by cathycollins | Mar 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Steven Wilson reports on the conference Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World, held on 19 February 2021 Building on recent studies into the language used to represent disease in modern metropolitan France, Languages of Disease in the Contemporary...
by cathycollins | Feb 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Tom Smith (St Andrews) reports on this conference held in September, supported by the IMLR’s Regional Conference grant scheme Words, Music and Marginalisation was initially scheduled to take place in person in September 2020 in St Andrews, hosted by the School...
by cathycollins | Feb 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
On Bertolt Brecht’s 123rd birthday, actor Jack Tarlton and playwright Stephen Sharkey look back at their Brecht in Song workshop held as part of the OWRI project in September. Jack Tarlton: It started with the choice of books that I took into lockdown with me in...
by cathycollins | Jan 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Nora Baker (Jesus College, Oxford): I am a second-year PhD student researching the self, humility, and cultural influences/pressures in memoirs written by Huguenot refugees in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In 1685, Louis XIV revoked the Edict...
by cathycollins | Dec 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
John Sloboda reports on this online seminar held in September 2020, co-hosted by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Institute of Latin American Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London) and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama,...
