Seminars and Conferences Archive

2007-2008

October:

8 October 2007 - Robert Pope (STARS, Bangor University) "Theology and Film: Figment of the Imagination?" (2:15pm, WISCA seminar room)

9 October 2007 - Noel O’Regan (University of Edinburgh): "Why Pfitzner got it Wrong: The Real Story of Palestrina in the 1560s" (School of Music, Parry Williams Room, 4:15 pm)

10 October 2007 - Professor Francis Katamba, (University of Lancaster): "The Word in Luganda" (2pm, Linguistics Seminar Room, Main Arts)

10 October 2007 - Jonathan Ervine, BangorUniversity: 'Diaspora and Problematic Hybrid Identities in Contemporary French Cinema' ( 2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

10 October 2007 - Chronologies of Human-Environmental Interactions. (5.30pm, Room G1 (Ground Floor) Main Arts building)
Dr Oriol Olesti (Sciences of Antiquity, Barcelona) ‘Roman occupation of the Pyrennes (La Cerdanya): Changes in the landscape of a mountain zone
from the Iron Age to late Antiquity’
Dr Phillip Williams (History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor) - ‘The economy of water. Environment and man in Aragon, Spain (1100-1900)’
DISCUSSANT: Dr John Healey (Environment and Natural Resources, Bangor)

16 October 2007 - Barry Cooper (University of Manchester): " Notational and Interpretative Problems in Beethoven’s 35 Piano Sonatas" (School of Music, Parry Williams Room, 4:15 pm)

17 October 2007 - Ross MacKay (WISCA Honorary Fellow): "Identifying Need: Devolved Spending in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland"

17 October 2007 - NIECI presents: John Feather (Loughborough): ‘Others: Reflections on the History of Publishing’ (1pm, Main Arts G1)

17 October 2007 - Professor Justin Edwards (School of English, Bangor University): “Indulging this pen-prattle”: Charles Brocken Brown and Copyright Law in the Early American Republic'.(5.30pm in Hen Goleg D2.1)

17 October 2007 - Challenging Narratives
Dr Roy Flechner (Cambridge) - 'Were there any early medieval Irish historians?'
Dr Raimund Karl (Bangor) - 'Why an idea can be wrong and still be useful: The Celts and archaeology.'
DISCUSSANT: Prof Huw Pryce (School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor University), (4.00pm, ROOM G1 (Ground Floor), School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Main Arts building, Bangor University)

22 October 2007 - Jody Barnard (STARTS, Bangor University) "Greek Language and Linguistics: Evaluating Stanley Porter's theory of Aspectual Prominence" (2:15pm, WISCA seminar room)

24 October 2007 - Erín Moure, Canadian Poet and Translator: 'Crossing Borders with a Galician Book of Poems: Translating Chus Pato into English' ( 2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts) Note: This event will be followed by an evening poetry reading with Erín Moure and Chus Pato in the Drama Rehearsal Room, in association with WISCA and the School of English.

29 October 2007 - Kate Fisher (Department of History, Exeter University): "Asking the same question twice: the repetitive approach to oral history interviews"

30 October 2007 - IMEMS presents: Professor Helen Cooper (Magdalene College, Cambridge) "Valting with Ease: Shakespeare's Discourses of Chivalry". Hosted by Bangor, English via video link from Cambridge (5pm, Dean Street)

30 October 2007 - Nigel Hartley (Creative Living Centre, Sydenham) 'The Breadth and Depth of Music: Meeting People in Unexpected Ways'. (School of Music, Parry Williams Room, 4:15 pm)

31 October 2007 - Coining Celtic.
Dr Brynley Roberts (Aberystwyth) - 'Edward Lhuyd: Celticist'
Dr Nancy Edwards (Bangor & Oxford) - 'Edward Lhuyd and the origins of medieval Celtic archaeology'
DISCUSSANT: Dr Angharad Price (School of Welsh, Bangor University), (4.00pm, ROOM G1 (Ground Floor), School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Main Arts building, Bangor University)

November:

5 November 2007 - Kevin Cathcart (Campion Hall, Oxford): ‘The Age of Decipherment: The Bible and the Ancient Near East in the Nineteenth Century, with particular reference to Edward Hincks's Discoveries’(2:15 pm,WISCA seminar room)

7 November 2007 - Angharad Price (Ysgol y Gymraeg, Prifysgol Bangor) : "T.H.Parry-Williams, Freiburg a Freud" (This paper will be delivered in Welsh)

7 November 2007 - Translation in Context Annual Lecture Grahame Davies, Poet and Translator
'Sleeping with the Enemy: from Chastity to Promiscuity in Cross-cultural Relations' (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts) Note: This event will be held in MALT at 6pm as part of the University Public Lecture Scheme

7 November 2007 - Perceiving the Natural World (5.30pm, Room G1 (Ground Floor) Main Arts building)
Prof Marc van de Mieroop (Oriental Institute, Oxford & History, Columbia) - ‘Nature and culture in Ancient Mesopotamia’
Dr Gary Robinson (History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor) - ‘The social construction of ancient seascapes in Atlantic Europe’
DISCUSSANT: Prof James Scourse (Ocean Sciences, Bangor)

13 November 2007 - Sam Ellis (Bangor University): "Thoughts by England given? Arthur Bliss and the Great War" (School of Music, Parry Williams Room, 4:15 pm)

13 November 2007 - Professor Daniel Power (Swansea): ‘Remembering and Forgetting the Fall of Normandy, 1204’
Hosted by Swansea, History

14 November 2007 - Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam): ‘3 Hypertext Fictions, 2 Worlds and 1 Very Heavy Boundary’ (5pm, Main Arts)

21 November 2007 - Alex Gordon (Sign Salad, London): ‘Semiotics: Cultural Branding for the 21st Century’ (2pm, Wheldon Seminar Room)

21 November 2007 - Professor Tony Brown (School of English, University of Bangor): "Welsh Writing in English and 'The Uncanny'".(5.30pm in Hen Goleg D2.1)

21 November 2007 - Olga Castro, University of Vigo: 'Gender and Translation: A Discursive Approach to Feminist Re-Writing' (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

21 November 2007 - Landscapes and Language (5.30pm, Room G1 (Ground Floor) Main Arts building)
Dr Peder Gammeltoft (Name Institute, Copenhagen) - ‘How Vikings named in the Hebrides and Irish Sea - a fresh view on Saga place-names and how they may help explain Scandinavian settlement in North-West Britain’
Stephen Leonard (Exeter College, Oxford) ‘Language and the settlement of Iceland’
DISCUSSANT: David Longley (Gwynedd Archaeological Trust)

26 November 2007 - Nathan Abrams (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, Bangor University): ‘Celtic Jews: The Small Jewish Communities of Scotland and North Wales’(2:15 pm,WISCA seminar room)

26 November 2007 - Harald Krebs (University of Victoria): "Distortions of Poetic Rhythm in the Lied" (School of Music, Parry Williams Room, 4:15 pm)

27 November 2007 - Professor Richard Hoyle (Reading): ‘The Masters of Requests and the Short Change of Jacobean Patronage’ (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Bangor, History, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Dean Street. deanst-vc@bangor.ac.uk)

28 November 2007 - In association with the School of English . José Manuel González Fernández de Sevilla, University of Alicante: 'Cervantes and Shakespeare' (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

28 November 2007 - Desmond Graham (Newcastle upon Tyne):

Research Talk: ‘Wish You Were Here: Creativity and What Is not There’ (4pm, Welsh Seminar Room)
Poetry Reading (7:30pm, Terrace Bar)

28 November 2007 - Professor Laurel Brake (Senior Research Fellow, School of English, Birkbeck): ‘Nineteenth-century Research Now: Serial Archives, Databases, Editions,and Dictionaries’ (5.30pm in Hen Goleg D2.1)

28 November 2007 - Diarmait Chriost (School of Welsh Cardiff Univeristy): "Language and Symbolic Power: the Long War in the North of Ireland, Irish Republican Prisoners and the Jailtacht"

28 November 2007 - Irish Landscapes and Learning.
Dr Joseph Flahive (Cork) - ' 'Oral tradition, written histories, and monumenta: Geoffrey Keating's theory of historical knowledge'.
Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Dublin) - 'A 17th-century Franciscan project and the origins of Celtic studies in Ireland'.
DISCUSSANT: Prof Tony Claydon, School of History and Welsh History, Bangor University) (4.00pm, ROOM G1 (Ground Floor), School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Main Arts building, Bangor University)

All Year - The School of Modern Languages presents 'Eurofilm', a weekly film screening with films from all over Europe. Tuesdays, 6pm in MALT.

December:

4 December 2007- Samantha Rayner (NIECI (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries), Bangor University), 'Images of Rulers in Chaucer's ‘Book of the Duchess’. (5.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building) Conveners - Raluca Radulescu, Christian Thomas Leitmeir.

5 December 2007 - James Mitchell, (Political Science, Strathclyde University), 'Unions within unions: Scotland and Wales within Britain, within Europe'. (4.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building)

5 December 2007 - Dr. Paul Carter (School of Linguistics, Bangor University) 'Gesture and structure: constraining secondary articulation in liquid consonants'. (Linguistics Seminar Room, Main Arts, 2pm)

5 December 2007 - Environmental Constraints? (5.30pm, Room G1 (Ground Floor) Main Arts building)
Dr Fiona Edmonds (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge) - ‘The practicalities of communication between Northumbrian and Irish churches in the 7th and 8th centuries’
Dr Paul Adderley (Biological and Environmental Sciences, Stirling) - ‘Rowing against the tide of environmental change? Viking land management strategies in the north Atlantic region’
DISCUSSANT: Prof Huw Pryce (History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor)

10 December 2007 - Bettina Schmidt (School of Theology and Religious Studies) ‘Studying Caribbean Religions in New York City’. (2.15pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts)

11 December 2007 - Professor Ian Wood (University of Leeds) ‘Debating the barbarian invasions, 1732-2002’ ( (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Aberystwyth, History, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Hugh Owen Library, Penglais. penglais-hol@aber.ac.uk)

12 December 2007 - Professor Lynne Pearce, (Dept. of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster). 'Beyond Redemption? Mobilizing Affect in Contemporary Women's Writing'. NB This paper will draw on the work of the women writers associated with the 'Moving Manchester' project (www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester) which is concerned with the impact of migration on Manchester writing from 1960
to the present. (5.30 in Hen Goleg D2.1)

All Year - The School of Modern Languages presents 'Eurofilm', a weekly film screening with films from all over Europe. Tuesdays, 6pm in MALT.

January:

15 January 2008 - To be confirmed. (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08)

29 January 2008 - Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones (Somerville College, Oxford) ‘Shakespeare's (North) Welsh Connections’ (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Bangor, English, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Dean Street. deanst-vc@bangor.ac.uk)

January-February 2008 - Centre for Galician Studies in Wales, in association with the AELG are hosting the first Galician Writer in Residence, Maria do Cebreiro Rabade Villar.

All Year - The School of Modern Languages presents 'Eurofilm', a weekly film screening with films from all over Europe. Tuesdays, 6pm in MALT.

February:

5 February 2008 - Sue Niebrzydowski (School of English, Bangor University), ''Troelus a Chresyd':
Translating Chaucer from Page to Stage in Early Modern Wales?' (5.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building). Conveners: Raluca Radulescu, Christian Thomas Leitmeir.

6 February 2008 - Suzanne Romaine (Department of English, Merton College Oxford ) Title to be Confirmed. Seminar in conjunction with ESRC Centre for Bilingualism, Bangor University. (4.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building)

6 February 2008 - Danielle Hipkins (University of Exeter) 'Violent or Violated Women: Anna Magnani as prostitute in postwar Italian cinema'. (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

6 February 2008 - Stefania Gaddo (PhD Student, Bangor) (School of Linguistics, Bangor University) 'Lateral Fricatives' [title and date TBC]. (Linguistics Seminar Room, Main Arts, 2pm)

6 February 2008 - Environmental Knowledge: Plants, People and Empire. (5.30pm, Room G1 (Ground Floor) Main Arts building)
Dr Emyr Lloyd-Evans (Pharmacology, Oxford) - ‘Developing natural products for disease therapy - medical lessons learned from environmental
history’
Andrew Newsham (African Studies, Edinburgh) - ‘The roots of ‘fortress conservation’: People and environment through the lens of British colonial
administrators in Southern Africa’
DISCUSSANT: Dr Bianca Anna Ambrose-Oji (CAZS Natural Resources, Bangor)

12 February 2008 - Laura Tunbrigde (University of Manchester) 'Schumann and the New Romantics: Recent Compositional Responses to Schumann’s Music'. (School of Music, Parry Williams Room, 4:15 pm)

12 February 2008 - Dr Jane Hughes (Magdalene College, Cambridge) ‘The Plainspoken Rustic goes to Town: Urbanity in Medieval Satire’ (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Swansea, English, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Room 222, James Callaghan Building. sing-jcb@swan.ac.uk )

13 February 2008 - Ethnic Perspectives
Prof John Collis (Sheffield) - 'What 'Celtoscepticism' is really about'
Patrick Wadden (Oxford) - 'Teutonists and Celticists: The continuing debate'
DISCUSSANT: Dr Wil Griffith (School of History and Welsh History, Bangor University), (4.00pm, ROOM G1 (Ground Floor), School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Main Arts building, Bangor University)

13 February 2008 - Harry Burton (London) ‘Working with Pinter’ (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, 4.00pm, Main Arts LR4)

19 February 2008 - Postgraduate Study Day. Conveners: Raluca Radulescu, Christian Thomas Leitmeir.

20 February 2008 - Postgraduate Forum. Ellie Sutcliffe (School of Modern Languages, Bangor University) 'Berating the Banlieues: the Voice of Discontent in the Beur-Rai Music of Amine and Faudel'. (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

20 February 2008 - Professor Richard Hudson Emeritus Professor (University College London) ' Code Switching in a Network' (Title to be confirmed) (Linguistics Seminar Room, Main Arts, 2pm)

21 February 2008 - Professor Sue Thomas (De Montfort) ‘Transliteracy: Crossing Divides’ (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, 4.00pm, Main Arts LR4)

23 February 2008 - Intermediality Cluster Workshop: Physical Representations of Memory in Europe from 1800. To be held in WISCA (Welsh Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs) Main Arts, and organised by the School of Modern Languages. The workshop will be accompanied by a travelling poster exhibition commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Reunification of Germany which will be on display in the main university foyer.

24-25 February 2008 - The School of Modern Languages, in association with NIECI (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries), will be hosting Simon Miller, the director of 'Seachd' (The Inaccessible Pinacle), the first commercially released Scots-Gaelic film which will be shown at Theatr Gwynedd on Sunday 24th February. For further details please contact the School of Modern Languages

25 February 2008 - Robert Singer (New York) ‘Naturalist Cinema’ (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, 3.00pm, (video conference), Thoday Building, VR suite)

26 February 2008 - Dr Elizabeth Archibald (University of Bristol) ‘The Comedia sine nomine: The transformation of the Flight from Incest plot into a Latin play in papal Avignon’ (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Bangor, English, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Dean Street. deanst-vc@bangor.ac.uk)

26 February 2008 - tba (Bangor New Music Festival)

27 February 2008 - Postgraduate Forum. Meinir Edmunds (School of Modern Languages, Bangor University) 'Writing from the Edge: The Austrian Writer Friedrich Zauner'. (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

27 February 2008 - People and Trajectories of Environmental Change (5.30pm, Room G1 (Ground Floor) Main Arts building)
Prof James Scourse (Ocean Sciences, Bangor) - ‘The development of the Arctica islandica sclerochronology: The dendrochronology of the sea’
MikeW Morley (Geography, Manchester) - ‘Mediterranean rockshelter and cave sediment sequences: New approaches to issues of environmental
reconstruction’
DISCUSSANT: Dr Jim Latham (Countryside Council for Wales)

27 February 2008 - Dr Saer Maty Ba (Bangor) ‘Afro-Diasporic Subjectivity and “National Cinema” Culture: “Black” Bodies and the Ontology of (Post-)Colonial French Cinema’ (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, 4.00pm, Main Arts LR4)

February - The Centre for Galician Studies in Wales, in association with the AELG are hosting the first Galician Writer in Residence, Maria do Cebreiro Rabade Villar. For more information please contact the School of Modern Languages.

All Year - The School of Modern Languages presents 'Eurofilm', a weekly film screening with films from all over Europe. Tuesdays, 6pm in MALT.

March:

4 March 2008 - Hanna J. Vorholt (The Warburg Institute, University of London), 'Performativity of Images in Medieval Manuscripts'. (5.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building). Conveners: Raluca Radulescu, Christian Thomas Leitmeir.

5 March 2008 - Charlotte Aull Davies (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Swansea University) 'Gender and Political Process in the Context of Devolution'. (4.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building)

5 March 2008 - Tony Bushel (School of Modern Languages, Bangor University), 'Mediation or Refraction? Marie Luise Kaschnitz's Edition and Reception of Grillparzer's "Medea"'. (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

5 March 2008 - Subrahmanyam Shatdarsanam (PhD Student, Bangor) 'Conceptual Blending' [title TBC] (Linguistics Seminar Room, Main Arts, 2pm)

5 March 2008 - Popularising the Past and its Places
Dr Derek Fewster (Helsinki) - 'Ethnicity, nationalism, and the distant past - The reinvention of the ancient Finns 1800-2000'
Lowri Hughes (Oxford) - 'Welsh history, landscape and identity: Nation-building in the works of O. M. Edwards (1858-1920)'
DISCUSSANT: Dr Jerry Hunter (School of Welsh, Bangor University), (4.00pm, ROOM G1 (Ground Floor), School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Main Arts building, Bangor University)

10 March 2008 - Chris Homewood (University of Leeds) 'From Baader to Prada: Filmic Representations of West German Urban Terrorism'. (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

11 March 2008 - Roger Allen (St Peter’s College, Oxford) ‘Tonality is not the past but the future’: Wilhelm Furtwängler's Second Symphony. (School of Music, Parry Williams Room, 4:15 pm)

11 March 2008 - Professor John Blair (The Queen's College, Oxford) ‘The Anglo-Saxon Undead’ (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Aberystwyth, History, via video link from Oxford, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Hugh Owen Library, Penglais. penglais-hol@aber.ac.uk)

12 March 2008 - Dai Griffiths (School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brooks University) 'Going it Alone: down – sizing the band as “solo projects” in recent Welsh music (or, the further adventures of Cerys, Kelly, James Dean, Gruff and Euros)' (4.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building)

12 March 2008 - Facing the Ocean (5.30pm, Room G1 (Ground Floor) Main Arts building)
Dr Jean-Luc Schwenninger (Research Lab for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford) - ‘Optical dating by the sea’
Dr Jacqui Mulville (History and Archaeology, Cardiff) - ‘Who killed Bambi: The rise and fall of red deer in the Scottish Isles’
DISCUSSANT: Dr Raimund Karl (History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor)

12 March 2008 - Philip Wride (Elysium Gaming Ltd) ‘Getting More from Gaming' (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, 4.00pm, Main Arts LR4)

18 - 20 March 2008 - ‘Coming out of the Nation?: Beyond the National in Contemporary Galician Cultural Production’. Centre for Galician Studies in Wales event, jointly organised with the School of Modern Languages of the University of Liverpool (www.bangor.ac.uk/ml/Galician)

19 March 2008 - Ursula Langegger-Noakes (PhD Student, Bangor) ' Cross-linguistic Interaction in Third Language Acquisition: looking at university students with English as L1, French as L2 and German as L3'. (Linguistics Seminar Room, Main Arts, 2pm)

All Year - The School of Modern Languages presents 'Eurofilm', a weekly film screening with films from all over Europe. Tuesdays, 6pm in MALT.

April:

8 April 2008 - Julie Barrau (Emmanuel College, Cambridge/ Paris Sorbonne University), (5.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building). 'Monastic Latin Orality: How can we assess its Reality and Quality?' Conveners: Raluca Radulescu, Christian Thomas Leitmeir.

9 April 2008 - Human Places (5.30pm, Room G1 (Ground Floor) Main Arts building)
Dr Catriona Mackie (Celtic and Scottish Studies, Edinburgh) - ‘Socio-cultural influences on the built environment: A Hebridean example’
Dr Peter Jones (Countryside Council for Wales) - ‘Historic peat cutting, and how the practice has led to the development of sites of high nature conservation value’
DISCUSSANT: Prof Tony Claydon (History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor)

9 April 2008 - Anna Piva & Edward George (Flow Motion) ‘Invisible: Invisibility and Darkness in Cosmology and Sound’ (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, 4.00pm, Main Arts LR4)

15 April 2008 - Professor Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin) (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Bangor, English, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Dean Street. deanst-vc@bangor.ac.uk)

16 April 2008 - Josep – Anton Fernandez (School of Modern Languages, Queen Mary, University of London) '“Virility of the Land”: Masculinity National Identity and Ambivalence in James Vicens Vives’s Noticia de Catalunya'. (4.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building).

16 April 2008 - Postgraduate Forum. David Miranda Barreiro (School of Modern Languages, Bangor University) 'Spanish Writers in/on New York: Changing Approaches of Culture Contact'. (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

16 April 2008 - Professor Ben Rampton (King’s College London) 'Language & Ethnicity at School: Some Implications from recent work in Sociolinguistics'. (Linguistics Seminar Room, Main Arts, 2pm)

16 April 2008 - Celtic Studies, Archaeology and Philology.
Dr David Stifter (Vienna) - 'Celtic Philology in German-speaking Countries: Roots and trends'
Dr C Stephen Briggs (formerly RCAHMW) - ‘The idea of prehistory and the loss of Britishness c. 1780-1880’
DISCUSSANT: Prof Densil Morgan (School of Theology and Religious Studies, Bangor University), (4.00pm, ROOM G1 (Ground Floor), School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Main Arts building, Bangor University)

17 April 2008 - Nigel Simeone (University of Sheffield) 'Messiaen in Occupied Paris : The Creation of Visions de l’Amen'. (School of Music, Parry Williams Room, 4:15 pm)

22 April 2008 - Ann Buckley (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), 'The Old French Lyric Lai and the Relationship between Latin and Vernacular Monophonic song'. (5.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building). Conveners: Raluca Radulescu, Christian Thomas Leitmeir.

23 April 2008 - Andrew Watts (University of Birmingham) 'Searching for Gold: Honoré de Balzac and the Re-Invention of Provincial France'. (2pm in Tricolore, 3rd Floor, Main Arts)

23 April 2008 - Dr Sean Bechhofer (Manchester) ‘Semantics for the Web’ (National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, 4.00pm, Main Arts LR4)

29 April 2008 - Bruce Wood (School of Music, Bangor University) 'Venus Observ’d, or, What’s behind the masque'. (School of Music, Parry Williams Room, 4:15 pm)

29 April 2008 - Professor Mary Carruthers (New York University) ‘Studies in the Medieval Aesthetic Lexicon: varietas and concord’ (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Bangor, English, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Dean Street. deanst-vc@bangor.ac.uk)

30 April 2008 - Keith Gildart (Department of History, Wolverhampton University) 'Visions of England Through Popular Music Since the 1950’s'. (4.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building).

All Year - The School of Modern Languages presents 'Eurofilm', a weekly film screening with films from all over Europe. Tuesdays, 6pm in MALT.

May:

7 May 2008 - Robert Lambert (Business School, Nottingham University) 'Contesting nature in the British countryside 19th century to the present day (Wild Wales, nature and people)'. (4.00pm, WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building).

13 May 2008 - Professor Chris Given-Wilson (University of St Andrews) ‘Spanish Chroniclers and Inca History’ (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Aberystwyth, History, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Hugh Owen Library, Penglais. penglais-hol@aber.ac.uk)

27 May 2008 - Dr Jane Cartwright (University of Wales, Lampeter) ‘Welsh Poetry and Images of the Virgin Mary’ (Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies [IMEMS], Video Link Research Seminars, 2007/08. Hosted by Aberystwyth, English, 5.00pm. Video Suite Address - Hugh Owen Library, Penglais. penglais-hol@aber.ac.uk)

All Year - The School of Modern Languages presents 'Eurofilm', a weekly film screening with films from all over Europe. Tuesdays, 6pm in MALT.

June

27-29 June 2008 - 'Word, Image and Sound: Intermediality in German Cultural Discourse', Association of Modern German Studies Annual Conference. Co-organisers – Dr Carol Tully and Dr Anna Saunders of the School of Modern Languages.