Programme of Events 2010-11
4 October 2010: Roundtable
Transnational Perspectives on the 'German Question'
Reflecting on twenty years since German unification. Speakers: Dr. Gerald Hughes (University of Aberystwyth), Dr. Detlef Nakath (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Potsdam), Dr. Luca Ratti (La Sapienza University, Rome), Prof. Stefan Berger (University of Manchester, Chair)
9-10 December 2010: Workshop
Feminization of Labour: Domestic Work and Affect in a Transnational Context
4.38 Simon Building, University of Manchester
17 December 2010: Seminar
The Romance of Philology: Transcultural Approaches to Cultural Change, 1300-1600
The parrot's way: The Novas del papagai from Catalonia to Italy
Speaker: Professor Sarah Kay (Princeton)
W3.13 Samuel Alexander Building, 5-7pm
31 January 2011: One-Day Workshop
Bourdieu and the Public Intellectual: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Has the Intellectual Field Become Global?
Speaker: Gisèle Sapiro (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Roscoe B. Map , 4-6 pm
For further details contact: Matthew Philpotts (matthew.philpotts@manchester.ac.uk)
Images from Professor Sapiro's lecture
31 January 2011: Seminar
The Romance of Philology: Transcultural Approaches to Cultural Change, 1300-1600
Translating Lucretia: ethics and rewriting in the late Middle Ages
Speaker: Catherine Léglu (Reading)
W3.13 Samuel Alexander Building, 5.15-7.00 pm
7 March 2011: Seminar
The Romance of Philology: Transcultural Approaches to Cultural Change, 1300-1600
The Consolation of Philology
Speaker: Simon Gaunt (King's College London)
W3.13 Samuel Alexander Building, 5.15-7.00 pm
May 2011: Visit of Algerian film director Tariq Teguia
To coincide with Cornerhouse exhibition New Cartographies: Algeria-France-UK (8 April - 5 June 2011) where a range of works by established and emerging Algerian artists will be exhibited alongside those by French artists of Algerian origin and British artists. Teguia's most recent film Inland (2008) will be screened as part of an accompanying Maghrebi and Arab film season at Cornerhouse.
(For further details contact: Joe McGonagle)
18 May 2011: Lecture
Talk by Professor Jonathan Hart, Co-Hosted by RICC and ITS
Other Voices from the Colonial to the Postcolonial: Conscience in Globalization
A104 Samuel Alexander Building, 4-6 pm
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Seminar Series (details tbc)
Latin America and the Caribbean in the World/The World in Latin America and the Caribbean
(for further details contact: Par Kumaraswami)
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4-8 April 2011: Visiting Professor
Prof Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)
'Historical Contemporaneity/Historical Immediacy'
Public Lectures
Tuesday 5 April 2011
What is Literary Studies Today? What Should it be?
5pm in Samuel Alexander A113
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the North Foyer, Samuel Alexander
Thursday 7 April
Jay Geller (Vanderbilt University):
With Friends like Marx and Freud OR Answering a (Jewish) Question with another (Jewish) Question
Response: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)
4.35pm in University Place 5.209
Masterclasses
Professor Gumbrecht will also be holding a series of THREE masterclasses for PhD students in SLLC and SAHC. The theme of this year's masterclasses is 'Historical Contemporaneity/Historical Immediacy', based on a series of readings from the following texts (copies will be made available):
Jean Starobinsky, 1789: The Emblems of Reason, trans. Barbara Bray (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1982)
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time, (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997)
Monday, 4 April
10-12 PhD Masterclass 1
Wednesday, 6 April
10-12 PhD Masterclass 2
Thursday, 7 April
10-12 PhD Masterclass 3
Office Hours
Tuesday 5 April
10-12 Office Hours for individual consultations
Friday 8 April:
10-12 Office Hours for individual consultations
Please register your interest in attending all three masterclasses and/or an office hour with Professor Margaret Littler (Margaret.littler@manchester.ac.uk), from whom readings can also be obtained.
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REES/CRES Seminar Activities, 2010-11
'Redrawing the Boundary between East and West'
Russian and East European Studies, in collaboration with German Studies, is running a seminar series entitled 'Redrawing the boundary between East and West', which will explore the applicability of theories and approaches developed for the study of 'Western' societies and cultures to an understanding of 'Eastern' Europe.
Since the demise of communism, the terms 'East' and 'West' have been subjected to increasing scrutiny. Far from being neutral geographical concepts, they are now widely accepted as cultural constructs with strong political connotations. According to Larry Wolff, the term 'Eastern Europe' was coined in the Enlightenment period to denote those lands which, both geographically and culturally, occupied the space between the 'civilised' West and the 'barbarous' Orient. In the 20th century the meaning of the term was altered and was now used to differentiate the 'totalitarian' communist countries from the 'free' capitalist world. In both cases the terms were value-laden; they were used to emphasise the 'otherness' and inferiority of countries perceived as falling outside the West. This 'us' versus 'them' approach will be challenged by the presentations offered in the proposed seminar series.
1. Prof. Dominic Lieven (LSE)
'War and Revolution in Russia (1904-1919) in International and Comparative Context (1904-1919)'
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25th 2010 (Note: This seminar will be at 5pm, not 4.15)
2. Prof. Almira Ousmanova (the European Humanities University, Vilnius)
'Invisible Borders and Magic Transfers: Encounters with Europe in Post-Soviet Cinema'
THURSDAY DECEMBER 9th, 2010
3. Dr. Seth Graham (SSEES, UCL)
'Cultural Theory and Russian Studies'
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17th, 2011
4. Dr. Paul Maddrell (Aberystwyth University)
'Transnational Security and Intelligence: the Stasi, the KGB and Western Intelligence Services (1950-1989)'
FRIDAY MARCH 25th 2011
5. Dr. Matthew Philpotts (University of Manchester)
'Symbolic Bankers: Elite Journal Editors in the Socialist Literary Field'
THURSDAY MAY 26th, 2011*
Samuel Alexander S2.9
*please note that this is a new date for this seminar
All seminars are at 4.15pm and last approximately an hour unless otherwise indicated.
IN ALL CASES THE VENUE IS TBC AND WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE NEAR FUTURE
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Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS) Seminars
Every Thursday, 2-3:20 pm in Samuel Alexander SG1
See CTIS seminar wepages for programme