During term time, the School of Languages and Literatures runs a regular research seminar series. In addition to talks by visiting scholars and established academics, the School encourages presentations of work in progress by postgraduate students and early-career researchers as part of this series. 

2023 Seminars

Translation and storytelling in the era of social and new media

Mr Massimo Gardella
Thursday 19 October
Beattie 115 17h00

A Panorama of Contemporary Mozambican Literature

Mr Lucílio Manjate
Tuesday 3 October
Beattie LT 13h00

‘Call Me by My Name’: Portrayal of Albinism in Swahili Literature [Fasihi ya Kiswahili]

Dr Elizabeth Godwin Mahenge (UCT)
Thursday 28 September
Beattie 114 13h00

Necropolitics and Forms of Life: Writings of Dispersion in Contemporary Francophone African Novels

Dr Karel Plaiche (UCT)
Thursday 14 September
Beattie 115 17h00

Mapping Linguistic Logic and Syntactic Structures: Contrastive Linguistics as a Key to Activating Learners’ Linguistic Awareness of Chinese

Associate Professor Yang Zeng (UCT)
Thursday 31 August
Beatte LT 13h00

Disturbed graves and disturbing afterlives: Reimagining the remains of Hendrik Witbooi and Sitting Bull

Dr Sonja Loots (UCT)
Thursday 17 August 
Beattie LT 13h00

Roman Noses, and the sense of smell in antiquity

Professor Mark Bradley (Nottingham)
Thursday 3 August
Beattie 115 17h00
2023 Mezzabotta Memorial Lecture

Speaking in Tongues: the Creative Transformation of Jhumpa Lahiri

Dr Mara Boccaccio (UCT)
Thursday 11 May
Robert Leslie 2D 17h00

Re-reading the Literary Representation of Child-Animal Interactions

Dr Anita de Melo (UCT)
Wednesday 26 April
Robert Leslie 2D 16h00

Horace in The Natal Mercury

Dr Jeffrey Murray (UCT)
Thursday 13 April
Beattie 114 17h00

Cohesion in second language writing and in translation: A case for research into varioversals

Professor Carola Strobl (Antwerp)
Thursday 23 March
Beattie 114 17h00

May we always do what we can do? Discourse ethics for science and technology

Professor Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich (UCT)
Thursday 9 March
Beattie 114 17h00

Colonial Utopias and Dystopias in Bourbon and Mauritius during the 19th Century

Professor Françoise Sylvos (Réunion)
Thursday 02 March
Beattie 114 17h00