Taking place on Wednesday 15 February 3-4 GM 104
Contact: Carmen Herrero,
Acting Head of Languages Information and Communications
email: c.herrero@mmu.ac.uk
February 2nd, 2012 - 09:30am
Monday 11th July 2011 in the Geoffrey Manton Building, room GM 107- MMU, Rosamond Street West, Manchester.
Tradition, Transformations and Transpositions: Constructing and Representing Cultural Identities in Europe through the Crime Genre
This event , sponsored by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and by the The Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research (IHSSR) at MMU, brings together researchers from various countries in Europe who are working on areas of transnational cultural studies, using the crime genre as a means to address questions of citizenship, community building, participatory culture and civic engagement. The principal aim of the event will be to analyse strategies of popularization of culture and their effectiveness in building transnational communities and to lay the foundations for a sustainable research base in the Manchester area.
The presentations will focus on French, German, Italian and Nordic crime fictions, and the symposium will be the starting point for future cross-institutional collaborations.
The event will be of particular interest to scholars in contemporary European fictions and cultures, and to postgraduate students.
Programme:
11–11.30 ‘Nazi-Themed Crime Fiction And The Emergence Of The ‘Nazi Detective’ In The 1990s’ – Katharina Hall, Swansea University, UK
11.30–12.00 Negotiation Of National And European Identities In Henning Mankell’s Den Orolige Mannen (2009) – Kerstin Bergman, Lund University, Sweden
12.00-12.30 ‘Past crimes, present memories: french crime fiction and the second world war’ – Claire Gorrara, Cardiff University, UK
12.30–1.00 A Cartography of “Conscious Places” in Genoa G8 Crime Fictions – Monica Jansen (Utrecht University – University of Antwerp) & Inge Lanslots (Lessius College – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
1.0–2.00 LUNCH BREAK
2.00–2.30 ‘Transnational Crime And The Idea Of Europe: The Case Of Veit Heinichen’ – Mark Chu, University College Cork, IE
2.30 – 3.00 Crime fact vs crime fiction: alternative strategies for the mobilization of the “ethic minority” in 21st century Italy. – Nicoletta Di Ciolla, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Further information can be found in the ‘Announcement of Symposium‘ document.
Admission is free, but confirmation of participation will facilitate catering arrangements.
If you are interested in attending, please write to:
Nicoletta Di Ciolla (n.diciolla@mmu.ac.uk) by the 10th July 2011.
July 5th, 2011 - 10:02am
Your chance to help the children and families of Japan…..
If the shocking images and reports that have come out of Japan in the aftermath of the massive earthquake and the devastating tsunami have left you thinking ‘What can I do to help when I live so far away?’ then here’s your chance to make a real difference.
Dr Ryoko Sasamoto and colleagues in the Department of Languages and the Manchester Japanese community invite you to a special screening of the award-winning Japanese film: ‘Still Walking’ (a moving Japanese family film that’s impossible to watch without a lump in your throat)
When: Thursday 5th May ( ‘Children’s Day’ in Japan)
Doors open from 6pm, screening starts at 6.30pm.
Where: Manchester Lecture Theatre, All Saints Building, Manchester Metropolitan University
Donations will be collected on behalf of the British Red Cross and Save The Children to help children and families recover from this unimaginable devastation.
For more details email: r.sasamoto@mmu.ac.uk or tel Dr Ryoko Sasamoto: 0161 247 3939
April 21st, 2011 - 10:52am
Your chance to help the children and families of Japan…..
If the shocking images and reports that have come out of Japan in the aftermath of the massive earthquake and the devastating tsunami have left you thinking ‘What can I do to help when I live so far away?’ then here’s your chance to make a real difference.
Dr Ryoko Sasamoto and colleagues in the Department of Languages and the Manchester Japanese community invite you to a special screening of the award-winning Japanese film: ‘Still Walking’ (a moving Japanese family film that’s impossible to watch without a lump in your throat)
When: Thursday 5th May ( ‘Children’s Day’ in Japan)
Doors open from 6pm, screening starts at 6.30pm.
Where: Manchester Lecture Theatre, All Saints Building, Manchester Metropolitan University
Donations will be collected on behalf of the British Red Cross and Save The Children to help children and families recover from this unimaginable devastation.
For more details email: r.sasamoto@mmu.ac.uk or tel Dr Ryoko Sasamoto: 0161 247 3939
April 21st, 2011 - 10:50am
March 23rd, 2011 - 16:15pm
A project led by MMU’s Languages Department and set up to provide specialist training to teachers of community languages in the North West has been awarded a prestigious European Award for Languages, after having had such a positive impact on language teaching and community cohesion in the area.
The award, which is co-ordinated by CILT, the National Centre for Languages, recognises innovation in language learning. The Community and lesser-taught languages project (COLT) was set up by Routes into Languages North West, to address the issue that many community languages teachers in the area had never had any access to formal training or professional development.
Routes North West worked with partner universities to deliver courses that teachers could attend around family commitment, and the result was the creation of a supportive and more confident group of Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Urdu language teachers who could directly influence language learning across the region.
Dr Sharon Handley, Director of Routes into Languages North West and Head of Languages here at MMU, said:
‘We are absolutely delighted to have won a European Award for Languages as this provides external recognition of the innovation and quality of the work we have been doing. We believe that this project provides an important building block in the development of a strategy for teaching a wider portfolio of world languages in the UK by providing a framework for training native speakers of world languages to teach their own language.’
To find out more about this year’s winning project, visitwww.cilt.org.uk/eal or visit www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/northwest
November 2nd, 2010 - 10:56am