The Department of Modern Languages runs an ongoing programme of events featuring visiting speakers.
Unless otherwise indicated, talks take place on Wednesdays at 3.00pm in Queen's Building, LT7.1+2. All welcome.

2009/10 visiting speakers to be announced

Archive

Semester 1, 2008-2009

    Performativity

• 29 Oct 08    Dr Miriam Bouzouita (King's College, London, Hispanics), ‘How Performance Factors Drive Language Change: Spanish Pronoun Placement'
• 19 Nov 08    Prof. Lisa Downing (French), ‘Performativity in Queer Theory: Fluidity and the Scapegoating of Fixity'
• 10 Dec 08    Dr Kim Schulte (Hispanic Studies), ‘A Case of Different Case: Overt Agents in Romance and English Infinitival Clauses'
• 14 Jan 09    Dr Caroline Warman (French, Jesus College, Oxford), ‘Pre-histories of Performativity in Diderot: Does Memory Rehearse, Perform or Create the Self?'
• 21 Jan 09    Dr Helen Hanson (English), 'Performance and Performativity of Songs in Film'
• 28 Jan 09    Dr Hugh Roberts (French), ‘Apologies for Obscenity in French Renaissance Texts'

Semester 2, 2007-2008

Text and Image 

• 6th February 2008. ‘The Magic Lantern and the Peepshow.  Popular Visual Media as Self-Referential Devices in the 19^th-Century Illustrated Print'.  Prof Martina Lauster (German)
• 20th February 2008. ‘Optical Technologies and Russian Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture'. Dr Carol Adlam (Russian)
• 5th March 2008. ‘"Don't they usually do female nudes?" - Gender, Art and the Artist in Konrad Wolf's Goya and Der nackte Mann auf dem Sportplatz‘.  Dr Seán Allan (German, University of Warwick)
• 23rd April 2008. ‘Text and Image in Gautier's Art Journalism'. Dr James Kearns (French)
• 7th May 2008. ‘"Third way" Films in 1970s Spanish Cinema'. Dr Sally Faulkner (Iberian)
• 21st May 2008. ‘Do Ghosts Laugh? : Comedy in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver'.  Prof Steven Marsh (Iberian, University of South Carolina)