Past events in the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music In 'Events' EventsPast events Back to 'Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music' forthcoming events 2018 19th June - Critical Media in the Arts: Time, Materiality, Ecology16th June - Gospel Revisited Project with Big Band and Philharmonic Orchestra16th-17th June - Birmingham International Piano Competition15th June - CPD Networking and Good Practice Event for MFL Teachers15th June - Festival Voices13th June - Research seminar: Imogen Hart10th June - Brass Band in Lightwoods Park10th-12th June - The Dragon of Wantley8th June - Chamber Ensembles6th June - Wind Band and Sax Choir5th June - Big Band and Jazz Collective4th June - miniBEAST2nd June - Summer Festival at ValeFest30th May - Art, Architecture and Capital Flows - Stephen Zacks25th May - L'Eraclito amoroso22nd May - Cultural Agents Workshop18th May - Alexander Baillie & John Thwaites11th May - Luca Luciano and Yukiko Osedo9th May - Decolonializing the Curriculum9th May - Transforming Knowledge9th May - Carpets and the Pliable Plane(s) of Modernism, 1900s-19604th May - Camille Ravot30th April - Final Year Recitalists25th April - BEAST x Bleep4325th April - Stephen Hough25th-28th April - BEAST FEaST 2018: BEASTopia!24th April - Final Year Recitalists23rd April - Final Year Recitalists23rd March - University Women's Choir23rd March - Ellington in Anticipation22nd March - University Camerata21st March - A Research Event with Professor Tim Dean (University of Illinois, USA)19th March - Final Year Recitalists18th March - Philharmonic Orchestra17th March - Birmingham University Singers with CBSO16th March - Prince Regent's Band16th March - University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs15th March - Final Year Recitalists14th March - Music and Animal Songs14th March - Fretwork13th March - Garnier Organ Recital 3 - Nathan Laube12th March - Final Year Recitalists10th March - University Chorus and Birmingham Symphonic Brass9th March - The 'Longue Durée' of the Querelle des femmes: Gender, Materiality, Form9th March - Ruisi Quartet9th March - Wind Band and Saxophone Choir5th March - Early Music Chamber Concert4th March - Symphony Orchestra2nd March - As our Sweet Cords and Discords Mixed Be28th February - 'Nothing Really Changes': Musical Processes in and as Time in ingenga and Related Works / Whose Liberation? Iranian Popular Music and the Fetishisation of Resistance'27th February - Garnier Organ Recital 2 - Bach for Organ26th February - Harmonie Band23rd February - Ligeti Quartet23rd February - Loki22nd-23rd February - Ligeti Quartet workshop21st February - miniBEAST21st February - Talking Piece21st February - Huw Watkins and Clare Hammond20th February - BEAST: Sonic Paintings20th February - University Camerata19th February - Creative Ensemble18th February - The Stockhausen Sessions - Mantra (1970)18th February - The Stockhausen Sessions - Stimmung (1968)17th February - New Music Ensemble16th February - Carolin Widmann16th February - BEASTdome Pantry Sessions: Peter Evans and Sam Pluta duo14th February - Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness: a biopsychosocial approach to post-acousmatic composition12th February - Gamelan Ensemble9th February - A Burning Desire for the Heavenly Kingdom9th February - Big Band6th February - Garnier Organ Recital 1 - Organ Masterworks4th February - Chamber Orchestra & Early Modern Vocal Ensemble2nd February - Alec Frank-Gemmill and Daniel Grimwood31st January - Media Power and the Online Dance Remake: Remixing Beyoncé's "***Flawless" in the YouTube Archive31st January - Kate Royal and Joseph Middleton26th January - Kenneth Hamilton Lecture Recital24th January - Bernstein: Stage and Screen19th January - Kenneth Hamilton Lecture Recital19th-20th January - Imagining the Body in France and the Francophone World17th January - The Leuven Chansonnier: A New Later Fifteenth-Century Song Source12th January - In Echo 2017 13th December - Thomas Bock and his contemporaries' representation of Tasmanian Aboriginal people, from a contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginal perspective29th November - Schemata and Satire in Haydn's Joke Quartet29th November - You Get Me?: Islamic Masculinity18th November - Identity and Vinyl Culture15th November - A Japanese emperor goes to Italy: The Italian adaptation and reception of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado10th-12th November - LXIII Annual Anglo-Catalan Society Conference8th November - 'Forging Links' with Impact: Charles Burdett on 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Approaches to Impact'8th November - Dia De Los Muertos Event1st November - Location and Memory in my Creative Process25th October - Queer Film and Television in Mexico since 200018th October - Opera in Video Games11th October - Magical Realism and Negotiating the 'foreign' in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art4th October - Powers of Hearing: Acoustic Sensing and Technologies of Listening during the First World War28th-30th June - Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference15th June - Modern Languages networking and workshop event23rd-24th May - Art History in settler states: cultural studies of the colonies5th-6th May - Queering Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies22nd March - How late is late modernism?15th March - QawwaliBEAST15th March - Speaking statues14th March - Online Ovids: the exiles of Marie Darrieussecq and Saviana Stãnescu8th March - Capturing sounds, designing notation, writing music7th March - Tracking signposts to a Caribbean film aesthetic1st March - The Ten Commandments, music, and popular belief in Reformation England1st March - O Say Can You See: American art, propaganda, and the First World War25th February - Flute Choir, Clarinet Choir and String Orchestra22nd February - Fragile Crown: the case for restitution of el Penacho to Mexico from the Vienna Weltmuseum21st February - Imperial Networks: Spreading images of Black Africa through early twentieth century postcards8th February - Nineteenth-Century Bach? Emulation and assimilation of Joseph Joachim's Bach performing practices - A practical experiment8th February - Seurat's public7th February - From French literature to world literature in French1st February - Title to be confirmed25th January - Portraiture and the colonised: The problem and a case study18th January - The social life of chords 2016 8th December - Jazz Collective Christmas swing-along5th December - University Carol Service4th December - Philharmonic Orchestra3rd December - University Chorus2nd December - Birmingham University Singers and University Women's Choir30th November - Title to be confirmed29th November - Ramon Llull in Birmingham28th November - Airpower in the French Empire: the Armée de l'Air in the levant (1918-1940)26th November - Symphony Orchestra23rd November - Performing Brahms: reading between the lines of the notation20th November - CEMPR and Early Modern Vocal Ensemble19th November - Wind Band and Sax Choir18th November - Ariosto's afterlives: 500 years of madness18th November - 500 years of madness in culture and society - Public dialogue18th November - Early modern madness16th November - Title to be confirmed16th November - Mapping Paris: artists' studios in the 18th-Century city16th November - Beirut, 198212th November - BEASTdome: Envision9th November - Music is a footnote to tuning: microtonality and the practice of intonation in contemporary string performance7th November - Paradox in the work of Edouard Glissant4th November - Eloquence in sound and stone: English music and alabaster images, 1380-1520 - A symposium and concert2nd November - Avant-Garde music for latex balloons29th October - Music Experience Day26th October - Space, sight, and sound in the Renaissance palace: adventures with the MARI project26th October - Modern Languages virtual open day26th October - Thomas Cole's journeys: towards a transregional history of American art24th October - History of Art virtual open day12th October - Cognitive transformations: the literary archive12th October - Francis Newton Souza, suffering, and masculinity7th October - BEASTdome: Emergence25th September - Music in the making15th-16th September - Line, word and gesture: visualising thinking in the Hispanic world1st-2nd July - The medium and the message: re-evaluating form and meaning in European architecture c. 1400-195023rd June - Symphony Orchestra: Pre-Tour Concert17th June - Festival Voices: Celebrating Shakespeare17th June - Summer Festival Buffet16th June - Big Band12th June - UoB Music Society Wind Band and Nottingham University Wind Orchestra12th-15th June - The Beggar's Opera11th June - Birmingham Proms in Chancellor's Court10th June - miniBEAST8th June - Brass Band and Saxophone Ensembles7th June - Jazz Collective6th June - Chamber Ensembles6th-17th June - Summer Festival of Music18th May - Church Design in Counter Reformation Venice12th May - Sweetness and electric light at the Grosvenor Gallery5th May - Final Year Recitalists3rd May - Final Year Recitalists27th April - Final Year Recitalists25th April - Final Year Recitalists24th March - Final Year Recitalists 524th March - University Wind Band and Saxophone Choir23rd March - Pete Stollery21st March - Final Year Recitalists 421st March - University Camerata19th-20th March - Orchestral Weekender18th March - Chamber Choirs and Brass Band17th March - Picnic in the desert17th March - Beer: Dark Matter16th March - Claudia Molitor16th March - The Modernist Making of an International Rhythmic 'Race'16th March - Akounak tedaiat taha tazoughai15th March - On Memory: Recital and Conversation12th March - University Women's Choir and Birmingham University Singers11th March - Visualising Sound 2: Workshop Day11th March - BBC Philharmonic9th March - "Nature and Mystery": The influence of Bartók's night music in Italy9th March - Using literature to teach language: an Italian case-study9th March - Happy Housewives: Ida Applebroog's History of Feminism9th March - Angela Hewitt7th March - CEMPR Small Ensembles7th March - Exhibition Launch: Empires of Emptiness6th March - University Chorus and City of Birmingham Choir with Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra5th March - When yesterday we met... Storytelling through song5th March - Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller at Carnegie Hall 19394th March - Alexander Ullman4th March - David Rees-Williams Trio2nd March - Seascape in the mist: lost in Mendelssohn's Hebrides2nd March - Careers after Art History29th February - Performance Practice Recital24th February - Title to be confirmed24th February - Love and money in Abraham Ortelius's Album Amicorum23rd February - Difficult heritage? Reflections on fascist architecture and its legacy in contemporary Italy22nd February - Harmonieband20th February - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group19th February - Judith Weir19th February - Moments of Weightlessness19th February - Composers in Conversation19th February - Friday Night Classics: Rodgers and Hammerstein18th February - BODY CLOCK Interactive Installation18th-19th February - Jazz Collective17th February - miniBEAST featuring Erik Nyström17th February - Erik Nyström17th February - Fidelio Trio16th February - VENUE CHANGE: Aisha Orazbayeva and Joseph Houston16th February - Joel Sachs15th February - Gamelan Ensemble15th February-15th May - Empires of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Sahara and the Steppe13th-14th February - BEAST and SOUNDkitchen present: BEASTdome Pantry Sessions12th February - Visualising Sound 1: Art and Music Workshop Day12th February - Hermes Ensemble12th February - New Music Ensemble10th February - Ellen Fallowfield7th February - Chamber Orchestra and EMVE3rd February - Historically informed performance and the boundaries of musical discourse3rd February - Fantasy Figures: Inspiration and Reality27th January - Music and ritual in action: tackling HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa20th January - Cadence and formal articulation in Nineteenth-Century Sonata forms20th January - Fascist Fountains19th January - Book launch 2015 11th December - Amy Harman and Tom Poster9th December - Title to be confirmed9th December - Peter Blake's 'God's Own Junkyard' (1964)9th December - Pascal and Ami Rogé4th December - New Blues for Piano1st December - An Italian 'Marxian-Jungism'? Towards a Materialist Rethinking of Analytical Psychology27th November - Alexander Ullman and Michael Petrov26th November - Interdisciplinary Italy: Experimentation and Transgression across the Arts25th November - Title to be confirmed25th November - The Eye Wandering the Ceiling25th November - quartet-lab replaced by Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti20th November - Morgan Pearse and Jonathan Ware15th November - University Baroque Orchestra13th November - King Edward's School and King Edward VI High School for Girls11th November - The interpretive process as research11th November - The Avant-Garde's Alternative Professionalism10th November - Book launch6th November - Nathaniel Vallois and David Quigley4th November - The Horn of Africa in Tel Aviv1st November - Music Experience Day30th October - Takahashi, Stringfellow and Whiffen28th October - What can democracy mean for music?28th October - Micro-Architecture28th October - Binchois Consort: the Battle of Agincourt23rd October - Apollo Saxophone Quartet21st October - Bax's In Memorias [sic]21st October - The Syrian Entanglement16th October - Dautricourt Trio15th October - A talk with Basque writer Kirmen Uribe9th October - ensembleF2: Discovering Danzi2nd October - Clara Mouriz and Joseph Middleton9th-11th September - The Royal Musical Association annual conference 201526th August - RMA 2015 Programme - Abstracts3rd-4th July - House, work, artwork: feminism and Art History's new domesticities19th-20th June - Music and Realism: comparative historical perspectives18th-19th June - Artistic Interventions in the Virtual Space7th-19th June - Summer Festival of Music29th May - Florentine Arts Ensemble28th May - Encallados (Stranded)22nd May - Clipper Erickson21st May - Tots volem el millor per a ella (We all want what's best for her)18th May - Taking time - A Composer's reflection on how he works [full video available]15th May - Marcus Farnsworth and Joseph Middleton13th May - Ottiero Ottieri: un caso letterario. Industry, mental illness and politics in Ottieri's work8th May - Oliver She7th May - Aupa Etxebeste (Hurray Etxebeste)7th May - Trouble at the Vale: Chelsea anarchists in the 1890s6th May - La Venexiana5th May - Visual anthropology in Sardinia1st May - Daniel Tones and Owen Underhill30th April-2nd May - BEAST Feast 201528th-30th April - BEAST:FEaST 201627th April-2nd June - Monday Lunchtime Series27th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Lady Barber's Legacy26th March - Palpitatingly modern luxury: electrifying the country house25th March - Barber Evening Series: Nash Ensemble24th March - Classicality and experimental writing in Giuseppe Pontiggia24th March - Big Band and Jazz Collective23rd March - University Camerata22nd March - Philharmonic Orchestra21st March - The Age of Choirs20th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Tesla Quartet20th March - Brass in Concert19th March - Seeing spiritually and seeing the spiritual: seeking some perspective on Pieter Bruegel's paintings19th March - Spain and Portugal in the early seventeenth century: a Viceroy's viewpoint19th March - BEAST: Evensong16th March - AWAKE15th March - Saxophone Ensemble14th March - University Chorus13th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Chetham's School of Music13th March - Symphony Orchestra12th March - Time and space: another look at Jacopo de' Barbari's View of Venice, c. 150011th March - Title to be confirmed6th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Piano4Hands4th-7th March - Mary of Burgundy: the reign, the 'persona' and the legacy of a European princess3rd March - Title to be announced1st March - Voyages of Discovery27th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Alexander Ullman27th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: New Music Ensemble26th February - 'Better Than Before'?: Actor-Network-Theory and László Moholy-Nagy's occupational therapy courses25th February - Music Research Colloquium: Agnieszka Pluta20th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Gansch and Middleton20th February - CBSO Friday Night Classics: Opera Gala18th February - English song in the 15th century: was this a golden age?18th February - Barber Evening Series: Dante Quartet17th February - 'The Republic of the Mad'. radical psychiatry in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s and the end of the asylum15th February - Chamber Ensembles and Gamelan Ensemble13th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Whelan and Smith11th February - Life on mars before Life on Mars: music and Adam Adamant Lives11th February - From pride to humiliation: an Oral History project in Hialeah8th February - University Chamber Orchestra6th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Rose Consort of Viols5th February - Trickster, charlatan, apparition, king: representing royal impostors in post-revolutionary France4th February - The language of leadership29th January - "Utter lack of true dramatic feeling": Exploring Jan Steen's The Wrath of Ahasuerus28th January - In materna lingua: nuns and polyphony in early 16th-century Italy23rd-24th January - BEASTdome: Pantry Sessions23rd-30th January - Barber Lunchtime Series: Romantic Piano Fantasies21st January - Music Research Colloquium: Rodney Sharman21st January - Music Research Colloquium: Richard Rijnvos21st January - Barber Evening Series: VOCES816th January - Barber Lunchtime Series: Baker and Limonov 2014 12th December - University Women's Choir11th December - Piety, peasants, proverbs, and other peculiar pictures: making sense of Pieter Bruegel's paintings10th December - "Pirating the Pachamama (Earth Mother)": mimesis, remix and distortion in the Bolivian Andes9th December - Maternal dislocations: memory, selfhood and mother-tongue in Goliarda Sapienza's and Elena Ferrante's works8th December - University Carol Service6th December - Wind Band and Saxophone Ensemble5th December - Navarra Quartet with Alexander Boyd30th November - Eternal Light: Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus28th November - In the Silence of the Secret Night28th November - University Big Band27th November - A collective response: feminism, film, performance and Greenham Common26th November - Keeping tracks: archiving sound in the 21st Century26th November - Memory and affect: issues from Spain and Portugal24th November - Selfish Women and Other Inconvenient Deviants21st November - Henry Fairs and David Hatcher21st November - University organ festival finale18th November - Voidances: on Maurice's Blanchot's fiction15th November - Henry Fairs14th November - King Edward's School and King Edward VI High School for Girls14th November - Thomas Trotter with Birmingham University Singers13th November - Cubomania: collage, destruction and desire12th November - Music Research Colloquium: Orlando Garcia12th November - Monsters and prodigies in early modern Europe12th November - John Lill7th November - Total Brass5th November - Once more, with singing (and dancing): musical episodes in television series1st November - Nova Music Opera31st October - Crossing borders: Music's journey between Italy and France24th October - Presteigne Festival Tour23rd October - Of shepherds and sheep: the fortunes of pastoral metaphor in Christian imagery c. 110017th October - Hallé Soloists15th October - Becoming-minoritarian: embodiment and disembodiment in Szymanowski's Mythes, Op.3015th October - Editing medieval texts in the Digital Age: the Estoria de Espanna project15th October - Winterreise13th-17th October - Insider's View: a festival of Russian art, performance and research10th October - Peter Moore and Robert Thompson9th October - Photo albums and fancy dress: encounters with the African archive3rd October - Incus Ensemble28th September - Music in the making20th September - History of Art taster day 201411th July - Premiere of music inspired by the work of Yves Bonnefoy3rd-6th July - Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference 201420th June - Birmingham University Singers and University Women's Choir18th June - Summer Festival Sinfonia14th June - Wind Band: stage and screen spectacular13th June - Chamber Ensembles13th-15th June - Summer Festival Opera12th-13th June - Contemporary Caribbean visual culture: artistic visions of global citizenship9th June - miniBEAST8th June - Saxophone Ensemble3rd June - Modern Languages networking and workshop event for MFL teachers2nd-4th June - Final Year recitalists15th May - La Plaga (The Plague)13th May - O Apóstolo (The Apostle)8th May - Urte Berri On, Amona! (Happy New Year, Grandma!)7th-8th May - Curating Art History6th May - Final Year recitalists6th May - Postgraduate lecture recitals3rd May - BEASTiary2nd May - BEASTiary28th April - Final Year recitalists16th April - Short stories in translation27th March - Postgraduate lecture recitals27th March - Schoenberg, Gesamtkunstwerk and fantasies24th March - Final Year recitalists23rd March - Symphony Orchestra21st March - Binchois Consort, Birmingham University Singers and University Women's Choir20th March - Postgraduate lecture recitals20th March - Transnational art education in the 19th Century19th 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 France17th March - Final Year recitalists16th March - University Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra15th March - Chamber Choirs and Chamber Ensembles14th March - Brass in concert13th March - Postgraduate lecture recitals13th March - Synthetic dreams: colour-film-music in the 1920s12th March - The language of leadership10th March - Early Modern Vocal Ensemble9th March - Wind Band and Saxophone Ensemble6th 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 literature3rd March - Final Year recitalists27th February - Court on canvas: tennis in art26th February - The language of leadership26th February - Anti-Positivism and the Esoteric in early Twentieth-Century Mexican thought and literature25th February - Translating Frantz Fanon24th February - Early Music Ensembles19th February - Introduction to postgraduate study in the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music16th February - Music experience day14th February - BEAST@IKON12th February - Theorising Informality from the ground up in Russia12th February - "Wir sind das Volk": the dominance of 19897th February - Gilbert and Sullivan Gala2nd February - Sons of Bach28th January - The living and the poetic intention: Édouard Glissant's biopolitics of literature27th January - BEASTdome21st January - Blacks out: Italy's melancholic whiteness15th January - Hitler's female helpers6th-8th January - The Royal Music Association's 2014 Research Students' Conference 2013 12th December - Unthinking Shah Rukh Khan and Global Bollywood11th 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 Pietàs16th November - 54th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies14th November - Great exhibitions in the margins. Cultures of international exhibitions 1840-194013th November - Masterclass: languages in action13th November - Choteo: el humor, la política y la cultura en Cuba13th November - Büchner the optimist6th November - Masterclass: try a new language1st-2nd November - Post-socialism playing global: computer gaming industries and digital media culture30th October - Genre Studies and Russian texts28th October - The Life and Afterlife of Early Musics24th October - The paradigm of music: Kandinsky, Duchamp, & Nam June Paik22nd October - Postmemory and the graphic novel: how to tell your grandparents' stories of the Second World War12th October - Strategies of imperial control in arid and semi-arid environments10th October - Broadcasting modernity in 1968 Spain9th October - Firing the canon: the politics and poetics of exclusion28th September - History of Art taster day 201328th September - Genre and Memory1st-2nd July - Negotiating Boundaries - The Plural Fields of Art History26th June - Race, Biopolitics and Violence in Francophone Postcolonial Studies10th June - Workshop 6 - Communicating Genre: the author, the text and the audience23rd May - Els nens salvatges (The Wild Ones)21st May - Transatlantic Crossings: Local Memories and Global Justice16th May - Doentes (Sick People)10th May - Réseau-F Postgraduate Consortium for French and Francophone Studies9th May - Zorion perfektua (Perfect Happiness)29th April - Workshop 5 - Genre and canons of representation21st March - Women & War - The Politics of Life Writing: Spying, Treason and Antifascist Resistance21st March - Danger and Disenchantment: Thoughts on Narrative and Neue Sachlichkeit20th March - Irene Nemirovsky and Suite francaise20th March - Art History speed workshop19th March - Looking For Traces of Empire18th March - Unearthing the Past: A boat laden with...18th March - Robert Atkinson, Architect of Cinemas18th March - Dany Laferrière: A Restless Child of Haiti18th March - A leg to stand on: prosthetics, art and robots14th March - Picture Post and the Photo Essay: Emigre Photographers and Cultural Narratives in Britain 1938-4513th March - Research Round Table7th March - Joining a Professional Body7th March - Knight's Move. What can be the contribution of artistic research to World Art Studies?6th March - The Book of Invisible Bridges6th March - Known (un)knowns. Creating an Aesthetic of Knowing in Recent Cinematic Red Army Rote Armee Faction5th March - The status of Basque: situations and prospects5th March - French research seminar26th February - Radical Memorial Ethics. Peter Weiss' Trip to Auschwitz in 196423rd February - Workshop 4 - Genre in translation: crossing cultural, linguistic, disciplinary, media and other boundaries21st February - Working for a Translation Company21st February - Between Authenticity and the Multiple: Käthe Kollwitz, graphic dissemination and dealership20th February - Sin and the Self: Confession and Individuality in Twelfth-Century German Literature19th February - French research seminar7th February - Working as a Freelance Translator7th February - Civil Liberty and the Irish Poor: the Visual Cultures of Catholic Emancipation 1828-96th February - Careers with Languages31st January - The Memory of the image in Jean-Luc Godard's "Histoire(s) du cinema" (1998)31st January - August Sander and the Artists17th January - Kazimir Malevich and the Journey into Space15th January - Dante as a European poet 2012 14th December - Silvio Berlusconi and Post-modern Politics10th December - Workshop 3 - Genre and new technologies6th December - 'A Ghetto of Voluntary Formation: Israel Zangwill's Whitechapel' and 'The Split Man and the Crowd Master: John Rodker and Wyndham Lewis'30th November - (Ex)Changes: Short Fiction in Portugal, the United Kingdom and Ireland (1980-2010)28th November - The Diversity of Carnival Cultures and their Imported Versions in Post-Unification Berlin27th November - Maghrebi-French Disidentifications: Queer Performances of Gender, Religion, and Citizenship24th November - Workshop 2 - Genre, gender and identity22nd November - Translating for the EU22nd November - Transnational and local feminisms: The campaign for legal abortion in 1970s Rome and the impact of French and US debates22nd November - Joshua Reynolds: Portraiture in Action21st November - www.delightedbeauty.org/vvv - Exploring Shakespeare Translations with Digital Tools8th November - Multilingualism in the EU8th November - American Water: Industry and Contemplation in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting6th November - French research seminar25th October - Literary Translation – a Publisher's and a Translator's View17th October - Julius Evola and European Neofascism17th October - Calculating Divas: Caribbean Economic Imaginaries in the Novels of Mayra Santos Febres6th October - Workshop 1 - Genre: theory, methodology and practice4th October - Instructing the Prince through Text and Image: the 15th Century Burgundian Prose Romance of Florimont26th September - Modern Languages Lecture Series: Inaugural Lecture22nd September - History of Art sixth form study day17th-21st July - DAAD German Studies Summer School22nd June - Gendering impegno in modern Italian culture8th June - Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium 20129th May - What Happens to a Holocaust Testimony When it is Translated?26th-27th March - Collapsing Europe?26th-27th March - After the 'New Art History'22nd March - Tania Bruguera in Cuba21st March - The Short Reign of King Philip I of England21st March - Grass's Hundejahre and Mimesis20th March - Not on the same wavelength: Radio Vichy versus Radio London in 194414th March - Telling Lives: Autofiction and Other Lies in Contemporary Basque Literature13th March - La décolonisation de l'Algérie: Un roman pour comprendre huit ans de guerre12th March - Basque poetry and music recital8th March - Duchamp, Death and 'Liberty': From 'Dust Breeding' to 'Etant Donnés'6th March - Dr Pierpaolo Antonello29th February - Eduardo Chillida and Jorge Oteiza: A Posthumous Confrontation29th February - I cento passi (One hundred steps)29th February - "Unsre letzte Arbeit war die Befreiung der Toten…". Über ein Bruchstück im Nachlaß von29th February - Natalie Clein and Alasdair Beatson28th February - Homais's Struggle with the Blind Beggar in Madame Bovary28th February - My Name is Antonino Calderone27th February - Meet the Author - Dacia Maraini27th-29th February - Italy and the Mafia23rd February - The Young Modern Woman: A Paradoxical Image of 1920s Cinema23rd February - The Child in the 'cine religioso': The Excesses of Performance in Ladislao Vadja's Marcelino pan y vino (1955)7th February - Gabriele Rossetti exul immeritus1st February - The Importance of German Studies at British Universities26th January - Reassessing Exile Studies: The Kindertransport in British Memory Culture24th January - Intellectual or jester? Comedians in contemporary Italy24th January - Imagining 'whiteness' in the Antillean imagination19th January - Art, performance and activism in contemporary Japan18th 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 realtà8th December - On the Troublesome Relationship of Feminism and Terrorism7th December - Modernity and the Meaning of the Baroque in fin-de-siècle Vienna and Prague29th November - The personality cult of Gabriele d'Annunzio: between myth and reality29th November - Searching for traces of the past in the city of the present24th November - Indeterminacy and Ideal Form: Herder's Theory of Landscape Depiction15th November - Worlds of work and the work of worlds8th November - Sapphists and sexologists 1870-1920