September - December 2016

16 December 2016

Dr Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, 'Cross-cultural Understandings and Misunderstandings: Discourses of Russian Tourism in Scotland', Conference in Honour of Professor Arto Mustajoki, Helsinki University, Finland.

14 December 2016

Dr Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, 'Sociolinguistics of Globalisation and the Diasporisation of Russian', Russian-speaking Diasporas in Finland, UK and USA, Jyväskylä University, Finland.

• Russian-speaking Diasporas in Finland, UK and USA (.pdf)

3 December 2016

Dr Qing Cao presents 'A Corpus-based Study of Late Qing Press' at The 3rd Global China Dialogue Conference, Lau China Institute, King’s College London.

2-3 December 2016

Dr Marcela Cazzoli presents on 'Transnationality in the Teaching of Modern Langauges' at the Transnational Modern Languages Conference, held at the Italian Cultural Centre in London.

30 November-2 December 2016

Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián presents two seminar papers on Latin American cinema: ‘La mirada indignada: el cine reciente de Colombia’ and ‘La mirada vehemente: El cine de Lucrecia Martel’ at the Curso Arte, Literatura y Violencia en Latinoamérica, Facultad de Filología, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Casa de Colón, Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

18 November 2016

'Remapping World Cinemas: Film, Tourism and Heritage' workshop (9.30am, Hilary Place, 1.24, University of Leeds).

10 November 2016

Professor Stephanie Dennison (University of Leeds), 'Remapping World Cinemas: Brazilian Cinema and the Global Screen' (11am, A29).

• Remapping World Cinemas: Brazilian Cinema and the Global Screen poster (.pdf)

9 November 2016

Professor Paul Cooke (University of Leeds), 'Soft Power, Film and the BRICS: The Case of South Africa' (4pm, ER205).

• Soft Power, Film and the BRICS: The Case of South Africa poster (.pdf)

22 October 2016

Dr Qing Cao presents paper 'Disenchanted Re-enchantment: Utopia and Dystopia in Liang Qichao’s Polemic' at the 5th International Marxist Aesthetics Symposium at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

13 October 2016

A Conversation with Professor Bahgat Korany (SGIA, 201, 10am-12pm).

10 October 2016

Cross-Language Dynamics programme launched in Manchester.

• Transnational Strand presentation slideshow (pptx)

27-28 September 2016

Professor Anoush Ehteshami presents at the conference Transformational Changes in the Middle East: Internal, Regional and International Drivers (Qatar Univeristy, Gulf Studies Centre).

1-2 June 2016

Dr Deborah Shaw (University of Portsmouth), founding co-editor of the journal Transnational Cinemas gives talk on 'Transnational Cinema: Mapping a Field of Study' and workshop on 'Deconstructing and Reconstructing Transnational Cinema' (ER, A29).