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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| 20 Apr 2022 16:00-18:00 |
In Dialogue with Martin Buber (1): Developing a Dialogical Politics Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series Speakers: Paul Mendes-Flohr (Chicago), Johan Siebers (IMLR), and Vic Seidler (Goldsmiths, London) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26037 |
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| 25 Apr 2022 18:30-20:00 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras - Session 3 |
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| 26 Apr 2022 15:00-16:00 |
Languages and Environments Reading Group 1 https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25989 |
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| 27 Apr 2022 18:00-19:00 |
The Second Generation: Theoretical Concepts of the Lived Experience Speaker: David Clark (London) Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25916 |
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| 4 May 2022 16:00-18:00 |
In Dialogue with Martin Buber (2): Dialogue In and 'After' the Covid-19 Pandemic Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series Speakers: Paul Mendes-Flohr (Chicago), Muhammad Zaman (Boston), and Jessica Brown (The Global Lehrhaus) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26103 |
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| 9 May 2022 17:00-18:00 |
Horizontalism and Historicity in Argentina: Cultural Dialogues of the Post-Crisis Era |
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| 12 May 2022 17:45-19:00 |
Himmelstraum, Alptraum, und 'träumerische Verwechslung des geistigen und leiblichen Genusses': Schattierungen und strukturelle Funktionen des Traummotivs in E.T.A. Hoffmanns 'Kater Murr' |
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| 13 May 2022 11:45-16:30 |
Modern Languages and Inclusivity: Sharing Ideas and Practices Symposium |
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17 May 2022 |
War Crimes and Colonel Blimp Speaker: James Brown (London) Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory/Birkbeck Guilt Working Group Seminar |
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| 18 May 2022 16:00-18:00 |
In Dialogue with Martin Buber (3): A Stroll through the Woods with Buber: Reflections on Environmental Ethics Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series Speakers: Paul Mendes-Flohr (Chicago), Kate Pahl (Manchester Metropolitan), and Essi Maria Ikonen (Aarhus) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26104 |
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| 19 May 2022 15:00-16:00 |
Languages and Environments Reading Group (2) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25993 (re-scheduled to 10 June 2022) |
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| 19 May – 20 May 2022 |
Politics of Vulnerability in Contemporary Women's Writing and Creative Practices CCWW Conference https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26022 |
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| 23 May 2022 16:00-18:00 |
In Dialogue with Martin Buber (4): The Charismatic Leader and the Life of the Community Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series Speakers: Federico Filauri (IMLR); Johan Siebers (IMLR) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26306 |
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25 May 2022 |
Mark Fisher in Translation: Transnational Communities of Capital Realism Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Round-Table Discussion Speakers: Matt Colquhoun and Alejandro Galliano |
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| 26 May 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Still Standing: Notes from the Ti Kai Project, Dominica Speakers: Adom Philogene Heron (London); Marica Honychurch (Photographer); Jeanne Royer (Student); Polly Patullo (Author/Publisher) Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar |
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| 30 May 2022 18:30-20:00 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras - Session 4 |
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| 6 June 2022 16:00-18:00 |
In Dialogue with Martin Buber (5) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series Speakers: tbc https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26311 |
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| 8 Jun 2022 14:00-17:00 |
Latin American Plant Humanities Workshop |
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| 10 Jun 2022 13:00-14:30 |
Justice on the Slaughter-Bench Revisited Speaker: Alan Norrie (Warwick) Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory/Birkbeck Guilt Working Group Seminar |
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| 10 Jun 2022 15:00-16:00 |
Languages and Environments Reading Group (2) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25993 (re-scheduled from 19 May) |
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| 14 Jun 2022 16:00-17:00 |
Carribean Studies Seminar Series Speaker: Kadija George (Brighton) |
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| 16 Jun – 17 Jun 2022 |
A New 'Feminist' Novel? Popular Narratives and the Pleasures of Reading Keynote speakers: Serena Todesco; Agnès Martin-Lugand Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing Conference |
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| 20 Jun 2022 16:00-18:00 |
In Dialogue with Martin Buber (6) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series Speakers: tbc https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26312 |
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| 21 Jun 2022 12:00-13:30 |
Mediating HIstorical Responsibility |
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| 22 Jun 2022 18:00-19:00 |
Encounter: Birgit Weyhe and Katy Derbyshire |
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| 27 Jun 2022 18:30-20:00 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras - Session 5 Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (CCWW Reading Group in Spanish) |
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28 Jun 2022 |
Cuba: Vivir entre ciclones / Cuba: Living between Hurricanes Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening |
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| 29 Jun 2022 18:00-19:00 |
Erna Pinner's Graphic and Literary Production in London Exile: An Example of Cultural and Ideological Transference Speaker: Dolors Sabaté Planes (Santiago de Compostela/IMLR) Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26354 |
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| 29 Jun– 30 Jun 2022 |
Climate, Capital and Tourism in the Americas Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference |
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30 Jun 2022 |
'Erkundung des Dunkels' - Thomas Mann liest Freud Speaker: Friedhelm Kröll (Nuremberg) English Goethe Society Ida Herz Lecture https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25183 |
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| 4 July 2022 16:00-18:00 |
In Dialogue with Martin Buber (7) Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series Speakers: tbc https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26313 |
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| 2 Sept- 3 Sept 2021 |
The Raw and the Refined: Commodities, Processing, and Power in Global Perspective |
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| 2 Sept 2021 16:30-17:30 |
'Tate not State': Refining Sugar, Capitalism and Corporate PR in the British Commonwealth in the 1940s and 1950s The Raw and the Refined: Commodities, Processing, and Power in Global Perspective Workshop Keynote Lecture Speaker: Erika Rappaport (Santa Barbara) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24558 |
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| 8 Sept 2021 12:00-13:30 |
Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing Seminar Speakers: Antonia Wimbush (Liverpool); Leslie Barnes (Australian National University); Amaleena Damlé (Durham); Natalie Edwards (Adelaide) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24520 |
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| 9 Sept 2021 17:00-19:00 |
The Latin American Community in London: An Intergenerational Conversation Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24562 |
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| 24 Sept 2021 16:00-17:00 |
Strange Bedfellows! Satire between the Covers of Hans Sachs's Der verdorben edelman mit dem weichen Beht Speaker: Sharon Baker (IMLR) 2021 Friends of Germanic Studies Lecture https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24781 |
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| 29 Sept 2021 18:00-19:00 |
Debating the Zeitgeist and Being Second Generation |
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| 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2021 |
Narratives of Selfhood and Ambivalence Keynote speakers: Shirley Jordan (Newcastle); Natalie Edwards (Adelaide); Christopher Hogarth (South Australia) Conference https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24529 |
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| 7 Oct 2021 17:00-18:30 |
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| 12 Oct 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series |
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| 14 Oct 2021 17:00-18:00 |
The Second World War in the Contemporary Graphic Novel: A Conversation with Nora Krug Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24560 |
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19 Oct 2021 |
Languages and Environments Reading Group |  |
| 20 Oct 2021 15:30-17:00 |
On the Trail of Aliens in 1930s Bloomsbury 2021 Bloomsbury Festival Guided Walk with Clare George https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24610 |
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| 21 Oct 2021 17:00-18:00 |
No. 12 Great Ormond Street The Mysterious Case of Dora Fabian and Mathilde Wurm 2021 Bloomsbury Festival Online Talk by Charmian Brinson (Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, IMLR) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24609 |
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| 22 Oct 2021 13:00-14:00 |
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| 22 Oct 2021 15:00-16:00 |
CCWW Precarious Homes - Queer Homemaking I |  |
| 25 Oct 2021 18:00-19:30 |
Austria Made in Hollywood |
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| 28 Oct 2021 17:00-18:30 |
Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series |
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| 28 Oct- 29 Oct 2021 |
CCWW Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe |
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| 4 Nov 2021 18:00-19:30 |
Love, Lies, Justice: A Viennese Ratline Speaker: Philippe Sands, QC (University College London) The 2021 Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Memorial Lecture https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24975 |
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| 5 Nov 2021 12:00-13:00 |
Towards a Taxonomy of Guilts: Part 1 Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Seminar (CCM) |
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| 11 Nov 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Cannibal Translation and Latin American Anthologies of World Literature |
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| 11 Nov 2021 17:00-18:30 |
Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series Speaker: Carolina Angel Botero (Bogotá) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24588 |
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| 16 Nov 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Speaker: Jake Subryan Richards (LSE) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24545 |
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| 17 Nov 2021 18:00-19:00 |
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| 18 Nov 2021 17:45-19:00 |
Isolation Reading in 1944: Richard Strauss, the Complete Works of Goethe and 'Metamorphosen' Speaker: Mark Austin (Conductor and Independent Scholar) English Goethe Society Lecture https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24625 |
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| 19 Nov 2021 15:00-16:00 |
CCWW Precarious Homes - Queer Homemaking II | |
| 23 Nov 2021 17:00-18:30 |
Un Conversatorio Sobre el Nexo Estado-Crimen en América Latina y el Caribe |
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| 25 Nov 2021 17:00-18:30 |
Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series Speaker: Sofia Ugarte (Cambridge) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24590 |
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| 26 Nov 2021 09:45-16:30 |
69th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25191 |
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| 1 Dec 2021 18:00-19:30 |
Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner Online Seminar |
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| 1 Dec - 2 Dec 2021 |
Innocence and Experience: Childhood and the 1930s Refugees Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies / Insiders/Outsiders Festival Conference https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24623 |
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| 2 Dec - 4 Dec 2021 |
Pockets, Pouches & Secret Drawers Online Conference |
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| 7 Dec 2021 16:00-17:30 |
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24546 |
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| 9 Dec 2021 17:00-18:30 |
Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series Leave if You're Able: Deportation, Migration, and Survival in Honduras Speaker: Amelia Frank-Vitale (Princeton) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24591 |
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| 10 Dec 2021 12:00-13:00 |
Towards a Taxonomy of Guilts: Part 2 Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Seminar (CCM) |
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| 10 Dec 2021 15:00-16:00 |
CCWW Precarious Homes - Neoliberalism, the Family, and Bourgeois Domesticity I |  |
| 13 Dec 2021 17:00-18:00 |
A Horizon of (Im)possibilities
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| 15 Dec 2021 17:00-18:30 |
Shifting Shores: Swahili and World Literature Speaker: Clarissa Vierke (Bayreuth) Part of the Convocation Seminars in World Literature and Translation https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25288 |
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12 Jan 2022- |
Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean: Past, Present and Possible Futures Centre for Latin America and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Conference |
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| 19 Jan 2022 18:00-19:00 |
The Impact of Exile on the Life and Work of the Artist Jo Bondy (1937-2015) Speaker: Jennifer Taylor (RCGAES) Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25363 |
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| 21 Jan 2022 15:00-16:00 |
Neoliberalism, the Family, and Bourgeois Domesticity II Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (CCWW) Seminar/Reading Group https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24078 |
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| 25 Jan 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25303 |
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| 3 Feb 2022 17:00-18:30 |
Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series Speaker: Deborah Fromm (Campinas, Brazil) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24592 |
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| 3 Feb 2022 18:00-19:30 |
Fanny Mendelssohn's 'Divan' |
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| 9 Feb 2022 18:00-19:00 |
Spreading the Word: 'Enemy Aliens' Contribute to British Wartime Propaganda Operation |
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| 10 Feb 2022 16:00-18:00 |
Believing the Image: Political Torture on Film Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Round-Table Discussion |
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| 17 Feb 2022 17:00-18:30 |
Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series Speaker: Andrea Urrutia Gómez (Mexico) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24593 |
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| 22 Feb 2022 16:00-17:30 |
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series Speaker: James Cantres (Hunter College, NY) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25304 |
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| 23 Feb 2022 17:00-18:00 |
Zusammen 'Weiter Schreiben'! A Dialogue between Writers across Languages and Cultures (in German) Speakers: Annett Gröschner, Wadid Nabi, and Annika Reich https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25698 |
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| 25 Feb 2022 11:45-16:15 |
Future Directions in Modern Languages Conference https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25353 |
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28 Feb 2022 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras - Session 1 |
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| 3 Mar 2022 17:00-18:30 |
Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series Speaker: Sasha Flatau (LSE) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24594 |
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| 3 Mar 2022 17:00-18:00 |
Uncanny Valleys: Austrian Literature and Film in the New Millennium Book presentation and conversation with photographer Lois Hechenblaikner Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature & Culture Event https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25783 |
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| 4 Mar 2022 13:00-14:30 |
Power and Silence: Charlemagne's Unspeakable Sin Centre for the Study of Cutural Memory (CCM) Seminar |
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| 4 Mar 2022 14:00-17:30 |
Sketching/Scripting Women — Women and Comics in the Arab World Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (CCWW) Seminar https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25230 |
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| 7 Mar 2022 16:00-17:00 |
‘WHO CARES?’ In Contemporary Women’s Writing & Film |
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| 10 Mar 2022 17:45-19:00 |
'Incredible, that's literature!' Attempts at Re-moralizing Politics, Academic Disciplines and the Professions with the Help of 'belles-lettres' The 2022 English Goethe Society Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture Speaker: Wolf Lepenies (Berlin) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24654 |
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| 17 Mar 2022 17:00-18:30 |
Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series Speaker: Ulises Villafuerte (Dalhousie) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24595 |
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| 18 Mar 2022 09:00-16:20 |
Women's Narratives of Ageing and Care Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (CCWW) Conference https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25056 |
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| 21 Mar 2022 16:00-17:00 |
‘WHO CARES?’ In Contemporary Women’s Writing & Film |
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| 23 Mar 2022 18:00-19:00 |
'Sea Air' — Some Tales of Internment Speaker: Sonia Lambert Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25873 |
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| 25 Mar 2022 11:45-16:15 |
Modern Languages and Inclusivity: Sharing Ideas and Practices Conference https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25364 |
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| 28 Mar 2022 16:00-17:00 |
‘WHO CARES?’ In Contemporary Women’s Writing & Film |
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| 28 Mar 2022 18:30-20:00 |
Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras - Session 2 |
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