 Lecture
Professor Georges KLEIBER (Strasbourg) will be giving a lecture on 2 May at 13.10 in Hugh Owen A14, entitled:
"Histoire de personne(s) : qui est JE, qui est TU ?, qui est IL ?
DAAD Scholarship
Congratulations to third year German student Rachel Parker for winning a . Rachel will have the opportunity to attend a summer course in Kassel this year.
Dr Alex Mangold has been invited to teach a 2 day seminar on ‘Translations for Radio, Film and Theatre’ at the University Zittau/Görlitz in Germany from 14-15 May. The seminar will focus on techniques and methods for translating dialogue from English into German and from German into English in all three of the above mentioned genres. >> More information
In August 2012 Dr. Wini Davies will be giving a paper on 'The pluricentricity of German: academic ideal or everyday reality' and co-organising a session on 'Microlinguistics and Language Planning' at the Sociolinguistics Symposium in Berlin.
Seminar series of the British Academy Link Programme
'Contemporary Cuban Cinema: New Spaces, New Histories'
UK-Latin America and the Caribbean: A joint project between
the University of Havana and Aberystwyth University (Dr. Guy BARON)
>> More information and Programme
Lecture: « À travers vents et marées : la navigation et la sémantique »
L'École nationale des chartes accueillera M. David Trotter (université de Aberyswyth) comme professeur invité de la fin du mois de mars au milieu du mois d'avril.
M. David Trotter donnera une conférence publique de sémantique historique, le mardi 10 avril à 17h, dans la grande salle, intitulée « À travers vents et marées : la navigation et la sémantique ».
Lecture
At 1.10 on Wednesday 2nd May, in A14 Hugh Owen Building, Professor Georges Kleiber (Université de Strasbourg), will lecture on:
"Histoire de personne(s) : qui est JE ? Qui est TU ? Qui est IL ?"
Professor Kleiber is one of the most distinguished French linguists of his generation. 
Exibition and talk
This exhibition features refugees from Austria who settled in the UK, among them the violinist Norbert Brainin, the photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky, the dance teacher Stella Mann, and the composer Joseph Horowitz. The exhibition (organised by Andrea Hammel and curated by Bea Lewkowicz) can be seen at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre Cafe Gallery from 11 February until 7 April 2012. > more
Retired University Librarian William Dieneman will talk about his early life in Germany, his flight to the UK as part of the Kindertransport in 1939, and his education, career and later life in the UK.
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 4pm in Hugh Owen Building A14. > more
Congratulations
Professor David Trotter will be professeur invité at the École nationale des Chartes, Paris, March/April 2012.
Lectures
Professor David Trotter has given a number of papers and lectures:
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‘Peut-on parler de variation interne dans l’anglo-normand?’, Repenser l’histoire du français? Université de Savoie, Chambéry, October 2011.
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‘English and French: Language and Lexical Contact’, Linguistic Circle of Edinburgh, October 2011.
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‘L’anglo-normand et le français, et les emprunts en anglais’, Les emprunts lexicaux au français dans les langues européennes, Craiova, November 2011.
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‘Les néologismes éphémères: l'évolution de la science et des mots’, Colloque Conscila: Science et néologie, Paris, December 2011.
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‘Tin-mining, fields, and scarecrows: how French contributed to English in the Middle Ages’, Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza,Warsaw, January 2012.
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‘Multilingualism and historians’, Cardiff University, February 2012.
Lecture
by Professor Hans GOEBL, University of Salzburg
'Introduction aux problèmes et méthodes de l’« Ecole dialectométrique
de Salzbourg »' (avec des exemples gallo‐, italo‐ et ibéroromans)
on Wednesday 29th February, 5.00 p.m., Hugh Owen A14.
Professor Goebl is the creator of the ALD : Atlant linguistich dl ladin dolomitich y di
dialec vejins I + II / Atlante linguistico del ladino dolomitico e dei dialetti limitrofi I +
II / Linguistic Atlas of Dolomitic Ladinian and neighbouring dialects
(Hugh Owen Library: ATLAS G1989.22.D6E3.G5 , ex dono auctoris)
and founder of the pioneering “Salzburg school” of dialectometry (which has
developed a methodology for the mathematical measurement of dialectal distance)
Lecture
'Consensus - the Parliament of Fools'
Professor David Wulstan will deliver a second lecture in the series "Research or re-search", on Consensus - the Parliament of Fools, on Wednesday 22nd February at 5 p.m. in Hugh Owen A14.
Professor Wulstan is a former Professor of Music in Aberystwyth, and Honorary Professor in the Department of European Languages.
All welcome.
Talk and event
William Dieneman will recall his life story in a talk entitled ‘From Berlin to Aberystwyth: the life history of a former Kindertransportee’, Wednesday 14 March 2012 at 4pm in Hugh Owen A14
Special viewing at 5.30 of an exhibition in the Cafe Gallery of the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The exhibition is entitled ‘Double Exposure: Jewish Refugees from Austria in Britain’ which will be on show from 11 February to 7 April 2012.
Lectures
Dr. Wini Davies
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will be giving
a paper on ‘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. >> more information and programme
Aberystwyth Linguistic Forum
Professor Evelyn Ziegler (Duisburg-Essen University) will be speaking on:
Visual Multilingualism in Germany.
Monday 14 November 2011 at 6.15:in room C43, Hugh Owen
“The State Theatre in Oldenburg (Germany) is currently playing Dr Alex Mangold’s German translation of playwright Richard Bean’s latest play, THE HERETIC. The German title of the play is KETZER >> more info
Dr. Alex Mangold has been invited to present his paper ‘Sarah Kane and the Idea of the New Tragic’ at next year’s Sarah Kane Festival at the University of Lincoln. The festival will run from 26-30 March 2012.
>> More info here
Coloquio Internacional de Historia Bélica
Santander, 29 - 30 Septembre 2011
For programme and informations
>> here
Lectures
Dr. Andréo will present two papers:
- ‘"Un cocktail, des Cocteau(x)" : enjeux du jeu de maux chez Jean Cocteau’, Wordplay, MMLA, St Louis (3 – 6 November)
- ‘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)
Congratulations
to Dr. Guy Baron who has been awarded £14,373 from the British Academy for the UK-Latin America and the Caribbean Link Programme 2011 to set up a series of seminars in Havana and Aberystwyth.
The Aberystwyth Colloquium 21-22 July 2011
Present and future research in Anglo-Norman
Congratulations
to Chris Smith, one of our graduates this year (BA European Languages, Spanish and French major with German minor), who has just won the Veritas Language Solutions translation competition.
Within this annual international translation contest, featuring students from the best universities all over Europe, Chris won the Spanish to English category and the prize for the overall winner.
For the announcement of the University Challenge winners: click here. 
Prestigious Prize by the AIBL (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
En sa séance du vendredi 18 mars 2011, la commission du prix Honoré CHAVÉE a décidé d’attribuer son
prix à la seconde édition de l'Anglo-Norman Dictionary par MM. Stewart Gregory, William Rothwell et
David Trotter et pour le site Internet www.anglo-norman.net que dirige David Trotter (Londres, Modern
Humanities Research Association ; deux volumes [A-C et D-E], 2005).
Lectures
Dr. Wini Davies will give a paper at the conference of the Association for German Studies in London on April 14 on 'A comparative study of German teachers in Germany, Luxembourg and German-speaking Switzerland:
preliminary findings'.
She will also give a guest lecture at Sheffield University on March 23 on 'Norms and norm transmitters: theory und practice'.
Lecture
Professor Trotter will present the paper ‘Science avec conscience: réflexions sur le lexique scientifique et le Dictionnaire du moyen français’, at the La ‘logique’ du sens: de la sémantique à la lexicographie. Débat critique autour des propositions de Robert Martin, Metz, 24-26 March 2011.
More on the conference click here
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Congratulations
Dr. José Manuel Goñi is member of the International Research Group Traducciones literarias en la prensa española (1856-1923) founded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain.
A total of 15 scholars from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico and Wales are compiling and interpreting all culture and scientific references in La Ilustración Española y Americana in 19th century.
For further information see http://www.euranet.eu
Grant
Dr. Wini Davies has received a grant of 3,980 euros from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the project: German at grammar schools: a comparative study of Germany, Luxembourg and German-speaking Switzerland.
This project also received a grant of £300 from the University Research Fund.
Congratulations
Professor Trotter, D.A., has been invited to be member of comité scientifique of the Revue Internationale de Linguistique Française, published by the Institut de Linguistique Française.
Conference
Holocaust Writing and Translation Workshop
A One-Day Conference (Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
(Rooms ST 274/275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1)
Co-Ordinators: Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth) and Peter Davies (Edinburgh)
The fourth workshop of the AHRC Network Holocaust Writing and Translation will be held on 24 February 2011 under the auspices of Aberystwyth University, the University of Edinburgh and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London.
Proposals for papers are invited on any issue relating to the theme, for example:
* The interaction of translation and reception of Holocaust texts
* The ethical responsibility of the translator in the field of Holocaust writing
* The consequences of translation for the authenticity of testimony
* Genre and genre shifts in translation and reception of Holocaust texts
* The development of translation norms and their relation to changes in the status of the Holocaust and the role of the witness
* Questions of editorial and marketing practice
* The status of languages into/out of which texts are translated
Full programme at Holocaust Writing and Translation
This conference is part of the AHRC-funded Holocaust Writing and Translation Research Network
The support of the AHRC, the IGRS and the Wiener Library is gratefully acknowledged.
Colloquium
Conference
Dr. José Manuel Goñi is co-organising the Conference “Los lenguajes de la guerra: imagen y propaganda”, Santander 29-30 September 2011.
The aim of this conference is to bring together academics from different fields (Linguistics, History, Literature) to discuss the use of language and image as propaganda during war time. Image and discourse analysis will be the two core elements during the two days conference. >> For more information and programme .
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