Events from the last 12 months

Date: 20 - 22/06/2016
Location:: The National College
Description: This conference brings together historians from Germany, the UK and North America in order to discuss approaches to the history of 'the private' in Nazi Germany, and to explore the negotiation or contestation of 'the private' in relation to specific themes ranging from marriage and intimate relationships to living space and patterns of consumption.It will consider the situation of Germans and the experiences of those who were living under occupation and enduring persecution in Nazi-occupied Europe.Conference languages will be English and German.

Date: 10/06/2016
Location:: Highfield House A01/A02
Description: Nottingham's Research Priority Area "Languages, Texts and Society" is hosting this symposium to explore links and synergies between Memory Studies and Postcolonial Studies, discuss new directions in this field and foster future cross-disciplinary, regional and international collaboration.

Date: 26 - 27/02/2015
Description: University of Nottingham hosts the award-winning German poet and writer Ulrike Almut Sandig and her acclaimed translator, Professor Karen Leeder

Date: 24/02/2016
Location:: Clive Granger A39
Description: The translation and interpreting professions offer a variety of employment opportunities to linguists and are particularly in demand in the current political climate. Come and hear from our panel of speakers which include a Language Officer at the European Commission, a Freelance Interpreter, the Managing Director of a Language agency and a UoN French and Hispanic grad who is currently on the European Commission trainee scheme.

Date: 24 - 25/02/2016
Location:: Trent Building
Description: The Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and Department of German Studies Presnets:Myths and Archetypes in Moden European Literature

Date: 18/05/2016
Location:: University Park Campus
Description: Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies: 3rd Postgraduate Symposium

Date: 24/03/2016
Location:: Highfield House A02
Description: The research group's inaugural event will be a study day, to take place on Thursday 24th March 2016. This will be an informal event designed to encourage cross-disciplinary conversations and potential collaborations. It will include two keynote speakers, Prof Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University) and Dr Maria del Pilar Bianco (Oxford University).

Date: 08 - 09/04/2016
Location:: University Park
Description: The emergence of diachronic corpus linguistics in the last two decades has allowed us unprecedented access to data in the study of past stages of language and language change.

Date: 14/10/2015
Location:: Trent C40
Description: Department of German Studies Research Seminar Series 2015-16. Imperial Germany and the Transylvanian Saxons, 1871 - 1881: 'Deutschtum', Nationalism and Local Politics. A seminar talk by Dr Jonathan Kwan.

Department of Modern Languages and Cultures