Culture, Language & Literature Podcasts
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Extract from Gut Genug (Good Enough) Discussion
Speaker(s): Summariser: Amber Jacobs (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Extract from Lo Raro es Vivir (Living's the Strange Thing) Discussion
Speaker(s): Summariser: Victoria Browne (Philosophy, University of Liverpool)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Gender, Ideology & the Political Economy of Austerity: The Mother War Continues...
Speaker(s): Roberta Guerrina (Politics, University of Surrey)
Friday 11 May 2012
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General Discussion for Featured book: Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
Speaker(s): Chair: Godela Weiss-Sussex (German, IGRS, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
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General Discussion of Passages from Literature: Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives
Speaker(s): Chair: Cláudia Pazos Alonso (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Infanticide, Ambivalence, Desperation: The Mother's Voice in Véronique Olmi's Beside the Sea
Speaker(s): Gill Rye (French, IGRS, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Maternal Texts and Subtexts
Speaker(s): Clare Hanson (English Literature, University of Southampton)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - General discussion
Speaker(s): Chair: Abigail Lee Six (Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Interdisciplinary Panel Discussant
Speaker(s): Deborah Cameron (Linguistics, University of Oxford)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Interdisciplinary Panel General Discussion
Speaker(s): Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio (Italian Studies, University of Bath)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Introduction
Speaker(s): Gill Rye (French, IGRS, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Panel Discussant for Featured book: Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
Speaker(s): Discussant: Eija Sevón (Education, University of Jyväskylä)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Poem from Imagias ('Only A Bit Of Goya: Letter To My Daughter') Discussion
Speaker(s): Summariser: Pat Thane (Contemporary History, King's College London)
Friday 11 May 2012
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The Maternal in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Feminist Thought
Speaker(s): Lisa Baraitser (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Veronique Olmi's Beside the Sea: Law, Psychiatry and the Moral Dilemmas of Filicide
Speaker(s): uth Cain (Law, University of Kent)
Friday 11 May 2012
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Unravelling Shakespeare's Life - "Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture 2011-2012"
Speaker(s): James Shapiro (Columbia University): 'Unravelling Shakespeare's Life', Chair: Professor Sir Brian Vickers (Institute of English Studies)
Monday 23 April 2012
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What is Peripheral about Peripheral Modernisms?
Speaker(s): Prof. Maria Irene Ramalho (University of Coimbra/University of Wisconsin Madison), Chair: Patricia Silva McNeill (Cambridge/IGRS)
Saturday 24 March 2012
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CHASE Launch Conference - Introduction
Speaker(s): Alastair Hamilton
Friday 16 March 2012
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Reading and Translating the Qur'an with the Dominican Arabists, c. 1240 -- 1320
Speaker(s): Thomas E. Burman (Tennessee)
Friday 16 March 2012
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Reflections of a Qur'an Translator
Speaker(s): Tarif Khalidi (Beirut)
Friday 16 March 2012
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The English Version (1649) of André du Ryer's Translation of the Qur'an
Speaker(s): Noel Malcolm (Oxford)
Friday 16 March 2012
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The Influence of the Qur'an on Western Literature
Speaker(s): Robert Irwin (London)
Friday 16 March 2012
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The Long History of the First German Qur'an Translation (Nürnberg 1616)
Speaker(s): Hartmut Bobzin (Erlangen)
Friday 16 March 2012
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The Qur'an - a European Text. Taking Historical, Literary and Theological Entanglements Seriously
Speaker(s): Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin)
Friday 16 March 2012
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The Qur'an in the Enlightenment: Aspects of the Sale Translation
Speaker(s): Ziad Elmarsafy (York)
Friday 16 March 2012
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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship: 'Discovering and using ancient place data'
Speaker(s): Elton Barker (Open University)
Thursday 15 March 2012
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Narratives and Ageing: A Reading by Martin Walser and Jane Gardam
Speaker(s): Martin Walser and Jane Gardam
Thursday 01 March 2012
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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship: 'A Supple Vocabulary for Digital Scholarly Editions'
Speaker(s): Katherine D. Harris (San José State University)
Thursday 16 February 2012
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Introduction to the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE)
Speaker(s): Dr Jan Loop (The Warburg Institute)
Friday 10 February 2012
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Leonardo da Vinci: Painting as Philosophy - Air, Wind and Atmosphere in Leonardo's Graphic Oeuvre
Speaker(s): Alessandro Nova
Thursday 02 February 2012
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Leonardo da Vinci: Painting as Philosophy - Leonardo and Optics
Speaker(s): Francesco Fiorani
Thursday 02 February 2012
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Leonardo da Vinci: Painting as Philosophy - Leonardo's 'nuova inventione di speculatione'
Speaker(s): Mary Pardo
Thursday 02 February 2012
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Leonardo da Vinci: Painting as Philosophy - Leonardo's point
Speaker(s): Frank Fehrenbach
Thursday 02 February 2012
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Context of Leonardo's Anatomical Studies
Speaker(s): Martin Clayton
Thursday 02 February 2012
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Encounter, the CIA, the IRD and the relationship of British intellectuals with the Establishment
Speaker(s): Matthew Spender (son of Stephen Spender and a board member of the Stephen Spender Trust); Frances Stonor Saunders (author of Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War); James Smith (New College; he is writing a book on British intellectuals and the Establishment); Maren Roth (writing a biography of Melvin Lasky and is supervisor of the Lasky papers in Munich); Jason Harding (Durham University, and TS Eliot Project, Institute of English Studies)
Friday 20 January 2012
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Dean's Seminar - From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic
Speaker(s): Dr Katia Pizzi, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Wednesday 18 January 2012
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ASMI 2011: The Italian 'Character': Virtues and Vices - Part 3
Speaker(s): Richard Bellamy (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (Queen Mary, University of London), Silvana Patriarca (Fordham University), Massimo Riva (Brown University)
Friday 16 December 2011
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ASMI 2011: The Italian 'Character': Virtues and Vices - Part 1
Speaker(s): Silvana Patriarca
Thursday 15 December 2011
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ASMI 2011: The Italian 'Character': Virtues and Vices - Part 2
Speaker(s): Lorella Zanardo
Thursday 15 December 2011
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Dean's Seminar - Walls of Algiers: Culture, Conflict and Politics in the 21st Century French and Algerian Imagination
Speaker(s): Professor Andrew Hussey, Dean of University of London Institute in Paris
Tuesday 13 December 2011
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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Speaker(s): Jan Rybicki
Thursday 17 November 2011
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Eròtiques i despetinades.
Speaker(s): Maria Fullana and Encarna Sant-Celoni
Friday 11 November 2011
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The Nightmare of Bram Stoker
Speaker(s): Sir Christopher Frayling (Cambridge)
Thursday 03 November 2011
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The Emergence of the Everyday: Kipling and Indian Regional Writing
Speaker(s): Professor Elleke Boehmer
Tuesday 01 November 2011
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Prometheus²: The Two Shelleys and Romantic Science
Speaker(s): Richard Holmes, OBE
Thursday 27 October 2011
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Borges Meets Orwell: the 21st Century Research Library
Speaker(s): Christopher Pressler
Tuesday 18 October 2011
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A Conversation with the Author Robert Coover
Speaker(s): Robert Coover
Friday 30 September 2011
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Use your language, Use your English: Short and Sweet
Speaker(s): Cynthia Schoch
Friday 22 July 2011
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Use your language, Use your English: International Publishing
Speaker(s): Michael Dwyer
Thursday 21 July 2011
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Use your language, Use your English: Translation Slam
Speaker(s): Nick Caistor & Margaret Jull Costa
Tuesday 19 July 2011
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Use your language, Use your English: Getting into Print
Speaker(s): Ros Schwartz & Kirsty Dunseath
Monday 18 July 2011
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Imperialism, Ecology, and the Origins of the Anti-Copyright Movement in the 19th Century
Speaker(s): Adrian Johns (University of Chicago; Chair, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)
Tuesday 28 June 2011
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The Future of Modern Languages: Concluding Discussion - What is to be done?
Speaker(s): Speakers: Naomi Segal (IGRS), Jim Coleman (UCML), Astrid Ensslin and Malcolm Cook (MHRA)
Friday 17 June 2011
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The Future of Modern Languages: Introduction
Speaker(s): Geoffrey Crossick, Vice-Chancellor, University of London, Naomi Segal, Director of the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies and Malcolm Cook, Chair, MHRA
Friday 17 June 2011
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The Future of Modern Languages: Panel 1 - Academics
Speaker(s): Nigel Vincent (Manchester University & British Academy, Michael Worton (UCL & HEFCE Review) and Mike Kelly (University of Southampton)
Friday 17 June 2011
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The Future of Modern Languages: Panel 2 - Employers
Speaker(s): Nick Gargan (National Policing Improvement Agency), Werner Stelzer (Alcan Automotive) and Adam Marshall (British Chambers of Commerce)
Friday 17 June 2011
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The Future of Modern Languages: Panel 3 - Media
Speaker(s): Reeta Chakrabarti (BBC Education), Matthew Reisz (THE) and Gaby Wood (Daily Telegraph Books)
Friday 17 June 2011
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The Future of Modern Languages: Panel 4 - Politics
Speaker(s): Carole Tongue (Chair, Coalition for Cultural Diversity), Michael Wills (House of Lords) and Philippe Brunet
Friday 17 June 2011
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Dean's Seminar: Waste and Literature: The Poet as Ragpicker
Speaker(s): Professor Susan Morrison, Visiting Research Fellow (IES)
Wednesday 15 June 2011
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Reciting Gray's Elegy: Cultural Capital and the Scholarship Boy
Speaker(s): Professor Catherine Robson (New York University)
Friday 10 June 2011
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Luísa Costa Gomes's Short Stories
Speaker(s): Luísa Costa Gomes
Monday 16 May 2011
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La Rochefoucauld, a little learning , and the love of truth
Speaker(s): Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)
Wednesday 11 May 2011
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Our Words and Theirs. A Reflection on the Historian’s Craft Today
Speaker(s): Professor Carlo Ginzburg(UCLA)
Monday 09 May 2011
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Helia Correia: A reading from her latest book 'Adoecer'
Speaker(s): Helia Correia
Saturday 07 May 2011
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Entra escritoras: Anna Maria Matute
Speaker(s): Esther Tusquets
Friday 06 May 2011
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Self-writing as a genre
Speaker(s): Nora Levinton Dolman, Laura Freixas and María Fanjul-Fanjul
Friday 06 May 2011
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Women Growing Up through Life-Writing in the Luso-Hispanic World
Speaker(s): Anna Caballe
Friday 06 May 2011
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Entre escritoras: Carmen Martin Gaite
Speaker(s): Laura Freixas
Thursday 05 May 2011
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Use Your Language, Use Your English: Taster Event
Friday 08 April 2011
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The Carnival of Death Conference: Day of the Dead
Speaker(s): Laurie Lipton
Thursday 24 February 2011
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The Carnival of Death Conference: Franco's Empire of Death
Speaker(s): Paul Preston, London School of Economics
Thursday 24 February 2011
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The Carnival of Death Conference: The Dad Project
Speaker(s): Briony Campbell
Thursday 24 February 2011
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Dean's Seminar: Tales of the Unexpected: German-Jewish Women Writers in Early 20th-Century Berlin
Speaker(s): Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Wednesday 16 February 2011
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The Making of a Refugee Scientist
Speaker(s): Heinz Wolff (Brunel University)
Thursday 03 February 2011
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Carmen Martín Gaite 10 years on: revisiting her textual and visual legacy
Friday 10 December 2010
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2010 Bithell Memorial Lecture: Berlin, A Clash of Histories
Speaker(s): Matt Frei, Journalist and Broadcaster
Thursday 11 November 2010
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In private men’s hands": The library of Archbishop John Whitgift (d. 1604): sources, catalogue, and dispersal
Speaker(s): Professor James Carley
Thursday 14 October 2010
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John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading by Robin Robertson
Speaker(s): Robin Robertson
Friday 16 July 2010
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John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading by Robin Robertson
Speaker(s): Robin Robertson
Friday 16 July 2010
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Dean's Seminar: How do you solve a problem like Edmund Curll?
Speaker(s): Professor Pat Rogers, School Visiting Professorial Fellow, School of Advanced Study Chaired by Professor Mike Edwards, Deputy Dean for the School of Advanced Study
Wednesday 09 June 2010
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The emergence of new Englishes: roots and routes
Speaker(s): Professor John Harris, UCL
Wednesday 12 May 2010
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Checkered Careers: From Samuel Johnson and Edgar Allan Poe to the Bronx Comet and a Computer named Chinook
Speaker(s): Professor Pat Rogers, Visiting Professorial Fellow, School of Advanced Study
Wednesday 21 April 2010
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Memories: Three Languages – Three Generations: One Country (Part 1)
Speaker(s): Lala Isla and María Reimóndez
Friday 12 March 2010
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Memories: Three Languages – Three Generations: One Country (Part 2)
Speaker(s): Lala Isla and María Reimóndez
Friday 12 March 2010
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Reading in the Refectory: monastic practice in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries
Speaker(s): Dr Teresa Webber (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Thursday 18 February 2010
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Transcultural Memory Conference: Travelling Memory Remediation across Time, Space and Cultures
Speaker(s): Astrid Erll, University of Wuppertal
Thursday 04 February 2010
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The Memory of Myths: Sylvie Germain’s Narratives
Speaker(s): Sylvie Germain, Toby Garfitt (Magdalen College, University of Oxford), Carol Gouspy (University of Kent), Ana de Medeiros (University of Kent), Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough University)
Friday 22 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: John Coffin Trust Fund Reading 1
Speaker(s): Naomi Segal (Director IGRS)
Friday 15 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: John Coffin Trust Fund Reading 2
Speaker(s): Paola Spendpore
Friday 15 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: Keynote Lecture
Speaker(s): Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio, Beatrice Alfonzetti (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy): 'I vari volti di Fabrizia Ramondino'
Friday 15 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: Session 1
Speaker(s): Chair: Rita Wilson, Sharon Wood (University of Leicester, UK): ‘Heterotopia and Displacement in Fabrizia Ramondino’
Friday 15 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: Session 2
Speaker(s): Chair: Rita Wilson, Nadia Setti (Université Paris 8, France): 'La Recherche errabonda di Fabrizia Ramondino'
Friday 15 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: Session 3 (1)
Speaker(s): Chair: Nadia Setti Assunta Signorelli (Dipartimento di Salute Mentale di Trieste, Italy): 'Fabrizia Ramondino e il labirinto della sofferenza: Passaggio a Trieste e In direzione ostinata e contraria'
Friday 15 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: Session 3 (2)
Speaker(s): Chair: Nadia Setti Barbara Della Polla (Cooperativa Cassiopea, Trieste, Italy): '«Volevo essere una ballerina, ho fatto la bibliotecaria» ― dalla scrittura alla messa in scena di Di passaggio' (con visione del video dello spettacolo)
Friday 15 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: Session 3 (3)
Speaker(s): Chair: Nadia Setti SBRIGEFCLAVDJMP (Université Paris 8, France): 'Non sto quindi in Italia sicur* di casa: ri-tratti, ri-prese, geo-grafie di minoranze allontanate'
Friday 15 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: Session 6
Speaker(s): Chair: Valentina Di Rosa Noemi Billi (Università di Bologna, Italy): 'La costruzione della memoria: Renato Caccioppoli personaggio di Fabrizia Ramondino'
Friday 15 January 2010
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Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino: Testimony and Reading
Speaker(s): Chair: Valentina Di Rosa Silvio Perrella, writer, literary critic, and President of 'Fondazione Premio Napoli': 'Intorno alle poesie di Fabrizia Ramondino'
Friday 15 January 2010
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Al-Razi: a Tenth Century Arabic Physician and Platonist
Speaker(s): Dr Peter Adamson University of London Research Fellow, 2009-10 and Chaired by Professor Mike Edwards, Acting Dean for the School of Advanced Study
Wednesday 09 December 2009
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Launch of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing
Speaker(s): Ana Luísa Amaral (Portuguese poet), Anna Mitgutsch (Austrian novelist and essayist) and Nicoletta Vallorani (Italian novelist and children's book author)
Friday 16 October 2009
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Dean’s Seminar: The New Hyperides
Speaker(s): Professor Mike Edwards, Acting Dean of the School of Advanced Study and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies
Wednesday 14 October 2009 -
Reading by Joseph Kanon from 'The Good German'
Speaker(s): Joseph Kanon
Tuesday 22 September 2009
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Dean’s Seminar: Language Acquisition
Speaker(s): Professor Virginia Valian, Hunter College, New York School Visiting Professorial Fellow, 2008-09 Chaired by Professor Roderick Floud, School of Advanced Study
Wednesday 22 April 2009
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Sir Jonathan Miller
Speaker(s): Sir Jonathan Miller
Thursday 25 September 2008
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French, English and Amharic: The Law in Ethiopia - Cassal Lecture in French Culture
Speaker(s): Roger Briottet
Wednesday 18 June 2008
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Does writing put you beyond gender?
Speaker(s): Laura Freixas
Tuesday 26 February 2008
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Ondjaki: Q&A session with the Angolan-Portuguese writer
Speaker(s): Ondjaki
Wednesday 20 February 2008