The 2023 conference ‘Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures’, hosted by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, will bring together key thinkers, scholars and practitioners to debate the future of Modern Languages. As an interdisciplinary field of enquiry, Modern Languages bring a wide spectrum of insights to […]
The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic is pleased to announce a call for papers for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2023 (to be held online on 10-12 May 2023) with the theme of ‘Boundaries and Margins’. Brian Attebery famously argued in Strategies of Fantasy that fantasy can be conceptualised as a ‘fuzzy set,’ with the edges of the genre mainly understood
The Weidenfeld Lectures 2022: Juan Gabriel Vásquez on Interpreting the World: Notes of the Uses of Fiction Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford19 October, 27 October, 3 November, 10 November5.30–6.30pm “The duty and task of a writer are those of an interpreter”, writes Marcel Proust in the last volume of In
The Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture, with Professor William Marx, “How to Become a Comparatist”, will be held at 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm, 11 November 2022, at the Great Hall, King’s Building, Kings’ College, Strand, London. Directions to the venue are given in the link. This event is open and free to all – no
The British Comparative Literature Association offers an annual prize for an essay written in English on any aspect of comparative literature in memory of Arthur Terry (1927–2004), who served as President of the BCLA for many years. Arthur Terry was Emeritus Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, and one of the
The BCLA is delighted to announce the outcome of the John Dryden Translation Competition. The John Dryden Translation Competition awards prizes for unpublished literary translations from any language into English. Literary translation includes poetry, prose, or drama from any period. AILSA WOOD AZZARO has been awarded first place for The Beatrice Monologues translated from Stefano Benni’s Italian
Announcement: Winners of the BCLA John Dryden Translation Competition 2021 – 2022 Read More »
Every International Translation Day (30 September), English PEN hosts a programme of talks, workshops and networking opportunities for literary translators.This year, ITD expands into a two-day programme in collaboration with the British Library, with an in-person day at Conway Hall, London, on Thursday 29 September and an online day on Friday 30 September. Explore the programme of
English Pen: International Translation Day, 29 – 30 September 2022 Read More »
On the Move and Moving On: (Re)negotiations of Migration in Contemporary Literature and Film.A PGR and ECR conference to be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), University of London, on 13 January 2023.Organisers: Vivian Jochens (IMLR) and Franziska Wolf (University of Birmingham/Oxford)Call for Contributions – deadline 30 September 2022 Migration is one
From the mid-1990s onwards new approaches to the study of Modernism and its cultural, geographical and chronological boundaries have been developed. This new trend in Modernism studies marks a turning point in thirty years of debates on the categories of High Modernism, Postmodernism and Late Modernism that also questions Western-centred notions of Modernism. The increasing
International conference organised to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the School of International Interpreters, now the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Mons (Belgium) Consult the conference website here Confirmed keynote speakers:— Anthony Pym, University of Melbourne (Australia)— Christine Lombez, Nantes Université (France) Like the humanities and social sciences in general, the disciplines of Languages, Literature and
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