Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies

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Research Centres

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (CCWW)

Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (CCM)

Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies (EXILE)

Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought (BLOCH)

Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature & Culture (IBC)

Upcoming events

Representations of Everyday Life in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Productions

Endzeit. Author Workshop with Graphic Novelist Olivia Vieweg

GERMINATIONS: Forest Thinking/Thinking Forests

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News

Roads not taken or: Es hätte auch anders kommen können

A Critical Encounter front cover

Just Published: A Critical Encounter. Bataille and Blanchot

Carol Lazzaro-Weis, President of the AAIS giving a talk on the Association's work in April 2013 (YouTube)

Carol Lazzaro-Weis (1949-2022)

New Bithell Visiting Fellowship Announced for 2022-23

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Latest publications

East and West, To 'The Ratline', and Beyond

Professor Philippe Sands QC

Miller Memorial Lectures

Joaquim Nabuco, British Abolitionists, and the End of Slavery in Brazil

Edited by Leslie Bethell and Murilo De Carvalho

The Pinochet Case

Edited by Madeleine Davis

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From our Blog

Review of Henri Christophe

Haitian Independence and the Chinese Caribbean Diaspora

Catherine R Peters

Procession of the icon at the celebration of the Virgen de la Asunción in Brooklyn, NY

Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood

Britta C. Jung, Gad Schaffer, Stephan Ehrig

Protesters call for army intervention. Credit: Gabriel Bayarri Toscano

The metaphor of the “just war” in the Bolsonarist insurrectionary universe

By Gabriel Bayarri Toscano (CLACS)

Poet – César Vallejo

Translating César Vallejo’s poem ‘España, aparta de mí este cáliz’

Cynthia Stephens

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