Sunday 30 October 2011

Sherry Simon lecture, London, 17 November

Thursday 17 November 2011, at 4pm, Room G22/26, Senate House, University of London, Malet St.

PROFESSOR SHERRY SIMON (CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY)

will give a talk entitled

'Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory'

Sherry Simon is Professor in the Department of Etudes françaises at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of several books, including: Gender in Translation: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission (1996), Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City (2007), and the latest, published by Routledge in September 2011: an analysis of Calcutta, Barcelona, Trieste and Montreal which shares a title with this seminar.

The talk will be followed by a drinks reception generously funded by the Quebec Government Delegation in London.

Dr Katia Pizzi
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Stewart House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Tel. n. 02078628962
Fax. n. 02078628672
Email: katia.pizzi at sas.ac.uk

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