Durham seminar series

[a k harrington]

Dear colleagues,

Pls see below list of seminars taking place in Durham School of Modern 
Languages this academic year.

All best,
Alex Harrington

MLAC Research Seminar Series
Seminars are usually held in A56, Elvet Riverside building (except where 
otherwise specified). All welcome. Wine and refreshments are served.
For further information, see 
https://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/research/seminarseries/, or email 
kathryn.banks2 at durham.ac.uk
26 October 2006
Dr Philip Bullock, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 
University College London
"The Poet's Echo and the Composer's Voice; or what Bakhtin can tell us 
about Shostakovich's Songs"
2 November 2006
Dr Michael Froggatt,  Dept of History, Durham University 
[http://www.dur.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/?id=2877]
"Yetis, Cosmonauts and Little Red Men: Strange Tales of Soviet Popular 
Science"
9 November 2006
Professor Ann Moss, Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University
"Strong Women and Good Wives in Montaigne and Shakespeare"
30 November 2006
Dr Alexandra Smith, University of Sheffield 
[http://www.lanc.canterbury.ac.nz/people/smith.shtml]
"The Reinvention of European Identity in Alexander Sokurov's film 
Russian Ark" (2002)
7 December 2006
Dr Sarah Leahy, Dept of French, Newcastle University 
[http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/s.m.leahy]
"Jacques Becker's Casque d'or" (1952) [exact title to be confirmed]
EPIPHANY TERM
18 January 2007
Dr Maylis Hopewell-Curie, National Inventory Research Project, Birkbeck 
College and the Bowes Museum
"French Paintings in the Bowes Museum" [exact title to be confirmed]
25 January 2007
Dr Zahia Smail Salhi, School of Modern Languages & Cultures, University 
of Leeds [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/staff/zahia_smail_salhi.htm]
"Arab Women Resisting Islamic Terrorism through literature and film"
1 February 2007
Professor Henrike Lähnemann, School of Modern Languages, University of 
Newcastle upon Tyne
"Singing on the soul's harp.  Late medieval vernacular hymns from 
Medingen nunnery"
[http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/henrike.laehnemann/medingen.htm]
8th February 2007
Dr Joerg Zinken, University of Portsmouth
“The Relation Between Figurative Thought and language: Evidence from 
European languages”
15 February 2007
Professor Allyson Fiddler, European Languages & Cultures, Lancaster 
University [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/staff/fiddler.htm]
"On Virtue and Virtuality: Jelinek's Mythological Monologues in Babel"
1 March 2007
Professor Jon Usher, School of European Languages & Cultures, University 
of Edinburgh
"The Navigational Topos as Bookend: Boccaccio's Fragile Barques"
8 March 2007
Professor Ricarda Schmidt, Department of German, University of Exeter 
[http://www.ex.ac.uk/german/DGdep.htm]
"Artists in Romantic Literature"
15 March 2007
Dr Rob Stone, Dept of Hispanic Studies, University of Swansea 
[http://www.swan.ac.uk/hispanic/staff/stone_r.html]
"The Symmetry of Chance: the Life and Films of Julio Medem"

EASTER TERM
25 April 2007 [WEDNESDAY]
Dr Antonella Braida, former Senior Lecturer at Durham University
"Photography and Cinema in Italy: The first decade of the Twentieth 
Century: Pirandello, D'Annunzio, e Svevo"
26 April 2007
Dr Wen-Chin Ouyang, London Middle East Institute, School of Oriental and 
African Studies 
[http://www.soas.ac.uk/literatures/People/Leaderspublications/ouyang.html]
Title to be confirmed.
3 May 2007
Professor Brian Richardson, School of Modern Languages, University of 
Leeds [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/staff/brian_richardson.htm]
"The uses of manuscript in Renaissance Italy: scribal communities and 
the diffusion of texts"
10 May 2007
Professor Ronnie Ferguson, School of Modern Languages, University of St 
Andrews
"The status of Venetian; language or dialect"

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