Term 1

Week 1	Introductory Lecture: Languages and Cultures Beyond Boundaries	Kate Astbury
Week 2	Italy and migration: Gianni Amelio Lamerica (1994)	Joanne Lee
Week 3	Transnational identities in 21st century: Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio	Joanne Lee
Week 4	Italian Language and Identity: Jumpa Lahiri, In Other Words	Valentina Abbatelli
Week 5	In Other Words: translation, marketing and reception	Valentina Abbatelli
Week 6	Reading Week
Week 7	Exporting Frenchness in Cinema: Introduction to Film and Jean de Florette	Alex Corcos
Week 8	France as/and Transnational Europe: L'Auberge espagnole	Mary Harrod
Week 9	Defying nationalism, Defying Napoleon : Germaine de Staël, Corinne	Kate Astbury
Week 10	Cosmopolitan Romanticism	Kate Astbury

Term 2

Week 1	Reflective workshop: theorising culture, identity, travel and the other	tbc
Week 2	Spain between East and West: Introduction. Imagining Spain	Rich Rabone
Week 3	Spain between East and West: Tales from the Alhambra	Rich Rabone
Week 4	Spain between East and West: Carmen	Rich Rabone
Week 5	Spain between East and West: George Borrow and Richard Ford	Rich Rabone
Week 6	Reading Week
Week 7	The Enlightenment in Germany: cultural contact, race and religion Act 1 of Lessing’s Nathan the Wise	Christine Achinger
Week 8	The Enlightenment in Germany: cultural contact, race and religion. Nathan the Wise	Christine Achinger
Week 9	The Enlightenment in Germany: cultural contact, race and religion. Kehlmann’s Measuring the World	Christine Achinger
Week 10	The Enlightenment in Germany: cultural contact, race and religion. Kehlmann’s Measuring the World (continued)	Christine Achinger