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Seminar & Events Programme, Spring Semester 2013

MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2013, 19:30

SONG RECITAL, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, FIRTH HALL

Benjamin Britten: Quatre chansons françaises (texts by Hugo and Verlaine)

Claude Debussy: Ariettes oubliées (texts by Verlaine)

Helen Abbott - soprano, Libby Burgess - piano

Readings by final year students of French (FRE387/8 Poetry & Performance)

In conjunction with TUOS Concert Series, Britten 2013 Anniversary Festival

TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2013, 17:00

JESSOP BUILDING, SEMINAR ROOM 116

DR. MAXIME GOERGEN, LECTURER IN FRENCH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

«Paris-Utopie: des saint-simoniens à l’exposition universelle de 1869»

TUESDAY 12 MARCH 2013, 17:00

JESSOP BUILDING, SEMINAR ROOM 116

DR. GREG KERR, LECTURER IN FRENCH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

Title TBC

FRIDAY 15 MARCH 2013, 19:30

UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, FIRTH HALL

ORCHESTRAL CONCERT

Benjamin Britten, Les Illuminations (settings Rimbaud)

University of Sheffield Chamber Orchestra

Pre-concert talk by Dr. Helen Abbott

FRIDAY 12 APRIL 2013

BAUDELAIRE IN THE CITY: POETRY READING AND MUSIC

THE NICHOLS BUILDING CAFE, SHALESMOOR

http://www.nicholsbuilding.co.uk

Readings of Baudelaire’s «Le Spleen de Paris» in French and English by Dr. Helen Abbott, Dr. Maxime Goergen and last-year French students.

Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson leads discussion

WEDNESDAY 17 APRIL 2013, 4pm

DEPT OF GERMANIC STUDIES, JESSOP WEST SEM ROOM 7

Dr Gerhard HÖHN, BARBIZON/FRANCE,

author of Heinrich-Heine-Handbuch

«HEINES PARIS, EIN FEST FÜRS LEBEN UND EINE WENDE DES SCHREIBENS: KONTRASTÄSTHETIK»

MONDAY 22 APRIL 2013, 12-4pm

JESSOP WEST EXHIBITION SPACE (G.01b)

Science, Art and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Research Papers (12-2pm) ---

Prof Mary ORR (University of Southampton):

'Sarah Bowdich's Jardin des Plantes: An Englishwoman's Insider Scientific View, 1818-1832'

Prof Martin WILLIS (University of Westminster):

‘George Eliot and Medicine: Genre Writing and Pastoral Care’

Dr Helena IFILL (University of Sheffield):

‘Monomania in Medical, Journalistic and Sensational Literature’

(BREAK & REFRESHMENTS: 2-2.30)

Discussion Group (2.30-4pm) ---

Reading materials chosen by the three speakers will be circulated in advance of the session.

If you wish to attend the Discussion Group, please email Dr Geraldine Lawless (g.lawless@sheffield.ac.uk) to receive the reading.

ALL WELCOME!

FRIDAY 17 MAY 2013, 18:00-19:00

RIMBAUD IN THE CITY: POETRY READING AND MUSIC

THE NICHOLS BUILDING CAFE, SHALESMOOR

Readings of Rimbaud’s Illuminations in French and English by Dr. Helen Abbott, Dr. Maxime Goergen and final-year French students. Conversation with Dr. Timothy Baycroft, Senior Lecturer in History, specialist on Modern France.

Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson leads discussion

SATURDAY 18 MAY 2013, 19:30

ORCHESTRA CONCERT

BENT’S GREEN METHODIST CHURCH

Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations (texts by Rimbaud)

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

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