Seminar Series

Seminar Series

Seminars will usually take place between 15:30-17:30, unless otherwise stated. Locations may vary. Please also see our list of past seminars.

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Past Seminars

When	Time	Description	Location	Add to Calendar
8 June 2023	16:00	Breaking Boundaries: Translating Cultures and the Relevance of Museum Ethnography Now Full details	Forum Exploration Lab 2
25 May 2023	15:30	Oral History Methodologies and Translating Cultures Full details	Forum Exploration Lab 2
15 March 2023	15:30	Redes de sociabilidad, difusión en prensa y mecenazgo en escritoras españolas a mediados del s. XIX. Modelos previos y paradigma francés y británico. Full details	Queens Building MR2
8 February 2023	15:30	Political violence in Russian literature, 1905-1914 Full details	Queens Building MR2/3
27 January 2023		Political violence in Russian literature, 1905-1914 Full details	Queens Building MR2/3
30 November 2022	15:30	What do we mean by “translation”? Full details	Harrison Building 209
16 November 2022	15:30	When Accessibility Becomes Performance: Performativity as an Element and a Carrier of Accessibility in Sign-Language- Interpreted Music Full details	Harrison Building 209
9 November 2022	17:30	‘Reading for Change’: We Still Have Chance Full details	Maketank Exeter
26 October 2022	15:30	Colette avec et contre son temps Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
12 October 2022	15:30	Language, Multilingualism and Translating Afropean Identity: The Cases of Igiaba Scego and Fatou Diome Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
23 March 2022	15:30	P-p-p-pick up a Pingvin: Behind the Scenes at Penguin’s Russian Classics Full details	Online
16 February 2022	15:30	Death in Translation: Ways of Dying in Contemporary Russia Full details	Online
26 January 2022	15:30	Hearing New Voices of Venezuelan Migrant Women: A Students-as-partners Project Full details	Online
8 December 2021	15:30	The Punctum and the Politics of Migrant Narratives Full details	Online
24 November 2021	15:30	Reimagining the Italian South: migration and translation in contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema Full details	Online
17 November 2021		Revisiting Gender and Translation in the eighteenth century (France and the Low Countries) Full details	Online
3 November 2021	16:30	Isobel Williams presenting her collection Catullus: Shibari Carmina Full details	ZOOM https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/95252805551?pwd=Rlh5S3pablQreTVBaDVnZStnTTd4QT09 Meeting ID: 952 5280 5551 Password: 308123
27 October 2021	15:30	Found in translation. What (and why) we need to jeopardise a text Full details	Forum Exploration Lab 2
13 October 2021	15:30	Ideology and Translation: The Case of Pepetela Full details	Queens Building LT1
6 October 2021	15:30	Taking Liberties: Ananda Devi translates David Dabydeen Full details	Online
17 March 2021	15:30	Retranslation as Symbolic Violence: Examples from Arabic Literature Full details	Online
24 February 2021	15:30	Transnational Experiences of Cinema-Going: Interviewing Latin American Women in Barcelona and Milan Full details	Online
10 February 2021	15:30	An Evolution of Joseph Brodsky’s Collaborative Self-Translation: from remote control via combative collaboration towards self- translation and creative writing Full details	Online
20 January 2021	15:30	Excavating the poetic in non-literary classical texts Full details	Online
2 December 2020	15:30	Reading the Popular Music Star as Intermedium: The Case of Mina, Italian Popular Music Diva Full details	Online
18 November 2020	15:30	Translation as Disturbance: Emotion Management for a Sustainable Profession Full details	Online
11 November 2020	15:30	Una vocación nunca traicionada: Carmen Conde, de la Edad de Plata a la Real Academia Española. Full details	Online
14 October 2020	15:30	Translation, Development, and Social Cohesion: From Language Indifference to Inclusive Practices Full details	Microsoft Teams
3 June 2020	15:30	The notion of happiness - across centuries, cultures and media (Round Table) Full details	Washington Singer 219
20 May 2020	15:30	Piecing Together the Fragments Full details	Washington Singer 219
6 May 2020	15:30	Work in progress (4) Full details	Washington Singer 219
18 March 2020	15:30	Work in progress (3) Full details	Queens Building LT4.1
19 February 2020	15:30	Work in progress (2) Full details	Queens Building LT4.1
5 February 2020	15:30	European Cinemas of Girlhood Full details	Queens Building LT4.1
22 January 2020	15:30	'Content matters less than shape': Anthony Burgess, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, John Keats Full details	Queens Building LT4.1
11 December 2019	15:30	Work in progress (1) Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
27 November 2019	15:30	Translating, publishing and illustrating an Italian masterpiece: The many French lives of 'The Betrothed' (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
13 November 2019	15:30	Reading, Writing and Translating Women (Round Table) Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
16 October 2019	15:30	Translation, Advertising and Culture: Selling Italian Products Abroad Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
9 October 2019	15:30	Visualising Latin American Discourses from a Digital Rhetoric Perspective Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
5 June 2019	15:30	Work in Progress (2) Full details	Forum Seminar Room 04
22 May 2019	15:30	Revisiting the re-translation hypothesis. Translation defaults, textual time and kairos. Full details	Harrison Building 215
8 May 2019	15:30	Research Groups in ML session, convened by CTC Full details	XFI Conference Room 1
20 March 2019	15:30	Science in the Vernacular: Translating Galileo Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
13 March 2019	15:30	Decolonizing Knowledge in Contemporary Chilean and Latin American Cinema, Joanna Page (Cambridge) Full details	Old Library 135
7 March 2019	15:30	"Who is Afraid of Tolstoy? Contemporary Literature and the Canon in the Schools of Five Countries, 1814-1914" Full details	Old Library 136
7 March 2019	15:30	"Who is Afraid of Tolstoy? Contemporary Literature and the Canon in the Schools of Five Countries, 1814-1914" Full details	Old Library 136
6 March 2019	15:30	Uncovering the Shocking Truths at the Heart of the Spanish-Aztec Encounter, Prof. Matthew Restall (PennState) Full details	Streatham Court B
6 March 2019	15:30	Our hermeneutic models into question: French Theory in/and American Poetry Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
27 February 2019	15:30	Heritage Film, Neapolitan Style: Ammore e Malavita and Napoli velata Full details	Queens Building LT4.1
20 February 2019	15:30	Film-making on the left Full details
13 February 2019	15:30	Colonialism in Latin American Road Movies, Dr Natalia Pinazza (Exeter) Full details	Old Library 135
6 February 2019	15:30	Flying Saucers in Italy: The Italian case towards a global history of science fiction Full details	Forum Seminar Room 04
23 January 2019	15:30	ML Work in progress Full details	Forum Seminar Room 04
12 December 2018	14:30	Connected Keywords in Early Modern France Full details	Queens Building LT6.1
29 November 2018	17:30	Clandestine Correspondence at Court (Niklas-Cartwright lecture) Full details	Queens Building LT1
28 November 2018	15:30	Translating Research Cultures: the French Social Sciences and Humanities in English Full details
26 November 2018	16:30	Animate Ivory: Materiality, Beauty, and Pygmalion's Statue Full details	Queens Building 1B
21 November 2018	15:30	Chinese and European Perspectives on Architecture and Heritage Full details	Forum Seminar Room 4
14 November 2018	15:30	Bilingual Autobiography Full details
17 October 2018	15:30	The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Spain through Theatre Performances in Spanish Translation Full details	Queens Building LT6.1
3 October 2018	15:30	Unusual Chinese Film Festivals: Unusual Sites of Translation Full details	Forum Seminar Room 04
6 June 2018	15:30	Translating Cultures Work in Progress Seminar Full details	Laver Building LT6
23 May 2018	15:30	'Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: A Transnational and Transmedial Icon' Full details	Queens Building LT2
2 May 2018	15:30	Issues, factors and strategies in the translation of multilingual operas Full details	Queens Building LT2
21 March 2018	15:30	'Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: A Transnational and Transmedial Icon' POSTPONED Full details	Queens Building LT6.2
7 March 2018	15:30	“Translating Research Cultures: the French Social Sciences and Humanities in English” Full details	Queens Building LT6.2
21 February 2018	15:30	Enlightened Enmity? The Enemy of the Human Race in French Revolutionary and German Romantic Culture Full details	Queens Building LT6.2
7 February 2018	15:30	‘Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and European Identities 1500-1800’ [Joint Seminar with Centre for Early Modern Studies] Full details	Queens Building LT6.2
24 January 2018	15:30	'Narratives of Child Sexual Abuse in Italian literature. Results, implications and questions' Full details	Queens Building LT6.2
13 December 2017	15:30	Translating canonical texts: a discussion (with illustrations from Russian and French) Full details	Queens Building LT1
29 November 2017	15:30	‘Romancing the truth: vernacular history and the origin of fiction’ (Joint seminar with Centre for Medieval Studies) Full details	Queens Building LT1
15 November 2017	15:30	Translating Cultures Work in Progress Seminar Full details	Old Library 134
18 October 2017	16:00	'Recovering the Amateur Tradition in Translation of Classical Literature' (Joint seminar with Centre for Early Modern Studies) Full details	Streatham Court Old B
4 October 2017	15:30	Übersetzungen: Transatlantic Modernism and the Dissemination, Adaptation and Transformation of German Cultural Imports in the United States, 1918-1945 Full details	Queens Building LT1
21 June 2017	15:30	‘I don’t get it’: Alterity and Ethnography in West Berlin Full details	Queens Building 1G
7 June 2017	15:30	The Obligation to Migrate: Narratives of Muslim Migration in Soviet Translation Full details	Queens Building LT4.1
24 May 2017	15:30	Seminar by Prof. Sharon Marcus (Columbia) 'Sarah Bernhardt’s Exteriority Effects: Affect, Performance, Agency Full details	Queens Building LT7.1 + 7.2
10 May 2017		Translating Cultures Seminar - no event this week. Apologies. Full details	Harrison 254
22 March 2017	15:30	Romancing the truth: vernacular history and the origin of fiction Full details	Queens Building LT7.1 + 7.2
8 March 2017	15:30	Mixed feelings: Literary Hispanophilia and Hispanophobia in England and the Netherlands in the Early Modern period and the nineteenth century Full details	Queens Building LT7.1 + 7.2
22 February 2017	15:30	Place and Politics in Latin-American Digital Culture: Representing Memory and Trauma Online Full details	Queens Building LT7.1 + 7.2
16 February 2017	15:30	Translation and Gender: A European Perspective Full details	Peter Chalk Centre 2.2
8 February 2017	15:30	The counter-forensic archive: thinking through forensic art practice’ Full details	Queens Building LT7.1
2 February 2017	15:30	Debussy, Mallarmé and the aesthetics of appearing’ Full details	Queens Building LT7.1 + 7.2
25 January 2017	15:30	Innovation in Multicultural Paris French: uses and attitudes Full details	Queens Building 1G
7 December 2016	15:30	Translating Italian classics: Petrarch and Boccaccio in English – again Full details	Queens Building 1G
23 November 2016	15:30	Debussy, Mallarmé and the aesthetics of appearing Full details	Queens Building 1G
19 October 2016	15:30	Film Festivals: Cinema and Cultural Exchange Full details	Queens Building LT1.7
15 June 2016	15:00	Transnational Moroccan Cinema Full details	Queens Building 1B
1 June 2016	15:30	Work in Progress Seminar Full details	Queens Building LT6.1
18 May 2016	15:30	Loans vs inheritance: the influence of Latin on the languages of Europe Full details	Queens Building MR2
4 May 2016	14:00	Agamben and the Meaning of the Middle Ages Full details	Queens Building LT6.1
16 March 2016	15:30	Words and Music: Cervantes, Shakespeare, Vaughan Williams and Rodrigo Full details	Queens Building LT2
2 March 2016	15:30	"Just don’t make any alterations to my manuscript". Editing and interpreting E.T.A. Hoffmann Full details	Queens Building LT4.1
17 February 2016	15:30	Image, imagination and power: visualising urban futures in post-war France Full details	Queens Building LT4.1
10 February 2016	15:30	Consumer societies: from the 1950s to today Full details	Queens Building 1B
3 February 2016	15:30	Work in Progress Seminar Full details	Queens Building 1B
20 January 2016	15:30	War Music: The Making of Logue’s Homer Full details	Queens Building 1B
9 December 2015	15:30	Art and the 'Arab Spring': Transnational Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance Full details	Queens Building 1B
25 November 2015	15:30	Women and Classical Translation in Early Modern France Full details
11 November 2015	15:00	Of literary and literal corpora (or the Two Cultures revisited) Full details	Queens Building 1C
13 October 2015	16:30	Deliciously Disgusted: Translating Villon's "Grosse Margot" Full details	Old Library 129
30 September 2015	15:30	Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures Full details	Queens Building 1B
10 June 2015	16:00	French prosody in contact: Data from former colonies and immigration contexts Full details	Queens Building 1H
3 June 2015	16:00	Magic in Malta, 1605: Christians, Muslims and Cultural Exchange Full details	Queen
28 May 2015	16:00	Twice-told tales: the Cantigas de Santa Maria and their visual translations Full details	Queens Building LT6.1
20 May 2015	16:00	Working with the Notion of Eco-Translation Full details	Queens Building LT6.1
20 May 2015	14:30	A Workshop on Translation and Poetry Full details	Queens Building D
14 May 2015	16:00	Trauma & Taboo in Postcolonial Angola: How British journalists translated truth Full details	Queens Building F
13 May 2015	16:00	The Ethics of Medieval Translation Full details	Queens Building LT6.1
6 May 2015	16:00	'Work in Progress' Full details	Queens Building LT6.2
25 March 2015	16:00	Rhetorics of Massacre in French Algeria Full details	Old Library 129
18 March 2015	16:00	Uncovering the Invisible: Portraits of Latin Americans in the UK Full details	Old Library 129
10 March 2015	9:30	Remembering the Translation of New Portuguese Letters to the Stage: a Collaboration with Unfinished Histories: Recording the History of Alternative Theatre Full details	Devonshire House M+D Room
4 March 2015	16:00	Russian emigres in Shanghai Full details	Washington Singer 234
25 February 2015	16:00	Sex in the cloister: cross-cultural perspective of late imperial Chinese anticlerical literature Full details	Amory A115
11 February 2015	16:00	Multicultural Paris French: comparing sites of innovation Full details	Old Library 129
28 January 2015	16:00	Reading and Screening Femininities Full details	Queens Building MR2
14 January 2015	16:00	'Work in Progress' Full details	Queens Building MR2
3 December 2014	16:00	Island Heterotopias at Europe's Southern Frontier: Irregular Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema Full details	Queens Building E
19 November 2014	16:00	The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Cultural Transfer and Protestant Alliance Full details	Queens Building E
5 November 2014	16:00	Translating the Middle Ages: chronological and geographical translations (Marcel Proust, Alvaro Pombo, J.R.R. Tolkien) Full details	Queens Building E
22 October 2014	16:00	El imaginario de la guerrilla antifranquista en el contexto de la Resistencia antifascista europea Full details	Queens Building E
8 October 2014	16:00	Russia's Manly Poet? Masculinity in the Work of Vladimir Mayakovsky Full details	Queens Building E
1 October 2014	16:00	Translating Cultures: Reflections on a Theme Full details	Queens Building E
11 June 2014	16:00	On Translating Anna Karenina Full details	Queens Building MR2
28 May 2014	16:00	The Legacies of Decadent Aestheticism and the Origins of Hollywood: From Oscar Wilde to Ben Hecht Full details	Queens Building MR2
21 May 2014	16:00	Comparative Nonsense: French Galimatias and English Fustian Full details	Queens Building MR3
14 May 2014	16:00	Tales of Commerce and Imagination: Berlin's Department Stores in Literature (c. 1900-1930) Full details	Queens Building MR2
7 May 2014	16:00	Translating knowledge on suspicious women under Franco: From local to global, from past to present Full details	Queens Building LT6.1
12 March 2014	16:00	Translation: in place of theory Full details	Queens Building MR2
26 February 2014	16:00	Cómo componer una ópera a partir de una obra teatral. María Lejarraga y José María Usandizaga Full details	Queens Building MR2
12 February 2014	16:00	Do images travel well across cultures?: the relevance of visuals in the translation of international print ads as a multimodal process Full details	Queens Building MR2
22 January 2014	16:00	Translating Cultures in Wartime: Fontaine (Algiers, 1944) and Contemporary English Literature Full details	Queens Building MR2
11 December 2013	16:00	SiteWorks: site, performance, and palimpsest Full details	Queens Building LT2
4 December 2013	16:00	Telling Other People's Stories? Representations/translations of Czech and Central European 20th Century history in the work of the French novelist Sylvie Germain Full details	Queens Building MR2
28 November 2013	16:00	Hatchings in the Void: Ritual and Order in Emperor Kangxi’s Poems of Bishu shanzhuang and Matteo Ripa’s Views of Jehol Full details	Old Library 130
20 November 2013	16:00	Soviet Culture in Cold War Britain: promotion, propaganda and politics Full details	Queens Building MR2
13 November 2013	16:00	Beauty and Violence: The Constitution of Surface and Depth in the Gaze of Male Artists on Kleist's Penthesilea Full details	Queens Building MR2
30 October 2013	16:00	The Purple Land that England Lost: Translating Uruguay for an English Audience Full details	Queens Building MR2
25 October 2013	16:00	Gender, space, and trans positions: beaches and nightclubs in Comedy, Italian Style Full details	Queens Building D
10 October 2013	17:00	Three Ways of Being a Soviet Poet: Maiakovskii, Slutskii, Akhmadulina Full details	Queens Building LT4.2
29 May 2013	16:00	Rosalía de Castro's Imagined Galicia: German Romanticism and the Iberian Literary Tradition Full details	Queens Building MR3
24 May 2013	12:00	Translating the Two Cultures: Universal Acid. Evolutionary Theory, Literary Darwinism, and the Limits of a Cognitive Metaphor Full details	Queens Building MR2
22 May 2013	16:00	Ovidian exile in the twenty-first century: Marie Darrieussecq's Tristes Pontiques Full details	Queens Building MR1
27 February 2013	16:00	Remember the Alamo? Imagining a Border Culture in Anglo-American Cinema Full details	Amory B106
13 February 2013		Textual tourism: Cecilia Stazzone meets Voltaire and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Full details