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Are you keen to know how to write a CV and application letter in French? Would you like the opportunity to ask a native speaker how to communicate your experience on a French CV? If so, come along to this workshop.

Clare Halldron, French's dedicated careers advisor, will also be offering advice about applying for summer jobs abroad.

Venez nombreux!

Cathy Hampton

Principal Teaching Fellow, School of Modern Languages and Cultures: French Studies

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

Week 8 speakers:

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

Tara Windsor (Trinity College Dublin)

Weimar Writers and the International Politics of Culture: The Case of Ernst Toller

Although Ernst Toller’s busy travel itinerary in the 1920s and early 1930s is familiar to Toller experts, his lecture and reading tours in these years have received comparatively less scholarly attention than his international activities after 1933. The geographical scope of his travels in Europe and beyond in the Weimar years was extensive, while the cultural and political organisations and institutions under whose auspices his readings, lectures and speeches abroad took place were equally diverse. The paper will explore selected examples of Toller’s role as international activist and cultural ambassador in the Weimar era, placing these in the context of wider intellectual and institutional efforts in the field of European and international exchange. In doing this, it places Weimar Germany’s heated cultural debates in an international context – looking beyond their usual national setting – and enhances our understanding of the myriad ways in which the Weimar Republic was connected with other nations and societies, both in Europe and beyond.

4-6pm, in H2.02 (2nd floor Humanities Building)

Britain’s First Muslim Students; or, the Reach & Limits of the Scientific Revolution

Karima Bennoune

Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Dissent and Solidarity After Said

Karima Bennoune is Professor of Law at the University of California at Davis.

She is the author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism (2013), which won the 2014 Dayton Literary Prize for NonGiction. In November 2015,

Bennoune was named the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the Gield of cultural rights.

The lecture is free and open to the public

For more information:

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

+44(0)24 7652 3323

Email:

Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk