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  1. Critical Games

    Critical Games

    Back to life: play, risk and the self in academic writing

    To its critics, academia can often appear as a form of elaborate play. Set apart from ordinary life, marked by ludic pleasures and moments of absurdity, it can...

  2. Language as a tool, diplomacy as a system

    Language as a tool, diplomacy as a system

    Rethinking career pathways for modern language graduates

    School of Modern Languages students are invited to this talk by Chih-Hua Ding, Director General of the Taipei Representative office in the UK (Edinburgh...

  3. Film screening: Petit Mal
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    Film screening: Petit Mal

    Part of the Reenacting Women's Lives series

    Showcasing women's diversity with the screening of Petit Mal (Ruth Caudeli, 2022) and Q&A with actor and co-producer of the film, Silvia Santamaría....

  4. Research Talk: Female Agency in Cinema
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    Research Talk: Female Agency in Cinema

    Part of the Series: Reenacting Women's Lives

    "From Spaghetti to Aguardiente: Female Agency and Decolonial Representations in Italian and Colombian Western Cinema" by Dr Paula Barreiro...

  5. Guest lecture: Accents that disappear, accents that stick

    Guest lecture: Accents that disappear, accents that stick

    Indexicality and Minority Speech in Taiwan

    This talk will be delivered by Dr Tsung-Lun Alan Wan, Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang...

  6. Panel: Roadmaps to EDI and Peacebuilding
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    Panel: Roadmaps to EDI and Peacebuilding

    Part of the Series: Reenacting Women's Lives

    Opening keynote by H.E. Laura Sarabia, Colombian Ambassador to the UK, followed by an insightful conversation on the role of women's leadership in...

  7. Foreign Affairs, Colombia and Latin America: Seminar with the Colombian Embassy's Third Secretary
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    Foreign Affairs, Colombia and Latin America: Seminar with the Colombian Embassy's Third Secretary

    Jorge Enrique Córdoba Currea (he/him) is Head of Educational Affairs and a political scientist with Masters degrees in Cultural Diplomacy and Political...

  8. Guest lecture: Rethinking resistance

    Guest lecture: Rethinking resistance

    Virginia Jewiss: Four plaques and a column

    In recent years, the field of memory studies has largely centered on what have come to be known as contested monuments: the many Confederate, colonial and...