Latest events
Forthcoming events in the School of Languages and European Studies
Friday 14 May 2010
Workshop: The (Un)Sayable in Public Discourses about the Past.
Organised by Dr Melani Schroeter (German Studies) and Prof Hilary Footitt (French Studies; Director of the AHRC Project Languages at War).
Click here for programme.
The workshop is free, but for planning purposes please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing Gillian Williams, german@reading.ac.uk
Saturday 13 March 2010
CWWF Seminar on Ananda Devi
The next meeting of the Contemporary Women's Writing in French Seminar (CWWF) will be held on Saturday, 13 March 2010, 2.30 - 4.30, at the University of Reading, Building L4 Room G01, on the London Road Campus (NOT on the main Whiteknights campus)
Co-ordinator: Julia Waters (Reading) - j.waters@reading.ac.uk
Topic: Ananda Devi
Speakers:
Pat Corcoran (Roehampton); 'Derisory differences: gender and animality in the works of Ananda Devi'
Amaleena Damlé (Exeter College, Oxford), 'Ordinary monstrosity: violence, sexual politics and narrative voice in Ananda Devi's Le Sari vert'
Julia Waters (Reading), 'Cooking, Feeding, Eating: the gender politics of food in Devi's Le Sari vert'
All speakers will be discussing Le Sari vert (Gallimard, 2009), so it would be helpful if participants could read this text beforehand. Moi, l'interdite (Dapper, 2000) and Pagli (Gallimard, 2001) will also be referred to.
Reasonably priced informal lunch at 12.30 for those who wish to meet up before the seminar.
The seminar is free and open to all. For catering and table booking purposes, please let Julia know in advance if you plan to attend the seminar and/or the lunch: j.waters@reading.ac.uk
Monday 9 November 2009
Remember Remember the 9th of November
The Centre for East German Studies celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. See CEGS event for details.
Saturday 17 January 2009
Publishing Institutions & Translation in the Twentieth Century
This workshop is being run as part of the Department of Italian Studies' Research Seminar series for 2008-09.
School Visit Days
School visit days for applicants to courses in the School of Languages and European Studies have now taken place for 2008. If you would like to arrange an individual visit, please contact us.