Current research seminars
2012/13 research seminar programme
Seminars highlighted in blue are school-themed seminars. This semester’s theme is ‘Foreign Bodies’ and these seminars will be delivered in English.
Semester 2
31 January 2012
PG Research Seminar
Morven Fraser
’Autofiction and a Blog: A Match Made in Heaven? A Case Study of Eric Chevillard’
4pm, School V
6 February 2013
Special event co-organized by the Department of Russian and the Music Centre
Simon Nicholls, Birmingham Conservatoire
“The Worlds of Aleksandr Skryabin: Circumstances, Sources and Inspirations of a Silver Age Musician” (Illustrated talk)
2.15-3.30, Conference Room, Younger Hall, North Street
Followed by:
Recital of the piano music of Aleksandr Skryabin (inc. Sonatas 2 and 10)
5.30-6.30, Younger Hall, North Street
Admission to the recital will be by ticket priced £8/6/3 from the Music Office in the Younger Hall
8 February 2013
Hispanic Research Seminar
Dr María Laura Spoturno (UNLP- CONICET, La Plata)
‘La traducción de poesía. Proyectos de traducción en el ámbito universitario’
4-5.30pm, Quad 36
14 February 2013
PG Research Seminar
Jutta Kling
‘The End of Romanticism As They Knew It: Byron and Heine’
4pm, School V
20 February 2013
ICCL Research Seminar
Dr Marion Dalvai (University of St Andrews)
“Morocco explained? Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child through the lens of English-language criticism”
5-6.30pm, Buchanan room 216
21 February 2013
German Research Seminar
Prof Alyson Fiddler (Lancaster)
‘Sounding out Austria: Musical Protest in Context’
5.15pm, Buchanan room 215
22 February 2013
Hispanic Research Seminar
Dr Henriette Partzsch (St Andrews)
‘New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture in Spain’
4-5.30pm, Quad 36
27 February 2013
French Research Seminar
Linda Goddard (Art History, University of St Andrews)
‘Artists' Writings and the Primitive’
4.30pm, Buchanan 216
28 February 2013
PG Research Seminar
Caroline Lafitte (University of Konstanz)
‘Periodical Discourse and Gendered Anxieties: The Eighteenth-Century Marriage Market’
Sarah Townshend
‘From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Marriage and Comedy in Seventeenth-Century France’
3pm, Arts Seminar room 7
28 February 2013
Russian Research Seminar
Andy Byford
Child Science in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia, 1881-1936
5-6.30pm, Buchanan room 216
The paper will discuss the historical contingencies of the rise and fall of the ‘child study’ (paedology) movement in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia. The latter included developmental and educational psychology, child psychiatry and special education, hygiene and pediatrics, juvenile criminology and the social anthropology of childhood. ‘Child study’ will be explored as a highly heterogeneous field of scientific and professional work, carried out through multiple interactions and collaborations between actors belonging to a range of different (in themselves complex and evolving) disciplinary, professional and administrative structures, all claiming some aspect of child development and socialisation as a territory of specialist investigation and professional care. A very brief summary of the history of paedology in Russia and further details on the project can be found at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/russianchildscience/
1 March 2013
Hispanic Research Seminar
Dr Catherine O'Leary (Maynooth)
‘“Una manifiesta simpatía por todos los delincuentes”: Antonio Buero Vallejo’s La Fundación and the Spanish Censors’
4-5.30pm, Quad 36
8 March 2013
Russian Research Seminar
Catriona Kelly (University of Oxford)
‘City on the Free Neva”: Remembering Soviet Leningrad’
4-5.30, Buchanan room 216
11 March 2013
French Research Seminar
Fabien Cavaillé (University of Caen)
‘L'utopie de l'amphithéâtre: assembler les spectateurs, rêver le théâtre, penser le politique (Italie/France, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle)’
5pm, Buchanan 216
14 March 2013
PG Research Seminar
Catherine Barbour
‘The Galician Imaginary in Spanish Language Narrative: The Case of Luisa Castro’
4pm, Arts Seminar room 7
25 March 2013
Linguistics Workshop
Organised by Erin Carrie
28 March 2013
PG Research Seminar
Tom Rollings
‘Locating Russian Literature in the 1860s in a Historical and Literary Context’
4pm, Arts Seminar room 7
3 April 2013
ICCL Research Seminar
Dr Robin MacKenzie (University of St Andrews)
“The Strange Case of Mr Stevenson and M. Proust”
5-6.30pm, Buchanan room 216
5 April 2013
Hispanic Research Seminar
Dr Jennifer Cadman (St Andrews)
'The Displaced I: A Poetics of Exile in Spanish Autobiographical Texts by Women'
4-5.30pm, Quad 36
11 April 2013
PG Research Seminar
Chiara Giuliani
‘Spaces, Places and Non-Places in Italian Post-Colonial Literature’
Letizia Vettor
Title tbc
4pm, Arts Seminar room 7
17 April 2013
German / ICCL Research Seminar
Dr Colette Lawson (St Andrews)
“The female cabaret performer in Fosse's Cabaret, Fassbinder's Lili Marleen and Wolf's Solo Sunny”
5-6.30pm, Buchanan room 216
19 April 2013
Hispanic Research Seminar
Prof. Nigel Dennis (St Andrews)
‘Ramón Gómez de la Serna and the Culture of Celebrity’
4-5.30pm, Quad 36
22 April 2013
French Research Seminar
Dr Nick Hammond (Cambridge)
‘Exploring Gossip and Rumour in the 17th Century’
5pm, Buchanan 216
25 April 2013
PG Research Seminar
Marissa Munderloh
‘Defining German Culture Through Hip Hop Norms’
Hannah Clarke
‘Re-Assessing Valentín Gómez Farías' Contribution to Nineteenth-Century Mexican Politics’
3pm, Arts Seminar room 7
2 May 2013
German Research Seminar
Professor Rainer Godel (University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
'The Beautiful Casualties of General Illumination': Knowledge and Ignorance in the Literature of German Romanticism
5.15-6.45pm, Buchahan room 216
8 May 2013
German Research Seminar
Dr Laura Martin (University of Glasgow)
“Reading the Other”
5-6.30pm, Buchanan room 216