Luis de Morales Altarpieces
22/07/2015
Last Summer I spent time visiting two small churches in Extremadura, in western Spain. St Martin’s, in the town of Plasencia, towards the north, is now closed. The church Our Lady of the Assumption is an active parish church in the heart of the village of Arroyo de la Luz, near the city of Cáceres. …
Language learning – who, why, and how? Looking at answers from history
21/07/2015
Language learning, who should do it, why, and how best to teach languages, are hot topics in British education today, where the shortage of language skills is well-known. But these are also questions that people have been reflecting on for many years, in Britain, Europe and beyond, and the answers that people have given have …
A reflection on being an MA in Chinese/English Translation and Interpreting student at the University of Nottingham
17/07/2015
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou Being a current MA CETI student in the University of Nottingham, life here makes me feel reenergized, refreshed and revitalized. Not only because the University of Nottingham …
Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University: Enhancing Participation and Collaboration
14/07/2015
The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies was the proud host of the 5th annual conference in the “Innovative Language Teaching at University” series. Under the heading “Enhancing participation and collaboration” this year’s conference, organised by Cecilia Goria, Oranna Speicher and Sascha Stollhans, took place on 19 June and was attended by over 120 …
One hundred years of Roland Barthes
12/06/2015
One of the most often quoted intellectuals of the twentieth century, Roland Barthes’s name resonates far beyond the French-speaking world – whether for his Marxist-semiotic analysis of the ideology of French consumer society (Mythologies, 1957), as one of the main representatives of structuralism, a linguistic-formalist approach to literature and other cultural phenomena, as a celebrator …
Theatre Practice Vs. Academic Research
01/06/2015
The relationship between theatre practitioners and academics has long been fraught, each camp viewing the other with equal suspicion and ensuring that the other is kept well at arm’s length. That’s why when a suitable opportunity arises to bridge this gap, either as a practitioner or in the world of academia, I leap on it. …
A day in the life of Robin Hood… Media
28/05/2015
I had no idea what to expect when I arrived in Nottingham to start the next chapter of my new life. I was young(er), ambitious, blissfully ignorant and perhaps most importantly, I had access to a Netflix account. My whole life was ahead of me but I still had little idea of where I wanted …
The First CLAS PG Symposium: 27-28 April 2015
21/05/2015
Something that was often said amongst postgraduate researchers in our school was that we didn’t really know many people outside of our own individual departments. We sat in our separate PhD workspaces, divided by subject, and had a vague idea of what our neighbours were doing, but not much more than that. So at the …
“Flipped roles”: German students as teachers
“Learning by teaching” is a teaching and learning approach which sees students in the role of the teacher and helps them learn by having them teach other students and collaborate with fellow learners. Sascha Stollhans from the German Department reports on a very successful collaboration between German students at different stages: The students who took …
Internationally-renowned cultural theorist Luce Irigaray to speak at Nottingham Conference on Living and Speaking Together
13/05/2015
The Conference Luce Irigaray introduces the concepts behind the conference she is co-organising with CLAS head of school Judith Still: Many imagine that building a world culture requires us to use a conceptual and abstract universal language which would be capable of dominating the complexity of the world as it is today. Certainly, this corresponds …
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