27 January 2016, room 3.44, 2-3:30 pm

Reading Group - Session Five: On Food

Organized by Georgia Wall (Italian, 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages' project)

Materials:

Michael Cronin, 'Cooking the Books: Translation, Food and Migration', Comparative Critical Studies 11.2-3 (2014), 337-354.

The session (1h) will be followed by a planning meeting (next sessions of the seminar, other projects, etc).

26 May 2015

Round Table: Migration and Literature: a Cross-School Reading Group

Modern Languages Symposium, Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Research Festival, University of Warwick

with Katharina Forster, Gioia Panzarella, Laetitia Saint-Loubert, and Georgia Wall
Chair: Jennifer Burns

6 May 2015
Reading Group - Session Four: On the Bildungsroman

Organized by Katharina Forster (German)

Materials:
Mark Stein, Black British Literature. Novels of Transformation (Columbus: Ohio State U P, 2004)
- Introduction: pp. xi-xviii
- Chapter 1: p. 3, pp. 20-35.

23 February 2015
Reading Group - Session Three: On Paratexts

Organized by Laetitia Saint-Loubert (Hispanic, Centre for Caribbean Studies)

Materials:
- Richard Watts, 'Translating Culture: Reading the Paratexts to Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal', TTR: traduction, terminologie, rédaction, 13:2 (2000), pp. 29-45.
- the Translator's Note to the book by Mireille Rosello
- the painting by Wifredo Lam https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/resource/cbqjn4B/rEx69d

12 January 2015
Reading Group - Session Two: On Translation

Organized by Goffredo Polizzi (Italian, Monash/Warwick Alliance)

Materials:

Loredana Polezzi, 'Translation and migration', Translation Studies, 5:3 (2012), 345-56.

2 December 2014
Reading Group - Session One: On Definitions

Organized by Gioia Panzarella (Italian)

Materials:
Søren Frank, ‘Four Theses on Migration and Literature’, in Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe, ed. by M. Gebauer and P. Lausten (München: Martin Meidenbauer, 2010), pp. 39-57.

For any information on the reading group please contact G.Panzarella@warwick.ac.uk