Royal Holloway Seminars in Modern Languages

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Here are details of this term’s programme:

Wednesday 30 January, 5.00 pm, WIN005, Dr Helen Vassallo, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter, ‘The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing: Gender, War and Trauma’. Further details can by found HERE.

Wednesday 6 February, 4.00 pm, WIN002, Professor Robert Gordon, University of Cambridge, ‘Cultural Responses to the Holocaust in Italy’. This session has been organised by Dr Stefano Jossa as part of the Seminar Series in Italian.

Tuesday 5 March, 5.00 pm, WIN005, Professor Hanna Meretoja, ‘Trauma, History and the Ethics of Storytelling’. Professor Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland. For further information, click HERE.

Thursday 21 March, ‘Whose Tragedy? Cultural Representations of Disability’, a workshop organised by Dr Hannah Thompson. Further details can be found HERE, and abstracts can be found HERE. Numbers at this event are limited. If you wish to attend, please contact Hannah Thompson in advance.