http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/news/index.phpNews, European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster Universityhttp://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/lancaster/web/disclaim.htmen-gba.sharman@lancaster.ac.uka.sharman@lancaster.ac.uk120http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/images/template/fassblue.gifhttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/news/index.php Colleagues at the universities of Manchester, Liverpool andLancasterhave been awarded funding for aRegional Seminar Series on 'Latin America: Dependent No More?', by the Institute for the Study of the Americas and JISLAC. Over the next year, a series of seminars will be organized on this subject. The application is led by Professors Peter Wade and John Gledhill from Manchester University. Cornelia Graebner (DELC) is co-applicant for Lancaster University and the Latin America Research Cluster. Dates and locations for the seminars will be announced here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1888/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1888/ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:40:51 +0100 Dr Kilian Bartikowski will give a workshop at the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) coference for German Lektors at Cumberland Lodge, Great Windsor Park (21st-23rd June 2013) "Teaching Germany's Contemporary Culture". The workshop is about the German crime thriller "'Tatort' as an Archive for Teaching German Regional Studies". http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1883/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1883/ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:23:49 +0100 Director of Language Studies Dr Birgit Smith was interviewed by Gareth Lewis and Nelli Bird on BBC Radio Wales on the Good Evening Wales drivetime programme4 about a decision to declare Germany's longest word defunct. Listen again at 1.54. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1885/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1885/ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:25:21 +0100 Dr Amit Thakkar will be giving a talk for the Research Group LiCETC (Literatura Contemporània: Estudis Teòrics i Comparatius; Contemporary Literature: Theoretical and Comparative Studies) as part of a seminar series led by Margalida Pons Jaume at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in Palma, Mallorca: http://www.uib.es/depart/dfc/litecont/indexenglish.html The talk is entitled 'Irony, Punctum and Ambivalence: Methodological Approaches to Poetic Evocation in the Photography and Fiction of Juan Rulfo'. Having published a monograph on Rulfo's fiction in 2012 (The Fiction of Juan Rulfo: Irony, Revolution and Postcolonialism), Dr Thakkar will explore the ideas of Roland Barthes (punctum/studium) and Homi K. Bhabha (ambivalence and mimicry) in relation to both the fiction and photography of Juan Rulfo. He will alsocomparethese tohis own centripetal/centrifugal theory on Rulfo's use of irony. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1864/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1864/ Wed, 29 May 2013 11:35:38 +0100 Nick Hodgin's monograph, Screening the East: Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989 (Berghahn, 2011), has just been published in paperback. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1862/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1862/ Sat, 25 May 2013 20:43:38 +0100 Kilian Bartikowski's monograph, Der italienische Antisemitismus im Urteil des Nationalsozialismus, 1933-1943 (The National Socialist View of Italian Anti-Semitism, 1933-1943) has just been published by Metropol Verlag Berlin. Dr Bartikowski's book is a publication of his doctoral thesis for the Technische Universität of Berlin, defended in 2011. Dr Bartikowski is a DAAD Lektor and Teaching Associate in DELC. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1858/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1858/ Fri, 24 May 2013 16:18:34 +0100 Dr Nick Hodginwill be attending the first Symposium of the German Screen Studies Network, 'The Return of the Real' -realism and everyday life in contemporary German-language film' (3-5 July 2013), at King's College London, wherehe will be discussing Elke Haucke's film, Karger, a very interesting film which he nominated for inclusion at the conference.The director will be there to talk about this and other films. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1860/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1860/ Sat, 25 May 2013 20:37:44 +0100 Dr. Crawshaw contributed to an article looking at the language learning landscape in the UK, in particular in the light of the new draft primary and secondary national curriculum. The article has already elicited a great deal of interest. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1845/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1845/ Thu, 16 May 2013 09:41:22 +0100 DELC Postgraduate student Jenny Wattrus will give a paper at the North West Doctoral Training Centre, Language-Based Area Studies Pathway, Postgraduate Symposium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies on 16 May 2013. This event brings together for the second year running postgraduates in Latin American and Caribbean studies working in various disciplines in the partner institutions of the ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre. The participating universities are the universities of Manchester, Lancaster and Liverpool. At last year's event, DELC Postgraduate student Charlotte Hall gave a paper. . http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1829/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1829/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:50:05 +0100 Rebecca Braun has been awarded an AHRC Early Career Fellowship for over £170 000 for her major interdisciplinary project 'The Author and the World: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Authorship' which is set to run from 2014-1016. The award will allow Rebecca to finish her monograph on German authors and the media (for more information, see DELC staff pages) and set up an interdisciplinary research hub on authorship that is to be located in the university's Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research. The hub will support the work of colleagues across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with a programme of colloquia and postgraduate workshops running throughout 2014-15 on the topic of 'Authorship and Fame'. These will be led by major international researchers in collaboration with Lancaster colleagues in European Languages, English and Creative Writing, History, and Linguistics, and postgraduate bursaries are available to enable a wide range of early career scholars from across the UK and Europe to get involved. A dedicated website will also collate bibliographical resources and encourage global online interactive debate around the project's emerging research directions. The hub's activities will be relevant to both practising authors and academic researchers. Anyone who is interested in hearing more about the development of this initiative is warmly encouraged to contact Rebecca directly. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1747/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1747/ Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:27:00 +0000