The Modern Humanities Research Association is 100
The MHRA turns one hundred in 2018 - and it would like you to help it celebrate.
The MHRA turns one hundred in 2018 - and it would like you to help it celebrate.
The centenary will be marked by a series of centenary lectures across the country, as well as a special lecture by the 2018 President, Professor Marina Warner.
The MHRA was one of the first scholarly associations to recognise the value of interdisciplinary study, now central to so much of academic life. It is now a key source of financial and academic support for scholars in an area of the academy that is increasingly under threat on a national level, as Modern Languages in particular suffers a recruitment crisis.
Find out more about the history of the Association here.
Events
Warwick
7 February 2018
Professor Thomas Docherty (Warwick)
Oculus 1.04, University of Warwick, 5pm
Justice, Economics and Law: Humanities and the Tragedies of Revenge
Glasgow
1 March 2018
Professor Susan Bassnett (Glasgow)
Room TBC, 4pm
Crossing Textual Thresholds: Why Translation Matters
Swansea
22 March 2018
Professor Elaine Treharne (Stanford)
Faraday Foyer, 6pm
‘Making this thing other’: Transforming our Cultural Record in the Digital Age
Leeds
28 March 2018
Professor Edwin Williamson (Oxford)
Business School, University of Leeds, Time TBC
Why is Don Quixote the first modern novel?
Durham
17 April 2018
Alberto Manguel (Buenos Aires)
Calman Learning Centre, 6pm
The Tears of Isaac: How Literary Language Explains the World to Us
Exeter
9 May 2018
Professor Manfred Engel
Queen’s Building, LT1, 4pm
The Realm of Dreams: Impressions from a Journey through its Cultural and Literary History
London
11 May 2018
Dame Marina Warner (Birkbeck)
Lansdowne Club, 9 Fitzmaurice Place, Mayfair W1J 5JD, 5pm
Sound, Gesture, Image: Translations of Performance and Genre in the Digital Age
The MHRA Presidential Address for 2018
Dublin
16 October 2018
Professor Michael Cronin (Dublin)
Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, 6pm
Utopia for Modern Languages and How We Can Get There
Belfast
8 November 2018
Professor Roland Greene (Stanford)
Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, 6pm
Early Modern Prose Fiction: How to Think About It without Anticipating the Novel
Oxford
9 November 2018
Professor Alain Viala (Oxford)
Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, Oxford, 5pm
Gallantry in Modern France
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