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We ask what kinds of intimacies have a life and how is intimacy influenced by normative life-narratives? What new intimacies emerge from this new attention and what effect do they have on our thinking, our aesthetics, ethics, and politics?
The 2022 edition of the Borders & Crossings conference series acknowledges more than two decades of intense development in the transdisciplinary study of travel writing, which is now a well-established field of research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
The present symposium is devoted to the theme of love and the depiction of emotions in Old Norse literature. All Old Norse genres will be in focus, the courtly translations as well as the native sagas and poems. Both the role of love and the description of it will be discussed. At the symposium, we will share our knowledge, present and discuss our ongoing research, test new perspectives, develop new methods and make new contacts for future collaboration.
Translation Studies systematically studies translation, interpreting, localisation, adaptation and similar rewriting practices.
Our scholars work on British, American, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Scandinavian, Canadian and Quebec literatures, above all on the 19th-21st centuries.
Our main focus is applied linguistics, which entails the teaching and learning of foreign languages, contrastive linguistics, lexicography and corpus linguistics.
Research in this field is closely related to the main practical activities of our college: teaching foreign languages and cultures and training foreign language teachers for different education levels
This tradition covers a time span, from the 2nd millennium BC to today, and a vast geographical area, from the ancient Near East and Mediterranean region to the British Isles and northern Scandinavia.
Scholars at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures engage in multifaceted international research in European languages, European and North American literatures, literary theory, translation studies and applied linguistics.
