week 2's schedule is as follows.
- Monday, Dec 02 2019: 12:30 pm in the basement of the Harrison, Lily Kahn will present a talk on The Linguistic Landscape of Greenlandic.
- Tuesday, Dec 03 2019: 12:30 pm in the basement of the Harrison, Sonya Yampolskaya will present a talk on The Suppression of Hebrew in the USSR.
- Wednesday, Dec 04 2019: 12:30 pm, meet outside the Montague Place entrance to the British Museum for an LGBTQ object trail. The trail will take about an hour to complete and will be followed by discussion in the cafe.
