Past events

Past Events
Wordsworth 2020: In (and out) of interdisciplinarity: POSTPONED - In our second installment of the 2018 'Interdisciplinary Connections' seminar series, Professor Phil Shaw will be discussing the pros and cons of interdisciplinary approaches to literature.
Transitioning from student to professional translator: Friday 9 March 2018 - The Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies is pleased to announce the 2017-18 career event, discussing the challenges and opportunities of freelancing.
Talking Transformations: poetry, art, and translational migrations: On Thursday 22 March 2018, The Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies is pleased to announce the 11th seminar of the 2017-18 Series with guest speaker, Dr Manuela Perteghella.
Announcing a new School of Arts Seminar Series, 'Interdisciplinary Connections: Explorations in Research Methods': A collection of short, one-hour lunchtime sessions exploring interdisciplinary possibilities.
Victorian Studies seminar series 2018: January - May 2018. A short collection of six events as part of the Victorian Studies' Spring Seminar Series 2018
The Legacy of 1968 in Latin America: Making the Personal Political: On Friday 18 May 2018, this symposium concludes the three-day event which begins with a workshop on 4 May 2018 and is preceeded by the pre-symposium event on 17 May 2018.
Interdisciplinary Connections seminar: Sampling Methods and Linguistic Findings in Desert Island Discs Over Time: Wednesday 16 May 2018 - Taking Desert Island Discs as an example, this paper explores the value of radio archives for linguistic/interdisciplinary research, and issues of sampling.
Exploring with T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets: Starting Thursday 12 April 2018 - All School of Arts students and staff are warmly invited to lunchtime workshops, led by Dr Scott Freer and Dr Mary Ann Lund.
Film Studies Research Seminar: 'Contemporary Latin American Film and Visual Culture': Wednesday 2 May 2018 - Presentations by Dr Ignacio Aguiló, Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Manchester, and Dr Clara Garavelli, Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Leicester.
Book Launch: The School of Arts invites you to a book launch and wine reception to celebrate our recent Film Studies publications.
Film screening: The Rape of Recy Taylor: 24 October 2018 - This film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story
HAF Career Path Talk and Q&A: 24 October 2018
Waugh's Winner Takes All and Flash Fiction: Creative Writing Workshop: 27 October 2018 - The workshop, designed for 11-18 year olds and based on the work of Evelyn Waugh, will feature fun flash fiction writing as well as a chance to read and learn more about this important 20th Century writer.
LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018/19: Translating Crime Fiction: 25 October 2018 - In this talk, Dr Karen Seago will develop her hypothesis that the translation of crime fiction, is a constrained form of literary translation.
History of Art and Film Seminar Series: Homonormative Sex in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Cinemas: 24 October 2018 - In the first in this series of four seminars, Connor Winterton (Birmingham City) examines homonormative sex in contemporary gay and lesbian cinemas, highlighting a recurrent detatchment from queer radical politics in favour of a focus on homonormative ideologies.
Interdisciplinary Connections seminar series (Autumn): American Disaster Narratives of the 1970's: 31 October 2018 - This lecture will outline the genre conventions of the disaster narrative whilst also exploring the anxieties and legacies of this 'peculiar American phenomenon'.
Interdisciplinary Connections seminar series (Autumn): Dante and the Visual Arts 2021: 17 October 2018 - The session should be ideal for anyone interested in the way in which works of literature are translated into visual form, and will of course have particular appeal both for art historians and Italianists.
LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018/19: Chinese Fansubbers - What Makes Them Survive So Far?: 11 October 2018 - A study on the genre and style analysis of Chinese fansubbing translation, how it is different from professional translations and exploration of whether Chinese fansubbers have created their particular translation style.
LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018/19: 'Translating with a capital T': 18 October 2018 - What does it mean to be a Translator with a capital T, and how many ways are there of being a translator?
Colonial Countryside conference: On Friday 16 November 2018, approximately 100 children from across the UK will participate in a child-led writing and history project about the National Trust houses’ Caribbean and East India Company connections.
Interdisciplinary Connections seminar series (Autumn): Analysing Adult Learners’ Talk About Language: 14 November 2018 - In this paper we discuss the approach we took to analysing adult language learners’ talk about language in Arabic, French, Spanish and Italian lessons. Though the analysis is still in progress, we will also share some of our preliminary findings.
School of Arts Seminar Series: Interdisciplinary Connections: Explorations in Research Methods (Autumn): This year's series continues with a new collection of short, one-hour lunchtime sessions for the Autumn term, exploring interdisciplinary possibilities.
Interdisciplinary Connections seminar series (Autumn): Women Directors in Hollywood from the 1980s: 28 November 2018 - This lecture will offer an introduction to the careers and films of Hollywood’s most profitable female directors – asking that we take seriously the work of women in the mainstream.
Interdisciplinary Connections seminar series (Autumn): Eco-noir, environmental crime and Esther Figueroa’s Limbo: 12 December 2018 - Esther Figueroa’s Limbo (2014) depicts a contemporary Jamaica damaged by various forms of environmental harm. Drawing on debates in green criminology and postcolonial ecocriticism, this paper will position Figueroa’s novel within the emerging crime fiction tradition of eco-noir.
History of Art and Film Seminar Series: Cosmic Magic: Talismans and Ciphers in the Objects of Victor Brauner, 1940-1946: 12 December 2018 - Unable to flee Vichy France, the Romanian surrealist Victor Brauner hid, alone, in the Alps. Atkin examines the research into magic Brauner here conducted and the protective talismans he created in the context of Surrealism’s broader shift towards the occult.
History of Art and Film Seminar Series 2018/19 (Autumn): Presenting a year-long programme of four sessions per semester, and interleaving studies of art and film, this series seeks to foster interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond the department of History of Art and Film.
History of Art and Film Seminar Series: Irena Blühová’s ‘A School for Becoming Human’: 5 December 2018 - Dr Julia Secklehner examines the photographs of Irena Blühová. An experienced photojournalist and active Communist, Blühová attended the Bauhaus in 1931. Secklehner’s new approach consists in re-uniting the oft-seperated documentary and modernist tendencies in her work.
History of Art and Film Seminar Series: Mexican man-eaters and American anthropophagi: 14 November 2018 - Dr Marc Ripley compares Mexican and US foundation myths as they feature in Jorge Michel Grau’s Somos lo que hay (2010), and it's US adaptation We Are What We Are by Kim Mickle (2013).
History of Art and Film Seminar Series: Challenging gender norms in contemporary Colombian cinema: An examination of female representation in post-2003 films: 14 November 2018
Game-based language learning: why, what and how?: 8 November 2018 - This presentation introduces a unique approach to Game-based language learning and the pedagogical considerations that helped to promote language development in a low-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context.
Representing Kingston: On Saturday 17 November 2018, poet, novelist and broadcaster Kei Miller, and novelist and short story writer Kerry Young, will read from and talk about their fiction.
History of Art and Film Postgraduate Study Awareness Talk: 14 November 2018 - Introduction of the programme and application tips by HAF PG Programme Director Professor James Chapman plus an opportunity to discuss PG study experience with our current PG students.
Exploring Multilingual Leicester: 5 December 2018 - A School of Arts, and Unit for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement event. Join us to talk about multilingualism in Leicester.
Narrating the Past, Contesting the Present: the Resistance in the contemporary Italian novel: 28 November 2018 - Part of the Modern Languages Seminar Series 2018/19 Semester 1 -
Institutional Translation: Practices, Norms and Agency: 29 November 2018 - Part of the LeCTIS seminar series: This talk will start by presenting characteristic features of institutional translation then illustrate some examples of research into translation policies and practices in various institutions.
New Walk Editions - Poetry Pamphlet Launch: 9 November 2018 - Please join us for the launch of our two new poetry pamphlets, featuring readings from Moniza Alvi, Veronika Krasnova and Mike Barlow.
The Publishing of Chinese Literature in UK - A Case Study of Penguin Books: 8 November 2018 - (Part of the LeCTIS seminar series) Delving into the actual publishing process of Chinese literary works, this study will investigate the interaction between translators and the publisher, from commissioning to production.
Translation and Creativity: 6 December 2018 - (Part of the LeCTIS seminar series 2018/19) It is the purpose of this talk to dispel the impression that translation is not a creative endeavour and will examine the notion of creativity, and translation.
LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018/19: Leicester Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (LeCTIS) are pleased to introduce their Autumn Seminar Series sessions for 2018/19.
Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster (IGSRC) Workshop: Feminist readings of hetero-patriarchal sexism and violence in Francophone, Italophone and Hispanophone texts and contexts.
Gender identities in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Literatures: 12 December 2018 - Part of the Modern languages seminar series for 2018/19. Princesas y Antiprincesas: re-inscribing and re-writing female gender identity in contemporary Latin American adolescent and children’s literature, plus Girl, interrupted: intertextuality in Marta Sanz's Daniela Astor y la caja negra (2013)
Modern Languages Seminar Series 2018/19 (Semester 1): The Department of Modern Languages are proud to present their first three seminars for 2018/19
Ntozake Shange Memorial Event: 21 December 2018 - Join us in honouring Ntozake Shange’s life and work at this free memorial event co-organised by Literary Leicester, Dare to Diva and SanRoo Publishing.
Underwater Love: Romantic Poets and Sacred Founts: 23 January 2019 - Part of the Interdisciplinary Connections: Explorations in Research Methods seminar series, with speaker Professor Phil Shaw.
Factors influencing innovative textbook use in EFL learning: 28 January 2019 - This presentation describes a study from a context of change in a rural Japanese technical college (kosen).
Subtitling African American English in to French: 14 February 2019 - Part of the LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018/19 - Spring. 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.
Words that make room for attention: 20 February 2019 - 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
Sois sage aux despens de Rome et de la Grèce: Learning from classical, Renaissance and modern Antigones': 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.
Translating the (M)other: Christina Ali Farah's Madre piccolainto English: 21 February 2019 - Part of the LeCTIS Series 2018/19 - Spring. Discussing 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.
Columban Texts and Joyce’s ‘book of kills’ (FW 482.33): Insular Manuscripts and the Limits of Paleographic Expertise in Finnegans Wake.: 6 March 2019 - Part of the Interdisciplinary Connections: Explorations in Research Methods seminar series, with speaker Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy.
Subtitles and Subtitling: Potential for (Foreign) Language Learning: 7 March 2019 - Part of the LeCTIS Series 2018/19 - Spring. A presentation on the research of Subtitling as a tool in the learning of a foreign language and its practical applications.
NRPSI and the regulation of professional interpreting: 14 March 2019 - Part of the LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018/19 - Spring. A presentation by the Executive Director of the NRPSI on the organisation, its roles and responsibilities, and the benefits of registering for it.
8th Annual Creative Writing Lecture - Blake Morrison: Literary Leicester and The Centre for New Writing Present: 'Life Writing and the Writing Life', with award-winning author and poet Blake Morrison. In this talk Blake discusses his approach to the challenges of writing books in different genres.
Evelyn Waugh in America: 20 March 2019 - Part of the Interdisciplinary Connections: Explorations in Research Methods seminar series, with speaker Professor Martin Stannard
Researching Through Exhibitions: 20 March 2019 - Department of History of Art and Film Research Seminar.
Cassandra Complex: Mistranslated Prophecies and Apocalyptic Visions: 21 March 2019 - Part of the LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018/19 - Spring
America is also a Québec Novel: 25 March 2019 - Colleagues and students are warmly invited to a literary encounter with multi-award winning Québec writers Lise Gauvin and Madeleine Monette.
Decolonising the Vikings: The Midlands Viking Symposium 2019: "The 2019 Midlands Viking Symposium will take place at the University of Leicester on Saturday the 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.
The L1 advantage? :a comparison of L1/L2 speaking rates in ELF business meeting: 8 May 2019 - 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.
Why does translation and interpreting matter? – As seen from major events in history and now: 16 May 2019 - The 4th annual lecture for the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies. A talk from Prof Binhua Wang from the University of Leeds.
Building Bridges 2019: 23 May 2019 - The Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies. Creating links between university programmes and professional translation industry

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