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All research seminars are held in S2.12 and will start at 12:30pm with lunch in S2.09.

The seminar will formally start at 1pm.

Phil Hoffman, Why did Europe Conquer the World

Content & Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 4 Ultimate Causes

This is a workshop for postgraduate students, early career scholars, and faculty interested in thinking methodologically in what it means to read literature across national boundaries. Projects to which this applies include those thinking about how novels represent the world, as well as those interested in the movement of books that begin in one national context and end up being read in another. We will be looking at four recent works that stage this question in different ways, and for different historical periods.

This is a workshop for postgraduate students, early career scholars, and faculty interested in thinking methodologically in what it means to read literature across national boundaries.

This workshop serves as an opportunity for us to host a visit from a team of researchers working on the nineteenth-century novel at University of São Paulo in Brazil.

With Dr Ross Forman (English)

Weekly work-in-progress Research Seminars, where we come together to share our research.

Week 5 speakers:

Papers are 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes of questions each.
All are welcome - biscuits/chocolates will be provided.

Sean Allan

University of ÌÇÐÄTV

‘Transnational Stardom. Dean Reed, Socialist Cinema

and the Politics of Mass Entertainment’

NB This talk is designed to be accessible to non-German Speakers

Mila Milani (University of ÌÇÐÄTV) on Translation and Post-hegemony in post-WWII Italy: Left-wing Publishers and the Italian Communist Party (respondent tbc)

Sean Allan (University of ÌÇÐÄTV)

Transnational Stardom. Dean Reed, Socialist Cinema and the Politics of Mass Entertainment

Born in Denver in 1938, the American rock-singer and actor Dean Reed occupies a unique place in the history of socialist popular culture. By the early 1970s, Reed – an active supporter of Salvador Allende’s government in Chile – had established himself as one of the biggest stars in the Eastern Bloc. In 1972 Reed emigrated to East Germany where he played the lead role in a series of films made by the GDR’s film production studio, DEFA, including From the Life of a Good-for-Nothing (1973) and the comedy western Sing, Cowboy, Sing (1980). As my paper shows, while Reed’s allegiance to the GDR was seen as a massive coup by the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED), managing the star personality of this representative of an ‘alternative, progressive America’ was to prove a huge challenge to the existing star system in East Germany. Although the DEFA studio was constantly seeking ways of addressing the need for a form of popular culture that was compatible with socialism, the ’solution’ offered by Reed was one that was almost impossible to accommodate within the existing parameters of East German cultural politics. (NB. This talk is designed to be accessible to non-German speakers).

Speakingon 'The Late-Sixteenth Representation of the Fourth Crusade in the Doge’s Palace, Venice'

Giorgio Tagliaferro, Imperial Mission Accomplished!

The Late Sixteenth-Century Representation of the Fourth Crusade in the Doge’s Palace, Venice