Papers and Lectures
is Vice-President, Société de Linguistique Romane; member of the Comité de Rédaction, Revue de Linguistique romane; is a contributor (on Occitan) to the Romanische Bibliographie (Niemeyer); member of the Peer Review College of the AHRC (also ‘Strategic Reviewer’); member of the comité scientifique for following conferences: La ‘logique’ du sens : de la sémantique à la lexicographie. Débat critique autour des propositions de Robert Martin, Metz, March 2011; Repenser l’histoire du français? Université de Savoie, Chambéry, October 2011; Les emprunts lexicaux au français dans les langues européennes, Craiova, November 2011; organizer, conference on Present and future research in Anglo-Norman, Aberystwyth, July 2011.
- ‘Rudde et mal aourné langage: les versions de La Fille du Comte de Pontieu’, at Transcrire et/ou traduire – Trascrizione/traduzione – Abschreiben oder Übersetzen? Variation et changement linguistique dans la tradition manuscrite des textes médiévaux, Klagenfurt, 15-16 Novembre 2012
- ‘Tote manere d’oiseaus: les noms d’oiseaux en anglo-normand’, at Sco[nomin]alia 2, Strasbourg University, 18-19 October.
- ‘À travers vents et marées: la navigation et la sémantique’, École nationale des Chartes, Paris, April 2012.
- 'Multilingualism and historians’, Cardiff University, February 2012.
- ‘Tin-mining, fields, and scarecrows: how French contributed to English in the Middle Ages’, Warsaw, January 2012.
- ‘Les néologismes éphémères: l'évolution de la science et des mots’, Colloque Conscila: Science et néologie, Paris, December 2011.
- ‘Peut-on parler de variation interne dans l’anglo-normand?’, Repenser l’histoire du français? Université de Savoie, Chambéry, October 2011.
- ‘Reid, Wright, and SED: how German scholarship was used by British philologists’, Seminar on German Influences on British Scholarship, Göttingen, December 2011.
- 'Les néologismes éphémères: l'évolution de la science et des mots’, Colloque Conscila: Science et néologie, Paris, December 2011.
- ‘English and French: Lexical and Language Contact’, Linguistic Circle of Edinburgh, October 2011.
- ‘Peut-on parler de variation interne dans l’anglo-normand?’, Repenser l’histoire du français? Université de Savoie, Chambéry, October 2011.
- ‘L’anglo-normand et le français, et les emprunts en anglais’, Les emprunts lexicaux au français dans les langues européennes, Craiova, November 2011.
- Plenary lecture, Aberystwyth Colloquium: Present and future research in Anglo-Norman, July 2011.
- ‘Scripta miscent: the role of scribes in language merger in medieval England’, Scribes as Agents of Language Change, St John’s College, Cambridge, April 2011.
- What you can do with the AND’, IMEMS seminar, March 2011.
- ‘Science avec conscience: réflexions sur le lexique scientifique et le Dictionnaire du moyen français’, La ‘logique’ du sens : de la sémantique à la lexicographie. Débat critique autour des propositions de Robert Martin, Metz, March 2011.
- 'Un doux et mol chevet?' Le défi du lexique du français médiéval', invited lecture, Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne) on 21 October 2010.
- “Une rencontre germano-romane dans la Romania Britannica”, plenary lecture, XXVIé Congrés Internacional de Lingüística i Filologia Romàniques, Valencia, September 2010.
- “Bytes, words, texts: the Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its text-base” (plenary lecture), at The Third International MARGOT Conference: The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research, June 2010, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.
- “Parolles gelees: defrosting spoken Parisian French from the past”, lecture at University of London Institute in Paris, April 2010.
- 'Philologia ancilla historiae: problématique de l'edition des textes histroiques en anglo-normand', Colloquium, Romansiches Seminar, Heidelberg, 4-5 February 2010.
- '(Socio)linguistic realities of language contact across the Channel in the thirteenth century', Thirteenth-Century England Conference, Paris, September 2009.
- Member of Comité scientifique, Langue française en contextes, AFLS Colloquium 2009, Université de Neuchâtel, September 2009.
- 'Configurer le ou les sens en moyen français : problème sémantique et défi lexicographique', Les configuration du sens: Journee "Conscila" en hommage à Robert Martin, ENS Paris, 12 June 2009.
- 'Paninis, expressos, and quince marmelade: multilingualism or language-mixing?', University of Westminster, 5 June 2009.
- 'Suchre candy, clou a lathe, et cotegnate: l'anglo-normand, langue de contact en Angleterre et en Europe', invited lecture, Université de Neuchâtel, 25 May 2009.
- "La operacio am ma, so es cyrurgia: prolégomènes à un glossaire au premier livre de l'Albucasis en occitan", Atelier franco-allemand Sciences et langues au Moyen Âge (Paris-IV Sorbonne), January 2009.
- 'La typologie géolinguistique/scriptologique et le problème des textes à multiple origine', Journées d'études du Consortium International pour les Corpus de Français Médiéval, October 2008, Nancy.
- ‘La operacio de ma, so es cyrurgia: Prolégomènes à un glossaire au premier livre de l’Albucasis en occitan’, Atelier franco-allemand Sciences et langues au Moyen Âge, Paris, January 2009.
- ‘La typologie géolinguistique/scriptologique et le problème des textes à multiple origine’, Réunion du Consortium pour les corpus de français médiéval, Nancy, October 2008.
- ‘La science des anciens livres: problèmes et enjeux dans d'édition d'une traduction scientifique du Moyen Age’, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, November 2008.
- ‘L’anglo-normand en France: les traces documentaires’, Journée d’études anglo-normandes, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, June 2008.
- ‘Anglo-Norman, the AND, and the OED’, OED Forum, Oxford, June 2008.
- ‘L’apport de l’anglo-normand à la lexicographie de l’anglais ou : les “gallicismes” en anglais’, Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne, April 2008.
- ‘L’anglo-normand et le TLF, dans le passé et dans l’avenir’, Lexicographie et informatique: bilan et perspectives. Colloque international à l’occasion du 50e anniversaire du lancement du projet du Trésor de la Langue Française, Nancy, January 2008.
- ‘Witnesses to spoken Anglo-French? Evidential problems and documentary transmission' at tha Symposium on Anglo-Norman in the context of medieval French language use, Birmingham City University, UK, January 2008.
- 'Savoir, pouvoir et latinité au Moyen Âge', Transfert des savoirs au Moyen Âge, Atelier franco-allemand, University of Heidelberg, January 2008.
Davies, W V.
is member of committee of International Association for Germanic Studies, is on the advisory board of the Journal of Germanic Linguistics and has been appointed a member of the Peer Review College of the AHRC.
- 'The pluricentricity of German: academic ideal or everyday reality' at the Sociolinguistics Symposium in Berlin. (August 2012).
- 'German at grammar schools in Germany, Luxembourg and German-speaking Switzerland: a comparison’ at the Forum for Germanic Language Studies, Sheffield, January 6-7, 2012.
- 'A comparative study of German teachers in Germany, Luxembourg and German-speaking Switzerland: preliminary findings' at the conference of the Association for German Studies in London on 14 April 2011.
- 'Norms and norm transmitters: theory und practice'. Guest lecture at Sheffield University on 23 March 2011.
- "Sprachnormen und Normenvermittler: Theorie und Praxis", Linguistisches Kolloquium, University of Duisburg-Essen, on November 11, 2010.
- 'Die Konstruktion von "gutem" und "schlechtem" Deutsch', University of Basle, Switzerland, on October 12, 2010.
- ‘Die Rolle von laienlinguistischen Mythen bei der Reproduktion linguistischer Normen', conference on perceptual dialectology - Neue Wege der Dialektologie, University of Kiel, May 2008
Sibona, M.B.
- 'Le phoque a la racine - Figures animales paradoxales dans La Nausée de Jean-Paul Sartre', at the 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Wednesday, March 30 - Saturday, April 2, 2011.
- 'Three monstrous faces in Jean le bleu by Jean Giono' at the conference Hybrids, Monsters, Aliens and Other Creatures in 20th and 21st Century Writing, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, September 2010.
Goñi Pérez, J.M.
- IV Simposio Internacional de Hispanistas. Paper title: ‘Recepción de la ciencia, el progreso y la industria en La Ilustración española y americana (1869-1921)’. Organized by Wraclaw University, Poland. November 2012.
- I Congreso Internacional la Medicina en la Literatura. Paper title: ‘Tolosa Latour. De la enfermedad a la expresión de la enfermedad. De la ciencia a la palabra’. Organized by Santiago de Compostela and La Coruña Universities, Spain. September 2012.
- Idealismo, racionalismo y empirismo en la cultura hispánica. Paper title: ‘Reflexión teórica sobre el idealismo y el empirismo decimonónico: el lector sobre el debate del idealismo y el realismo a la luz de Una víctima del ideal’. Organized by McGill University y Universitas Castellae, Valladolid. June 2012.
- La recepción del extranjero en La ilustración Española y Americana (1869-1905). Paper title: ‘Ciencia y Progreso en La ilustración española y americana’. Organized by University of Lleida. June 2012.
- ‘La literatura militar del protectorado del Norte de África’. University of Cantabria Erasmus/Socrates. Teaching Exchange Programme. Postgraduate Studies Seminar. September 2012.
- ‘Recepción de la literatura extranjera en La Ilustración española y americana’. University of Lleida, Spain. EU Teaching Mobility Exchange Programme. June 2012.
- Invited to teach in the Masters Degree course. ‘La movida madrileña: ideología y teleología’. Université d'Artois 22, 23 de MAYO. May 2012.
- Les discours des médias européens sur les élections générales espagnoles de novembre 2011. ‘Las elecciones generales de las elecciones de la crisis en la prensa británica: The Daily Telegraph y The Guardian’. Organized by Université d'Artois. May 2012.
- ‘La ilustración española y americana: ciencia y progreso’. University of Valladolid, Miguel de Cervantes. EU Teaching Mobility Exchange Programme. April 2012.
- Imágenes del heroísmo en la literatura hispánica finisecular. Paper title: “Su único hijo: El héroe psicológico y el movimiento espiritualista”. Annual Conference of the Asociación de Hispanistas Siglo Diecinueve. Organized by University of Florida, USA. February 2012.
- “Imágenes del conflicto marroquí en La Ilustración Española y Americana (1890-1906)”. CIHBE 2011. Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Septiembre 2011.
- “Juan Valera y los límites del Realismo: un debate finisecular (La ilustración española y americana)”. Congreso Internacional “Realismos y decadentismos en la literatura hispánica", 23, 24 y 25 de junio. McGill University y Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, June 2011.
- “La Ilustración Española y Americana (1869-1898): recepción de la cultura anglosajona”. Historia del Periodismo. Universidad Miguel de Cervantes de Valladolid, Mayo 2011. EU Teaching Mobility Exchange Programme, May 2011.
- “Recepción de la literatura extranjera en La Ilustración española y americana”, EU Teaching Mobility Exchange Programme. University of Lleida, Spain, January 2011.
- «La deformación de una identidad múltiple: la narrativa de Ángel Vázquez». X Internatinoal Conference of the Asociation of Contemporary History. "Construcción de identidades e imperialismo durante los siglos XIX y XX". Santander, Septembre 2010.
- Imaginería e ideología en la narrativa bélica de Marruecos (1920-1930). CIHBE. 2010. “El combatiente a lo largo de la historia: Imaginario, Percepción y Representación.” Santander, 25 y 26 Mrrch 2010 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, March 2010.
- Congreso internacional. “Torrente I, el brazo tonto de la Ley” (1998): estereotipos culturales, ironía y humor. “El juego con los estereotipos: la redefinición de la identidad hispánica en la literatura y el cine postnacionales”. Faculteit Letteren Departement LiteratuurWetenschap. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, October 2009.
- La muerte en la narrativa contemporánea sobre el Protectorado marroquí: definición y exégesis. Congreso Internacional “Necrofilia y necrofobia: representaciones de la muerte en la literatura hispánica", McGill University y Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, June 2009.
- Imágenes, muerte y sensualidad en la obra de Ángel Vázquez. Critiquing postcolonialism/ Performing Cultural Diversity. V Conferencia Internacional sobre Tánger, Universidad de Tetuán, Tánger, Marruecos, May 2009.
- Prensa y literatura en el último cuarto del siglo XIX. II Congreso Internacional de la Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes, Valladolid, April 2009.
- La literatura decimonónica como canon. Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes de Valladolid, April 2009.
- Traducciones, reseñas y comentarios de la literatura anglosajona en la prensa decimonónica (1868-1898). Congrés Internacional Traducció i Cultura. La literatura trauïda a la premsa hispànica (1868-98), Universidad de Lérida, April 2009.
- Los otros and the others: el concepto de la otredad en El último verano en el paraíso, en Beats, Borders & Beyond. IV Conferencia Internacional sobre Tánger, Universidad de Tetuán. Tánger, Marruecos, May 2008.
- Las ficciones de Tánger: miradas intrahistóricas. I Congreso Internacional de la Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes., Valladolid, April 2008.
- La literatura anacrónica de los mundos de Tánger’. Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes de Valladolid, April 2008.
Mangold A.C.
- Sarah Kane and the New Tragic, Sarah Kane Festival, University of Lincoln, March 2012.
- 'I saw myself’ – Voice and Gaze in Howard Barker’s later plays, Howard Barker’s Art of the Theatre, Aberystwyth University, July 2009.
- Sarah Kane and the Aesthetics of the New Tragic, TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) Conference, Plymouth University, September 2009.
- I saw myself – Voice and Gaze in Howard Barker’s Later Plays, Howard Barker’s Art of Theatre, Aberystwyth University, July 2009.
- Interview with Norwegian director Christopher Sivertsen for theatreVOICE. 13 September 2009. www.theatrevoice.com.
- Of Loss and Rage – Staging Pathology in Contemporary Theatre and Performance, TaPRA Conference 2008, Leeds University, September 2008.
Baron, G.
- ‘Cuban Cinema of the New Millennium: Isolation, Dysfunction and the Struggle for Identity.’ Cuba Research Forum annual conference, University of Nottingham, September, 2010.
- ‘Not Afraid to Search for a Critical Space: Discovering The Postmodern in Cuban Cinema. The case of ¡Plaff! (O Demasiado Miedo a la Vida)', Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Bristol 9-10 April 2010.
- ‘From the modern to the postmodern. Gender in Cuban cinema, 1974-1990’, University of Manchester, Department of Spanish seminar series, 2009.
- ‘The Fractured Woman in Cuban cinema. ¡Plaf! (o demasiado miedo a la vida)’, at the Conference ‘Fractured Identities. Re-siting Hispanic Visual Cultures, University of Cardiff, 2009.
- ‘Postmodern. Postfeminist. Post-Marxist? The Cultural Logic of Late Marxism. Cuban cinema at the threshold of change. The case of Mujer transparente’, at the Cuba Research Forum Annual Conference.University of Nottingham, September, 2008.
- ‘The Illusion of Equality. Machismo and Cuban Cinema of the Revolution’.Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Cuba, at the 5th Annual Hispanic Studies Symposium, University of Monash, Melbourne.
Hammel, A.
- 'Ruth David’s Memoirs and the Issue of Translation’ at Holocaust Writing and Translation, a one-Day Conference,Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, 2011.
- ‘Genre, trauma and the child’s voice: exploring Kindertransport stories’ at ‘Creating the Child’s Voice’, a one-day conference of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, 2011.
- ‘Holocaust Life Writing and Translation: Issues of Authorship and Authenticity’, International Auto/Biography Association Annual Conference, University of Sussex, 2010.
- ‘Ruth David’s Memoirs: Issues of Authorship and Translation’ at the First Workshop of the AHRC Network Holocaust Writing and Translation, University of Edinburgh, 2010.
- ‘The Future of Kindertransport research’, international workshop ‘Seventy Years On: the Kindertransport – New Developments in Research, IGRS, University of London, 2009.
- ‘”Why is your Czech so bad?” Czech Child Refugees, Language and Identity’ , International conference on ‘Exile in and from Czechoslovakia during the 1930s and 1940s’, IGRS , University of London, 2008.
- ‘Online Database of Archival Resources Relating to German-speaking Refugees, 1933-1950’ with Samira Teuteberg at the British Academy, London, 2008.
Andréo, B.
- ‘"Un cocktail, des Cocteau(x)" : enjeux du jeu de maux chez Jean Cocteau’, Wordplay, MMLA, St Louis (3 – 6 November 2011).
- ‘Métamorphose(s) de La Belle et la Bête chez Jean Cocteau : un art poétique de l’adaptation’, Colloque International ‘Mme Leprince de Beaumont/La Belle et la Bête dans tous ses états, Nancy (5 – 6 October 2011).
- ‘Le carnaval des animots : la Belle, la Bête et le Poète’, Human–Animal, 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of San Francisco (30 March – 2 April 2011).
- ‘Le Totem Ar-tau(d) : Suppôts et suppliciations et la question du sacré’, Colloque international du Groupe d’Etudes sur les Ecritures Subversives (GRES), Barcelona (11-17 June 2010).
- L’identité en jeu(x) — les enjeux du détournement ou la "cir-confession" chez Jean Cocteau’, 78e Congrès de l’Acfas, Montréal (10-14 May 2010).
- ‘A Jean-of-all-trades, but master of one (Poetry): Cocteau – 1889-1963’, An evening on Jean Cocteau, closing event for the Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival, ‘Inspired by Diaghilev’, London (3 October 2010).
- ‘Pandémie et phénixologie : la contagion à la source de la poésie coctalienne’, Association des Études Françaises et Francophones d’Irlande, 11e Colloque annuel 2009, University of Ulster (16-17 October 2009).
- ‘Making sense of Les Cenci’, Why Theatre? Renaissance History in Modern Drama, AHRC-funded project ‘Filming and Performing Renaissance History 1500-1660’, Invited speaker, Queen’s College, Belfast (25-26 April 2009).
- ‘Stupeur et tremblements: tectopoétique des failles dans le cinéma de Jean Cocteau’, Séismes / Seismic shifts, 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, The University of Minneapolis (26-28 March 2009).
- ‘Viropoétique coctaldienne : lecture virologique du Testament d’Orphée’, Society for French Studies 49th Annual Conference, Liverpool (30 June – 2 July 2008).
- ‘Virologie poétique : cinéma de la crise et (dé-)limite du poétique chez Jean Cocteau’, Limites/Limits, 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (6-8 March 2008).