by cathycollins | Apr 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Britta Jung discusses her recent trip to the IMLR through the Erasmus+ training scheme People say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. Truth is, we did know what we had, we just never thought we would lose it. One of the things I certainly never...
by cathycollins | Apr 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve just finished reading Pío Baroja’s 1911 novel, Las inquietudes de Shanti Andia, which I read twice because the novel only makes sense if you go back to the beginning. I used an old 1970 edition, with an introduction by the famous Julio Caro Baroja, and a plethora...
by cathycollins | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr Godelinde Perk writes about self-isolating women in late-medieval Europe The pandemic of COVID-19 is often called “unprecedented” – and for many people cooped up in their homes in different countries, the experience is both unparalleled and challenging. But in...
by cathycollins | Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr Seán Williams discusses Jean Paul Richter’s ‘Flegeljahre’ and its place in his thoughts on luxury, and its relevance to today Life in lockdown is, by definition, domestic. Of course it’s frustrating, but because I’m normally not the organised sort in...
by cathycollins | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Aled Rees talks about his time spent at the IMLR as an OWRI Visiting Fellow, December 2019 to February 2020. During the mid-1980s, a unique heterogeneous urban language emerged from the shantytowns of the Colombian city of Medellín called parlache. Spoken primarily,...
by cathycollins | Mar 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Clare George introduces the Making Theatre in Exile project: The ‘Making Theatre in Exile’ (MTIE) project, which culminated in a specially produced performance piece for the ‘Being Human’ Festival at the Hampstead Jazz Club on 14 November 2019, grew out of an attempt...
