1st TERM:
8th October
- Stefano Rossoni – “The Influence of Cervantes on J. M. Coetzee”
22nd 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”
5th November
- Tina Sørensen – “Just a Dark Place? New Perspectives on Peripheral Denmark in Carsten Ingemann’s Nocturnal Photographs”
19th November
- Elizabeth Harvey Kattou – “Short Stories as Social Protest”
3rd December
- Alex Woodcock – “Theories of Mind in International Relations”
9th December
- Round Table & Christmas Party
2nd TERM:
14th January
- Gabriella Caminotto – Doing ‘Women’s Work’: Gendered Discourses in UK Higher Education Administration
28th January
- Andrew Hines – “Rewriting Reality with China Mieville”
11th February
- Melissa Powell – Anna Magnani and the Italian ‘Earth Mother’: Ideologies of the Mother and Nationhood in Cinema
25th February
- Wenqing Peng – An ancient Chinese historical novel “Three Kingdoms” and its translation in the West
11th March
- Stefano Rossoni – The Interplay between Sexuality and Fiction in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Philip Roth and Mario Vargas Llosa
25th March
- Roundtable