Upcoming events
April 2021
New Directions in Mediterranean Studies
- Date
- Wednesday 21 April 2021
- Time
- 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
Mediterranean Studies is an increasingly popular sub-field of the humanities with the potential to connect a range of disciplines - from classical studies, hi...
Shades of Meaning: Translation and Jennie Erdal
- Date
- Wednesday 21 April 2021
- Time
- 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
The 'Missing Shade of Blue', by the local author, Jennie Erdal, relates the social, linguistic and amorous encounters of a translator on a trip to E...
'Tell 'em about the men': the Fractured Politics of Heritage in Postindustrial Museums
- Date
- Wednesday 28 April 2021
- Time
- 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies (CIMS) Brown Bags are, as the name suggests, lunchtime sessions (you bring your own lunch in a brown bag) and provide...
Queer Epistemicides: Languages, Knowledges, Sexualities
- Date
- Thursday 29 April 2021 to Friday 30 April 2021
- Time
- 12:30 pm to 06:30 pm
- Location
- Online via Zoom
In 2020, queer theory celebrates its thirtieth birthday. This contentious and contested body of thought has come a long way since Italian feminist theorist Tere...
May 2021
Assessing the Translator's Commitment to Polysemy -- Dr Karen A Brown
- Date
- Thursday 6 May 2021
- Time
- 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
Assessing the Translator's Commitment to Polysemy: Five English-language Versions of Sonetos del amor oscuro Whether Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) engage...
New Directions in World Literature
- Date
- Tuesday 11 May 2021
- Time
- 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
As world literature has become a much-frequented site in the humanities for discussing cosmopolitanism, globalisation, intercultural exchange and mediation, inq...