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Institute of Modern Languages Research Facilitating, initiating and promoting dialogue and research for the Modern Languages community

School of Advanced Study, University of London

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On the phone with Kafka and Benjamin - Syamala Roberts

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2020 12:00


On the phone with Kafka and Benjamin - Syamala Roberts

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Time Itself is in Crisis

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2020 2:58


Speaker: Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin) talks about her recently published book 'Precarious Times'.

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Kafka in Quarantine

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2020 36:04


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 reading and watching Kafka in confined a...

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Beat Furrer in conversation with Edward Nesbit

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2019


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 of the AHRC Open World Research Initiative; ‘Cro...

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How to navigate an archive

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2018


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 of the most original and influential historians of ...

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Migrating Texts. Innovation and Technology in Subtitling, Translation and Adaptation

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2018 226:27


Carla Mereu (Bristol); Katie Brown (Bristol); Kit Yee Wong (BBK)

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Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing in Germany and Austria – A ‘Minor’ Literature?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2018 202:12


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 and Austria. The workshop will explore what the t...

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Cape Verde Islands: Language situation and teaching of Portuguese

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2018 49:52


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 the world. Since independence, the role and status of...

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Mussolini's Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2018 75:20


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 II. The lecture will focus on the legacy of the Ital...

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PROCESS PHILOSOPHY - 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2018 113:11


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 that a philosophical understanding of them must als...

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A Home Lost - a New Life Found? Kindertransport: Experience and Fiction

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2017 55:56


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-occupied territories to the UK in 1938-39. It is remembere...

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Translating Development - Translators in Development NGOs

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2017 86:38


Translating Development Introduction Hilary Footitt (University of Reading) Panel 1: Translators in Development NGOs Chair: Wine Tesseur Alberto Sanz Martins (Translations manager, Oxfam GB) Jessica Matthews (Internal communications officer...

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Translating Development - Translators in Development NGOs

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2017


Translating Development Introduction Hilary Footitt (University of Reading) Panel 1: Translators in Development NGOs Chair: Wine Tesseur Alberto Sanz Martins (Translations manager, Oxfam GB) Jessica Matthews (Internal communications officer...

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PROCESS PHILOSOPHY - 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2017 103:10


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 that a philosophical understanding of them must als...

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Slavery in Enlightenment America – Crèvecoeur’s Bilingual Approach

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017 33:51


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence Slavery in Enlightenment America – Crèvecoeur’s Bilingual Approach J...

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Slavery in Enlightenment America – Crèvecoeur’s Bilingual Approach

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence Slavery in Enlightenment America – Crèvecoeur’s Bilingual Approach J...

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The Vamp Rehabilitated: Carmen de Burgos’s mujer fría in the light of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent’s señorita Vampiro

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017 27:49


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence The Vamp Rehabilitated: Carmen de Burgos’s mujer fría in the light of A...

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The Vamp Rehabilitated: Carmen de Burgos’s mujer fría in the light of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent’s señorita Vampiro

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence The Vamp Rehabilitated: Carmen de Burgos’s mujer fría in the light of A...

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A Meditation on Fernando Pessoa

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017 32:53


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence A Meditation on Fernando Pessoa Bernard McGuirk (University of Nottingha...

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A Meditation on Fernando Pessoa

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence A Meditation on Fernando Pessoa Bernard McGuirk (University of Nottingha...

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Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017 30:47


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 2: Showcasing research projects Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers a...

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Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 2: Showcasing research projects Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers a...

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The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017 31:36


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 2: Showcasing research projects The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages Si...

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The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Panel 2: Showcasing research projects The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages Si...

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Beyond Modern Languages?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017 46:49


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Keynote Beyond Modern Languages? Jo Labanyi (New York University) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool...

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Beyond Modern Languages?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium Keynote Beyond Modern Languages? Jo Labanyi (New York University) This event is kindly supported by Liverpool...

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PROCESS PHILOSOPHY - 3

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2017 11:15


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 that a philosophical understanding of them must als...

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PROCESS PHILOSOPHY - 4

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2017 142:03


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 that a philosophical understanding of them must als...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Keynote 2

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Keynote 2 Viewing the Holy City: An Anthropological Perspectivalism Glenn Bowman (Kent) The event is generously supported by th...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Paper 4

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Paper 4 Visualising the slave-ports of Barcelona and Valencia in Imperial Spain Carmen Fracchia (Birkbeck) The event is generou...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Paper 4

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Paper 4 Visualising the slave-ports of Barcelona and Valencia in Imperial Spain Carmen Fracchia (Birkbeck) The event is generou...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Keynote 3

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017 47:41


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Keynote 3 Transcultural Memories of the Bagne: The Mediterranean in Global Penal Heritage Charles Forsdick (Liverpool) The even...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Keynote 3

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Keynote 3 Transcultural Memories of the Bagne: The Mediterranean in Global Penal Heritage Charles Forsdick (Liverpool) The even...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Poetry reading

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017 28:45


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Poetry reading Offshore Dreaming: Aphrodite’s Gas Field (2015) Stephanos Stephanides and performance Alev Adil The event is g...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Poetry reading

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Poetry reading Offshore Dreaming: Aphrodite’s Gas Field (2015) Stephanos Stephanides and performance Alev Adil The event is g...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Keynote 1

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017 52:59


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Keynote 1 Translation, Memory and the Mediterranean Stephanos Stephanides (Cyprus) The event is generously supported by the Cas...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Keynote 1

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Keynote 1 Translation, Memory and the Mediterranean Stephanos Stephanides (Cyprus) The event is generously supported by the Cas...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Paper 1

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017 28:48


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Paper 1 Bridging the Mediterranean: Transcultural memories in the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM), Marse...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Paper 1

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Paper 1 Bridging the Mediterranean: Transcultural memories in the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM), Marse...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Paper 2

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017 19:50


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Paper 2 Ports of Call: Beirut, Algiers and the TransMediterranean passerelle Claire Launchbury (IMLR/IHR) The event is generous...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Paper 2

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Paper 2 Ports of Call: Beirut, Algiers and the TransMediterranean passerelle Claire Launchbury (IMLR/IHR) The event is generous...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Paper 3

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017 27:26


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Paper 3 Memory and the Marchesa, from Venice to Capri Will Visconti (Sydney) The event is generously supported by the Cassal Tr...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Paper 3

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Paper 3 Memory and the Marchesa, from Venice to Capri Will Visconti (Sydney) The event is generously supported by the Cassal Tr...

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present - Keynote 2

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017 34:40


Institute of Modern Languages Research Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present Keynote 2 Viewing the Holy City: An Anthropological Perspectivalism Glenn Bowman (Kent) The event is generously supported by th...

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PROCESS PHILOSOPHY - 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2017 121:16


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 that a philosophical understanding of them must als...

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Traffic's Poetic Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2017 42:05


Institute of Modern Languages Research Caribbean Traffic: Bodies, Cultures, Knowledges Programme Plenary Address: Traffic's Poetic Politics Jean-Françoise Boclé

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Traffic's Poetic Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Caribbean Traffic: Bodies, Cultures, Knowledges Programme Plenary Address: Traffic's Poetic Politics Jean-Françoise Boclé

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Turkish Bluebeard: From 'Mustang' to Euromosques

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2017 33:44


Institute of Modern Languages Research Turkey and Islam in France and Europe: Migrant cultural memory on screen and page Turkish Bluebeard: From 'Mustang' to Euromosques Matthew Mild (IMLR / London) The workshop will start by focusing on a...

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Turkish Bluebeard: From 'Mustang' to Euromosques

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Turkey and Islam in France and Europe: Migrant cultural memory on screen and page Turkish Bluebeard: From 'Mustang' to Euromosques Matthew Mild (IMLR / London) The workshop will start by focusing on a...

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Polyphonic (Dis)integration: Muslims in French Banlieue Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2017 22:46


Institute of Modern Languages Research Turkey and Islam in France and Europe: Migrant cultural memory on screen and page Polyphonic (Dis)integration: Muslims in French Banlieue Culture Jocelyn Wright (Texas, Austin) The workshop will start...

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Polyphonic (Dis)integration: Muslims in French Banlieue Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2017


Institute of Modern Languages Research Turkey and Islam in France and Europe: Migrant cultural memory on screen and page Polyphonic (Dis)integration: Muslims in French Banlieue Culture Jocelyn Wright (Texas, Austin) The workshop will start...

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