Events archive
Why Comparative Literature? A Session for Secondary School Teachers.
6 May 2021
A Year Online: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Moving Forward
20 April 2021
The Centre for Film and Ethics 2021 Annual Lecture
17 March 2021
Linguistics Seminar Series: Tough Stance
17 March 2021
LingLunch - Structure and Order in the Nominal Phrase: preliminary results from Kîîtharaka
3 March 2021
Masterclass with Onyeka Igwe & Salon
2 March 2021
From Mythos to Kunstmythos: Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the Age of Brexit and Corona
17 February 2021
Linguistic Seminar Series - Signaling without Saying: The semantics and pragmatics of dogwhistles
17 February 2021
LingLunch - Gendered L1 attrition and L2 acquisition of pitch range in Japanese-English sequential bilinguals
10 February 2021
Inverting the inverted pyramid: Writing about Germany as an Anglo-German "foreign" correspondent
9 February 2021
Oskar Kokoschka in Exile, a talk by Rüdiger Görner, author of the new biography, Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist
4 February 2021
Linguistic Seminar Series - General Northern English? Exploring regional variation in the North of England with machine learning
20 January 2021
LingLunch - Phonetic attrition in L1 speech of late Czech-French bilinguals and extralinguistic factors
13 January 2021
PhD workshop: Preparing for the Job Market
17 December 2020
LingLunch: Learning to Recognize Dialect Features
16 December 2020
PhD workshop: Gorilla Demonstrations
14 December 2020
PhD workshop: Abstract writing
11 December 2020
Linguistic Seminar Series - Me, You and Language: Three essential perspectives on Phonetics and Phonologies
9 December 2020
Pre-registration in Linguistic Research
3 December 2020
Lecture Series on Anglo-German Matters 2020/21 December
1 December 2020
The Queen Mary Comparative Literature Forum 2020, featuring Momtaza Mehri, Stephen Watts, and Belinda Zhawi
26 November 2020
Book Launch & Conversation: Jewish-Muslim Interactions Performing Cultures between North Africa and France
25 November 2020
Visual & Material Forum 2020-21
18 November 2020
Beethoven, Hegel & Hölderlin at 250: Thoughts on the presence of triadic structures in their works
17 November 2020
Comparative Literature and Culture Taster Event 2020
(for school years 10-13)
11 November 2020
Book Launch for 'Pasts at Play', edited by Rachel Bryant Davies (QMUL) and Barbara Gribling (Newcastle)
9 November 2020
Centre for Childhood Cultures: Children's Literature, Children's Lives
A Children's History of Country Houses and Empire
3 November 2020
Mémoire double: Les Kurz et l'école de Vienne
7 October 2020
'Excuse my French: Challenging Mastery and Troubling Language'
10 September 2020
'Why the Germans do it Better', John Kampfner in conversation with Rüdiger Görner
8 September 2020
Sociolinguistic Theory In Times of Mobility – Devyani Sharma (ONLINE)
24 July 2020
Critical Approaches to Media Discourse
14 May 2020
CANCELLED!!! Guest Speaker Seminar Series | Ellen Lau
6 May 2020
CANCELLED! Guest Speaker Seminar Series | Doreen Georgi
8 April 2020
Virtual PG Training: Mixed modelling in R
7 April 2020
CANCELLED!!! LingLunch: Second Dialect Acquisition in a Second Language
6 April 2020
The Morphosyntax of Slavic Aspect: A Spanning Approach
26 March 2020
PG Training: Design online experiments with Gorilla
25 March 2020
The wage penalty of regional accents
27 February 2020
Literature + Economics Seminar Series
February 2020
27 February 2020
L1 attrition and linguistic purism among highly educated Greek speakers in London
19 February 2020
Realizing Syntax
18 February 2020
Swastika, Autobahn and Trans Europa Express – Kraftwerk in English Perspectives
18 February 2020
PG Training: How to Use ELAN
12 February 2020
The London Kleist Lecture
11 February 2020
Complexity as L2-difficulty: sociohistorically responsive features in syntactic change
5 February 2020
Queer Literary Genealogies: Affect, Authority, Inheritance
4 February 2020
Sociolinguistics Talk Series
4 February 2020
Landscapes of Dereliction and Leisure. Britain 1966-1979
30 January 2020
The Impact of Brexit on the Relations between the UK, Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking Countries
28 January 2020
Real and Imagined Identities: Portrayal and Self-Portrayal of the Jew in Late Medieval Castile
24 January 2020
Guest Speaker Seminar Series | Paul Baker
22 January 2020
Anglo-German Cosmopolitanism at the Villa Diodati in 1816
21 January 2020
Talk by Rebecca Starr
13 December 2019
Visual & Material Forum: Leonie and Carl Gombrich in Conversation
12 December 2019
Speech and Language Therapy Careers Session
11 December 2019
'Menéndez Pidal, Américo Castro y la legitimación social de la filología en España'
6 December 2019
Media and Hong Kong Protest | 6 December
6 December 2019
Linguistics PG Training Workshop: Promoting Your Research to the Media and Online
4 December 2019
Guest Speaker Seminar Series | Adam Schembri
27 November 2019
Cultural transfer in Matters of Architecture: Leo von Klenze in Britain 1836/1851/1853
26 November 2019
Nations without States: Catalonia and Scotland
(Queen Mary Annual Catalan Lecture)
26 November 2019
Linguistics PG Training Workshop: Using LaTex (advanced)
20 November 2019
ILAS Research Seminar
14 November 2019
Linguistics PG Training Workshop: Applying for academic jobs and postdocs
13 November 2019
Exhibiting Italian Fascism
12 November 2019
Innovation & Acculturation: The Émigré Art Historians and Britain
5 November 2019
Translating Stalingrad
24 October 2019
Online Remote Data Session | Stamatina Katsiveli
23 October 2019
Qualitative Data Analysis Session | Louis Strange | "Notes to Savita"
23 October 2019
LingLunch | Linnaea Stockall (QMUL)
23 October 2019
Screening of 'War School'
16 October 2019
Visual Culture and Disease: Picturing Cholera through Bodies and Landscapes in 19th-Century Britain
16 October 2019
LingLunch | Alex Panicacci (QMUL)
16 October 2019
BASF Lecture Series - Angela Findlay: 'The Other Side'
15 October 2019
’"Traduit de langue Espaignole en la Françoyse": a guarantee of quality?'
11 October 2019
Meaning and Bourgeois Culpability in Sergio Ramírez's 'Castigo Divino' (Research Seminar Series in Iberian and Latin American Studies)
1 October 2019
LAGB 2019
9 September 2019
UK Language Variation and Change 12
3 September 2019
Phonetics Lab meeting | ICPhS '19 Practice talks/posters
9 July 2019
International Conference: The Past, Present and Future of the Literary Anthology
14 June 2019
Moving Memories
'Ideas in Motion', a Queen Mary residency at Tate Exchange
11 June 2019
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Dziga Vertov, Anniversary of the Revolution (Godovshchina Revoliutsii, 1918)
10 June 2019
OCD in Society: Making Sense of a Hidden Illness
8 June 2019
The 9th Annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture
7 June 2019
LingLunch | Stamatina Katsiveli-Siachou (QMUL)
5 June 2019
Phonetics Lab meeting | George Starling
4 June 2019
LingLunch | Derya Cokal (QMUL)
22 May 2019
London Semantics Symposium
22 May 2019
'Oskar Kokoschka, Artist of the Century'
Queen Mary Visual Cultures Forum with Rüdiger Görner
21 May 2019
London Semantics Day 2019
21 May 2019
Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Brechtje Post (Cambridge)
15 May 2019
LingLunch | Christian Ilbury (QMUL)
14 May 2019
Randolph Quirk Fellow 2019 | Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware) | Public lecture
10 May 2019
Randolph Quirk Fellow 2019 | Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware) | Workshop Three
9 May 2019
Bodensee. Transnational Literatures of a Cultural Region
8 May 2019
Randolph Quirk Fellow 2019 | Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware) | Workshop Two
8 May 2019
Randolph Quirk Fellow 2019 | Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware) | Workshop One
7 May 2019
Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Ghada Khattab (Newcastle)
1 May 2019
LingLunch | Nate Young (QMUL)
1 May 2019
LingLunch | Ivona Kučerová (McMaster)
30 April 2019
Screening of Unseen Holocaust and Panel Discussion
25 April 2019
LingLunch | Byron Ahn (Princeton)
24 April 2019
Symposium | Reading beyond words: Approaches to multimodality in the media | 12 April 2019
12 April 2019
The Women in Cinema Collective screening at QMUL
5 April 2019
Special Invited Lecture | Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder)
4 April 2019
Jewish Eyes - Looking at Jews looking at the Cross
28 March 2019
Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Ur Shlonsky (Genève)
27 March 2019
Linguistics PG training workshop: NVivo
27 March 2019
'Improper landscapes of desire: Alternative routes towards (un)satisfaction in the Narrative of Ena Lucía Portela'
26 March 2019
Russian Play 2019 "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov
21 March 2019
Translation, Transmission, and Cultural Transfer seminar: ‘How to Write Translation History’ (Prof Theo Hermans)
20 March 2019
LingLunch | Carmen Ebner (QMUL)
20 March 2019
Writer in Residence Karl-Heinz Ott reading from his Works
19 March 2019
‘Archivo y censura en el cine popular del tardofranquismo: las dobles versiones'
19 March 2019
Die Regionalsprache Niederdeutsch als schulisches Unterrichtsfach
14 March 2019
Linguistics PG training workshop: Mixed-Effects Modelling for Linguistics
13 March 2019
LingLunch | Elaine Schmidt (QMUL)
13 March 2019
BASF Lecture: 'Literaturkritik/Literary Criticism in the future. Thoughts on current Anglo-German trends and perspectives'
12 March 2019
The 2019 George Steiner Lecture in Comparative Literature
7 March 2019
Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough)
6 March 2019
QM Postcolonial Seminar: 'The Poetics and Politics of Freedom' (David Austin)
6 March 2019
LingLunch | Nate Young (QMUL)
6 March 2019
BASF Lecture: '‘You will finish this sentence’: the German writer and the English reader'
5 March 2019
LINKS seminar: Masterclass with Rebecca Walkowitz
5 March 2019
Experimental Poetry in Spain Now
4 March 2019
"Indefinite Leave to Remain: Wie wir auf Brexit-Englisch die Zukunft Europas gestalten"
26 February 2019
Iberian & Latin American Research Seminar
26 February 2019
Micro-discourse analysis/data session | Yumei Gan (CUHK)
14 February 2019
Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar
13 February 2019
LingLunch | Phoevos Panagiotidis (Cyprus)
13 February 2019
BASF Lecture: 'Anglo-German versus Irish-German Relations - Some thoughts on differences, similarities and shared experiences?'
12 February 2019
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement
7 February 2019
Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Heather Burnett (CNRS-Université Paris Diderot)
6 February 2019
Filming a postcolonial sense of identity: blurred images between memory and forgetfulness
31 January 2019
Positional Games: Representing Billiards from Chardin to Braque
31 January 2019
On Beethoven and Brecht: Chorus and Politics in the 20th Century
30 January 2019
Linguistics PG training workshop: PRAAT scripting
30 January 2019
Talk on Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean Poetry
28 January 2019
Linguistics PG training workshop: ELAN
23 January 2019
¿Un objeto cultural (todavía) no identificado? Panorama de la investigación sobre cómic y novela gráfica dentro de los Estudios Hispánicos.
15 January 2019
100 Years of Futurism
10 December 2018
Book Launch
6 December 2018
Sketches of Narration: Glimpses into the Max Frisch-Archive at the Library of the ETH in Zurich
5 December 2018
Re-Mapping Catalonia: A Digital Historic Route through Manuel de Pedrolo’s Mecanoscrit
4 December 2018
Visualising the Political
4 December 2018
"The End of Desire?: Men, Women, Death and Power in the 'Cancionero de Palacio'"
30 November 2018
Special film screening & Q&A with director Evgeny Tsymbal
28 November 2018
Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Angelika Kratzer (UMass-Amherst)
28 November 2018
QM Postcolonial Seminar: reading group
27 November 2018
29th Kate Elder Lecture
27 November 2018
Children's Literature, Children's Lives: The impact of '68 on Children's Cultures (Sophie Heywood)
22 November 2018
Linguistics PG training workshop: Prepping for the job market
21 November 2018
BASF Lecture and Launch of Kaltërina Latifi’s edition of A.W. Schlegel’s translation of ‘Hamlet’.
19 November 2018
Iberian and Latin American Studies seminar
15 November 2018
Linguistics PG training workshop: Creating a professional online presence
14 November 2018
Catalan Annual Lecture with Sid Lowe
13 November 2018
Queen Mary Visual Cultures Forum: Dominika Gasiorowski
13 November 2018
LINKS seminar: Keywords in World literary Studies - The “Collective” (Prof Pablo Mukherjee)
6 November 2018
Linguistics PG training workshop: Publishing in academic journals
31 October 2018
BASF Lecture:
'Dresden 1945: a troubled conscience and the path to reconciliation
30 October 2018
QM Postcolonial Seminar: ‘Reading for the Planet: Environmental Crisis and World Literature’ (Prof Jennifer Wenzel)
30 October 2018
Cross-London Sociolinguistics Seminar | Language & the identification of “existential threats”
26 October 2018
Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Andrew Murphy (Leipzig)
24 October 2018
Inaugural BASF Lecture on Anglo-German Matters: 'Sybille Bedford: the Germany and England of a “premature European”'
23 October 2018
Barry Taylor - Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar
19 October 2018
Film Screening: Perm 36. Reflexion. A documentary film by Sergei Kachkin
17 October 2018
PhD viva workshop: Bare and not so bare
15 October 2018
Linguistics PhonLab meeting: Amelia Kimball (LLF, CNRS, Uni. Paris Diderot, Paris 7)
15 October 2018
Children's Literature, Children's Lives: "You Might Make a Joke On That!": Alice in Cartoonland (Brian Sibley)
11 October 2018
Linguistics conference practice talks: NWAV 47
10 October 2018
LINKS seminar: Publishing in CompLit - Top Tips from Experienced Editors
9 October 2018
Linguistics PhonLab meeting: Adib Mehrabi (QMUL)
9 October 2018
London Kleist Lecture: Gender, Violence and Revolution with Professor Seán Allan
8 October 2018
QM Postcolonial Seminar: 'Dinkar's China Writings: The 1957 Chinese Literary Sphere in Hindi' (Dr Adhira Mangalagiri)
4 October 2018
International Conference - The Discourse of British and German Colonialism: Convergence and Competition
21 September 2018
LingLunch | Phaedra Royle (UdeM) and Karsten Steinhauer (McGill)
12 September 2018
International Conference: Mediating the Catalan Independence Movement
12 September 2018
Symposium on the Syntax of the Bantu Noun Phrase
6 September 2018
LingLunch: Maziar Toosarvandani (UC-Santa Cruz)
4 September 2018
Pau Alabajos' Concert at QMUL
28 June 2018
Catalan Literary Translation Workshop
28 June 2018
Special Invited Talk | John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University)
11 June 2018
The 8th Annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture
8 June 2018
Workshop on The Aesthetics of the Fragment in Anglo-German Literary Modernism
1 June 2018
Postgraduate Research Afternoon
29 May 2018
PG Training Workshop | NVivo
24 May 2018
Micro-discourse Data Analysis Session | Melissa Bliss
23 May 2018
Theatrical Poetry: Actions, Dance and Striptease
Two Days Celebrating the Work of Joan Brossa
23 May 2018
PG Training Workshop | FAVE
21 May 2018
LingLunch | William A. Foley (Sydney)
17 May 2018
Guest Speaker Seminar | Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow)
16 May 2018
Micro-discourse Data Analysis Session | Christian Ilbury
15 May 2018
London Semantics Day 2018
15 May 2018
Special Invited Lecture | Asif Agha (UPenn)
10 May 2018
Guest Speaker Seminar | Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford)
10 May 2018
Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop Three
2 May 2018
Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop Two
1 May 2018
Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop One
30 April 2018
Language Centre's Fifth CPD conference 2018
12 April 2018
Postgraduate Research Afternoon
28 March 2018
SynSem Reading Group | Dora Wen presents
26 March 2018
Phonetics Lab meeting | Nate Young presents
22 March 2018
LingLunch | Danniella Samos (QMUL)
22 March 2018
Guest Speaker Seminar | Danielle Turton (Newcastle)
21 March 2018
Phonetics Lab meeting | Rosie Oxbury presents
21 March 2018
Micro-discourse Data Analysis Session | Elvis Coimbra Gomes
14 March 2018
Sociolinguistics Reading Group | Unsettling race and language
13 March 2018
Conference | Gender in the Contemporary World: Articulation, Navigation and Change.
3 March 2018
LingLunch | Ora Matushansky
2 March 2018
LingLunch | Zoe Adams (QMUL)
1 March 2018
Experimental Linguistics Reading Group | Word learning, and word recognition and lexical representation
1 March 2018
Sex, Gender, and Language Reading Group | Deviant Sexualities
26 February 2018
Special Workshop: Approaching Gender and Sexuality
15 February 2018
Experimental Linguistics Reading Group
15 February 2018
Guest Speaker Seminar | Nino Grillo (York)
14 February 2018
Micro-Discourse Analysis data session | Tom Rausch
14 February 2018
Phonetics Lab Meeting
14 February 2018
Sociolinguistics Reading Group | Goffman
13 February 2018
LingLunch | Alex Martin (Edinburgh)
12 February 2018
Phonetics Lab Meeting | Scott Lewis
8 February 2018
PG Training Workshop | Abstract writing
7 February 2018
LingLunch | Shivonne Gates (QMUL)
7 February 2018
Sex, Gender, and Language Reading Group | Social Constructionism & Gender
5 February 2018
SynSem Reading Group | Chen Wang presents
5 February 2018
Guest Speaker Seminar | Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford)
24 January 2018
LingLunch | Melisa Rinaldi (QMUL)
24 January 2018
SynSem Reading Group | Mohammad Alhailawani
22 January 2018
Experimental Linguistics Reading Group | Ultrasound Tongue Imaging Applications
14 December 2017
SynSem Reading Group
12 December 2017
Sociolinguistics Reading Group | Migration and Nationalism
12 December 2017
Experimental Linguistics Reading Group | Vowel Production and Perception
30 November 2017
PG Training Workshop | Creating a website with Andy Law
29 November 2017
Micro-Discourse Analysis data session | Adrian Yip
29 November 2017
SynSem Reading Group
28 November 2017
Sociolinguistics Reading Group | Linguistic Landscapes
28 November 2017
LingLunch | Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin)
22 November 2017
Experimental Linguistics Reading Group | Novel Accent Perception
16 November 2017
Guest Speaker Seminar Series | Keir Moulton (Simon Fraser U.)
15 November 2017
LingLunch | Andrew Harvey (SOAS)
15 November 2017
SynSem Reading Group | Auxiliaries and Aspect
14 November 2017
Sociolinguistics Reading Group | Written Language
14 November 2017
Thinking Language with Henri Meschonnic
22 September 2017
Session 4 Children's Literature/Lives Research Cluster
13 July 2017
Professional Development
3 April 2017
Russian Department Play "The Dragon" by Evgeny Schwarts
23 March 2017
Francoist Anti-Catalanism in the Spanish Civil War: From the Battle of the Ebro to occupation, pillage and exodus
29 November 2016
LINKS: Svend Erik Larssen (Aarhus), "From Comparatism to Comparativity: Comparative Reasoning Reconsidered"
13 July 2016
Centre for Catalan Studies
28 June 2016
Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage El teatre còmic en català (1900-2016)
28 June 2016
Language Centre Professional Development Conference 2016
6 April 2016
Annual Russian Play – Evgenii Shvarts’s 1943 modern fairy tale, ‘The Dragon’.
17 March 2016
2016 George Steiner Lecture: "Untranslatability and the World Literature Debates"
17 March 2016
Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture
3 March 2016
LINKS: Maria diBattista (Princeton), "Comparative Perspectives on Modernism: Heretical Novels from Cervantes to Penelope Fitzgerald"
2 December 2015
Screening (with subtitles) of 'Defence Counsel Sedov'
27 October 2015
GfdS Lecture "Deutsch an der Newa" (in German)
15 October 2015
George Steiner Lecture
19 August 2015
The Queen Mary Theatre Company Present: ACOrN: A Crunch Or None
18 August 2015
Waves of Difference – Trends and Tendencies in Contemporary German Literature (18th – 20th May 2015)
18 May 2015
The Alice Look
1 May 2015
2015 Steiner Lecture: Haun Saussy on 'The Importance of What Doesn't Translate'
9 March 2015
Language Centre Professional Development Conference 2015
8 January 2015
Screening of 'Leonov: The Spacewalker'
25 November 2014
Guest Lecture (MAALELT) "The variance of lexical diversity and its relationship to learning style"
21 October 2014
Annual George Steiner Lecture
6 October 2014
George Steiner Lecture: Translation as a Shaping Force in Literature, by Susan Bassnett
6 October 2014
“Ex-centric Cinema: a history of the disallowed” – Professor Janet Harbord’s (Film Studies, QMUL) Inaugural Lecture.
27 June 2014
Language Centre Professional Development Event 2014
3 April 2014
Prof. Tatiana Smoliarova (Columbia University), "Theatricality and the Turns of the Century", Russian seminar
16 March 2014
Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker Vladimir Tyulkin will present a double bill of his films at Queen Mary
3 March 2014
Memory, Mothers and Mourning in Mercè Rodoreda and Maria- Mercè Marçal Dr. Montserrat Lunati.
20 February 2014
Russian seminar: The Art of Translation
3 February 2014
Born Happy: Children's Literature, Childhood and Happiness
16 November 2013
Born Happy: Happiness, Childhood and Children's Literature
16 November 2013
Russian and Comparative Literature Research Seminar
7 October 2013
Russian and Comparative Literature Research Seminar
7 October 2013
Russian Play: Nikolay Erdman's The Suicide
12 March 2013
George Steiner Lecture in Comparative Literature 2013
22 January 2013
Why feeling rules in Mexico? The grammar of emotion in Modern Languages
3 December 2012
Publisher Jenny Swann visits department
8 November 2012
Avant-garde visions: The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press
15 June 2012
Jeremy Hicks, First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938-46
4 February 2012
George Steiner Lecture in Comparative Literature 2011
3 November 2011
George Steiner Lecture in Comparative Literature 2010
30 March 2010