Autumn events
This term the focus of the discussions is reading and writing. Speakers at the seminars present a text and other participants, from various disciplines, offer their reading and interpretation of the text in question. A practical outcome of the discussions is to offer an insight into the process of writing in the broadest sense: from deciphering manuscripts through academic prose to iambic pentameter. We shall also address the question of how to write a doctoral or master’s thesis, a journal article, or a monograph.
The programme for the remaining five sessions is as follows:
13 November: Jenny Rasell will discuss a few texts taken from websites and blog entries edited by radical right-wing groups as part of her work in progress for her MRes dissertation.
20 November: Andrea Talabér will introduce work by Hungarian historian István Rév and provide an overview of his work.
27 November: Possessed by POSSESSION – Victoria Ford and Eszter Tarsoly will discuss approaches to possession by looking at translation strategies for the preposition of and the verb have.
4 December: Dr Gwen Jones will contrast a selection of Hungarian-language reports on the current financial crisis.
11 December: Mikulás puttony or zsákba macska: the details of the usual Christmas extravaganza, as well as the programme for this last occasion, remain fluid. The Christmas party is likely to take place this evening in the Russell Square/King’s Cross area of central London.
Friday Circle – now on Thursdays!
We meet on Thursdays at 6pm in the ‘Roman Bar’ of the Imperial Hotel on Russell Square.