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Professor Andy Orchard (on whom, further information here) of the University of Toronto will be speaking at Simon Fraser University:

Continue reading Andy Orchard talk: 9 March 2010, SFU

Showing this term as part of the FHIS Cine-Club Winter program:

• Thursday 28 January, 4:00 p.m., Buchanan Tower 799 (main lounge: exit lift, turn left, straight ahead of you):
  El Cid (dir. A. Mann, 1961): Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in “the GREATEST ROMANCE and ADVENTURE in a THOUSAND YEARS!”
• Thursday 25 March, 4:00 p.m., BuTo799:
  Les Visiteurs (dir. J.-M. Poiré, 1993): Jean Reno being absolutely fabulous in a French comedy.

Several talks on Early Romance Studies topics will be presented over the course of this term within the Department’s French and Hispanic Research Seminars. All talks are in Spanish or French unless indicated otherwise.

Continue reading FHIS talks: Jan.-April 2010

Wednesday the 13th of January, 3:00 p.m., Buchanan Tower 826
“Per speculum in aenigmate: An Introduction to Le Miroir des melancholicques”
(French Research Seminar)

Continue reading Nancy Frelick talk: 13 Jan. 2010

“A Mediæval Triptych”

Early Music Vancouver presents a three-concert series featuring Sequentia and Dialogos on the 22nd, 24th, and 26th of January, 2010.
Preceded by an introductory lecture by Chantal Phan on the 14th of January.
Continue reading Musical News: Jan. 2010

The Cluster’s next meeting will be on Wednesday the 6th of January at 3:00 p.m., in Buchanan Tower 826.

Continue reading Next meeting: 6 Jan. 2010

Continue reading Next meeting: 27 Nov. 2009

Continue reading Anthony Pagden in Vancouver

13-14 November 2009
Green College, UBC, Vancouver
Writing the World

Plenary speaker: Professor Heather Blurton
(University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Writing the World in Gerald of Wales: Language, Ethnography, and the Marvels of the West”

The full program and further details are available online.