Translation and Migration: The View from the United States
16/05/2013
Professor and Director of the Translation Centre, Edwin Gentzler's research and interests include translation theory, literary translation, and postcolonial theory.

Call for papers Across Borders: Translation and Migration
17/05/2013
This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the multifaceted nature of translation studies and how its framework can be employed by other disciplines to develop new perspectives.

Distinguished Alumni Annual Lecture
25/04/2013
John Evans, Staff Translator for the European Commission, will talk about how his degree in French and Spanish has led to work in the European Commission's translation service.

Inter-Cultural Violence
25/04/2013
Wales Doctoral Training Centre. Are holding five workshop on “Inter-Cultural Violence”.

Heroes and Role Models in Spanish Cinema of the 1960s
24/04/2013
Visiting speaker Prof Sally Faulkner. Organised by our Languages, Cultures and Ideologies Research Unit

Association for German Studies annual conference
03/04/2013
The Seventy-Sixth Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland. The lead panel for the conference will be German Poetry in Relation to the UK and Ireland.

Dylan Thomas in Translation
25/03/2013
A multilingual live-translation event Translators from all over the world will gather in situ (or via internet connection) at the birthplace of Dylan Thomas,

The Party's Over?
25-27/03/2013
63rd Political Studies Association Annual International Conference

We’re all mixed-race now
21/03/2013
Playwright and controversial novelist Hanif Kureishi is this year’s distinguished guest of Intercultural Dialogues.

Life Writing: Genres of Memory
19/03/2013
A case study of the life writings of Greta Kuckhoff, an anti-Nazi resistance fighter who spent thirty years reworking her life story in different genres.

Democratic Limits: Individual Rights and Boundary Problems in Shared Rule
20/03/2013
Organised by our Political Theory Research Unit. Boundary problems, focused on establishing who ‘the people’ are for the purposes of rule by the people.

Ambassador of France Bernard Emié
19/03/2013

The School is very pleased to be able to welcome Bernard Emié, the Ambassador will talk on France, Britain and Europe

Preventing mass atrocities
07/03/2013

A public lecture by Edward Mortimer, former speech writer and directory of communications for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The 2013 Italian Election: tipping Italy and Europe further into economic crisis?
06/03/2013
Two papers will be presented, one on the composition of the new parliament and, if one, of the government; the other on Italy's politico-economic situation.

Inside the International Maritime Organization
28/02/2013

Hartmut Hesse provides first hand insights into the work of the International Maritime Organization. In his talk he will drawing on 22 years of experience in working for the organization.

Shaping Europe? Franco-German Relations and the Elysée Treaty at Fifty
27/02/2013

This Roundtable event organised by the schools' European Governance, Identity and Public Policy Research Unit.

A 'Kind of United States of Europe'?
20/02/2013
The school is delighted to present this Roundtable, "From the Treaty of London to the European Court of Human Rights: Council of Europe in Focus".

The Idea of Just War in Rawls' Gospel of Peace: The View of the Statesman
20/02/2013
The school is delighted to present Dr Huw Williams is Lecturer in Philosophy.

Maps, Texts and Bodies: connecting translation and migration in today’s Europe
19/02/2013

Dr Loredano Polezzi from University of Warwick intends to examine the way in which polylingual practices such as translation and self-translation relate to models of Europe.

Oral Poetry Today
15/02/2013
A practitioners’ workshop gathering slam artists, poets, and analysts from the academic world and the cultural economy.

My Nights with Emma B
07/02/2013

Adam Thorpe discusses his experience of the translator's art and its perils, pains and peculiar satisfactions. After accepting literary translation is one of the hardest - if poorest paid - disciplines of all.

Picturing Others: Photography and Human Rights in Historical and Contemporary Contexts
17-18/01/2013

The conference will discuss how photography is used to represent peoples' situations of conflict or disaster, consider social and political effects of photographic representations upon their lives.