The following virtual events are scheduled, to which all are welcome. To participate, please click on the link provided for each event.
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| 1-3 Sept 2020 12:00-19:00 |
Words, Music and Marginalisation |
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| 1 Sept 2020 16:30-18:30 |
Words, Music and Marginalisation: Keynote Lecture |
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| 2 Sept 2020 10:00-11:15 |
Class, Confinement and Criminality in Contemporary Women’s Writing CCWW PGR Online Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22728 |
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| 4 Sept 2020 Call for Papers closes |
Contemporary Women's Writing and the Medical Humanities |
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| 7 Sept 2020 16:00-17:30 |
Confinement in French and Francophone Literature and Film |  |
| 8-11 Sept 2020 |
Decolonising Modern Languages: A Symposium for Sharing Practices and Ideas |
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| 11 Sept 2020 14:00-17:30 |
Germany's Memory Mainstream An Online Symposium https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22778 |
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| 14 Sept 2020 19:00-20:30 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras |
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| 15 Sept 2020 19:00-20:30 |
Defining Language in a Musical Context: Talk with Bridget Carey |  |
| 17 Sept 2020 14:00-17:30 |
The Languages of Landscape |
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| 17-18 Sept 2020 13:00-17:15 |
Thomas Bernhard: Language, History, Subjectivity |
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| 18 Sept 2020 10:00-17:00 |
Brecht in Song: One-day Virtual Workshop |
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| 18 Sept 2020 18:00-20:00 |
Brecht in Song: Evening Performance | |
| 21 Sept 2020 18:00-20:00 |
Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (1) |
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| 21 Sept 2020 Call for Papers closes |
The Diasporic Plate: Food in the Contemporary Diasporic World in Times of Crisis |
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| 22 Sept 2020 14:00-16:00 |
The Songs of Pedro Ximénez Abril y Tirado: Poetry and Art Music in Postcolonial Bolivia |
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| 22 Sept 2020 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women's Writing and the Medical Humanities (1) CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series |
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| 23-24 Sept 2020 |
From 'Where are you from?' to 'Where shall we go together?' |
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| 24 Sept 2020 19:30-21:00 |
A Journey Through Languages and Styles: Livestreamed Concert |
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| 25 Sept 2020 19:00-20:00 |
The Harp in Translation: Online Concert and Discussion https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22845 |
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| 28 Sept 2020 Call for Papers closes |
Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World |
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| 1 Oct 2020 15:00-16:30 |
Museum Practices in World Literature Speaker: Emma Bond (St Andrews) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22685 |
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| 5 Oct 2020 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (1) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22860 |
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| 6 Oct 2020 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (2) |
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| 7 Oct 2020 18:00-19:15 |
The Empire as Refuge? Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories |
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| 12 Oct 2020 19:00-20:30 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras |
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| 19 Oct 2020 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (2) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22861 |
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| 20 Oct 2020 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (3) |
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| 20 Oct 2020 18:00-20:00 |
Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (2) |
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| 22-23 Oct 2020 10:00-15:00 |
67th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22834 |
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| 22 Oct 2020 13:30-15:00 |
2020 Sylvia Naish Lecture Katherine Calvert (Sheffield): The Idealised Mother and the Socialist Movement in Weimar Germany https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22835 |
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| 29 Oct 2020 17:45-19:00 |
English Goethe Society Lecture Kevin Hilliard (Oxford): Neology vs. Radical Enlightenment: Steinbart, Mauvillon, and Frederick the Great's 'Essai sur l'Amour-propre' (1770) |
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| 2 Nov 2020 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (3) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22862 |
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| 3 Nov 2020 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (4) |
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| 4 Nov 2020 14:00-15:30 |
Working with and Interviewing Writers, Artists and Filmmakers
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| 6 Nov 2020 Call for Papers closes |
Covid and the Woman Writer |
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| 16 Nov 2020 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (4) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22863 |
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| 16 Nov 2020 18:00-19:30 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras |
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| 16 Nov 2020 18:00-20:00 |
Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (3) |
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| 17 Nov 2020 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (5) |
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| 18 Nov 2020 14:00-16:00 |
Modern Languages at the British Library |
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| 18 Nov 2020 15:00-16:30 |
Mediated Memories of Responsibility (1) |
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| 23 Nov 2020, 14:00 - 30 Nov 2020, 12:00 |
Text Encoding for Ancient and Modern Literature, Languages and History |
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| 23 Nov 2020 18:00-19:00 |
Capturing the Zeitgeist. Tracking Words in German and English Dictionaries |
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24 Nov 2020 |
Theorizing Crisis Imaginaries |
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| 25 Nov 2020 14:00-15:00 |
Ethnography and Modern Languages Research (1) |
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| 26 Nov 2020 15:00-16:30 |
LINKS/IMLR Seminar Francesca Orsini (SOAS): Beyond the Two Shores: Indian Magazines and World Literature between Decolonization and the Cold War https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23336 |
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| 26 Nov 2020 17:15-19:00 |
English Goethe Society Lecture Karolina Watroba (Oxford): Readers: Marxists on Mann's Magic Mountain https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22854 |
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| 30 Nov 2020 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (5) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22864 |
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| 1 Dec 2020 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (6) |
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| 2 Dec 2020 14:00-15:00 |
Ethnography and Modern Languages Research (2) |
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| 2 Dec 2020 15:00-17:00 |
LINKS/IMLR Postgraduate Workshop Eco-Translation: Comparative Literature and the Environmental Humanities Discussants: Florian Mussgnug (UCL) and Danielle Sands (RHUL) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23293 |
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| 3 Dec 2020 16:00-17:30 |
PLV I Love You: Albertine Sarrazin’s Letters to Julien from Prison |
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7 Dec and |
Data Visualisation for Ancient and Modern Literature, Languages and History |
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| 9 Dec 2020 14:00-15:00 |
Ethnography and Modern Languages Research (3) Research Training https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23345 |
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| 14 Dec 2020 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (6) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22865 |
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| 14 Dec 2020 18:00-19:30 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras |
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| 14 Dec 2020 18:00-20:00 |
Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (4) |
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15 Dec 2020 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (7) |
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11 Jan 2021 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (7) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23587 |
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| 11 Jan 2021 18:00-20:00 |
Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (5) Workshop 5 Creating Sporting Legacies: Processes and Identification https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22870 |
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| 12 Jan 2021 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (8) |
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| 20 Jan 2021 15:00-16:30 |
Mediated Memories of Responsibility (2) |
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| 21 Jan 2021 17.45-19:00 |
Naivety and Irony: Goethe's Musical Needs |
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| 25 Jan 2021 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (8) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23589 |
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| 25 Jan 2021 18:00-19:30 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras |
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| 26 Jan 2021 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (9) |
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| 28 Jan 2021 16:00-17:30 |
LINKS/IMLR Seminar |
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| 31 Jan 2021 Call for Papers Closes |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities: 2021 Conference |
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| 1 Feb 2021 Call for Papers Closes |
Übersetzungsszenen/ Scenes of Translation/ Scènes de la traduction (Workshop) |
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| 4 Feb 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Convocation World Literature and Translation Series Rewriting the Indian Other: A Post-Colonial Translation of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Story of Muhammad Din' into Arabic Speaker: Mohammad Hamdan (An-Najah National University, Palestine) |
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| 8 Feb 2021 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (9) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23591 |
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| 8 Feb 2021 18:00-20:00 |
Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (6) Workshop 6: Space and Place in Sporting Narratives |
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| 9 Feb 2021 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (10) |
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| 11-12 Feb 2020 |
Lydia Davis: Writing, Reading and Translation | Lydia Davis: Écrire, Lire et Traduire |
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| 16 Feb 2021 14:30-16:00 |
Coronavirus and Pop Culture in French, Spanish and Portuguese-Speaking Cultures. A Transnational Approach |
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| 16 Feb 2021 19:00-20:30 |
Presentation of the special issue dedicated to Galician Mobilities - Journal of Romance Studies (JRS) |
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| 18 Feb 2021 15:00-16:30 |
What is (asbestos) québécois literature? Confinement and Resource in André Langevin’s Poussière sur la ville (1953) |
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| 19 Feb 2021 14:00-17:30 |
Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World |
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| 22 Feb 2020 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (10) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23592 |
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| 23 Feb 2021 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (11) |
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| 24 Feb 2021 18:00-19:00 |
A Popular European Actress in Hollywood: The Case of Franziska Gaal |
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| 26 Feb 2021 15:00-18:00 |
The First Sixty Years of the English Goethe Society: A 135th Anniversary Symposium Speakers: Angus Nicholls (London); Fabienne Schopf (Stuttgart); W. Daniel Wilson (London) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22857 |
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Help! Sharing Good Primary Practice for Remote Learning: Ideas in Modern Languages |
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| 3 Mar 2021 16:30-18:30 |
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| 8 Mar 2021 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (11) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23593 |
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| 8 Mar 2021 18:00-20:00 |
Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (7) Workshop 7: Routine Unpredictability: Narrating Everyday Football Stories in Three British Novels |
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| 8 Mar 2021 Call for Papers Closes |
2021 Sylvia Naish Lecture Monday, 24 May 2021 https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23978 |
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| 9 Mar 2021 17:30-19:00 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (12) |
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| 9 Mar 2021 - 11 Mar 2021 |
The Second and Third Generation. The Experiences of the Descendents of Refugees from National Socialism Triennial Conference of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/20105 |
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| 10 Mar 2021 15:00-16:30 |
Mediated Memories of Responsibility (3) |
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| 13 Mar 2021 Call for Papers Closes |
68th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23974 |
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| 16 Mar 2021 14:30-15:30 |
Languages and Environments Reading Group |
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| 18 Mar 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Convocation World Literature and Translation Series Reflections on World Literature and the Resistance to Theory Speaker: Galin Tihanov (QMUL) |
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| 18 Mar 2021 17:45-19:30 |
English Goethe Society Lecture Stefanie Stockhorst (Berlin): Goethe and the Aesthetics of Equestrian Art https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22858 |
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| 19 Mar 2021 12:00-16:30 |
AMLUK Symposium on Pedagogies in Modern Languages, Area Studies and Linguistics |
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| 22 Mar 2021 16:00-18:00 |
Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (12) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23594 |
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23 Mar 2021 |
Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (13) |
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| 24 Mar 2021 18:00-19:30 |
Das Wort der Zukunft. Prize-Giving for DAAD-IMLR German-Language Competition Keynote speaker: Friedrich Herrmann (poetry slammer) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24082 |
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| 24 Mar 2021 18:00-19:00 |
For whom there is no archive Speaker: Sam Dolbear (Berlin/IMLR) Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22480 |
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| 26 Mar 2021 17:00-19:00 |
Gender and Transnational Reception. Mapping the Translation, Circulation and Recognition of Women’s Writings |
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| 31 Mar 2021 09:00-11:00 |
Current Trends in Digital East Asian Studies |
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| 14 April 2021- 16 April 2021 |
Alptraum(a). Alps, Summits and Borderland in German-Speaking Culture Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature & Culture Online Conference https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23998 |
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| 16 Apr 2021 15:00-16:00 |
Precarious Homes - Narratives and Practices of Home-Making in Turbulent Times - Reading Group (1) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24069 |
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| 21 Apr 2021 16:00-17:30 BST |
Convocation World Literature and Translation Series - LINKS/IMLR Seminar Minor Oversight? Translation, World Literature and Indigeneity Speaker: Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23921 |
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| 21 Apr 2021 18:00-19:00 BST |
Anti-Nazi Germans in Exile Speakers: Merilyn Moos and Steve Cushion (London) Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies Seminar |
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| 22 Apr 2021 18:00-19:00 BST |
Transnational Approaches to Building a Post-Covid Society. Event 1: Panel discussion: The UK and the World |
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| 23 Apr 2021 15:00-16:00 BST |
Precarious Homes - Narratives and Practices of Home-Making in Turbulent Times - Reading Group (2) | |
| 27 Apr 2021 18:00-19:00 BST |
Transnational Approaches to Building a Post-Covid Society. Event 2: Roundtable discussion: Multilingual Community Involvement |
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| 29 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2021 BST |
Queer Epistemicides. Languages, Knowledges, Sexualities |
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| 30 Apr 2021 10:00-18:30 BST |
Covid and the Woman Writer |
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| 6 May 2021 17:45-19:30 |
English Goethe Society Lecture Clark Muenzer (Pittsburgh/Editor, Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts): "Daß ich Dich fassen möcht'": Tracking the Philosophical Concept in Goethe's Prometheus and Ganymed https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22859 |
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| 7 May 2021 11:00-12:30 |
Student Mobility and the Transnational Campus Speakers: Jeremy Carrette (Kent); Tim Gore (ULIP); Rita Wilson (Monash University) |
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| 11 May 2021 14:30-15:30 |
Languages and Environments Reading Group |  |
| 11 May 2021 18:00-19:00 |
Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation |
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| 12 May 2021 15:00-16:30 |
Addressing linguistic, cultural, and digital hegemonies in Virtual Exchange |
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| 12 May 2021 17:00-19:00 |
Tangled Pasts: Negotiating Politics of the Past and Present in Postwar German Film
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| 17 May 2021 - 19 May 2021 |
Marlen Haushofer in Context https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24132 |
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| 19 May 2021 15:00-16:30 |
Mediated Memories of Responsibility (4) |
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| 20 May 2021 15:00-16:30 |
Convocation World Literature and Translation Series Translating Contemporary Writing in Cameroon: Reflections from Recent Workshops with Bakwa Speakers: Ruth Bush and Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol) |
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| 21 May 2021 15:00-16:00 |
Precarious Homes – Narratives and Practices of Home-Making in Turbulent Times - Reading Group (2) |
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| 24 May 2021 16:00-17:30 |
2021 Sylvia Naish Lecture |
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| 24 May 2021- 25 May 2021 |
68th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24283 |
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| 27 May 2021 18:00-19:30 |
The 2021 Bithell Memorial Lecture |
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| 3 Jun 2021 10:00-17:00 |
UNTEACH: a Shadow Heroes Festival |
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| 8 Jun 2021 12:00-13:00 |
Rabelais's 'Radical' Farce Reconsidered: What did Dindenault do to Deserve This!? |
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| 8 Jun 2021 15:00-16:00 |
The AHRC and Future Developments |
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| 11 Jun 2021 11:00-13:00 |
Stories of Home, the Road, and the Host Country: Narrating Migration in Marocco https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24070 |
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| 14 Jun 2021 17:00-18:30 BST |
Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation Annett Gröschner and Katy Derbyshire https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23819 |
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| 21 Jun 2021- 22 Jun 2021 |
The Languages of Covid-19: Implications for Global Healthcare |
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| 23 Jun 2021 18:00-19:00 |
Writing Home: Heimat and Belonging in the Work of Four German-Speaking Women Writers Exiled to Britain from 1933 Speaker: Angharad Mountford (London) Exile Research Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24426 |
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| 23 June 2021- 24 June 2021 |
(Re)Imagining Belonging in Latin America and Beyond: Access to Citizenship, Digital Identity and Rights |
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| 2 July 2021 09:00-18:30 |
Übersetzungsszenen / Scenes of Translation / Scènes de la Traduction Online Workshop https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24148 |
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| 2 July 2021 17:00-18:30 |
Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation
Mascha Dabić and Leigh Bailey |
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| 6 Jul 2021 11:00-13:00 |
The Borges Enigma Panel Discussion |
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| 29 July 2021- 31 July 2021 |
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