INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH

School of Advanced Study • University of London

 

Tuesday 6 June 2017, 14:00-19:00

 

Showcasing Research Excellence: the Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium

Room G35, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

 

14:00-15:30 Panel 1: Showcasing research excellence
Judith Still (Nottingham): ‘Slavery in Enlightenment America – Crèvecoeur’s Bilingual Approach'
Abigail Lee Six (Royal Holloway University of London): ‘The Vamp Rehabilitated: Carmen de Burgos’s mujer fría in the light of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent’s señorita Vampiro’
Bernard McGuirk (Nottingham): ‘A Meditation on Fernando Pessoa’

15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee break

 

16:00-17:00 Panel 2: Showcasing research projects
Adalgisa Giorgio (Bath): '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'
Simon Gaunt (King’s College London): ‘The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages’

17:00 Break

 

17:15 Keynote - Jo Labanyi (New York) ‘Beyond Modern Languages?’

 

18:00 Presentation by Liverpool University Press and Reception

 

All are welcome to attend this free symposium. Please register in advance http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8105

 

 

Institute of Modern Languages Research

School of Advanced Study | University of London
Room 239 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK

Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8738

http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk

 

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