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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.
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.
Modern Languages Seminar Series 2018/19 (Semester 1)
The Department of Modern Languages are proud to present their first three seminars for 2018/19
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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)
Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster (IGSRC) Workshop
Feminist readings of hetero-patriarchal sexism and violence in Francophone, Italophone and Hispanophone texts and contexts.
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 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: 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.
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.
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?
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.
