Seminar 2014/15 – Programme

1^st TERM:

8^th October

• Stefano Rossoni – “The Influence of Cervantes on J. M. Coetzee”

22^nd October

• Alexandra Lee – “Plague and piety: the Bianchi of 1399 at Lucca and Pistoia”
• Naomi Fukuzawa – “Self, love and ghosts – narrating modern Japan in the literature of Lafcadio Hearn, Pierre Loti, Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki”

5^th November

• Tina Sørensen – “Just a Dark Place? New Perspectives on Peripheral Denmark in Carsten Ingemann’s Nocturnal Photographs”

19^th November

•   Elizabeth Harvey Kattou – “Short Stories as Social Protest”

3^rd December

•   Alex Woodcock – “Theories of Mind in International Relations”

9^th December 

•   Round Table & Christmas Party

2^nd TERM:

14^th January

• Gabriella Caminotto – Doing ‘Women’s Work’: Gendered Discourses in UK Higher Education Administration

28^th January

• Andrew Hines – “Rewriting Reality with China Mieville”

11^th February

•  Melissa Powell – Anna Magnani and the Italian ‘Earth Mother’: Ideologies of the Mother and Nationhood in Cinema

25^th February

• Wenqing Peng  – An ancient Chinese historical novel “Three Kingdoms” and its translation in the West

11^th March

• Stefano Rossoni – The Interplay between Sexuality and Fiction in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Philip Roth and Mario Vargas Llosa

25^th March

• Roundtable