Seminar Series
The School of Languages and Cultures welcomes visitors from across the UK and the wider world to its seminar series.
In addition to our national and international visitors, this year's series showcases Sheffield colleagues from French Studies, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Germanic Studies, and Intercultural Communication. They present their research in a variety of disciplinary areas, including linguistics, literature, intellectual history and visual culture.
Programme 2022-2023
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
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11 May 4pm |
Rhodri Sheldrake Davies (Durham University) |
Visual Print Media as Dissent in Contemporary Spain Presentations, round-table and Q & A |
Diamond Workroom 2 |
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5 May 9am |
Dr Nicola Bermingham (University of Liverpool) Dr Andrew Bradley (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Prof Avel·lí Flors Mas (Universitat de Barcelona) Prof Elin Gunleifsen (Universitetet i Agder) Dr James Hawkey (Bristol) Prof Kristine Horner (UoS) Prof Michael Hornsby (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań) Prof Helen Kelly-Holmes (University of Limerick) Dr Sarah Muller (Zenter fir d’Lëtzebuerger Sprooch) Prof Gro-Renée Rambø (Universitetet i Agder) |
In collaboration with the Centre for Luxembourg Studies The Sociolinguistics of 'Small Languages': Policies, Practices and Interests This colloquium considers the utility of the term ‘small language’ in sociolinguistic research and considers shifts in the circumstances in which speakers of 'small languages' find themselves. Papers explore a range of European case studies, including Ireland, Scandinavia, Spain, France, Andorra and Luxembourg. |
Mappin Hall |
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4 May 5pm |
Katy Humberstone |
In collaboration with the Centre for Luxembourg Studies Thematic Panel on ‘Spatialised Tensions’ This interdisciplinary PGR-led panel will present initial findings across the 3 research sites of Mexico, Catalonia and Luxembourg, where linguistic, social and cultural tensions are negotiated, contested and materialised in spaces. |
Diamond, Workroom 1 |
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Rearranged for Autumn 2023 |
Speakers: Dr Nathalie Solomon (Université de Perpignan, France) Dr Maxime Goergen (UoS) Dr Harsh Trivedi (UoS) Chair: Dr David McCallam (UoS) |
Balzac: A 21st-century man A round-table discussion on the relevance of 19th-century French novelist Honoré de Balzac's works in our times. |
tbc |
|
26 April 4.15 pm |
Dr Andrew Cusack (University of St Andrews) |
"Transnational Modern Languages and Border Zones Case Study: Switzerland- Württemberg in the 19th Century" | Jessop West, SR G.03 |
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25 April 5 pm |
Dr Nicola Frith (University of Edinburgh) |
"Legacies of Slavery in the French Republic: Recognition, Reconciliation or Reparation?" | Jessop West, SR G.03 |
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15 March 7.30 pm |
Translation Extravaganza! A round table teach-out event with writers and translators |
The extravaganza is part of the SLC Translation Days. The full programme can be downloaded here  |
Drama Studio |
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2 March 2 pm |
Prof Renata Schellenberg (Mount Allison University, Canada) |
"German Colonialism and its Legacies" | Diamond, Lecture Theatre 9 |
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28 Feb
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Andreas Hiemstra ((Universität Oldenburg/ Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) |
"Linguistic Transfer between Closely Related Languages in Third Language Acquisition" |
Jessop West, SR G.03 |
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27 Feb 2023 |
Prof. Wim Vandenbussche (VU Brussels, Belgium) |
"Dutch in Multilingual Brussels: Past, present and future" |
Diamond, Workroom 2 In collaboration with the Centre for Dutch and Flemish Studies |
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26 October 2022 5 pm |
Dr Hannah Silvester (University College Cork, Ireland) |
"Language, Power and Identity in the Banlieue: Subtitling linguistic variation in Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’Esquive" | Jessop West, G.03 |
Past
| 27 April 2022 | Dr Sophie Watt | "Neo-Colonial Violence in the Francophone World" | Pemberton LTA, Regent Court (ScHARR) |
| 30 March 20222 | Dr Lauren Rea | Billiken and the Great Latin American Women Project | Pemberton LTA, Regent Court (ScHARR) |
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16 March 2022 |
Katia Kameli | Katia Kameli in conversation: images, memory and translation (Chair: Amanda Tavares) | Online |
| 23 March 2022 | Thomas Waller | "João Paulo Borges Coelho, Autonomy, and the Global Literary Marketplace" | Pemberton LTA, Regent Court (ScHARR) |
For information on how to connect to the online seminars, please write to slc-enquiries@sheffield.ac.uk at least a day in advance of the talk you'd like to attend, with the message subject "Research seminar series link".