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; ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’, Translingual Strand. Executive Producer: Dr Paul Archbold Director: David Lefeber. School of Advanced Study: sas.ac.uk Institute of Modern Languages Research: [email protected]

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 our time. He has ranged widely in his scholarly work, and has also written on questions of historical method, but his main and major contributions have been made as an historian of early-modern Europe. Professor Ginzburg’s oeuvre is impressively...

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

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 term ‘minor’ could mean and contribute when discussing a broad range of contemporary authors and their aesthetics and writing practices, images of the self/the other inside and outside of their works, forms of community building, and their...

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 Verdean Creole (Kabuverdianu) have increased, and the language is used in domains previously reserved for Portuguese, e.g., formal religious and political discourse. Portuguese is used on television and radio, as well as in education, where...

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 Italian fascist occupation of Greece during the Second World War.

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 also itself be, at least to some extent, a fluid, moving or spontaneous understanding. What is required, it seems, is an unprincipled, an-archic form of thought: '"life" cannot be a defining characteristic. It is a name for originality, and not for...

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 remembered as a life-shaping experience of the loss of a homeland, of parents, family and friends ̶ and of the finding of refuge and eventually a new life in the UK. This event brings together Kindertransportee Ruth Barnett and Ursula Krechel, the...

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, Family for Every Child) Patricia Sommer (Freelance translator) Verity Leonard Hill (Translations manager, Save the Children) This seminar aims to provide a forum for translators working in the area of development and NGOs to talk about their work, and...

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, Family for Every Child) Patricia Sommer (Freelance translator) Verity Leonard Hill (Translations manager, Save the Children) This seminar aims to provide a forum for translators working in the area of development and NGOs to talk about their work, and...

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 also itself be, at least to some extent, a fluid, moving or spontaneous understanding. What is required, it seems, is an unprincipled, an-archic form of thought: '"life" cannot be a defining characteristic. It is a name for originality, and not for...

Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence Slavery in Enlightenment America – Crèvecoeur’s Bilingual Approach Judith Still (University of Nottingham) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press

Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence Slavery in Enlightenment America – Crèvecoeur’s Bilingual Approach Judith Still (University of Nottingham) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press

Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 2: Showcasing research projects The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages Simon Gaunt (King’s College London) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press

Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 2: Showcasing research projects The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages Simon Gaunt (King’s College London) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press

Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence The Vamp Rehabilitated: Carmen de Burgos’s mujer fría in the light of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent’s señorita Vampiro Abigail Lee Six (Royal Holloway University of London) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press

Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence The Vamp Rehabilitated: Carmen de Burgos’s mujer fría in the light of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent’s señorita Vampiro Abigail Lee Six (Royal Holloway University of London) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press

Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence A Meditation on Fernando Pessoa Bernard McGuirk (University of Nottingham) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press

Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence A Meditation on Fernando Pessoa Bernard McGuirk (University of Nottingham) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press

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 and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater Adalgisa Giorgio (University of Bath) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press

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 and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater Adalgisa Giorgio (University of Bath) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool University Press