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A New Language – a new life? Translingual literature by contemporary women writers

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

This symposium will bring together scholars working on translingual women’s writing in the language fields of Italian, French and German. We will explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in languages that are not their mother tongues. Among the questions we will explore are the following: • Is translingual writing perceived by the […]

International Symposium on Translingual and Transcultural Studies

This international symposium aims to contribute to the intellectual and multidisciplinary framework of studying translingual and transcultural communication that will help develop a better understanding of key issues in the practice of this important and complex field of research. Jointly organized by Zhejiang University (China) and Durham University (UK), the symposium brings together scholars who […]

Translating rights: indigenous language policy as practice in Hispanicised Latin America

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Professor Rosaleen Howard is Chair of Hispanic Studies at Newcastle University. She joined the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool in July 2005 and works on the anthropology and sociolinguistics of the Andes. Her research is based on field work in areas where […]

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

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

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 […]

Embodied Encounters and the Senses in Modern Languages

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

This half-day workshop will explore research across languages as an embodied, sensory process. Scholars working with film, literature and participatory methods will focus particularly on questions of positionality and the role the senses play in the experience of the languages, cultures and objects we research. We will explore the opportunities and challenges of carrying out […]

Iberian Sound Cultures

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Recent years have seen a growing interest in ‘sound studies’, a field of study that addresses the role of the auditory in culture and society. This one-day symposium seeks to establish a dialogue between sound studies and Iberian cultural studies. It intends to examine the place of sound both across a range of Iberian contexts […]

Surrealism and music in France, 1924-1952: interdisciplinary and international contexts

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Paris was the principal centre of surrealist activity and the focus of connections between surrealist literature, ethnology, sociology, visual arts and music. The links between surrealism and the emerging disciplines of ethnology and ethnomusicology redefined the concept of exoticism in France and were the subject of a good deal of polemical debate. However, connections between […]

Surrealism and music in France, 1924-1952: Alexander Soares Recital

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Join us for a piano recital of relevant French repertoire by the outstanding young pianist Alexander Soares. Praised as a pianist of “huge intensity” (The Telegraph), Alexander Soares is developing a reputation as an artist of formidable technique and virtuosity, with performances of “diamond clarity and authority” (BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’). In 2015, his […]

Transnational and Translingual Urban Writing

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

This symposium aims to examine cultural manifestations of the movement and encounter between nations, cultures and languages in urban environments. It will straddle the literary disciplines as well as art history, architecture, visual studies, film studies, cultural geography and theory. Architecture and Urbanisation Francophone Perspectives Fluid Practices Writing the City CLICK HERE FOR PROGRAMME AND […]

Chartered College of Teaching Languages Summer Symposium

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

This one-day event brings together leading thinkers in Modern Languages pedagogy from secondary schools and universities to share ideas and best practice, and to celebrate collaboration across the MFL community. The symposium will open with a headline address from Professor Neil Kenny (British Academy Lead Fellow for Languages) on the future of MFL in the […]