'1967: A Sexual Revolution?' seeks to celebrate the achievements of the equality agenda over the past 50 years but also explore important existential questions LGBT people and women may now face in a changing political world.
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6/21/2017
Katarzyna Perlak is a London-based Polish mixed media artist and philosopher whose work incorporates photography, video, text and spatial practice.
This event is chaired by Dr Urszula Chowaniec, Senior Teaching Fellow in Polish Language and Dr Richard Mole, Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology. It is one of a series of seminars relating to Gender/Queer and Art/Lit/Film in the Other Europe, a research project based at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
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6/20/2017
What is human? What is animal, and what is monstrous? We will show how ideas about what makes humans, monsters or beasts change through history, shifting their limits and making us wonder: what is human?
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6/20/2017
Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, poet, screenwriter, director and actor. He is considered to be one of the most influential and provocative British dramatists in the post-war revival of 20th century British theatre.
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6/20/2017
This panel event considers the concept of gender, its identification with LGBTQ and queer studies, and contemporary homophobia. Speakers include Maciej Duda, author of Polish War Against Gender (2016), and Gerard Coll i Planas, Director of Gender Studies at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and author of Illustrating Gender (2017). Błażej Warkocki, one of Poland’s most influential queer theorists, will present the first attempts to create an anthology of contemporary queer literature.
Discussions will be chaired by Dr Urszula Chowaniec, Senior Teaching Fellow in Polish Language. The event is one of a series of seminars relating to Gender/Queer and Art/Lit/Film in the Other Europe, a research project based at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
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6/20/2017
This session will introduce you to the Greenlandic language- the only Eskimo language of Europe.
The session will begin with an introduction to the language’s fascinating history.
It will then give you a taste of the intriguing grammatical structure of Greenlandic, which is a polysynthetic language, meaning that a single word can be the equivalent of an entire sentence in other languages.
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6/20/2017
In today’s digital society, audio-visual productions have been given a prominent position as a site of contact between languages and cultures, providing a fertile ground for the blossoming of translational practices like subtitling.
Subtitling has grown exponentially in the profession; it has become ubiquitous on the internet, and gained much deserved visibility in the academe.
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6/20/2017
Judith Kerr’s The Tiger Who Came to Tea, first published in 1968, is an enduringly popular picture book for children. It tells the story of a little girl, Sophie, and her Mother, who answer a knock at the door to find a hungry Tiger asking to come in for tea.
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6/20/2017