Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

Events from the last 12 months

 

Modern Languages Work in Progress seminar: René Demanou

Date
17/02/2017
Location:
Trent Building C40
Description
The seminar series starts with a paper in German by visiting postgraduate student , René Demanou.

Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation

Date
22/02/2017
Location:
Trent B46
Description
Ursula Ackrill is a Romanian-born German writer whose debut novel "Zeiden, im Januar" (2015) was shortlisted for several literary prizes.

Nottingham Interdisciplinary Modernism Research Network: Reading group

Date
22/03/2017
Location:
Trent Building C5
Description
Texts for discussion will be Victor Shklovsky, 'Art as Technique', and T.E. Hulme, 'Notes on Language and Style'.

Nottingham Interdisciplinary Modernism Research Network seminar

Date
15/02/2017
Location:
Trent Building C40
Description
Seminar on women and modernism

Hungry for Words – Self-confidence and self-esteem for young people

Date
26/01/2017
Location:
Jubilee Campus, Nottingham NG8 1BB
Description
This event, for year 11 and 12 pupils and their teachers, is part of a wider research project on wellbeing, mental health issues and eating disorders.

Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation

Date
22/02/2017
Description
This event brings together Ursula Ackrill and Sarah Pybus

Feminists on the Shift to the Right A teach-in with staff and students

Date
13/12/2016
Location:
Law & Social Sciences Building B62
Description
Topics covered: Models of females in power ; The normalisation of sexual violence ; LGBT politics and right-wing nationalism ; Identity politics and the left ; Race and power; Sex education and far-right protest ?

Supporting flexible and lifelong learning with language learner strategies

Date
23/11/2016
Location:
Trent A19
Description
Event hosted by the Language Teaching Reading and Discussion Network (Lantern)

The Problematics of Modernism

Date
30/11/2016
Location:
Trent C5
Description
The first reading group of the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Modernism Research Network: 'The Problematics of Modernism', from Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory, ed. by Steve Giles

Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation

Date
31/10/2016
Location:
B2 Hemsley, University Park Campus
Description
We are very happy and proud to announce that our very own Phd student Olivia Hellewell has translated a Slovene novel by author Jela Krecic, entitled None like her ('Ni druge'), into English. Jela Krecic and Olivia Hellewell will come together in front of an audience to read from and discuss Jela's debut novel in English translation, allowing an insight into the working relationship between author and translator, as well as discussing practical and theoretical aspects of translation.
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