by cathycollins | Dec 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Jonathan P.A. Sell (Alcalá) talks about his experience of translating pro-Franco memoirs of the Spanish Civil war As children we have all felt the allure of the liverish reds or pumpkin oranges of river-bed and rock-pool pebbles. We have all, too, been disappointed...
by cathycollins | Dec 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Katia Pizzi, Senior Lecturer (Italian Studies) at the IMLR, talks about her recent week spent at the University of Coimbra. Thank you EU! I spent a most enjoyable and productive week at the University of Coimbra in Portugal in late November, thanks to a...
by cathycollins | Nov 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dr Kathrin Yacavone reports on the study day La Portraitomanie: Intermediality and the Portrait in 19th-Century France held at the IMLR, Senate House, London in September 2018. On Friday 14 September 2018 the Institute of Modern Languages Research hosted an...
by cathycollins | Oct 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Deirdre Byrnes (NUI Galway/IMLR) reports on Day One (Panels 1, 2 & 3), and Rosa Churcher Clarke (Lisbon) provides an overview, of this three day conference held on 20-22 September 2018 The conference “Women in Transition” attracted a truly multilingual and...
by cathycollins | Oct 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dr Ellen Pilsworth reports on the symposium Death and Dying in the Long Eighteenth Century held at IMLR, Senate House, London in September 2018 On 25 September 2018, researchers of eighteenth-century literature and culture gathered from around the world at the...
by cathycollins | Sep 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Harry Churchill reports on the ‘Mediating the Catalan Independence Movement’ symposium held at IMLR, Senate House, London in September 2018 A symposium on mediating the crisis in Catalonia was held from 12th to 13th of September 2018 in the Senate House, Malet Street,...