CDRG Modern Languages at SAEL QUB

The Modern Languages CDRG community at QUB researches across the disciplines of Irish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Translation and Interpreting

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This year's Modern Languages Emerging Voices Lecture will be given by Dr Victoria Adams (Leeds) Between Commodification and Autonomy: Mapping the Impacts of State Funding on Cultural Production in Brazil post-1990
Wednesday 3rd December @ 4.30pm, 6 University Square, Room OG/006

[Steven Wilson @PrStevenWilson]

A pleasure to welcome
Ben to @ModLangs_QUB yesterday and to hear his brilliant talk on ‘healing the hospital’ with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film.

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Professor Isabel Torres explores how the ancient root of poetry comes alive in the creative madness of #Cervantes’s Don #Quixote https://t.co/wefaAt7pUv

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Talk this Friday 28 November at 1pm: 'Indigenous Peoples' Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future', by Rafael Xucuru-Kariri (UFBA/KCL). Part of the Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group Seminar Series.

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Our colleague Professor Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa @DrGSEspinosa receiving his prize for best monograph published in 2024 from the Spanish Society for 18th-Century Studies, at an event in Oviedo yesterday.

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Another image of our colleague Professor Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa (centre) with his prize for best monograph published in 2024 from the Spanish Society for 18th-Century Studies, awarded yesterday in Oviedo @DrGSEspinosa

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A further blog post from our Research Initiation Scheme, which aims to integrate final-year undergraduates into research culture, is live. Read Josh's write-up of the inaugural @CDRGModLangsQUB Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture, by Radvan Markus: https://t.co/dfc4TaKIek

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Many congratulations and ¡enhorabuena! to our @modlangs_qub colleague Professor Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa @DrGSEspinosa for winning the Spanish Society for 18th-Century Studies prize for best monograph published in 2024 🥳🥳🥳

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Second of two new blog posts today from our Research Initiation scheme, which aims to integrate final-year undergraduate students into research culture in Modern Languages.
Josh interviews Katie McNamee, PhD student in Irish
https://t.co/trFrKKv62X

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First of two new blog posts today from our Research Initiation scheme, which aims to integrate final-year undergraduate students into research culture in Modern Languages.
Máire Cáit interviews Dr Emma Humphries, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow:
https://t.co/MO5uxC2sBL

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3/3 To ensure highest level of institutional support, prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact both their proposed mentor and the Research Development Team ([email protected]) no later than 8 weeks prior to the scheme deadline of 1 October 2025.

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2/3 The scheme opens on 2 July 2025 and the final deadline for submissions is 1 October 2025. Interested candidates should contact a potential mentor/supervisor at the earliest opportunity (find details of staff in Modern Languages here: https://t.co/qXBnjgBssH).

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🧵1/3 The Department of Modern Languages at Queen’s University Belfast welcomes applications from outstanding Early Career Researchers to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme 2026/2027. Full details of scheme and eligibility criteria: https://t.co/pNH8kQ6xqV

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A new post in the @CDRGModLangsQUB Modern Languages Research Initiation Series, written by final-year undergraduates, is out. Read Máire Cáit's report on Doyle Calhoun's recent talk on "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire": https://t.co/gPeUGJw3e4

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@CDRGModLangsQUB Here is a sneak preview! Read the full interview at https://t.co/TVl0mPftps

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The latest blog post in our @CDRGModLangsQUB Modern Languages Research Initiation series presents an interview by Ciarán, a final-year Spanish and Portuguese undergraduate, with Erin, an advanced-stage PhD student working across the same language pairing: https://t.co/TVl0mPftps

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Currents in Crime Fiction: Trans-Atlantic Translations
25 March, 4-7pm, Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB
"Join us for a brilliant two part event where crime fiction experts and novelists discuss the knotty issue of translation and influence"
https://t.co/Y01iIUMiA2

[Daniel McAuley @danielmcauley]

I’ll be introducing the 14th April 6pm showing of La Haine @QFTBelfast noting developments in depictions of ethnicity, gender and police violence in the banlieues from 1995 until 2024’s stage retelling La Haine: jusqu’ici rien n’a changé. @ModLangs_QUB https://t.co/gyhj08Vfco

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As part of the "Translation Day" event taking place at the @HeaneyCentre today there is a session at 4pm featuring table reads of plays-in-translation, including The Shattered Tongue by Juan Mayorga, translated by @ModLangs_QUB 's very own Dr Anne Holloway https://t.co/YXGPMC7sT4

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The next blog post in our Research Initiation series, authored by undergraduates, is Ciarán's write-up of a seminar given by Leah Middlebrook (University of Oregon) back in the autumn on "Hidden in Plain Sight: Amphion and the Dilemmas of Lyric Theory": https://t.co/61pYzHwZ2n