by cathycollins | Jun 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Marc Olivier (Ulster University): My research mainly focuses on the syntax of Romance languages, with a particular interest for the Middle Ages. My doctoral thesis investigates the evolution of clitic placement in a corpus of French legal texts dating from the twelfth...
by cathycollins | Jun 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Professor Jean-Michel Gouvard reflects on the challenges of translating Shakespeare into French During the lockdown in France, it has been impossible to buy or borrow a book. So to help pass the time, I reread some of Shakespeare’s plays I had on my bookshelf. I do...
by cathycollins | Jun 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Natalia Stengel Peña is a Mexican sociologist with an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art. After researching topics such as human trafficking and feminicides, she is trying to fight against gender violence from a perspective that merges art and activism. Stengel is a...
by cathycollins | Jun 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the mass internment of refugees from Nazi Germany by the British government in May and June 1940, archivist Clare George will highlight over the next few weeks some of the stories of internment from the IMLR’s exile archives. At...
by cathycollins | Jun 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Coronavirus confinement arrived when I was in the middle of writing two articles, correcting the proofs of a book, organising a conference, planning three overseas trips, and booking train tickets to travel around the UK to give talks at different schools. All that...
by cathycollins | Jun 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
In ‘The Stronger Experiment’, Adriana Páramo Pérez filmed three teams of director-actress preparing for a role in their short film adaptation of August Strindberg’s play The Stronger. The goal was to see how the same text would come across differently depending...
