Modern Languages Inaugural lectures
Modern Languages Inaugural lectures Podcast
1) Of all things broken and lost: Durs Grünbein’s Perspectives on Dresden and the problems of modern Elegy
Professor Karen Leeder delivers the inaugural Schwarz-Taylor Lecture The Allied aerial bombing of Dresden in February 1945 is one of the most controversial acts of the Second Word War. Even today, the...Show More
2) ‘Arriving before us’: seeing, ingenuity and imagination in Dante: Simon Gilson's Inaugural lecture
During his inaugural lecture, Professor Gilson will show how ideas about vision and cognate faculties such as the wits and the imagination are central to Dante’s masterpiece, the Commedia. Understand...Show More