Languages Cultures and Film Departmental Seminar Series
The Department of Languages, Cultures and Film are delighted to announce the upcoming seminar series for 2024/25 'Home, Community and Belonging'. Full event details can be found below.
Semester 1
2 October 2024: 'Translating Identities in Canada'
Prof. Judith Woodsworth (Concordia University, Montreal)
1-2pm, Flex 1, 502 Teaching Hub,
16 October 2024: 'Variation and Change in Palestinian Arabic: Conflict, Contact and Isolation'
Dr Uri Horesh (University of St Andrews)
1-2pm, Room 147a 1-7 Abercromby Square
23 October 2024: 'Digital Archives and Curation'
Dr Annet Dekker (University of Amsterdam)
3-4pm, Room 147a, 1-7 Abercromby Square
Semester 2
12 March 2025: 'Exploring Home, Community and Belonging through Hurricane Culture and an Atlantic Eco-Poetics of Relations from the Hispanic Caribbean and Beyond'
Dr Yairen Jerez Columbie (University College Cork)
1-2pm, room 147a 1-7 Abercromby Square
26 March 2025: Film Studies Afternoon
Dr Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow), 'Refugees in Film Culture: Decolonization and Diversity Labour'
Dr Fiona Noble (University of Stirling), 'A Voice of One's Own?: Contemplating Feminist Community in Contemporary Spanish Streaming and as Academic Praxis'
Dr Herbert Schwaab (University of Regensburg), 'So grün war die Heide [The heath was this green]: Making and Missing Space in the Heimatfilm'
1-3pm, Rendall Building, Seminar Room 3
Sign up details to be confirmed
30 April 2025: 'Archives of the Past, Bridges to the future: Decoding Somali Identity through Colonial History'
Ms Fartun Mohamed (European University Institute, Florence)
1-2pm, location tbc
7 May 2025: 'The Eye of the Beholder: Mediterranean Identity in British and American TV Crime Series'
Dr Barbara Pezzotti (Monash University, Melbourne)
1-2pm
This event will take place online, please email s.arens@liverpool.ac.uk for the Zoom link)
22 May 2025: Beyond the Borders (Keynote talk of the 'Languages, Objects and Homes: Transnational Communities in Borderscapes' symposium)
Professor Federico Faloppa (University of Reading): Sign(s) o’ the Times. Multi-layered borderscape narratives along migration routes across Europe
10-11am, School of the Arts Library
Colleagues are encouraged to attend the keynote without registering (and indeed individual panels), but registration is needed for full-day attendance with catering. If you would like to attend the full-day symposium and catering, please register here.
28 May 2025: Translation Studies Afternoon
Includes a roundtable discussion with Dr Volha Bartash (University of Münster), Dr Tomaz Kamusella (University of St Andrews) and Hamish MacDonald (poet).
1-3pm, location tbc
Sign up details to be confirmed