The seminars are the School's research forum for external speakers, staff, and students. They run on Thursdays, 4-5pm, in the Research Beehive, Old Library Building, unless stated otherwise. After the seminar, there is a chance to continue the discussion over drinks in Northern Stage. All are welcome!
The Seminar convenors for 2010/11 are Henrike Lähnemann and Laura Moretti. For selected talks, ReCap-recordings are available (shown as hyperlinks to the title).
2010 |
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| 7 Oct | Cécilia Gil (SML) |
Producing doubles, creating monsters: visions of the contemporary mother-daughter relationship in Louise L. Lambrichs's A ton image |
| 14 Oct | Sue Vice (Sheffield) |
Images of Death: Claude Lanzmann's Einsatzgruppen Interviews |
| 21 Oct | Christiane Williams (SML) |
Excitable Minds. The Possible Use and Abuse of 18th Century South Pacific Travelogues as Erotic Writings |
| 29 Oct | Nick Morgan (SML) |
Participation, Deliberation and Community Activism in Bogota and Caracas |
| 4 Nov | Jorge Catalá Carrasco (SML) |
Comics and Cuban Intelligentsia |
| 18 Nov | Nils Langer Bristol |
Language Policies and Language Suppression in 19th-century Schleswig-Holstein |
| 25 Nov | Michael Jin (SML) |
What is Translation? When Psychology Meets Translation |
| 9 Dec | Laura Moretti (SML) |
Sophisticated Intertextuality and Practical Discourse on Sexuality: Examples from Japanese Erotic Writings (shunga) of the 18th Century |
2011 |
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| 13 Jan | Sophie Nicholson (SML) |
Une bolée de cit’: Word-Final Consonant Devoicing in the French of Basse-Bretagne |
| 3 Feb | Nicola McLelland (Nottingham) |
German through English eyes 1858-2000: what German language textbooks for British learners can tell us (handout) |
| 10 Feb | Rosina Buckland (Leeds) |
Picturing Sex in Early Modern Japan (joined seminar; the talk is taking place in the Laing Art Gallery) |
| Tue, 15 Feb |
Martin Pickard / Francis Jones | 5-7pm: Master class Opera Translation (CETL-room, Armstrong Building) |
| Wed, 16 Feb |
Martin Pickard (Leeds) |
4:30-6pm: J. N. von Poißl and opera in early nineteenth-century Munich (joined seminar with ICMus; CETL-room, Armstrong Building) |
| 24 Feb | Steven Robinson (GPS/SML) |
Europeanisation of Portuguese Foreign Policy since 1947 |
| 3 Mar | Angela O'Flaherty (SML) |
Anna Langfus’s Holocaust Writing: Testimony, Fiction and the Reader |
| 10 Mar | Vivienne Rogers (SML) |
The role of chunks in the development of negation in French by instructed English learners |
| 17 Mar | Phil Swanson (Sheffield) |
Imagining Havana: Crime and the Aesthetic of Ruination |
| School Centenary Conference: Transmissions with two keynote lectures | ||
| 24 Mar | Kate Adie | Public Lecture to Celebrate 100 Years of Language Teaching in Newcastle (Curtis Auditorium) |
| 25 Mar | Charles Forsdick (Liverpool) | Transmitting Languages: Disciplinary Identity and Public Understanding (King's Hall) |
| 31 Mar | Fred Wu (SML) | A conceptual model of interpreting examinations |
| 5 May | Charlotte Bosseaux (Edinburgh) | The Importance of Being British: Translating Spike |
| 12 May | Susan Daruvala (Cambridge) | Ang Lee's Lust/ Caution and Cultural Memory |
| 19 May | Hartmut Möller (Rostock) | Oswald von Wolkenstein: Performing and Editing a Medieval Song-Writer |
Preview 2011/12:
| 6 Oct | Sarah Wright (Royal Holloway) |
The Child in the Francoist cine religioso of 1950s Spain |
| 24 Nov | Jieyu Liu | Ageing and changing intergenerational relations in China |
For selected archived papers from our Distinguished Speaker Series, click here. Seminar series 2009/10 and further archived seminars...