by cathycollins | Mar 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Margaret May is studying for the Master of Research in Modern Languages at the IMLR. Here Margaret discusses a fascinating talk given by the writer Barbara Honigmann in February 2017: On Thursday 23 February, in an event linked to the theme of an IMLR/OWRI conference...
by cathycollins | Feb 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Clara Rachel Eybalin Casséus is a visiting fellow at the IMLR during the academic year 2016/17. She talks here about her experience at the IMLR When I joined the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) as a visiting fellow in the fall of 2016, my intent was to...
by cathycollins | Jan 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Kate Willman is a Visiting Fellow at the IMLR during the academic year 2016/17. Here, she gives a personal insight into being awarded a Visiting Fellowship and the benefits gained, both to her research and to the IMLR. After being awarded my PhD in Italian Studies at...
by cathycollins | Jan 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Christine Lorre-Johnston (Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Catherine Davies (IMLR), and Charles Forsdick (AHRC) report on the recent seminar held in Paris discussing the notion of ‘strategically important’ languages. This one-day seminar was held at...
by cathycollins | Dec 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dr Katia Pizzi is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, at the IMLR. Here, she talks about her new volume co-edited with Marjatta Hietala, ‘Cold War Cities: History, Culture and Memory’. The...
by cathycollins | Dec 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Heide Kunzelmann is the Director of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture (IBC) at the IMLR. This term, a student of mine decided to write her dissertation on the topic of language change prompted by mass migration and, having spent her Year...
