School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Works in progress: text/image storytelling -- a postgraduate roundtable

18 May

Date: Thursday 18 May 2023
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures, Student events
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Convened by Rachel Eager and Rhys Pasterneck (Stirling Maxwell Centre PGR)

PGR students showcase their research in 15-minute presentations to facilitate discussions around Text/Image Storytelling.

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Dark Fantasies. Aesthetics of the Nightmare from the 20th Century to the Present

11 May

Date: Thursday 11 May 2023 - Wednesday 24 May 2023
Categories: Conferences, Exhibitions
Venue: Goethe Institut Glasgow

An international conference on nightmare aesthetics from the 20th century to the present will be held in the Goethe Institut, Glasgow, on 11th and 12th May 2023. An exhibition of nightmare aesthetics in comic and graphic art will be opened on 11th May and run until 24th May.

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‘Against Affect: For a Feminist Neo-Enlightenment’ Professor Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham)

03 May

Date: Wednesday 03 May 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Room, Wolfson Building or Via Zoom (contact Teresa Newman SMLC for details- Teresa.newman@gla.ac.uk))
Speaker: Professor Lisa Downing

In this talk, Professor Lisa Downing will discuss some of the ideas emerging from the book she is currently writing, Against Affect, which has been supported by a Leverhulme Fellowship. The book interrogates a number of shibboleths about feeling and reason, and their relationship with ideas of identity, gender, and freedom in the 21st century.

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The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (MS Hunter 252): images, text and paratext – book launch

20 Apr

Date: Thursday 20 April 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Archives and Special Collections Seminar Room, University of Glasgow Library, Level 12
Speaker: Graeme Small (Durham University)

Book launch of collaborative study of the only surviving manuscript in the world of Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (c1475-1500) Ms Hunter 252 (U.4.10), the only surviving manuscript copy in the world of the Burgundian answer to the Decameron.

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La Ciencia de Cervantes / The Science of Cervantes (Stirling Maxwell Seminar and book launch)

09 Mar

Date: Thursday 09 March 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Archives and Special Collections Seminar Room, University of Glasgow Library
Speaker: Vicente Pérez de León (University of Glasgow), Frank Quitely (independent illustrator), Esperanza Jiménez (independent illustrator)

A discussion of text/image interaction at the cusp of the Modern Era, from Mexico to Cervantes' Spain, Keppler's scientific mind, Frank Quitely's demons, inter alia.

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Léopold Chauveau’s ‘La littérature enfantine’ lecture (1938): a talk on a talk

20 Feb

Date: Monday 20 February 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library) and online.
Speaker: Nat Paterson (Stirling Maxwell Centre PhD, University of Glasgow)

A talk on a lecture by author, illustrator, and visual artist Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940) at the Club George Sand. Nat Paterson discusses Chauveau's arguments about the purpose of children’s literature (didacticism vs pleasure) that were familiar to contemporary readers, and ideas more surprising for the period, such as the suggestion children are cynical due to their mistreatment and doubts about anthropocentrism expressed ironically when analysing animal stories. The unpublished translation of the lecture, by Nat Paterson, will be available on the day (all rights reserved).

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Parados and paralizados: portraits of unemployment in post-2008 Spanish cinema

07 Feb

Date: Tuesday 07 February 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Raquel Martínez Martín (University of Strathclyde)

Raquel Martínez Martín analyses how post-2008 films adopt visual (im)mobility to highlight the paralysing effects of long-term unemployment in Spain.

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Stirling Maxwell Centre Spring 2023 Seminar Series

07 Feb

Date: Tuesday 07 February 2023 - Thursday 18 May 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures, Student events
Venue: University of Glasgow Library (various venues) and online.
Speaker: Various

The seminar series is a learned group of regular public seminars and workshops. We host speakers and world renowned experts on subjects pertinent to the Centre’s remit, from the Medieval period to the twenty-first century. Subjects range from emblems, comics, cinema, cartoons, History of the Book, History of Art, Philology, Cultural History, History of Architecture, Shakespearean theatre, Early Modern Festivals, 3D architectural reconstruction, and many more. Our programme of events and activities reflects our research culture and our international reach.

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The value of patient, plodding books: how the comics industry courted mid-century US librarians

29 Nov

Date: Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Joe Sutliff Sanders (University of Cambridge)

Joe Sutliff Sanders (University of Cambridge) discusses 1970s and 1980s experiments in public libraries in the USA. When libraries sought to bring comics onto their shelves, librarians embarked on an ideological juggling to justify their experiments and make comics work in a library environment.

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Collecting Spain: textiles at the V&A, 1850-1950 (book launch)

10 Nov

Date: Thursday 10 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Ana Cabrera Lafuente (V&A Museum) and Lesley Miller (University of Glasgow); respondent: Hilary Macartney (University of Glasgow)

Introduced by Professor Lesley Miller (University of Glasgow), Dr Ana Cabrera (V&A Museum) discusses her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship research at the V&A Museum. With Dr Hilary Macartney (Stirling Maxwell Centre and Stirling Maxwell Project, University of Glasgow), as respondent.

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Performing Sicily

31 Oct

Date: Monday 31 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: The Hidden Lane Gallery (26A, 1103 The Hidden Ln, Argyle St, Finnieston, Glasgow, G3 8ND)
Speaker: Dario Tomasello (University of Messina), with Joseph Farrell (University of Strathclyde), Enza De Francisci (University of Glasgow)

An evening with special guest Dario Tomasello (University of Messina), on how the Sicilian environment is seen through the lens of Luigi Pirandello, Aleister Crowley, and other authors.

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Translating the Cantigas — an impossible task?

24 Oct

Date: Monday 24 October 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Sir Alexander Stone Building, room 204
Speaker: Richard Zenith

Translating the Cantigas — an impossible task? Workshop with the translator Richard Zenith

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Fernando Pessoa unmasked?

24 Oct

Date: Monday 24 October 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures, Social events
Venue: John Smith's Bookstore (Fraser Building, University of Glasgow).
Speaker: Richard Zenith

Zenith's Pessoa: an Experimental Life, a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, was called "one of the great literary biographies of the century" by Simon Winchester.

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Pessoa: an Experimental Life — in conversation with biographer Richard Zenith

24 Oct

Date: Monday 24 October 2022 - Friday 28 October 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Various
Speaker: Richard Zenith

Pessoa: an Experimental Life Biographer Richard Zenith discusses Pessoa’s experiments in literature, politics, sexuality, and spirituality. He will talk as well about his method for drawing a portrait of the shy office worker lurking behind the many personae he called heteronyms.

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Twice-told tales: verbal and visual narratives in the Cantigas de Santa Maria

13 Oct

Date: Thursday 13 October 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkd-igrjsuH9BBN2yAxQGco-eaqTihW7rQ
Speaker: Stephen Parkinson (University of Oxford)

Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2022 Seminar Series Twice-told tales: verbal and visual narratives in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Stephen Parkinson (University of Oxford)

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Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2022 Seminar Series

13 Oct

Date: Thursday 13 October 2022 - Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library) and other venues
Speaker: Various

Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2022 Seminar Series. A series of public lectures exploring the close connection of text and images.

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