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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).
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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'.
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

Lectures
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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.
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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.
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)
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Alexandra Bluecher will be talking about translating on Wednesday, Dec. 9 from 3 to 4.30.
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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 . |
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Performing Tangier 2009
International Conference
May 20-22, 23-24,
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Presentation of a new edition of Ángel Vázquez’s Fiesta para una mujer sola with the writer Sonia García Soubriet

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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.
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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
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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
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Grant
Dr Karina Lindeiner-Stráský has been awarded a Small Research Grant from the British Academy to pursue archival research for her project 'Im Urteil der Zeit: a cultural history of German "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" in literature, film, and the media'.
Lectures
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by Dr Karina Lindeiner-Stráský: 2 July 2009, at the
Johannes-Gutenberg- Universitaet (Mainz), Deutsches Institut: 'Literaturverfilmungen als Ausdruck zeitgeschichtlicher Interpretationen: Eine kleine Studie am Beispiel der Verfilmung von Künstlerbiographien aus dem Dritten Reich.' ;
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" 'Pflicht zur Verantwortung' or 'kulturpolitische Paradepferde'? Artists as good Germans in the (West) German media since 1945" at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London:
The 'Good German' in Literature and Culture Thursday, 1 - 2 October 2009 and
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" 'Indoctrinated, but not incurable'? Klaus Mann's return to Europe and his interrogations of German Prisoners of War"
at the annual meeting of the Women in German Studies Conference (Birmingham 7 November 2009).
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
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Grant

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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. |

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Paper by Professor Trotter ‘La operacio de ma, so es cyrurgia: Prolégomènes à un glossaire au premier livre de l’Albucasis en occitan’, Atelier franco-allemand Sciences et langues au Moyen Âge, Paris, January 2009.
Conference
Dr. K. Lindeiner-Strasky will give the following paper :
‘Indoctrinated, but not incurable’? Klaus Mann's return to Europe and his interrogations of German Prisoners of War’
at the conference "Coming home? Conflict and return migration in twentieth-century Europe", University of Southampton, April 1-3, 2009.
>>Further information 
Workshop
Dr. K. Lindeiner-Strasky will present the paper "The 'harmless art of music' - a political power? The conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler between resistance and assimilation in the 'Third Reich'." at the interdisciplinary workshop "The Performances of Power or the Powers of Performance", Loughborough University, 21-22 November, 2008. >> Further information.
Conference hosted by the Department of European Languages

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OUR INNER ANIMAL
AND THEORIES OF CREATIVITY
ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
11 - 12 September 2008 |
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NOTRE ANIMAL INTÉRIEUR
ET LES THÉORIES DE LA CRÉATIVITÉ
ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
11 - 12 Septembre 2008 |
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Conference
Dr. B. Andréo will give a paper on Jean Cocteau's cinematographic poetry at the Society for French Studies 49th Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, 30 June-2 July 2008.
Programme and further information available here >> Further information
Doctoral / Post-Doctoral Summer School
Professor Trotter has been invited to give a course of lectures on the Histoire sociolinguistique de l'anglo-normand at the SUMMER SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS AND ROMANCE PHILOLOGY run by the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane and the Société de Linguistique Romane 19-25 June
2008 in Procida (Naples)
Other contributors:
MARTIN-D. GLESSGEN (Zürich)
MAX PFISTER (Saarbrücken)
EMILIO RIDRUEJO (Valladolid)
GILLES ROQUES (Nancy)
FERNANDO SÁNCHEZ MIRET (Salamanca)
ROSANNA SORNICOLA (Napoli)
>>Further information
DAAD Scholarship
Congratulations to Helen Westoby for winning a scholarship by the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst.
IV International Conference Tangier 2008:
"Borders, Beats, and Beyond" Performing Tangier 2008

See Performing Tangier 2008 also International Centre for Performance Studies >> further information
Conference on perceptual dialectology
Neue Wege der Dialektologie, University of Kiel, 22-24 May 2008
>>Further details here
Award
Créé en octobre 2004 à l'initiative de sept partenaires fondateurs (Université d'Ottawa, École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences humaines, Université de Stuttgart, Université de Zürich, Laboratoire ATILF, Université du Pays de Galles, École nationale des chartes), ce consortium s'est formé autour de la pratique d'échanges réguliers de textes médiévaux, des questions liées à l'élaboration des bases de données textuelles et des problématiques de recherche communes sur ces textes.
The text corpus which forms part of the Anglo-Norman Hub Project (funded by the AHRC) is a part of this substantial international project, led from the ENS-LSH Lyon) which seeks, inter alia:
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to establish a common taxonomy and universal identification system for all medieval French texts;
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to integrate and make reciprocally searchable different textual corpora in France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Canada);
- to make it possible (through the shared taxonomy) to search for particular linguistic features (lexical, grammatical, graphical ...) in selected text categories (e.g. by date, location, genre, form ...).
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