Institute of Modern Languages Research Podcast
1) Time Itself is in Crisis
Speaker: Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin) talks about her recently published book 'Precarious Times'.
2) Kafka in Quarantine
Institute of Modern Languages Research Speaker(s): Prompted by the Royal Ballet’s streaming of its 2011 ballet ‘Metamorphosis’ (‘Die Verwandlung’), Seán Williams (University of Sheffield) talks about...Show More
3) Beat Furrer in conversation with Edward Nesbit
Beat Furrer in conversation with Edward Nesbit AHRC OWRI project ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community' A series of talks on the relationship between music and language, created as part ...Show More
4) How to navigate an archive
How to navigate an archive: Looking for witchcraft trials in the State Archive of Venice and in the ecclesiastical Archive of Udine: a personal experience from the early 1960s Carlo Ginzburg is one...Show More
5) Migrating Texts. Innovation and Technology in Subtitling, Translation and Adaptation
Carla Mereu (Bristol); Katie Brown (Bristol); Kit Yee Wong (BBK)
Migrating Texts. Innovation and Technology in Subtitling, Translation and Adaptation
3:46:27 | May 10th, 2018
6) Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing in Germany and Austria – A ‘Minor’ Literature?
This one-day workshop aims to probe whether the label and concept of a ‘minor literature’ (Deleuze/Guattari, 1975) can be usefully applied to contemporary writing by female Jewish authors in Germany a...Show More
Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing in Germany and Austria – A ‘Minor’ Literature?
3:22:12 | Apr 27th, 2018
7) Cape Verde Islands: Language situation and teaching of Portuguese
Dr Jorge Pinto (University of Lisbon) This seminar focuses on the language situation in Cape Verde. Portuguese pidgins were the first Romance pidgins to emerge and gave rise to creoles throughout t...Show More
8) Mussolini's Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II
Speaker: Sheila Lecoeur (Imperial College London) A lecture by Dr Sheila Lecoeur on the publication of her volume Mussolini's Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War ...Show More
Mussolini's Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II
1:15:20 | Feb 8th, 2018
9) PROCESS PHILOSOPHY - 2
This seminar investigates the relation between thought, spontaneity and movement - in short, living thought, or thought thinking experience. Spontaneity and movement are nothing fixed, and so it seems...Show More
10) A Home Lost - a New Life Found? Kindertransport: Experience and Fiction
Speakers: Dr Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth), Stephanie Homer (IMLR), Ursula Krechel (Berlin) and Ruth Barnett (London) The Kindertransport enabled nearly 10,000 child refugees to flee from Nazi-occupi...Show More