Past research seminars in Modern Languages In 'Research seminars' Past seminarsResearch seminars Back to 'Modern Languages research' forthcoming seminars 2024 20th March - Bleu, Blanc, Rouge & Brown: French Histories, Colonial Spaces 2023 3rd May - The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire20th April - Decolonization and Development: New Directions in the Historiography19th April - New Directions in West Midlands History22nd February - Classics in the Classroom8th February - How do we now write histories of the exclusion of South Asians from Uganda and their diaspora? 2022 7th December - Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today29th November - BRIHC In Public Event: New Perspectives on the War in Ukraine23rd November - (Trans)forming knowledge: meet & eat 2020 25th November - Perspectives on Gender and Violence 2019 30th January - Language, Sexuality, Wellbeing 2018 20th November - Working in Multilingual Administration23rd October - An Introduction to the Translation Industry and Translation Project Management9th May - Decolonializing the Curriculum9th May - Transforming Knowledge15th January - The obligation to migrate and the impulse to narrate: forced migration from the Caucasus to Ottoman lands in the Soviet literary imagination 2017 25th October - Queer Film and Television in Mexico since 200014th March - Online Ovids: the exiles of Marie Darrieussecq and Saviana Stãnescu21st February - Imperial Networks: Spreading images of Black Africa through early twentieth century postcards7th February - From French literature to world literature in French 2016 28th November - Airpower in the French Empire: the Armée de l'Air in the levant (1918-1940)16th November - Beirut, 19827th November - Paradox in the work of Edouard Glissant12th October - Cognitive transformations: the literary archive5th May - The IGS, 1996–2016: Twenty Years of Studying Germany from the Outside9th March - Using literature to teach language: an Italian case-study23rd February - Difficult heritage? Reflections on fascist architecture and its legacy in contemporary Italy19th January - Book launch 2015 1st December - An Italian 'Marxian-Jungism'? Towards a Materialist Rethinking of Analytical Psychology26th November - Interdisciplinary Italy: Experimentation and Transgression across the Arts10th November - Book launch13th May - Ottiero Ottieri: un caso letterario. Industry, mental illness and politics in Ottieri's work5th May - Visual anthropology in Sardinia24th March - Classicality and experimental writing in Giuseppe Pontiggia19th March - Spain and Portugal in the early seventeenth century: a Viceroy's viewpoint11th March - Title to be confirmed3rd March - Title to be announced17th February - 'The Republic of the Mad'. radical psychiatry in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s and the end of the asylum11th February - From pride to humiliation: an Oral History project in Hialeah15th January - Genocide and gorillas: tourists in fiction about Rwanda 2014 9th December - Maternal dislocations: memory, selfhood and mother-tongue in Goliarda Sapienza's and Elena Ferrante's works26th November - Memory and affect: issues from Spain and Portugal18th November - Voidances: on Maurice's Blanchot's fiction12th November - Monsters and prodigies in early modern Europe15th October - Editing medieval texts in the Digital Age: the Estoria de Espanna project19th March - Bloodpeople, dangerous sex, and dead men walking: how to tell?19th March - '"Anglifizierung" und "Globalisierung": Aktuelle Diskurse zu Entlehnungen und moderner Sprachpurismus18th March - Spatial Planning, Photography, and Modernity in Post-War France6th March - Queer cinemas between France and Spain5th March - Ahead, Athwart, Askance: tropes of perversion in contemporary Hispanophone cinema5th March - "The Full Monty" into Europe? Issues of cultural untranslatability from a comparative perspective: investigating the German and French versions of this 1990s British comedy4th March - Modelling citizens: negotiations of agency and belonging through the medium of Italian migration literature26th February - Anti-Positivism and the Esoteric in early Twentieth-Century Mexican thought and literature25th February - Translating Frantz Fanon12th February - Theorising Informality from the ground up in Russia12th February - "Wir sind das Volk": the dominance of 198928th January - The living and the poetic intention: Édouard Glissant's biopolitics of literature21st January - Blacks out: Italy's melancholic whiteness15th January - Heroic Imperialists in Africa: the promotion of British and French colonial heroes, 1870-193915th January - Hitler's female helpers 2013 11th December - Alternatives to the nation-state? Political fiction and Joseba Sarrionandia´s 'The Frozen Man'10th December - The face that launched a thousand sonnets: Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci and the quest for Florentine identity at the turn of the 15th century28th November - Sexology and literature: on the uses and abuses of fiction27th November - Mourning for the victims: Leningrad memorial cemeteries27th November - The politics and poetics of representing male bodies in contemporary Caribbean art: Cuba and the Dominican Republic19th November - Michelangelo's Grace: self portrayal and religious identity in two of his Pietàs13th November - Choteo: el humor, la política y la cultura en Cuba13th November - Büchner the optimist30th October - Genre Studies and Russian texts22nd October - Postmemory and the graphic novel: how to tell your grandparents' stories of the Second World War9th October - Firing the canon: the politics and poetics of exclusion13th March - Research Round Table6th March - Known (un)knowns. Creating an Aesthetic of Knowing in Recent Cinematic Red Army Rote Armee Faction5th March - French research seminar5th March - The status of Basque: situations and prospects31st January - The Memory of the image in Jean-Luc Godard's "Histoire(s) du cinema" (1998)15th January - Dante as a European poet 2012 22nd November - Transnational and local feminisms: The campaign for legal abortion in 1970s Rome and the impact of French and US debates17th October - Julius Evola and European Neofascism9th May - What Happens to a Holocaust Testimony When it is Translated?21st March - Grass's Hundejahre and Mimesis20th March - Not on the same wavelength: Radio Vichy versus Radio London in 194413th March - La décolonisation de l'Algérie: Un roman pour comprendre huit ans de guerre6th March - Dr Pierpaolo Antonello29th February - "Unsre letzte Arbeit war die Befreiung der Toten…". Über ein Bruchstück im Nachlaß von28th February - Homais's Struggle with the Blind Beggar in Madame Bovary7th February - Gabriele Rossetti exul immeritus1st February - The Importance of German Studies at British Universities24th January - Intellectual or jester? Comedians in contemporary Italy24th January - Imagining 'whiteness' in the Antillean imagination18th January - Through the Iron Curtain and into the Cold 2011 15th December - Pier Paolo Pasolini: l'impatto scandaloso sulla società italiana di uno gnostico innamorato della realtà7th December - Modernity and the Meaning of the Baroque in fin-de-siècle Vienna and Prague