Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group
Seminar & Events Series 2022-23
Semester 1
Professor Shirley Jordan (Newcastle), ‘Photography and / as Care: The Work of Martine Franck’. Friday 7 October 2022, 3pm. Teams
Dr Mel Engman (SSESW, QUB), ‘De-settling Education: Learning with Indigenous Language, Land, and Place’. Friday 14 October 2022, 3pm. In person
Dr Catherine Barbour (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Monsters and Killjoys: Feminist Activism in Galician Audiovisual Culture’. Friday 4 November 2022, 3pm. In person
Semester 2
Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool), ‘Microtravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection’. Friday 13 January 2023, 3pm. In person.
Dr Bharain Mac an Breithiún (Middlesex University), ‘Reading the Translated City – Urban Spaces of Translation in the Borderlands of Central Europe’. Friday 27 January 2023, 3pm. In person
Dr Emma Humphries (QUB), ‘A Prescriptivist Tale of a Non-standard Conjugation on French-language Twitter’. Friday 10 February 2023, 3pm. In person (cancelled)
Professor Ignacio Navarrete (UC Berkeley), ‘La Carta de Boscán: From Poem to Lyric’, Friday 3 March 2023, In person
Dr John Stone (University of Barcelona), ‘The Metropole, the Diaspora, their Books, their Circuits: Reading English Drama in Spain, 1640-1808’. Friday 10 March 2023, 3pm. Teams
An Ghaeilge uirbeach agus an díchoilíniú [Urban Irish and Decolonisation], one-day research symposium as part of Seachtain na Gaeilge. Friday 10 March 2023. Details to follow.
One-day Symposium funded by the Royal Irish Academy, ‘Multilingual Legacies of Ireland’s Revolution and Civil War’. Friday 24 March 2023, Lanyon Building/Old Staff Common Room. Programme to follow.
PGR Showcase, Friday 24 March 2023, 3pm. In person.
Professor Michelle Bloom (University of California, Riverside), ‘The Indigenous Taiwanese Environmental Activism of Li-Chin Lin’s Sino-French Graphic Novel, Fudafudak (2017)’. Friday 12 May 2023, 4pm (note change of time). Teams
Research Showcase, Friday 19 May 2023. Programme.