On the phone with Kafka and Benjamin - Syamala Roberts

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Speaker: Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin) talks about her recently published book 'Precarious Times'.

Time Itself is in Crisis

Institute of Modern Languages Research Speaker(s): Prompted by the Royal Ballet’s streaming of its 2011 ballet ‘Metamorphosis’ (‘Die Verwandlung’), Seán Williams (University of Sheffield) talks about reading and watching Kafka in confined a...

Kafka in Quarantine

Beat Furrer in conversation with Edward Nesbit AHRC OWRI project ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community' A series of talks on the relationship between music and language, created as part of the AHRC Open World Research Initiative; ‘Cro...

Beat Furrer in conversation with Edward Nesbit

How to navigate an archive: Looking for witchcraft trials in the State Archive of Venice and in the ecclesiastical Archive of Udine: a personal experience from the early 1960s Carlo Ginzburg is one of the most original and influential historians of ...

How to navigate an archive

Carla Mereu (Bristol); Katie Brown (Bristol); Kit Yee Wong (BBK)

Migrating Texts. Innovation and Technology in Subtitling, Translation and Adaptation

This one-day workshop aims to probe whether the label and concept of a ‘minor literature’ (Deleuze/Guattari, 1975) can be usefully applied to contemporary writing by female Jewish authors in Germany and Austria. The workshop will explore what the t...

Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing in Germany and Austria – A ‘Minor’ Literature?

Dr Jorge Pinto (University of Lisbon) This seminar focuses on the language situation in Cape Verde. Portuguese pidgins were the first Romance pidgins to emerge and gave rise to creoles throughout the world. Since independence, the role and status of...

Cape Verde Islands: Language situation and teaching of Portuguese

Speaker: Sheila Lecoeur (Imperial College London) A lecture by Dr Sheila Lecoeur on the publication of her volume Mussolini's Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II. The lecture will focus on the legacy of the Ital...

Mussolini's Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II

This seminar investigates the relation between thought, spontaneity and movement - in short, living thought, or thought thinking experience. Spontaneity and movement are nothing fixed, and so it seems that a philosophical understanding of them must als...

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Speakers: Dr Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth), Stephanie Homer (IMLR), Ursula Krechel (Berlin) and Ruth Barnett (London) The Kindertransport enabled nearly 10,000 child refugees to flee from Nazi-occupied territories to the UK in 1938-39. It is remembere...

A Home Lost - a New Life Found? Kindertransport: Experience and Fiction

Translating Development Introduction Hilary Footitt (University of Reading) Panel 1: Translators in Development NGOs Chair: Wine Tesseur Alberto Sanz Martins (Translations manager, Oxfam GB) Jessica Matthews (Internal communications officer...

Translating Development - Translators in Development NGOs

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 2: Showcasing research projects Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers a...

Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater

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