Seminar Series and SLC community

In addition to our national and international visitors, this year's series showcases Sheffield colleagues from French Studies, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Germanic Studies, and Intercultural Communication.  They present their research in a variety of disciplinary areas, including linguistics, literature, intellectual history and visual culture. 

Programme 2023-2024

Past events

1st November 2023 2 - 4pm	Paulien Cornelisse	Ultra short non-fiction workshops with SLC Artist in Residence	Seminar room 8, Jessop West
31st October 2023 - 12th November		The going towards exhibition by artist Elisa Larvego.	The Site Gallery, Sheffield
31 October 2023	Vira Dutkanych	Ukrainian Studies seminar - ‘Ukraine: A Journey Through History’	Jessop West Seminar Room 8
31st October 2023 5.00pm - 7pm		Exhibition opening event: The going towards exhibition from artist Elisa Larvego.	The Site Gallery, Sheffield
26 October 6.30pm - 8.15pm		1996 Oscar-winning Czech film - Kolya	Lecture Theatre 5, Hicks Building
20th October 5pm - 8.30pm		Britain’s War on Chile’s Democracy: Conversations with Salvador Allende’s Grandson.	Lecture Theatre 7, The Diamond
11th October 2023 5pm - 6pm	Reception with representatives from the Dutch Embassy.	‘Ten true stories of Dutch colonial slavery'	Jessop West Foyer
9th October - 29th October		‘Ten true stories of Dutch colonial slavery'	Jessop West Foyer
19th September 2023 4.30 - 6pm	Dr. Moussa Samba	‘Métissage culturel, acculturation ou culturicide en Afrique subsaharienne : le cas du Sénégal’	Jessop Building, Room 117
11 May 2023 4pm	Rhodri Sheldrake Davies (Durham University)  & Rhiannon McGlade (University of Strathclyde)	Visual Print Media as Dissent in Contemporary Spain Presentations, round-table and Q & A  Chair: Louise Johnson (Sheffield)	Diamond Workroom 2
5 May 2023 9am	Dr Nicola Bermingham (University of Liverpool) Dr Andrew Bradley (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Prof Avel·lí Flors Mas (Universitat de Barcelona) Prof Elin Gunleifsen (Universitetet i Agder) Dr James Hawkey (Bristol) Prof Kristine Horner (UoS) Prof Michael Hornsby (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań) Prof Helen Kelly-Holmes (University of Limerick) Dr Sarah Muller (Zenter fir d’Lëtzebuerger Sprooch) Prof Gro-Renée Rambø (Universitetet i Agder)	In collaboration with the Centre for Luxembourg Studies The Sociolinguistics of 'Small Languages': Policies, Practices and Interests This colloquium considers the utility of the term ‘small language’ in sociolinguistic research and considers shifts in the circumstances in which speakers of 'small languages' find themselves. Papers explore a range of European case studies, including Ireland, Scandinavia, Spain, France, Andorra and Luxembourg. Full programme	Mappin Hall
4 May 2023 5pm	Katy Humberstone Matt Oxley (UoS) Cian Hurley (UoS)	In collaboration with the Centre for Luxembourg Studies Thematic Panel on ‘Spatialised Tensions’ This interdisciplinary PGR-led panel will present initial findings across the 3 research sites of Mexico, Catalonia and Luxembourg, where linguistic, social and cultural tensions are negotiated, contested and materialised in spaces.	Diamond, Workroom 1
Rearranged for Autumn 2023	Speakers:   Dr Nathalie Solomon (Université de Perpignan, France) Dr Maxime Goergen (UoS)  Dr Harsh Trivedi (UoS) Chair: Dr David McCallam (UoS)	Balzac: A 21st-century man A round-table discussion on the relevance of 19th-century French novelist Honoré de Balzac's works in our times.	tbc
26 April 2023 4.15 pm	Dr Andrew Cusack (University of St Andrews)	"Transnational Modern Languages and Border Zones Case Study: Switzerland- Württemberg in the 19th Century"	Jessop West, SR G.03
25 April 2023 5 pm	Dr Nicola Frith (University of Edinburgh)	"Legacies of Slavery in the French Republic: Recognition, Reconciliation or Reparation?"	Jessop West, SR G.03
15 March 2023 7.30 pm	Translation Extravaganza! A round table teach-out event with writers and translators	The extravaganza is part of the SLC Translation Days. The full programme can be downloaded here	Drama Studio
2 March 2023   2 pm	Prof  Renata Schellenberg (Mount Allison University, Canada)	"German Colonialism and its Legacies"	Diamond, Lecture Theatre 9
28 Feb  2023 5 pm	Andreas Hiemstra ((Universität Oldenburg/ Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)	"Linguistic Transfer between Closely Related Languages in Third Language Acquisition"	Jessop West, SR G.03
27 Feb 2023 5 pm	Prof. Wim Vandenbussche (VU Brussels, Belgium)	"Dutch in Multilingual Brussels: Past, present and future"	Diamond, Workroom 2   In collaboration with the Centre for Dutch and Flemish Studies
26 October 2022 5 pm	Dr Hannah Silvester (University College Cork, Ireland)	"Language, Power and Identity in the Banlieue: Subtitling linguistic variation in Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’Esquive"	Jessop West, G.03
27 April 2022	Dr Sophie Watt	"Neo-Colonial Violence in the Francophone World"	Pemberton LTA, Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 March 20222	Dr Lauren Rea	Billiken and the Great Latin American Women Project	Pemberton LTA, Regent Court (ScHARR)
16 March 2022	Katia Kameli	Katia Kameli in conversation: images, memory and translation (Chair: Amanda Tavares)	Online
23 March 2022	Thomas Waller	"João Paulo Borges Coelho, Autonomy, and the Global Literary Marketplace"	Pemberton LTA, Regent Court (ScHARR)

For information on how to connect to the online seminars, please write to slc-enquiries@sheffield.ac.uk at least a day in advance of the talk you'd like to attend, with the message subject "Research seminar series link".