2009/2010
2008/09
29 September 2008 |
Vera Mackie (The University of Melbourne) |
Gothic Lolita and the Politics of Fashion |
| 2 October | Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla (SML) | |
| 16 October | Teresa Ludden (SML) | Hearing the Silences in Thomas Bernhard's Ja (Yes): Narrative and Lyotard's Concept of the Differend |
| 30 October |
Beate Müller (SML) | Child Figures in Holocaust Fiction |
| 13 November | Kevin McManus (SML) | Cross-linguistic Variation in the Second Language Acquisition of Aspect: the Conceptual–Linguistic Form Interface |
| 20 November | Ling Zhang (SML) | Changing landscape in Hebei in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) |
| 24 November | Paul Castro (Edinburgh) | The City and the Country: Oporto and Portugal in the Films of Manoel de Oliveira |
| 27 November | Distinguished speaker series Chris Pountain (Queen Mary, University of London) |
The Genius of Languages |
2 December |
Robert Tierney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | Shakespeare in Tokyo: Performing Empire, Gender and Race in Early 20th Century Japan |
| 4 December | Andrew Watts (Birmingham) | Reversing the Provincial Exotic: Balzac, Ursule Mirouët, and a Little Chinese Seamstress |
| 11 December | K. Hannah Holtschneider (Edinburgh) | Looking at photographs of Jews in the Holocaust exhibition in the Imperial War Museum |
| 8 January 2009 | Erin Hill-Parks (SML) | The Promotion of the Hollywood Director |
| 29 January | Mike Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University) | Metalinguistic processing and acquisition within the MOGUL framework |
| 5 February | Francis Jones (SML) | "An Able-Brained Bastard and A Babby Born" |
| Wed 11 February, 3pm, Bedson Teaching Ctr G37 | Andrew Simpson | Information Session for Under/Postgraduates interested in Translation and/or Interpreting after graduation |
| 19 February | Máire Cross (SML) | Where Gender, Literature and Politics Meet: A Comparison of George Sand and Flora Tristan in Political Activism |
| 5 March | Valerie Henitiuk (University of East Anglia) | Prefacing Gender: Framing the Japanese Woman / Text for a Western Audience |
| 12 March, 3pm, Pybus Room | Andreas Musolff (Durham) | Genocide as a 'cure' against racial 'parasites'. Anti-Semitic imagery in the film "The eternal Jew" |
| 12 March | Jacinto Lucas Pires (Lisbon) | FICTION = TRUTH |
| 19 March | Sarah Leahy (SML) | From Surrealism to Communism: The cinematic collaborations of the Groupe Octobre |
| Wed 15 April, 8pm, Research Beehive 2.21 | Public evening lecture: Nigel Palmer (Oxford) |
Sacred and profane tree-allegory in the 'Speculum humanae salvationis' |
| 23 April | Marcela Cazzoli-Goeta (Durham) | The methodological challenge of elusive structures: Quirky subjects in adult L1 & L2 Spanish |
| 30 April, 4pm, Open Access Centre | Opening Talk for the Vernisage |
'Don't Mention the Wall.' Britain and the Re-Unification of Germany 1989-90 Vernisage of the exhibition "Friedliche Revolution und Deutsche Einheit" (Peaceful Revolution: 20 years of German Unity) |
| 30 April | Luis Afonso (Lisbon) | Portugal, ali mesmo ao lado da Europa |
| 7 May | Distinguished speaker series: |
Office as a Vocation: Max Weber and the cultural economy of office |
| 11 or 14 May (tbc) | Steven Robinson (Newcastle, Politics) | Europeanisation of Foreign policy after 1974 |
| 14 May, 5pm | Special celebratory lecture: 50 years of German Studies at Newcastle |
50 years of German Studies and the new German novel (tbc) |
2007-2008
SPLAS/Linguistics seminar
Wednesday 23rd April, 5pm, Old Library building, 3.18
Speaker: Kim Schulte, University of Exeter
Title: The case of overt agents in infinitival clauses in English and Ibero-Romance: origins and explanations
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Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (JISLAC) Seminar
Thursday 24 April, 1-5pm, venue Research Beehive, Old library building
Title: Music and Migration in Latin America, the Caribbean and Beyond
Speakers:
Peter Wade, University of Manchester, Migration, Diaspora and Music: Africa in Colombian Popular Music
Tina Ramnarine, Royal Holloway College, The Provocations of a Postcolonial Performance Analysis
Pablo Vila, Temple University, Gender Issues in a Migrant Music: The Case of Cumbia in Argentina
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T&I seminar
Thursday 24th April, 4pm, Research beehive 2.22, Old Library building
Speaker: Philip Cole, English Translation Unit, European Parliament, Luxembourg
Title: Tower of Babel 1, Ivory Tower 0: Translation and the European Parliament
Philip Cole writes: "I'll be talking about the Translation Service of the European Parliament. This plays a key role in putting European legislation across to the public. Covering all the EU's official languages - and a few others besides - it handles a very broad spectrum of texts ranging from the mundane to the inspiring.”
Monday 28th April, 1pm, Merz L303
Speaker: Hilary Chung, University of Auckland
Title: The allocation and appropriation of cultural affiliation: Yang Lian – a Chinese New Zealand poet?
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Wednesday 30th April, 4pm, Old Library building, 3.18.
Speaker: Rocio Carrasco, University of Huelva, Spain
Title: Gender and Performance in Almodóvar's All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi Madre)
SML Distinguished Speakers Series
Thursday 1st May, 4pm, Research Beehive, Old Library building, 2.21
Speaker: Manfred Koch, University of Tübingen, Germany
Title: Goethe's Concept of "Weltliteratur"
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French/Linguistics seminar
Thursday 8th May, 4pm, CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Claremont Bridge
Speaker: Elizabeth Randell, University of St Andrews
Title: Sociolinguistic variation in mid-eighteenth century Paris: Le Vrai recueil des Sarcelles of Nicolas Jouin 1730-1754.
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Instituto Camões Centre for Portuguese Language/ History-Politics-Society seminar
Thursday 15th May, 4pm, Bedson Teaching Centre.L.G.35
Speaker: Jens Hentschke, Newcastle University
Title: Getúlio Vargas of Brazil and His Legacy: A Never-Ending Debate?
2006
Speaker(s): Esmee Winter, University of Tubingen
Topic: Aspects of loanword integration in French and Italian (Get Abstract)
Venue: SML OLB
Date: Wednesday 22 February 2006
Time: 4-5 pm
Speaker(s): Ian MacKenzie, University of Newcastle
Topic: Bare nouns in English and Romance (Get Abstract)
Venue: SML OLB
Date: Wednesday 22 March 2006
Time: 4-5 pm
Speaker(s): Alison Hardie, University of Newcastle
Topic: Role-play and Identity in 17th Century China: a study of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646)
Venue: SML OLB
Date: Wednesday 10 May 2006
Time: 4-5 pm
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