by cathycollins | Sep 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
On this European Day of Languages 2019, Angharad Mountford, PhD student at the IMLR, talks about German literary translations: Despite our impending withdrawal from the EU, with all its separationist connotations and anti-European sentiment, it seems, from a book...
by cathycollins | Sep 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
On a magnificent summer day on Friday 5 July 2019, at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, University of London, specialists in French and Italian history, literary and culture gathered together at ‘The Taste of War: Values and Meanings of Food in WWII Italy...
by cathycollins | Aug 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Following the success of last year’s Global Portuguese symposium, a follow-on symposium was organised on Tuesday 18 June 2019, just a week after the National Day of Portugal (o Dia de Portugal). Given the large number of Portuguese diasporists in the UK, the event was...
by cathycollins | Aug 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
‘Photography and the Languages of Reconstruction after the Second World War, 1944-49’ took place on 12 April 2019 at Cardiff University. The symposium was organised with the support of the Learned Society of Wales, the Institute of Modern Languages Research and...
by cathycollins | Jul 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
The library of poet and professor Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931) reveals valuable insights into his scholarly and literary influence. Together with his wife, economist Elisabeth Salomon Gundolf (1893-1958), he shared a personal and professional life uncommon in its...
by cathycollins | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Margaret May reviews this fascinating ‘Encounters’ evening: Shelley Frisch and Katja Petrowskaja with Godela Weiss-Sussex (credit: Deirdre Byrnes) An enthusiastic audience of translators, scholars of translingual writing and lovers of good literature...
