Seminars and research events across the School
School of Languages at Lunchtime Series – SALTSSALTS is a new interdisciplinary research forum for the entire research community in the School of Modern Languages and beyond. The School strongly promotes interdisciplinary research across several fields including comparative medieval and early modern studies, Film History and Film Aesthetics, Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, Migration Studies, Translation Studies, Renaissance Studies, Memory Studies, Gender Studies and Disability Studies. Members of our vibrant research community engage in editorial and archival work, sociocultural and political contextualization, philosophical and theoretical interrogation, medical and psychiatric history. Their research addresses the urgent issues of linguistic, cultural, religious and ethnic diversity in Europe, Africa, North America, the Caribbean and Central and South America. By examining the reception and reshaping of philosophical, intellectual and literary traditions, they also contribute to a nuanced understanding of what is involved in transcultural and intercultural encounters and translations. Designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogue, SALTS adopts a dynamic and informal format. Presenters from a particular discipline will team up with a respondent from a different subject area who is working in a related field. A short paper or position statement will be circulated ahead of each lunchtime talk and form the basis for the response and the ensuing discussion. So if you want to find out what colleagues are working on in the School of Modern Languages and beyond, come to the SALTS talks which will be launched on 25 November: Term 125 November (1pm, H 1.48): Food and CulturePresenter: Beat Kümin (Department of History, Warwick University) Respondent: Cecilia Muratori (Italian; School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Warwick University) Professor Anne Fuchs, Director of Research Term 2 |
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French Research Seminar: 2015-16An exciting team of speakers is lined up for the French Studies Seminar Series 2015-16 in our School of Modern Languages and Cultures. All are welcome. All talks are at 4pm. TERM 1Wednesday 21 OctoberReception to celebrate publication of Dr. Mary Harrod's monograph, From France with Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy (I. B. Tauris 2015), room H4.44 (tbc). Thursday 19 NovemberProf. Adrian Armstrong (QMUL), '"Mon cierge trouvay soufflé’": Masculinity and its tensions in François Villon', R 1.13. TERM 2Wednesday 20 JanuaryElisabeth Wallmann (Warwick), 'Insects, Instincts, and Political Economy: Animal Nature and its Role in Physiocracy', R.0.03/4. Wednesday 24 FebruaryDr. Jennifer Oliver (Oxford) - ‘Machines and machinations: mechanisms of war in French Renaissance literature’, H454. Abstract: This paper will explore the analogical connections and tensions between war machines and statecraft in the work of Rabelais, Montaigne, and d’Aubigné. While mechanistic analogies were (and remain) commonplace in political thought, such imagery may also test the practical and ethical limits of allegory. What happens when the boundaries between man and machine become blurred? In particular, what can semantically flexible terms such as ‘engin’ and ‘bastiment’ tell us about the exploration of these boundaries in the period? TERM 3Wednesday 1 JuneDr. Thomas Baldwin (Kent), 'Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations', H 0.60. |
German Interdisciplinary Workshop: 2015-16All talks are at 4pm in H2.02 unless otherwise indicated. TERM 1Wednesday 21 OctoberThe Warwick Workshop for Interdisciplinary German Studies supports the Speakers: Prof. Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham), Dr Caroline Duttlinger (Oxford), Prof. Anne Fuchs (Warwick), Dr. Nick Lawrence (Warwick). 3.00-5.30 pm, MS.04 |
Hispanic Studies Events: 2015-16TERM 114 October Brazilian music featuring Clelia Irazun including wine reception, 5.30-7pm, Warwick Arts Centre 20 October La isla mínima (Marshland), 8:45pm, Warwick Arts Centre cinema http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/2015/marshland/ Undergraduate social event organised by the Hispanic Society, 7:15pm, room S0.28 - contact: R.Chohdha@warwick.ac.uk 29 October Research seminar with Helena Miguélez Carballera (Bangor University/ British Academy Mid-Career Fellow): 'Notes on the Postcolonial Spain Project: Ramifications for Contemporary Hispanism', 5:15 pm, IAS seminar room, Millburn House 5 November Iluminados por el fuego, film screening and Q&A with Embassy Minister Gustavo Bobrik, Embassy Secretary Pedro López Godoy and Dr Santiago Oyarzabal (University of Warwick), 6-8:20pm, Warwick Arts Centre cinema This event is kindly supported by the Embassy of Argentina To reserve a FREE ticket, email: m.coletta@warwick.ac.uk 13-14 November WISPS XVI Annual Conference, Keynotes: Rosa Montero and Ana Luísa Amaral http://www.wisps.org.uk/conferences/wisps-xiv-annual-conference/ 17 November Cinema workshop with director ‘in residence’ Andrés Di Tella, supported by Santander Universities, chair: Dr José Arroyo (University of Warwick), 4pm, room A0.28 See Poster TERM 2Thursday 28 January Prof Dominic Keown (University of Cambridge) Catalan Cinema (FULL TITLE TBC), 3-4:30PM, room F.25A Millburn House Thursday 25 February Jaime Luis Huenún (Chilean Mapuche writer and poet), Workshop on South American Indigenous poetry (some knowledge of Spanish needed), 3-4:30, room F.25A Millburn House Tuesday 15 March Belén Gopegui (Spanish writer), Literature and social activism, 4:30-6pm, room H0.01 Humanities Building Thursday 17 March Luciana Zorzoli (CONICET, Argentina), Reassessing State – Union relationship during the Dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), 1-3pm, room H2.02 Humanities Building TERM 3Wednesday 11 May Mercedes Cebrián (Spanish writer), Writing workshop, 3:30-5pm, room H3.56 Humanities Building - Open to all Humanities and Social Sciences PG students
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Italian Research Seminar: 2015-16TERM 1Tuesday 17 November, 4-6 pmDigital Tools for Humanities Research: A Workshop with Bryan Brazeau, Tomi Oladepo, Gioia Panzarella Room H4.50 (Renaissance Centre) poster TERM 2Wednesday 27 January, 5-7pmFederico Faloppa (University of Reading) presents his book Sbiancare un etiope (Aracne, 2013) Respondent Naomi Wells (University of Warwick) IAS Seminar Room (Millburn House) Monday 1 February, 4-6 pmBryan Brazeau (University of Warwick) on A Good Offense: Poetics and Society in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Respondent Alessio Cotugno (University of Warwick) Room H4.50 (Renaissance Centre) Thursday 11 February, 5-7pmMila Milani (University of Warwick) on Translation and Post-hegemony in post-WWII Italy: Left-wing Publishers and the Italian Communist Party. Respondent Chantal Wright (University of Warwick) Room H4.03 Tuesday 23 February, 4-6pmAlessandra Aloisi (University of Warwick) will present her research project Distraction as a Philosophical Concept and a Stylistic Device in France and Italy. 17th-19th Centuries. Respondent Cecilia Muratori (University of Warwick) Room H4.03 Friday 4 March, 2-8pmIdentities in Motion Legacies and Representations of Mobility in Contemporary Italy Organizers: Gianmarco Mancosu (University of Warwick) and Gioia Panzarella (University of Warwick) Wolfson Research Exchange, University Library Wednesday 9 March, 5-7pmPresentation of Ten steps. Critical enquiries on Leopardi (Peter Lang, 2015), with Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick) and Paola Cori (University of Birmingham). Respondent Alessio Cotungo (University of Warwick) Room H4.03 TERM 3Thursday 5 May, 11-13Lunch-Workshop with translator Richard Dixon flyer Room R1.13 Wednesday 11 May , 4-6 pmAngelo Maria Mangini (University of Bologna) on A Tale of Two Sirens: Ozick, Tomasi di Lampedusa and the Gender of the Uncanny. Respondent: Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick) Room H4.03
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