Events listings
| Date | Description of confirmed events |
|---|---|
| 14 February 2019 |
Subtitling African American English into French Part of the LeCTIS Spring Seminar Series 2018/19. Drawing on the fields of translation studies, sociolinguistics and film studies, this talk analyses the French subtitling of African American English in a corpus of films from the United States |
| 20 February 2019 |
Words that make room for attention Part of the Interdisciplinary Connections: Explorations in Research Methods seminar series, this talk is about Dr Mary Ann Lund's ongoing project ‘Poetry and Presence’, a series of public outreach activities (including an exhibition and a retreat) dedicated to the meditative reading of poetry. |
| 20 February 2019 |
Part of the Modern Languages Seminar Series 2018/19 Semester 1 - This talk examines the kinds of lessons that classical, Renaissance and modern authors representing the story of Antigone variously in English, French, Greek and Latin were interested in delivering. |
| 21 February 2019 |
Translating the (M)other: Cristina Ali Farah's Madre piccola into English Part of the LeCTIS Spring Seminar Series 2018/19. Speaker Dr. Maria Christina Seccia discusses the English translation of Cristina Ali Farah’s Italian novel Madre piccola (2007), published under the title Little Mother(2011), from a feminist Translation Studies perspective. |
| 06 March 2019 |
Part of the Interdisciplinary Connections: Explorations in Research Methods seminar series, with speaker Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy. |
| 7 March 2019 |
Subtitles and subtitling: potential for (foreign) language learning Part of the LeCTIS Spring Seminar Series 2018/19 held in Bennett Lecture Theatre 5, from 4.30pm - 6.00pm. Contact Yan Ying for further information. |
| 14 March 2019 |
NRPSI and the regulation of professional interpreting Part of the LeCTIS Spring Seminar Series 2018/19 held in Bennett Lecture Theatre 5, from 4.30pm - 6.00pm. Contact Yan Ying for further information. |
| 18 March 2019 |
8th Annual Creative Writing Lecture 'Life Writing and the Writing Life', with award-winning author and poet Blake Morrison. Discussing his approach to the challenges of writing books in different genres. |
| 20 March 2019 |
Part of the Interdisciplinary Connections: Explorations in Research Methods seminar series, with speaker Professor Martin Stannard |
| 20 March 2019 |
Researching Through Exhibitions A discussion by Dr. Robert Sutton and Dr. Sam Shaw on how their research has been informed by and helped shape exhibitions in which they are currently involved. |
| 21 March 2019 |
Cassandra Complex: Mistranslated Prophecies and Apocalyptic Visions Part of the LeCTIS Spring Seminar Series 2018/19 held in Bennett Lecture Theatre 5, from 4.30pm - 6.00pm. Contact Yan Ying for further information. |
| 25 March 2019 |
America is also a Québec Novel Colleagues and students are warmly invited to a literary encounter with multi-award winning Québec writers Lise Gauvin and Madeleine Monette. |
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27 April 2019 |
Midlands Viking Symposium 2019 27 April - this year's theme is "Decolonising the Vikings", so we'll be looking at the portrayal of Vikings in TV shows; concepts of nationalism, ethnicity, and gender in the Viking Age; and the (mis)use of Vikings in contemporary politics. |
| 8 May 2019 |
The L1 advantage? :a comparison of L1/L2 speaking rates in ELF business meeting Part of the Interdisciplinary Connections: Explorations in Research Methods seminar series, this paper reports on Dr Rogerson-Revell's study of variation in L1/L2 speech rate in authentic international business meetings. |
| 16 May 2019 |
Why does translation and interpreting matter? - As seen from major events in history and now The 4th annual lecture for the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies. |
