Research Events and Activities
The Modern Languages CDRG Seminar Series and annual Research Showcase
Our yearly programme of activities in Modern Languages – seminar series, workshops, focussed reading groups, and a June research showcase – brings together an inclusive community of over 100 staff, postgraduate research students, post-doctoral candidates, in which all our undergraduates are welcome.
We are all passionate about all the different avenues of research in Irish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Translation and Interpreting
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Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group
Seminar Series 2021-22
PROGRAMME
SEMESTER 1
Dr Síobhra Aiken (Irish, QUB),
Against forgetting: Irish-language testimonies from the Irish Civil War (1922–23),
Professor Elizabeth Wright (University of Georgia)
On the Trail of a Shadowy Sir Lançelot: Remembering the First Atlantic Slave Voyage, from Zurara to Cervantes
Dr Daniel McAuley (French, QUB)
Linguistic discrimination and accent variation in public life: a view from the French press
Dr Dominique Jeannerod (French, QUB)
Four Authors as Latter-Days Saints: writing on Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust and Beckett
Dr Fiona Clark (Spanish and Portuguese, QUB)
From Scotland to Mexico via Ireland: the transmission of medical ideas in the 18th century
SEMESTER 2
Dr Piotr Blumczynski (Translation and Interpreting, QUB)
Holy Bones, Palaeolithic Caves, and Jimi Hendrix's Guitars. Dipping into Translationality
Dr Sarah Bowskill (Spanish and Portuguese, QUB)
Shall I compare thee to Cien años de soledad?: The problem of comparisons in reviews of Latin American literature
PGR Research in Progress Workshop
Convenor: Dr Merryn Davies-Deacon (French, QUB)
Dr Andrew C. Rajca (University of South Carolina)
Cinematic Aesthetics and Black Territories in São Paulo: Viviane Ferreira’s O dia de Jerusa (2014) and Um dia com Jerusa (2020)
Dr Eamon McCarthy (University of Glasgow) and Ricki O’Rawe (Spanish and Portuguese, QUB) in conversation
Norah Borges: "A Smaller, More Perfect World
Modern Languages CDRG Research Showcase To be held in person
Please direct queries to Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa g.sanchez@qub.ac.uk
CONFERENCES
Modern Languages at Queen’s hosts various conferences throughout the academic year, from large international gatherings like Brazil in the Spotlight, the second conference of REBRAC (European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis) in November 2016, to smaller themed symposia typically organised by post-doctoral fellows and post-graduate students, like the Adeffi Journée des Doctorants, held virtually in September 2020.
Since 2019, staff, post-doctoral and post-graduate students in Modern Languages have organised an exciting roster of conferences and symposia on the following subjects: Languages in Conflict and Reconciliation; Cultures of Intimacy in 19th-Century France and Belgium; Mobilities and Moorings: negotiating spaces and identities in modern and contemporary French and Francophone culture; UK Language Policy after Brexit; Chinese Traits, Francophone Lines: The Value of Transcultural Creativity; ADEFFI (Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande); First workshop of the AHRC Network Women, Religion, and Culture in Spain and Spanish America 1900-2000; Mozambique through literature, film & policy making; Breaking Silences.