Modern Languages Research Seminars 2007-08
Michaelmas Term
Friday 14 September 2007
Conference organised by Dr Federico Federici
Translating Voices, Translating Regions
Thursday 20 September 2007
Professor Andrea Noble, Professor Jonathan Long and Dr Ed Welch, School of Modern Languages, Durham University
CONFERENCE: Locating Photography
Wednesday 10 October 2007
Dr Jo Tudor, Department of German, Durham University
The String, the Swing and the Language Thing: Musical Metaphor and Musical Reference in Eighteenth-Century Writing
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Dr Valdislava Reznik, Department of Russian, Durham University
Centres and Borders: The Imaginative Geography of Ukranian Travel Writing
Wednesday 31 October 2007
Professor Susanne Kord, Department of German, University College London
Women on the Scaffold: on the Etiquette of Execution
Wednesday 7 November 2007
Dr Boris Wiseman, Department of French, Durham University
Structure and Sensation in Lévi-Strauss's thought
Dr Alejandro Cañeque, Department of History, Durham University
The pleasures of martyrdom: Text and context on the margins of the Spanish empire
Wednesday 14 November 2007
Professor Keith Reader, Department of French, Glasgow University
Cultural Topography: New Growth Area?
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Dr Alessandro Scafi, Warburg Institute
The Location of Nowhere: Paradise on Maps
Marianna Taymanova, Department of Russian, Durham University
Censorship and Literary Translation in the Soviet Union
Olga Davtyan, St Petersburg State University
Traduction comme un phénomène politique et idéologique russe et soviétique
Wednesday 28 November 2007
Professor Christopher Lloyd, Department of French, Durham University
Maupassant et Stevenson: destins parallèles
Wednesday 5 December 2007
Professor Maria Delgado, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary London
María Guerrero: Creating or Performing the Literary?
Tuesday 11 December 2007
Dr Alastair Renfrew, Department of Russian, Durham University
Attack of the Soviet Bs: Corman, Cosmos and the American Mainstream
Epiphany Term
Wednesday 16 January 2008
Dr Rebecca Earle, Department of Comparative American Studies, University of Warwick
'We Found in These Parts No Food Like That Which Our Fathers Gave Us': Diet and Colonial Identity in Spanish America
Monday 21 January 2008
Professor Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Metaphors as models for the emotions
Wednesday 23 January 2008
Dr Sarah Young, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Reading Varlam Shalamov: Fiction, Contradiction and Suffering
Monday 28 January 2008
Dr Joerg Zinken, University of Portsmouth
Metaphor as Linguistic Activity
Wednesday 30 January 2008
Dr Kathryn Banks, Department of French, Durham University
Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance
Friday 1 February 2008
Rekha Narula and Kirsty Heimerl, Institute of Translation and Interpreting
Community Interpreting
Wednesday 6 February 2008
Dr Zahia Salhi, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds
Between the Languages of Silence and the Woman's Word: Gender and Language in the Work of Assia Djebar
Monday 11 February 2008
Professor Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham
Metaphors as models of mediation between science and the public newspaper reporting of the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak
Wednesday 13 February 2008
Professor Willard Bohn, Illinois State University
The Birth of Modern Visual Poetry
Thursday 14 February 2008
Ubaldo Stecconi, European Commision, Belgium
What happens if we think that translating is a wave?
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Professor Isabella Lazzarini
The Power of Writing. Public and Private Letters in Late Medieval Italy (XIVth - XVth centuries)
Friday 22 February 2008
Professor Andreas Musolff, Department of German, Durham University
INAUGURAL LECTURE: Germany as a Political Body in National Self-Perception
Monday 25 February 2008
Professor Lynne Cameron, Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University
Metaphors in real time
Tuesday 26 February 2008
Michael Cronin, Dublin City University
Translation and Globalisation
Wednesday 27 February 2008
Dr Seth Graham, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Uncensored? Popular Satire in Post-Soviet Russia
Monday 3 March 2008
Professor Paul Chilton, Lancaster University
Metaphors, models and political discourse
Thursday 6 March 2008
Beverly Adab, Aston University
Translation, Advertising and the Global Market: the role of values as a marketing tool
Monday 10 March 2008
Dr Wes Williams, Oxford University
Monsters as metaphorical models
Easter Term
Friday 28 March 2008
Dr Boris Wiseman, Department of French, Durham University
CONFERENCE: Qualia - Thinking the Senses
Friday 4 April 2008
Professor Nicholas Saul, Dr Simon James, Durham University
CONFERENCE: The Evolution of Literature = Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Dr Emma Wilson, French Department, Cambridge University
Resnais and the Dead
Professor Richard Maber, Department of French, Durham University
INAUGURAL LECTURE: Texts, Travel and Flying Machines: The Lost World of Seventeenth-Century Scholarship
Wednesday 30 April 2008
Dr Evgeny Pavlov, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
'Time's Quiet Torso': Aleksandr Vvedensky's Rhetoric of Temporality
Tuesday 6 May 2008
Professor Hoda Elsadda
LESLIE BROOKS LECTURE: Gender and Nation: New Directions in the Contemporary Novel in Egypt
Monday 12 May 2008
Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black, University of the West of England
Metaphors as models of political leadership
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Professor Jane Taylor, French Department, Durham University
Hungrie Shadows: Pierre Sala, his Yvain, and intralingual translation