by cathycollins | Jan 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Nora Baker (Jesus College, Oxford): I am a second-year PhD student researching the self, humility, and cultural influences/pressures in memoirs written by Huguenot refugees in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In 1685, Louis XIV revoked the Edict...
by cathycollins | Dec 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
John Sloboda reports on this online seminar held in September 2020, co-hosted by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Institute of Latin American Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London) and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama,...
by cathycollins | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
The internment of nearly 30,000 of the 80,000 refugees from Nazi Europe in the UK in the summer of 1940 disrupted community organisations and the vital support networks which provided a measure of relief to the traumatised refugees. Austrian Jewish exile actors Martin...
by cathycollins | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
David Ewing is a doctoral candidate in Modern French at the University of Cambridge. His research considers the relationship between everyday life and narrative fiction in postwar France. A history of the everyday in modern European literature might begin with...
by cathycollins | Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
On 10 May 2020, a unique virtual museum for English and Spanish-speaking audiences was launched at the University of Liverpool as part of the Culture Unconfined digital festival and AHRC-funded MVR Research project, led by Professor Claire Taylor. “A Museum for...
by cathycollins | Jul 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ciaran Higgins discusses the role of Irish people in South America O’Higgins plaque, Sligo, Ireland The photo above is of a plaque in Sligo, Ireland, commemorating a famous nationalist, a man who personally took up arms and overcame a large empire. His exploits led to...
