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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Critical Reflections on Multilingual Research Practice

Increasing numbers of researchers are engaging in studies involving complex contexts of ‘superdiversity’ and participants who have a broad range of linguistic repertoires and communication needs. Yet there are often limited opportunities for scholars to exchange knowledge and experience on key conceptual, epistemological and methodological questions. This event invites critical reflection on what it means […]

Beyond Words: Multimodal Encounters in Translation

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Research into the theory and practice of translation has traditionally focused on the conversion of source texts into target texts. However, during the past decade the rise and sprawl of digital media has ensured that interconnections between different visual, aural, and oral modalities have acquired much greater cultural prominence – a development that has destabilised […]