School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Leave to Remain: a Snapshot of Brexit (book launch)

21 Mar

Date: Thursday 21 March 2024
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: John Smith's Bookstore (University of Glasgow)
Speaker: Noni Stacey

Art and photography have played a key role in capturing and reflecting on the conditions for the Brexit referendum. Illustrated by a range of work by artists as well as the satirists, who offer fascinating insights into their work, along with ephemera such as campaign posters and leaflets, and more personal photographs which capture the searing impact of the vote on both UK and EU citizens, Leave to Remain, A Snapshot of Brexit (Lund Humphries 2023) explores the role of the photograph and sometimes moving image in the ongoing consequences of what the author views as a political cataclysm.

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Dans la case / sur la page: contradictions spatio-temporelles des images de manga

14 Mar

Date: Thursday 14 March 2024
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Masao Suzuki, Waseda University (Tokyo)

Characters in current manga often move beyond the framework of one panel to intervene in the one next to it. They, therefore, function not only in their panel, but also on the page. In this paper, I argue that the interaction of different panels occurs on the page, even when the panel borders are not visibly transgressed. This seminar will be in French. For copyright reasons, it will not be recorded

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How The Study of Photography in Latin America came to be and what I learned from the process

07 Mar

Date: Thursday 07 March 2024
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Library Seminar Room (formerly TalkLab, University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Nathanial Gardner, University of Glasgow

Nathanial Gardner takes a meta-research approach discussing the processes behind his research, as well as the final product itself. As a forerunner of much new research that reflects on methodology and theory on the visual in the Global South, Nathanial Gardner suggests how this project has been a detonator for other pieces that are beginning to question how we approach the visual. Followed by the Stirling Maxwell Centre's AGM.

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Smithereens: reading and remembering 'The Lady in a Fur Wrap'

22 Feb

Date: Thursday 22 February 2024
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Susan McCallum-Smith, author; Respondent: Hilary Macartney, University of Glasgow

Susan McCallum-Smith gives a reading from her essay-memoir Smithereens, published in 2014. A chance encounter in a New York gallery opens a portal into a Glasgow childhood, that becomes a search for meaning and class identity through a work of art.

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Stirling Maxwell Centre Spring 2024 Seminar Series

22 Feb

Date: Thursday 22 February 2024 - Thursday 21 March 2024
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Various
Speaker: Various (see below)

The Spring 2024 Seminar Series brings together speakers from across the globe. We'll be discussing the act of looking -- from 16th century paintings to text, to manga, and from narrative photography to art and photography in politics.

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Commemorating 50 years of solidarity in Scotland

24 Nov

Date: Friday 24 November 2023
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Films and theatre, Social events, Academic events, Student events
Venue: The Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre 11 Chapel Lane University of Glasgow G11 6EW
Speaker: Film director, Felipe Bustos; Katherine Mackinnon, researcher on refugee histories in Scotland; Colin Turbett, writer and member of the Chile solidari

Join us for the film screening of the Nae Pasarán (2018), followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion on memory, with film director, Felipe Bustos, academics, leaders and activists involved in memory studies, refugee history, and solidarity campaigns in Scotland.

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Perspectives on War

17 Nov

Date: Friday 17 November 2023
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Goethe Institut Glasgow
Speaker: Sabine Adler, Dr Joanna Szostek

A talk by German journalist and author Sabine Adler, who will discuss her work as a journalist, and her latest books on Ukraine and Russia, with senior lecturer Joanna Szostek, University of Glasgow.

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Let's Dance! Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture, 1572-1615 (book launch)

02 Nov

Date: Thursday 02 November 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Archives and Special Collections Seminar Room, University of Glasgow Library
Speaker: Bram van Leuveren (Leiden University)

Bram van Leuveren explores how the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of the kingdom of France made conscious use of festivals as a tool for diplomacy in a war-torn Europe, and how diplomatic stakeholders from across the continent participated in and responded to the theatrical and ceremonial events that featured at these festivals. Analysing a large body of multilingual eyewitness and commemorative accounts, as well as visual and material objects, Van Leuveren argues that French festival culture operated as a contested site where the diplomatic concerns of stakeholders from various national, religious, and social backgrounds fought for recognition.

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Ocean Policy: Portugal’s contribution to Blue Diplomacy

17 Oct

Date: Tuesday 17 October 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Adam Smith Building, room 718
Speaker: Duarte Bué Alves, Consul General of Portugal in Manchester

As we move from global warming to global boiling, what are the impacts on the ocean? What can we do to tackle sea level rise, acidification and extreme weather events? Knowing that life depends on the ocean, the challenges are paramount.  Portugal is leading an international blue agenda - learn why and how. Streamed live on zoom, https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/87156601470?pwd=dDlXUnF5ZVhQOUNSbjRHZCtGbjBmdz09

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Ralph Fox and Portugal Now (1936): a Communist militant’s odyssey in search of Salazar’s country

06 Oct

Date: Friday 06 October 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Hetherington Building, room 317.
Speaker: João Paulo Ascenso Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

In 1936, British writer and communist activist Ralph Winston Fox travelled to the Portugal of Salazar and the Estado Novo, on a risky espionage mission, in order to investigate and assess the extent of the logistical, diplomatic, material, military and human support granted by the Portuguese fascist regime to the Junta de Burgos and the Nationalist forces. João Paulo Ascenso (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) discusses lesser-known aspects of this experience from national archives only recently opened.

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Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2023 Seminar Series

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023 - Thursday 02 November 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Various
Speaker: Various (see below)

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. The Autumn 2023 Series covers subjects from emblems and Goya, comic storytelling of C. L. R. James and slavery, and Early Modern diplomacy in the visual culture of French festivals culture. Our programme of events and activities reflects our research culture and our international reach; they are open to scholars, students, and to general public alike.

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Goya’s Caprichos and Emblems

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Archives and Special Collections Seminar Room, University of Glasgow Library
Speaker: María de los Dolores Cabrero Rodríguez-Jalón (Complutense University, Madrid)

Stirling Maxwell Centre - Autumn 2023 Seminar Series - 'Goya's Caprichos and Emblems'. Or 'Goya, Literature, and Emblems'. María de los Dolores Cabrero Rodríguez-Jalón (Complutense University, Madrid).

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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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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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