Online Events 2020-21

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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Calendar of Online Events - Autumn 2020

1-3 Sept 2020
12:00-19:00

Words, Music and Marginalisation
6th Biennial Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22752

1 Sept 2020
16:30-18:30

Words, Music and Marginalisation: Keynote Lecture
Speaker: Imani Danielle Mosley (Florida)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22753

2 Sept 2020
10:00-11:15Class, Confinement and Criminality in Contemporary Women’s Writing
CCWW PGR Online Seminar Series
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/227284 Sept 2020
Call for Papers closes

Contemporary Women's Writing and the Medical Humanities
CCWW PGR Online Seminar Series
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22784

7 Sept 2020
16:00-17:30Confinement in French and Francophone Literature and Film

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22747

8-11 Sept 2020

Decolonising Modern Languages: A Symposium for Sharing Practices and Ideas
​https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22797

11 Sept 2020
14:00-17:30Germany's Memory Mainstream
An Online Symposium
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2277814 Sept 2020
19:00-20:30

Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras
Discussion of El nervio optico by Maria Gainza
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22899

15 Sept 2020
19:00-20:30Defining Language in a Musical Context: Talk with Bridget Carey

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22831

17 Sept 2020
14:00-17:30

The Languages of Landscape
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22807

17-18 Sept 2020
13:00-17:15

Thomas Bernhard: Language, History, Subjectivity
Online Conference
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22767

18 Sept 2020
10:00-17:00

Brecht in Song: One-day Virtual Workshop
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22832

18 Sept 2020
18:00-20:00Brecht in Song: Evening Performance

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22833

21 Sept 2020
18:00-20:00

Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (1)
Workshop 1: Exploring the role of sports journalism
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22866

21 Sept 2020
Call for Papers
closes 

The Diasporic Plate: Food in the Contemporary Diasporic World in Times of Crisis
27 November - 11 December 2020
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22707

22 Sept 2020
14:00-16:00

The Songs of Pedro Ximénez Abril y Tirado: Poetry and Art Music in Postcolonial Bolivia
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22799

22 Sept 2020
17:30-19:00Contemporary Women's Writing and the Medical Humanities (1)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22828

23-24 Sept
2020

From 'Where are you from?' to 'Where shall we go together?'
Re-imagining Home and Belonging in 21st-Century Women's Writing
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22483

24 Sept 2020
19:30-21:00

A Journey Through Languages and Styles: Livestreamed Concert
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22849

25 Sept 2020
19:00-20:00The Harp in Translation: Online Concert and Discussion
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2284528 Sept 2020
Call for Papers closes

Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World
19 February 2021
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22720

1 Oct 2020
15:00-16:30Museum Practices in World Literature
Speaker: Emma Bond (St Andrews)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/226855 Oct 2020
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (1)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/228606 Oct 2020
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (2)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Feminising Illness and Medicine: Narrative Methods, Forms, and Aesthetics
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23112

7 Oct 2020
18:00-19:15

The Empire as Refuge? Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories
Virtual Book Launch
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22704

12 Oct 2020
19:00-20:30

Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22909

19 Oct 2020
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (2)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2286120 Oct 2020
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (3)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Death and Mourning
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23114

20 Oct 2020
18:00-20:00

Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (2)
Workshop 2: Athletic bodies and identity 1
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22867

22-23 Oct 2020
10:00-15:0067th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2283422 Oct 2020
13:30-15:002020 Sylvia Naish Lecture
Katherine Calvert (Sheffield): The Idealised Mother and the Socialist Movement in Weimar Germany
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2283529 Oct 2020
17:45-19:00English Goethe Society Lecture
Kevin Hilliard (Oxford): Neology vs. Radical Enlightenment: Steinbart, Mauvillon, and Frederick the Great's 'Essai sur l'Amour-propre' (1770)

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22853

2 Nov 2020
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (3)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/228623 Nov 2020
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (4)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Sexuality, Sexual Pain, and Sexual Pleasure
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23115

4 Nov 2020
14:00-15:30

Working with and Interviewing Writers, Artists and Filmmakers
Research Training
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23346

 

6 Nov 2020
Call for Papers closes

Covid and the Woman Writer
CCWW symposium 29-30 April 2021
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22947

16 Nov 2020
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (4)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2286316 Nov 2020
18:00-19:30

Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras
Graciela Fenner presents La Hija de la Espaniola by the young Venezuelan writer and journalist Karina Sainz Borgo
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23022

16 Nov 2020
18:00-20:00

Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (3)
Workshop 3: Sport, memory and identity
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22868

17 Nov 2020
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (5)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Female Genital Mutilation
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23116

18 Nov 2020
14:00-16:00

Modern Languages at the British Library
Research Training
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23347

18 Nov 2020
15:00-16:30

Mediated Memories of Responsibility (1)
CCM Seminar Series
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23270

23 Nov 2020, 14:00 -
30 Nov 2020, 12:00

Text Encoding for Ancient and Modern Literature, Languages and History
Research Training
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23374

23 Nov 2020
18:00-19:00

Capturing the Zeitgeist. Tracking Words in German and English Dictionaries
Panel Discussion with Kathrin Kunkel-Razum (DUDEN) and Wendalyn Nichols (CUP),
chaired by Rosie Goldsmith (European Literature Network)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23376​

24 Nov 2020
15:30-18:00

Theorizing Crisis Imaginaries
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22964

25 Nov 2020
14:00-15:00

Ethnography and Modern Languages Research (1)
Research Training 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23345

26 Nov 2020
15:00-16:30LINKS/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/2333626 Nov 2020
17:15-19:00English Goethe Society Lecture
Karolina Watroba (Oxford): Readers: Marxists on Mann's Magic Mountain
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2285430 Nov 2020
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (5)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/228641 Dec 2020
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (6)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Disability Narratives
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23117​

2 Dec 2020
14:00-15:00

Ethnography and Modern Languages Research (2)
Research Training
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23345

2 Dec 2020
15:00-17:00LINKS/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/232933 Dec 2020
16:00-17:30

PLV I Love You: Albertine Sarrazin’s Letters to Julien from Prison
Confinement in French and Francophone Literature and Film
Speaker: Polly Galis (Bristol)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23382

7 Dec and
10 Dec 2020
14:00-15:30

Data Visualisation for Ancient and Modern Literature, Languages and History
Research Training
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23430

9 Dec 2020
14:00-15:00Ethnography and Modern Languages Research (3)
Research Training 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2334514 Dec 2020
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (6)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2286514 Dec 2020
18:00-19:30

Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras
Maria-Jose Blanco will choose suitable texts to be discussed by Lectoras together with the students
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23023

14 Dec 2020
18:00-20:00

Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (4)
Workshop 4: Gender, Bodies and  Sports Writing
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22871

15 Dec 2020
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (7)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Chronic Illness and Pain
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23118

Calendar of Online Events - Winter 2021

11 Jan 2021
16:00-18:00

Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (7)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2358711 Jan 2021
18:00-20:00Telling 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/2287012 Jan 2021
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (8)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
End-of-Life Narratives, Resilience, and Care
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2311

20 Jan 2021
15:00-16:30

Mediated Memories of Responsibility (2)
CCM Seminar Series
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23292

21 Jan 2021
17.45-19:00

Naivety and Irony: Goethe's Musical Needs
The English Goethe Society Wilkinson-WIlloughby Lecture
Speaker: Alfred Brendel
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22855

25 Jan 2021
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (8)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2358925 Jan 2021
18:00-19:30

Grupo de Lectura Mujeres escritoras
Matilde Gallardo will present El Informe Monteverde by Lola Robles
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23024

26 Jan 2021
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (9)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Pregnancy and Childbirth
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23120

28 Jan 2021
16:00-17:30

LINKS/IMLR Seminar
Beyond 'transborder': On Translation and Difference in Contemporary Japanese Literature 
Speaker: Vicky Young (University of Cambridge)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23583

31 Jan 2021
Call for Papers Closes

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities: 2021 Conference
CCWW Conference (29-31 July 2021)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23445

1 Feb 2021
Call for Papers Closes

Übersetzungsszenen/ Scenes of Translation/ Scènes de la traduction (Workshop)
Convenors: Robert Leucht, Lausanne and Angela Sanmann-Graf (Lausanne) and  Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23551

4 Feb 2021
16:00-17:30Convocation 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)

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23757

8 Feb 2021
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (9)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/235918 Feb 2021
18:00-20:00Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (6)
Workshop 6: Space and Place in Sporting Narratives

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22872

9 Feb 2021
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (10)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Wellbeing in Medical Care
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2312

11-12 Feb 2020

Lydia Davis: Writing, Reading and Translation | Lydia Davis: Écrire, Lire et Traduire
Guest Speaker: Lydia Davis
Keynotes: Emily Eells (Paris 10-Nanterre), Jonathan Evans (Glasgow)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23458

16 Feb 2021
14:30-16:00

Coronavirus and Pop Culture in French, Spanish and Portuguese-Speaking Cultures. A Transnational Approach
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23590

16 Feb 2021
19:00-20:30

Presentation of the special issue dedicated to Galician Mobilities - Journal of Romance Studies (JRS)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23940

18 Feb 2021
15:00-16:30

What is (asbestos) québécois literature? Confinement and Resource in André Langevin’s Poussière sur la ville (1953)
and Cassie Bérard’s Qu’il est bon de se noyer (2016)
Part of Confinement in French and Francophone Literature and Film
Speaker: Arthur Rose (Bristol)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23900

19 Feb 2021
14:00-17:30

Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23842

22 Feb 2020
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (10)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2359223 Feb 2021
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (11)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Breaking Bodily Taboos
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2312

24 Feb 2021
18:00-19:00

A Popular European Actress in Hollywood: The Case of Franziska Gaal
Speaker: Hanja Daemon (London)
Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies Seminar
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22479

26 Feb 2021
15:00-18:00The 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

2 Mar 2021 and
16 Mar 2021
16:00-18:00
 

Help! Sharing Good Primary Practice for Remote Learning: Ideas in Modern Languages
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23985

3 Mar 2021
16:30-18:30

Critical Digital Pedagogies for Modern Languages in Higher Education
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23972

 

8 Mar 2021
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (11)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/235938 Mar 2021
18:00-20:00Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context (7)
Workshop 7: Routine Unpredictability: Narrating Everyday Football Stories in Three British Novels

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22873

8 Mar 2021
Call for Papers Closes2021 Sylvia Naish Lecture
Monday, 24 May 2021
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/239789 Mar 2021
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (12)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Women, Mental Health, and Identity
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23124

9 Mar 2021 -
11 Mar 2021The 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/2010510 Mar 2021
15:00-16:30

Mediated Memories of Responsibility (3)
CCM Seminar Series
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23971

13 Mar 2021
Call for Papers Closes68th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2397416 Mar 2021
14:30-15:30

Languages and Environments Reading Group
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23941

18 Mar 2021
16:00-17:30Convocation World Literature and Translation Series  
Reflections on World Literature and the Resistance to Theory
Speaker: Galin Tihanov (QMUL)

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23763

18 Mar 2021
17:45-19:30English Goethe Society Lecture
Stefanie Stockhorst (Berlin): Goethe and the Aesthetics of Equestrian Art
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2285819 Mar 2021
12:00-16:30

AMLUK Symposium on Pedagogies in Modern Languages, Area Studies and Linguistics
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23821

22 Mar 2021
16:00-18:00Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication (12)
Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought Seminar Series 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23594

23 Mar 2021
17:30-19:00

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (13)
CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series
Neurology and Psychiatry: Female Experiences of Mind Doctors
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23125

24 Mar 2021
18:00-19:30Das Wort der Zukunft. Prize-Giving for DAAD-IMLR German-Language Competition
Keynote speaker: Friedrich Herrmann (poetry slammer)
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2408224 Mar 2021
18:00-19:00For 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/2248026 Mar 2021
17:00-19:00

Gender and Transnational Reception. Mapping the Translation, Circulation and Recognition of Women’s Writings
in the 20th - and 21st Century
CCWW Seminar
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23359

31 Mar 2021
09:00-11:00

Current Trends in Digital East Asian Studies
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24079

Calendar of Online Events - Summer 2021