School of Modern Languages Research Seminar
2010-2011

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
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
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...