Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group

Seminar Series 2024 – 25

Semester 1

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 1pm – Emily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Beckett, “The Power of Play: Comparative Caribbean Carnival Cultures from Leeds to Martinique”

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 1pm – Leah Middlebrook, University of Oregon, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Amphion and the Dilemmas of Lyric Theory“

Friday 1 November 2024, 3pm – Lee Fontanella, “A Half-century of Bibliographic Wonders:  Travel Literature with Photographs”

Friday 6 December 2024, 3pm – Humberto Saldanha, QUB, “In Search of Home: Forging Cosmopolitanism through Homemaking and beyond Hospitality in Karim Aïnouz’s Cinema”

Semester 2

29 January 2025, 3pm – Radvan Markus, Charles University, Prague, “A Carnivalesque Encyclopedia: Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille in an International Context” [Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture]

Wednesday 5 February 2025, 3pm – Myriam Moïse, Université des Antilles, “Cannibalizing the Plantation, Crafting a Caribbean Ecofeminist Aesthetic“ [Society for French Studies Visiting International Speaker Programme]

Friday 28 February 2025, 3pm – Doyle Calhoun, University of Cambridge, “The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire”

Friday 14 March 2025, 3pm – Luciana de Mello (Fiction and non-fiction author, film scriptwriter and freelance cultural journalist), “Brazilian marginal literature, its origins and its dialogue with recent Afro-Indigenous cultural activism in Argentina”