2023

A guest seminar by Professor Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne. Can Seamus Heaney’s poetry be understood as environmental, if not environmentalist?

A guest seminar by Dr Kristine Johansen, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Host: Juan Christian Pellicer, ILOS. 

Staff and students are cordiallly invited to a three-paper workshop on the application of digital tools for the analysis of historical English materials. The organiser is grateful to the Anders Jahre Fond for financial support.

Melania Terrazas, senior lecturer at the University of La Rioja, will be giving a lecture on contested boundaries and uncharted entanglements in Evelyn Conlon’s short story collection Moving About the Place (2023)”. In her stories, Conlon creates characters living and setting up relationships in countries in which she has had a longstanding interest: Australia, Japan, Italy, Indonesia, Monaco and South Africa. Terrazas will suggest that Conlon’s stories use transculturality as a method that addresses culture as a dynamic category and debunks ideological dichotomies.

Why We Seek Them Out, and What Their Future Holds. Guest lecture by professor Brenden Rensink.

Comparing Indigenous Refugees in the North American Borderlands: Historical Lessons for Contemporary Crises.

Contemporary Russian society does not visibly oppose the invasion of Ukraine. There are no barricades or protesters in the streets, and even the military mobilisation has not triggered an open clash between the public and the authorities. But does this silence mean consent and support for the war?

Stephen Kelly from Queen's University Belfast, will present "The Dead are Always With Us: The Ethics of Writing the Past in the Work of John Berger".