School of Languages,Literatures and Cultures Reserach Day

PROGRAMME

9.30 – 10am: Reception with tea and coffee & Welcome from Professor PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh

10 – 11 am: Panel 1 (Chair: Tina-Karen Pusse)

Barry NEVIN (French): Ida (1935) Revisited: Post-war Trauma and the Looming Threat of Fascism in Jean Renoir’s Front Populaire Output’

Maura STEWART (French): ‰Û÷Le Pen, Sarkozy and the battle over Joan of Arc’

Paolo BARTOLONI (Italian): ‰Û÷Things That Matter: Objects in Italian Life and Culture’

11 – 11.30am: Break

11.30 – 12.30 pm: Panel 2 (Chair: Mel Boland)

Jennifer WOOD (Spanish): ‰Û÷Echoes of Medieval Elegies in the Poetry of the Falklands War’

Deirdre BYRNES (German): ‰Û÷The Recovery of Marginalised Voices: Exploring the Permanent Exhibition at the Berlin-Hohensch̦nhausen Memorial’

12.30 – 2 pm: Lunch break

2.00 – 3.00pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Mark Stansbury)

Chris DIXON (Spanish): ‰Û÷Translating the Wild West’

Marie BLOM (French): ‰Û÷The Translatability of Hiberno-English into French with the works of Roddy Doyle as a case study’.

3.00 – 4.00pm: Open discussion (Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand): Brief presentation by Ivan Kenny (Spanish) on Early Career Researchers followed by more general discussion on research-related matters.

For more information please contact Suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie