INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
University of London School of Advanced Study
Monday, 01 December 2014, 16:00 – 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar
ON THE WEST-EASTERN COUCH
Venue: Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as Vanishing Mediators
(IMLR German Philosophy Seminar Series)
Co-Ordinator: Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN)
Advance registration required:
[log in to unmask]
Tuesday, 02 December 2014, 18:00 – 20:00
LINKS Comparative Literary Studies Seminar
HERETICAL NOVELS FROM CERVANTES TO PENELOPE FITZGERALD
Venue: Room G21a, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
SPEAKERS:
Maria Di Battista (Princeton)
Maria DiBattista is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, and co-director of "Synapsis: European School for Comparative Studies". She has written extensively on twentieth century literature and film, the
European novel and narrative theory. Her books include First Love: The Affections of Modern Fiction (1991), Fast Talking Dames (2003), Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography (2008), and Novel Characters: A Genealogy (2010). She has also
co-edited, with Emily O. Wittman, The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography (2014) and Modernism and Autobiography (2014).
Organised together with Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths, King's College London, Queen Mary, SOAS, and University College London
Thursday, 04 December 2014, 17:30 – 20:00
Seminar
ENCOUNTERS: WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS IN CONVERSATION: SUDABEH MOHAFEZ AND KATE ROY
Venue: Room G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
SPEAKERS:
Sudabeh Mohafez, Kate Roy
Chair: Heike Bartel (Nottingham)
Sudabeh Mohafez is the author of short stories, novels and plays, and has won several awards (brennt [2010];
Das eigenartige Haus [2012]). Kate Roy is the translator of
brennt and a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the IMLR's Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, specialising in contemporary German and French literature by authors with a Muslim
cultural background
Please register by email: [log in to unmask]
The event is sponsored by the Keith Spalding Bequest - Organised in conjunction with the University of Nottingham
Thursday, 04 December 2014, 18:00 – 19:30
Research Training
IMLR GRADUATE FORUM
Venue: Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
This forum is run by and for graduate students from the Colleges and Institutes in and around London, working on any cultural aspect of
those parts of the world where Germanic or Romance languages are spoken (including Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish and many more).
Graduate students from departments other than Modern Languages (e.g. Anthropology, History, History of Art, Film and Media, etc.) and students
working on comparative projects involving one or more Germanic or Romance language are particularly welcome to join the group to develop interdisciplinary links.
Saturday, 06 December 2014, 11:00 – 18:00
IMLR Research Training Workshop
DIGITAL LANGUAGES
Venue: PC Room, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
SPEAKERS:
Colin Homiski (Senate House Libraries), Emanuela Patti (IMLR/Bournemouth), Lucia Rinaldi (University College London)
Full programme available at
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Events/RTProgr2014-15%20%28Updated%2019-11-14%29.pdf
Institute of Modern Languages Research
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room ST 279, Senate House
Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966
Website http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk