Events Programme

Fri 3 May 10:00-13:00 Room 246 Senate House

BOOK LAUNCH A Modernist in Exile. The International Reception of H.G. Adler Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19521

Tues 7 May 17:00-19:00 Room G37 Senate House

FRENCH WEEK Faiza Ambah’s 'Mariam' (2016) and the Embodied Politics of Veiling in France Speaker: Kaya Davies Hayon (Lincoln) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19401

Wed 8 May 15:00-16:30 Room G35 Senate House

FRENCH WEEK Towards an Eco-Critical Reading of Albert Camus Speaker: Joseph Ford (IMLR, London) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19302

Wed 8 May 17:30-19:30 Room G37 Senate House

FRENCH WEEK Baudelaire and the Second Empire Speaker: Jean-Michel Gouvard (Bordeaux-Montaigne) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17956

Wed 8 May 18:00-19:00 Room 243 Senate House

RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GERMAN & AUSTRIAN EXILE STUDIES ‘INSIDERS/OUTSIDERS’ LECTURE The Ben Uri Art Society and Emigré Artists, 1933-1945 Speaker: Rachel Dickson (Ben Uri Gallery, London) Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17663

Wed 8 May 19:00-21:00 Austrian Cultural Form, London

INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE & CULTURE AUTHOR READING Verena Roßbacher and Alissa Walser. A Bilingual Reading Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19364

Wed 8- Fri 10 May 19:00-17:00 Room G37 Senate House

INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE & CULTURE CONFERENCE Bodensee. Transnational Literatures of a Cultural Region Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19275

Thurs 9 May 11:00-13:00 Room G35 Senate House

FRENCH WEEK Beckett and Translation Speaker: Jean-Michel Gouvard (Bordeaux-Montaigne) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17959

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Thurs 9 May 15:00-17:00 Room G35 Senate House

FRENCH WEEK Walter Benjamin and 'The Task of the Translator' Speaker: Jean-Michel Gouvard (Bordeaux-Montaigne) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17964

Thurs 9 May 17:30-19:00 Room G37 Senate House

INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE & CULTURE AUTHOR READING Arno Camenisch Liest Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19315

Thurs 9 May 17:45-19:00 German Historical Institute, London

ENGLISH GOTHE SOCIETY LECTURE Speaker: Martin Mulsow (Author) Die Illuminaten, Schiller und die Anfänge des Kantianismus Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16609

Fri 10 May 09:00-18:00 Room G35 Senate House

OWRI CONFERENCE Living with/on the Border: Writers, Language and Identity in North-East Italy from the End of World War II to the Present Contact: OWRI Project Officer modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8726)

Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17755

Fri 10 May 14:00-16:00 Room 243 Senate House

FRENCH WEEK Working with Feminism in the Writing of Leïla Slimani Speakers: Siobhán McIlvanney (KCL) and Sarah Arens (Edinburgh) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19606

Fri 10 May 18:00-20:00 Room G34 Senate House

FRENCH WEEK Jules Verne and the Nineteenth Century, in Light of Walter Benjamin Speaker: Jean-Michel Gouvard (Bordeaux-Montaigne) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738)

Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17966

Fri 10 May 17:30-19:30 Room G37 Senate House

BOOK LAUNCH The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict Speakers: Michael Kelly (Southampton), Hilary Footitt (Reading), Myriam Salama-Carr (Manchester) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738)

Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17966

Thurs 16 May 18:00-19:30 Room 246 Senate House

RESEARCH TRAINING IMLR Graduate Forum: Translation and Interpreting Contact: kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 4884)

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Fri 17 May 15:00-17:00 The British Library, London

OWRI WORKSHOP Cartonera: Latin American Cardboard Books Speaker: Lucy Bell (Surrey) Contact: OWRI Project Officer modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8726) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19537

Fri 17 May Room 234 Senate House

ERNST BLOCH CENTRE FOR GERMAN THOUGHT WORKSHOP Biological Thought and the German Left Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19256

Fri 17 May 09:30-18:00 Room 349 Senate House

RESEARCH TRAINING Audiences: Exploring Reception and Participation in Subtitling, Translation and Adaptation Speakers: Carla Mereu (Bristol); Katie Brown (Exeter); Kit Yee Wong (Birkbeck) Contact: kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 4884)

Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16971

Fri 17 May 17:30-19:30 Room G35 Senate House

SEMINAR (jointly organised with the Institute of English Studies) London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Speaker: Daniel O’Quinn (Guelph) Contact: IESEvents@sas.ac.uk Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17465

Fri 17 - Sun 19 May 09:00-18:00 University of Leeds

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S WRITING Women and Power in French and Francophone Cultures and Societies Women in French 15th Biennial Conference 2019 Keynote speakers: Chahdortt Djavann and Armelle le Bras-Chopard Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19562

Sat 18 May 11:00-17:00 Room 243 Senate House

RESEARCH TRAINING Researching Multilingually: Possibilities and Complexities Contact: kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 4884)

Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16773

Wed 22 May 12:00-20:00 Room G35 Senate House

2019 FRIENDS OF GERMANIC STUDIES AT THE IMLR ANNUAL MEETING | LECTURE 'Haargenau': Hairdressers, Pedants, and an (Un)academic History of German Culture Speaker: Seán Williams (Sheffield) Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) – By Invitation/RSVP Further information: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19519

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Wed 22 May 18:00-19:00 Room 243 Senate House

RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GERMAN & AUSTRIAN EXILE STUDIES ‘INSIDERS/OUTSIDERS’ LECTURE ‘And soon the train moved out of the station and the long journey to England began': The Experience of the Kindertransport in Oral History Testimonies Speaker Bea Lewkowicz (London) Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17664

Fri 24 May 18:00-20:00 Morley College, London

LECTURE|PERFORMANCE Fanny and Felix: The Mendelssohn Siblings, their Society and Culture in Musical Historical Context Performers: Nikos Stavlas, Sophia Baltatzi, Gregor Fuhrmann

Contact: jenny.stubbs@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8832) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19371

Wed 29 – Thurs 30 May 09:00-17:00 Swansea University

OWRI WORKSHOP Workshops on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT) Keynote speaker: Andy Way (Dublin City University) Contact: OWRI Project Officer modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8726) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19135

Thursday 30 May 18:00-19:00 Room G7 Senate House

ENCOUNTERS: WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS IN CONVERSATION Katja Petrowskaja and Shelley Frisch Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19486

Thurs 30 – Fri 31 May 09:00-18:00 Room G7 Senate House

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S WRITING/OWRI CONFERENCE Across Languages: Translingualism in Contemporary Women’s Writing Keynote speakers: Anna-Louise Milne (ULIP), Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Rutgers) Contact: OWRI Project Officer modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8726) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17740

Sat 1 June 14:00-17:00 Rooms G4, G5, G7 Senate House

OWRI WORKSHOP Celebrating Multilingualism on the Page and in the Classroom Speakers: Susana Chávez-Silverman (Pomona College), Karina Lickorish Quinn (QMUL), Ellen Jones (IMLR, London), Rahul Bery (British Library) Contact: OWRI Project Officer modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8726) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19507

Mon 3 June 14:00-16:00 Room 246 Senate House

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURAL MEMORY SEMINAR Italian Anti-Fascism in Interwar Britain: Women and Intellectual History Realities and Memory Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17818

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Thurs 6 – Fri 7 June 09:00-17:00 University of Westminster London

OWRI CONFERENCE Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Keynote speakers: Jannis Androutsopoulos (Hamburg), Mirca Madianou (Goldsmiths) and Roopika Risam (Salem State) Contact: OWRI Project Officer modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8726) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19276

Thurs 6 June 17:45-19:00 Room 243 Senate House

ENGLISH GOETHE SOCIETY LECTURE Rescue in the Face of Danger: Goethe and Walter Benjamin Speaker: Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford) Contact: jenny.stubbs@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8832) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16608

Sat 8 June 11:00-17:00 Room 243 Senate House

RESEARCH TRAINING Before, During and After the PhD Contact: kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 4884)

Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16593

Tues 11 – Wed 12 June 09:00-18:00 University of Liverpool

CONFERENCE Re-visiting the Black Atlantic: Gender, ‘Race’ and Performance Keynote speaker: Mónica Moreno Figueroa (Cambridge) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19347

Wed 12 June 18:00-19:00 Room 243 Senate House

RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GERMAN & AUSTRIAN EXILE STUDIES ‘INSIDERS/OUTSIDERS’ LECTURE German-speaking Emigrés in British Theatre and Film Speaker: Richard Dove (London) Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17666

Thurs 13 June 18:00- 20:00 Court Room Senate House

LECTURE Discussing Anti-Feminism in France and the United Kingdom Speaker: Christine Bard (Université d’Angers) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19589

Tues 18 June 14:00-20:00 Room G22 & Chancellors Hall Senate House

SYMPOSIUM Global Portuguese Contact: jenny.stubbs@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8832)

Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17819

Thurs 20 - Fri 21 June 12:00-20:00 University of Edinburgh

OWRI CONFERENCE Configuring ‘World Theatre’ Keynote speaker: Osita Okagbue (Goldsmiths) Contact: OWRI Project Officer modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8726) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19487

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Fri 21 June 10:00-18:00 Room G37 Senate House

OWRI WORKSHOP Proletkult and the Languages of Modernity Contact: OWRI Project Officer modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8726) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17841

Wed 26 June 14:00-18:00 Room G34 Senate House

SYMPOSIUM The Journal of Romance Studies Annual Symposium Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19604

Thurs 27 – Fri 28 June 09:00-18:00 Manchester Metropolitan University

OWRI CONFERENCE New Approaches to Transmedia and Language Pedagogy International Conference Keynote speakers: Alex Saum-Pascual (Berkeley, California), Robert Pratten (Conductor) Contact: OWRI Project Officer modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8726) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19490

Wed 3 July 18:00-19:00 Room 243 Senate House

RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GERMAN & AUSTRIAN EXILE STUDIES ‘INSIDERS/OUTSIDERS’ LECTURE Refuge Britain - Stories of Emigré Designers Speakers: Anna Nyburg and Robert Sternberg (London) Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17667

Fri 5 July 09:30-19:00 Room G37 Senate House

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURAL MEMORY CONFERENCE The Taste of War: Values and Meanings of Food in WWII Italy and France Keynote speaker: Kay Chadwick (Liverpool) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19332

Fri 5 July 17:00-19:00 Room 246 Senate House

FRIENDS OF ITALIAN AT THE IMLR LECTURE Dante in English Translation Speaker: Ian Thomson (East Anglia) Contact: cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8738) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17342

Fri 12 – Sat 12 July 09:00-20:00 Room 243 Senate House

CONFERENCE Transnational Families, Transnational Novels Contact: jenny.stubbs@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8832) Register online: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19431

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