Professor Trotter will present the paper ‘Science avec conscience: réflexions sur le lexique scientifique et le Dictionnaire du moyen français’, at the La ‘logique’ du sens: de la sémantique à la lexicographie. Débat critique autour des propositions de Robert Martin, Metz, 24-26 March 2011.

More on the conference click here

On CELTED (Centre d'Études Linguistiques des Textes et des Discours) here

Lecture

Professor David Trotter has been invited to lecture at Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne) on 21 October, on
Un doux et mol chevet? Le défi du lexique du français médiéval.

Event Dr. Andréo will be presenting an evening on Jean Cocteau at the Highgate and Hampstead Festival this Sunday, complete with ballets, film extracts, operas, etc. It is the close of two weeks of events centred around Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. For more information >>http://www.hamandhighfest.co.uk/allevents.htm

Lecture

On November 9, 2010  Dr. Wini Davies will give a lecture at the Linguistisches Kolloquium, University of Duisburg-Essen, on "Sprachnormen und Normenvermittler: Theorie und Praxis".

Lectures

Two papers presented by Dr. José Manuel Goñi Pérez

- «La deformación de una identidad múltiple: la narrativa de Ángel Vázquez». X Internatinoal Conference of the Asociation of Contemporary History. "Construcción de identidades e imperialismo durante los siglos XIX y XX". Santander, Septembre 2010.

- Imaginería e ideología en la narrativa bélica de Marruecos (1920-1930). CIHBE. 2010. “El combatiente a lo largo de la historia: Imaginario, Percepción y Representación.” Santander, 25 y 26 Mrrch 2010 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, March 2010.

Professor D. Trotter has been elected Vice-President of the Société de Linguistique romane.

Lecture

Dr. Wini Davies will be giving a guest lecture at the University of Basle Switzerland, on October 12, 2010, on the topic: 'Die Konstruktion von "gutem" und "schlechtem" Deutsch'.

DAAD Award

Dr. Wini Davies has been awarded by The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) a study grant for senior academics which will enable her to spend two months in Germany (at the University of Duisburg-Essen) during her sabbatical in the winter semester of 2010-11.

Invitation

Dr. Wini Davies has been invited to speak at a symposium on Luxembourg Studies at the University of Sheffield in July to mark the retirement of Professor Gerald Newton.

DAAD Scholarship

Congratulations to Abigail Mason for winning a scholarship by the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst.”
The Scholarship allows students to attend a summer course on culture or language at a German university.

Lecture

Dr. Bruno Sibona presented the paper 'Three monstrous faces in Jean le bleu by Jean Giono' at the conference Hybrids, Monsters, Aliens and Other Creatures in 20th and 21st Century Writing, 9th-11th of September 2010 Senate House, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.

Aberystwyth Linguistic Forum (ALF)

There will be an ALF talk on March 25 at 6.15 in A14 by the members of the AND team
(Professor David Trotter, Dr Geert De Wilde, Dr Heather Pagan).

"What was Anglo-Norman, and what is the Anglo-Norman Dictionary?"

Most dictionaries (intentionally or not) have a normative as well as a recording function. This talk will focus on the question of defining Anglo-Norman (the form of French used in the British Isles from the Norman Conquest until the end of the fifteenth century). We will try to show how the content of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary is at once conditioned by what is understood by Anglo-Norman, and how the Dictionary itself may influence how Anglo-Norman is defined.

Anglo-Norman existed (on the one hand) in relation to continental French, and (on the other) alongside the other languages with which (once imported into England) it came into contact in Britain and Ireland.

Conference hosted by the Department of European Languages

Post-medieval crusades: languages, contexts, change c 1400-1700

Aberystwyth University, 7-9 June 2010

Organized by Dr. Stephan Schmuck,                                                     
Department of European Languages,
Hugh Owen Building,
Aberystwyth University,
SY23 2DY

>> For further informatio

Conference

Paper by Dr. G. Baron at the Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Bristol 9-10 April 2010:

‘Not Afraid to Search for a Critical Space: Discovering The Postmodern in Cuban Cinema. The case of ¡Plaff! (O Demasiado Miedo a la Vida).’

Publication

'The Illusion of Equality: Machismo and Cuban Cinema of the Revolution' in the
Bulletin of Latin American Research (Journal of the Society for Latin American Studies)

The AND Team : Papers, Lectures and Conferences

• Talk at the Aberystwyth Linguistic Forum on March 25 at 6.15 in A14 by the members of the AND team (Professor David Trotter, Dr Geert De Wilde, Dr Heather Pagan) : "What was Anglo-Norman, and what is the Anglo-Norman Dictionary?"

Most dictionaries (intentionally or not) have a normative as well as a recording function. This talk will focus on the question of defining Anglo-Norman (the form of French used in the British Isles from the Norman Conquest until the end of the fifteenth century). Anglo-Norman existed (on the one hand) in relation to continental French, and (on the other) alongside the other languages with which (once imported into England) it came into contact in Britain and Ireland. We will try to show how the content of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary is at once conditioned by what is understood by Anglo-Norman, and how the Dictionary itself may influence how Anglo-Norman is defined.

• Dr. Heather Pagan:

“La question des frontières écossaises et la composition du Brut anglo-normand en prose”, Histoires de Bretagne: Itinéraires et confins, Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, January 2010

• Professor David Trotter:

“Parolles gelees: defrosting spoken Parisian French from the past”, lecture at University of London Institute in Paris, April 2010

• Dr. Heather Pagan:

“Editing the Editor : Editorial Practice at the Anglo-Norman Dictionary”, at the Early English Text Society’s conference on Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century, Oxford, May 2010

• Professor David Trotter:

“Bytes, words, texts: the Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its text-base” (plenary lecture), at The Third International MARGOT Conference: The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research, June 2010, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York

• Dr. Heather Pagan:

“How to Make an Online Dictionary: A Demonstration of the AND2”, at The Third International MARGOT Conference: The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research, June 2010, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York

• Dr. Geert De Wilde will be representing the AND at the Fifth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology in Oxford, June 2010

• Dr. Heather Pagan and Larissa Birrer (visiting Ph.D student attached to the AND) will both be attending the École d’été franco-allemande en étymologie romane at the CNRS “ATILF” laboratory in Nancy, July 2010

• Professor David Trotter: “Une rencontre germano-romane dans la Romania Britannica”, plenary lecture, XXVIé Congrés Internacional de Lingüística i Filologia Romàniques, Valencia.

Seminar

by Dr. Roland-Francois Lack, Senior Lecturer in the Department of French, University College London.

‘How to Map a Film: some New Wave examples’

Drawing on Paris-centred films of the French New Wave in its first years (e.g. Godard’s A bout de souffle, Rivette’s Paris nous appartient, Rohmer's Le signe du lion and Chabrol’s Les bonnes femmes), this presentation will argue for the usefulness of reading films map in hand, and demonstrate some practical methods of relating places in films to places in the real world.

Wednesday, 17 March, 6.15pm
C164 Hugh Owen Building

The speaker specialises on Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave. He has published several articles on Jean-Luc Godard, as well as DVD commentaries for Bande à part and Cocteau’s Orphée. He is currently writing a book on cinema and locale.

>>More on the speaker

Guest lecture

Professor Ludwig Eichinger, director of the world famous Institut fuer deutsche Sprache in Mannheim will be in Aberystwyth to give a talk on 'An old acquaintance in a new milieu - the German language on the European marketplace.'
The talk, organised by Dr. W. Davies, will be on Wed., November 18 at 6.15 in A14, Hugh Owen Building.

Award

'Dr. Stephan Schmuck has been awarded a 2-year European Marie Curie Fellowship at University College  Cork, Ireland for a study on early modern Orientalisms'.

Lectures

• Dr. Wini Davies will be giving papers at a conference on Monolingual Multilingualism at the Free University, Berlin in October and at the Women in German Studies Conference in November. She will be giving guest lectures at Birmingham University in October and at Leeds University in March 2010.

• Dr. Wini Davies has been invited to be on the scientific committee of Sociolinguistics Symposium 18 and of the conference of the Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics.

Conference

Dr. Wini Davies will be the organiser of the next conference of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS). The conference will take place in Gregynog, Powys on Jan. 8-9, 2010. >>More information

Aber Linguistics Forum

• Thursday, Nov 26 at 6.15 with Diarmait Mac-Giolla Chriost speaking on 'Jailtacht' (the role played by Irish in the jails of N. Ireland)

• Alexandra Bluecher will be talking about translating on Wednesday, Dec. 9 from 3 to 4.30.

• Wednesday, Nov 18 at 6.15 with Professor Ludwig Eichinger, director of the Institute for German Language in Mannheim: 'An old acquaintance in a new milieu - the German language in the European marketplace.'

All these events will be in A14.

Guest Lecture Professor Ludwig Eichinger, director of the world famous Institut fuer deutsche Sprache in Mannheim (www.ids-mannheim.de) will be in Aberystwyth to give a talk on 'An old acquaintance in a new milieu - the German language on the European marketplace.' The talk, organised by Dr. W. Davies, will be on Wed., November 18 at 6.15 in A14, Hugh Owen Building.

V International Conference - Tangier 2009
Performing Tangier 2009 International Conference May 20-22, 23-24, for more information click here		Presentation of a new edition of Ángel Vázquez’s Fiesta para una mujer sola with the writer Sonia García Soubriet

Translation L’armée de terre cuite, de Gary Geddes traduit de l’anglais (Canada) par Bruno Sibona LE TRADUCTEUR Bruno Sibona a fait des études de littérature française à Aix-en-Provence et au collège universitaire de London. Il est cofondateur des revues Détours d’écriture et Interstice. Il publie régulièrement articles, traductions et textes poétiques en revues. Son premier livre est paru en 2008. Il enseigne à l’Université d’Aberystwyth, au Pays de Galles. >>more on the book (166KB pdf file)
Publication Just published: Proceedings of the conference Our inner animal and theories of creativity (Aberystwyth University 11-12 September 2008) edited by Dr Bruno Sibona. La figure animale se met souvent au service d'une meilleure compréhension de l'expression créatrice humaine, l'illustrant et la révélant à travers un prisme énergétique, symbolique et rhétorique d'une très grande richesse. De nombreux artistes semblent identifier ou découvrir chez l'animal l'image de leur propre créativité. Pourquoi l'animal est-il ainsi utilisé comme métaphore de l'inspiration ou du génie ? Qu'est-ce qui justifie le recours à cette figure quand on s'efforce de décrire la pulsion qui anime toute production littéraire, picturale ou autre? La raison en serait que tout créateur désireux d'appréhender les mécanismes à l'origine de sa propre énergie créatrice se sent obligé de faire appel à ce qui réside au plus profond ou au-delà de son humanité. Cela ne pourrait être exprimé qu'en termes figuratifs et non conceptuels, nécessité à laquelle l'animal se prête parfaitement. Grâce aux articles proposés dans cet ouvrage, issus d'un colloque interdisciplinaire qui s'est tenu en septembre 2008 à l'université d'Aberystwyth, Pays de Galles, nous touchons d'un peu plus près aux raisons et aux modalités de cette utilisation.
Les sujets abordés, traitant tout aussi bien de cinéma, danse, sculpture et photographie que de philosophie, roman et poésie, montrent amplement que la question de la représentation animale offre une vaste gamme de perspectives à la fois novatrices et profondément ancrées dans la tradition européenne pour éclairer les mécanismes inhérents à la création artistique. Cet ouvrage a été publié grâce au fonds de recherche du Département d'Etudes Européennes de l'université d'Aberystwyth (Pays de Galles)

Lecture

Dr. Wini Davies has been invited to give a lecture (7 May 2009) at the Hochschulinstitut fuer Schulpaedagogik und Fachdidaktik in Zürich, on the linguistic competence of teachers and the effects of destandardisation.

>> More details here

Conference

Dr. B. Sibona has presented the paper 'Le Mistral, Fauteur de trouble et facteur de texte dans Jean le Bleu de Jean Giono', at the conference Dire le désordre, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, 28-30 April 2009.

A new interpretation, informed by the Theory of Chaos, of Jean Giono’s stunning autobiography Jean Le Bleu.

>>Abstract here

Conference

Dr. B. Andreo will give the following papers:

• "Stupeur et tremblements: tectopoétique des failles dans Le Sang d'un poète de Jean Cocteau".

at the colloquium Séismes/Seismic Shifts - 20th & 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March 26-28, 2009.
>> More details at: http://frit.umn.edu/frcolloq/

• "Making sense of Les Cenci"
  

Filming and Performing Renaissance History - Temporalities and Materialities, Queen's University Belfast, 24-26 April 2009. Third symposium of an AHRC-funded project. Invited to speak by Dr Neil Kenny, Cambridge University, on Antonin Artaud's Les Cenci, a play based on historical events and which was to be Artaud's one and only theatre production for his Théâtre de la Cruauté. The paper, entitled "Making sense of Les Cenci" will be part of a panel on the status of theatre in the staging of History (Why Theatre? Renaissance History in Modern French Drama).

>> More details here; >> Programme available here

Professor David Trotter has been awarded £66,353 as the Aberystwyth element of a joint Heidelberg-Aberystwyth grant from the AHRC and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The grant, to run 2009-2012, will fund a researcher (Jennifer Gabel) who will work for two years in Heidelberg, on the Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF) and one year in Aberystwyth on the Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND). Ms Gabel will at the same time be editing the Anglo-Norman translation of Baudri de Bourgueil's chronicle of the First Crusade, for a Heidelberg doctorate. In addition to what it will bring in concrete terms to the DEAF and to the AND, the grant is also a formalisation of a close long-standing collaboration between the two projects.

Conference hosted by the Department of European Languages

International partnership:

Consortium for Corpora of Medieval French