Lectures, talks and symposia archive

BCLT Literary Translation Summer School

18 – 24 July 2010 | Leeds University

The annual British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School brings together writers and translators for an intensive week of literary translation workshops. Award winning Austrian writer Gabriele Petriceck will be writer-in-residence for the German-English language ...

Empire and the German-Speaking World of Today

7 – 9 July 2010 | Leeds University

This conference, co-organised by Professor Frank Finlay (Leeds) and Professor Julian Preece (Swansea), will discuss and investigate among other topics the legacies of colonialism, the imperial idea of Central Europe (Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, Romanov), imperial ...

Psychoanalysis, Money and the Economy

2 – 4 July 2010 | Birkbeck College

This conference is convened by David Bennett (University of Melbourne) and Ivan Ward (Freud Museum) and is supported by Birkbeck College, the London Consortium and the Australian Research Council. Freud once warned his fellow analysts ...

The Virtues of European Public Diplomacy. 21st century Cultural Diplomacy by practitioners and theorists

1 July 2010, 9.00am

In the last decades the concept of soft power, as opposed to hard power, has emerged and gained clear identity. Diplomacy has undergone radical change and according to many current thinkers conventional diplomacy is not ...

The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition

28 June – 1 July 2010 | University of Swansea

This conference seeks to reassess the importance of translation for European writers – both well-known and less familiar – from antiquity to the present day. It will explore why authors translate, what they translate and how they ...

E.H. Gombrich. A Centenary Colloqium

19 – 20 June 2010

The conference is organised by Paul Taylor (Warburg Institute) to mark one hundred years since the birth of Ernst Gombrich, Director of the Institute from 1959-76. It will examine his wide-ranging contributions to the history ...

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News

First European Centre for the History of Physics opened in Styria

Under the name “echophysics“ (European Centre for the History of Physics), the first European institution of this kind has opened in the sumptuous baroque Palace of Pöllau near Hartberg (Styria) on 29 May 2010.

1938-2008: Legacies and Lessons in post-war Austria

Over the last decade, important new research has been undertaken on Austrian history during the period 1938 - 1945 and the post-war era. Through a series of public lectures, organised by the Austrian Embassy London, in co-operation with the Wiener Library and the Austrian Cultural Forum London, eminent Austrian scholars and experts presented new research and shed some light on the questions raised. These lectures can now be viewed online at www.doew.at/frames.php?/post-war_austria.html