by cathycollins | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Clare George introduces the Laterndl, providing the background behind the Making Theatre in Exile project Eighty years after it first opened in Hampstead in November 1939, the story of the Second World War Austrian exile theatre, the Laterndl, was brought to life by...
by cathycollins | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Jana Buresova talks about women refugees from former Czechoslovakia to the UK, from 1938 onwards The ‘refugee question’ remains perpetually topical. Government policies wax and wane, public sympathy ebbs away or gives way to prejudice, and the refugees in question...
by cathycollins | Dec 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Jack Tarlton (actor, director and teacher) talks about the recent workshops held in Argentina, ‘Exploring Theatre Translation’: Monday 4th November 2019: A taxi ride through the rain-pelted streets of Buenos Aires. Beside me is Catherine Boyle, Professor...
by cathycollins | Nov 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Barbara Spicer reports on the ‘Translating women’ conference held at the IMLR on 31 October – 1 November 2019 Translating Women 2019 was more than just a conference. Literary translator Tina Kover, speaking at the two-day event at the IMLR, captured...
by cathycollins | Nov 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dr Kit Yee Wong reports on the symposium that she organised at the IMLR in September 2019, generously supported by the Cassal Endowment Fund and the Society for French Studies What is sickness and the ‘pathological’ body? How can literature and film help us find out?...
by cathycollins | Nov 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Eduardo Ho-Fernández talks about his time spent at the IMLR as a Visiting Scholar in the summer of 2019 The purpose of my Visiting Scholarship in the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) at the School of Advanced Study (SAS) of the University of London was to...
