University of St Andrews, School of Modern Languages
Elodie Laugt 3rd May 2022, 5-15-6.45pm Poetry in times of distress. For and against translation Prof. Parcerisas will discuss two subjects which are somehow connected. First, Robert Frost’s dictum: “Poetry is what is lost in translation”, and secondly “the zero degree of translation”: when translation between two languages of dissimilar use and status becomes a danger for … Read more
28th April 2022, 2-4pm How can experimental criticism invite us to argue without ego, to undo the links between intelligence and arrogance, knowledge and domination—beyond the desire to be the smartest person in the room? “Criticism” might imply control, mastery, detachment, and a general attitude of knowing it all. An experiment, by contrast, asks us to … Read more
27th April 2022, 5.15-6.45pm Professor Anahid Nersessian’s Keats’s Odes has been called “a radical and unforgettable reading” of Keats’s poetry, earning rave reviews in publications like the TLS, the Washington Post, the Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Boston Globe, which named it one of the Best Books of 2021. Nersessian collects and elucidates each of the odes and … Read more
20th April 2022, 5.15pm In 2019, a graduate student at Virginia Tech, Annetta Riley, completed the first extensive study of Pascale Petit’s poetry to date, under the direction of her professor, Alexander Dickow. The following intervention takes as its starting point the fascination Petit’s work provoked for this student. It will investigate Pascale Petit’s latest … Read more
8th April 2021, 5-6.30pm Sound and Otherness: Theses on Poetry and Thought ‘In this talk, I ask what is at stake in knowing through rhythm, sound and vibrations. I propose that to think through rhythm is to listen to what earth and objects tell us, to cultivate a practice of radical listening, to restore slowness, … Read more
Thursday March 17 2022, 6-7 pm The Centre for Poetic Innovation is teaming up with the Edwin Morgan Trust to present an online information session, with useful tips about how to bring your poetry collection together in preparation for submission to the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award: #EMPA2022. The discussion will cover points such as: … Read more
2nd February 2022, 3.30-5pm According to philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), what set the “new” (avant-garde) artists and writers apart from their nineteenth-century counterparts was their particular use of metaphor. The poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) agreed, although, when it came to the cultivation of complex metaphor, he, like other members of his poetic … Read more
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 5.15-6.45pm, Byre Theatre “It was lovely to hear the Gaelic…” Pàdraig MacAoidh will discuss his own work as a poet and editor, and address the questions of what it means to write – and read – Gaelic poetry in contemporary Scotland, and the bridges between Gaelic poetry and other European literatures. … Read more
4th November 2021, 4-6pm a Round Table with Prof. Sara Greaves, Aix-Marseille Université Lou Sarabadzic, Writer and Translator Dr Luc Dall’Armellina, CY Cergy Paris Université Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger, University of St Andrews Writing in a foreign language, a language which is not one’s so-called ‘native’ language, has become a widely disseminated practice. Through processes … Read more
Thursday 6th May 2021, 6-7.30pm Assessing the Translator’s Commitment to Polysemy: Five English-language Versions of Sonetos del amor oscuro Whether Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) engaged in sonnet-writing for catharsis or to offer his own contribution to stylistic approaches that had suddenly become fashionable again during the early to mid-1930s, he was neither reluctant nor overly … Read more