SALIS

SALIS Research Seminars

SALIS has been holding weekly research seminars aimed at allowing staff and research students to promote their own research and presentation skills in an informal and interactive platform where discussions and dialogue are conducting to further research.

Please see the archived research seminars

SALIS Research Seminars

• 2008 - 2009
• 2007 - 2008
• 2006 - 2007
• 2005 - 2006
• 2004 - 2005
• 2003 - 2004

2008 - 2009

Semester 2 2008

Week 1 Thursday, February 12 14-15, C 135	Barra O’Seaghdha SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: Jean-Philippe Imbert	Boston, not Berlin? Changing our Perspective on the Place of Classical Music in Irish Culture.
Week 2 Wednesday, February 18 12-13, CG19	Dr Áine Mc Gillicuddy SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: Jean-Philippe Imbert	Storks and Soldiers - The Power of Imagery in Hansi's Picturebooks for Children
Week 3 Thursday, February 26 14-15, C 135	Ailbhe O’Flaherty SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: Jean-Philippe Imbert	Zil inn fermé: Remembering the Chagos Islands in Contemporary Mauritian Literature
Week 4 Thursday, March 5 14-15, C 135	Rosina Owens SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: Jean-Philippe Imbert	Genocide Tourism: Defining and Theorizing in Preliminary Research
Week 5 Wednesday, March 11 12-13, CG19	Gerold Gerber University of Konstanz, Germany Chair: Martin Sauter	Patterns of Community: Elites and Everyday Life in Malta
Week 6 Thursday, March 19 14-15, C 135	Bevin Doyle SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: Jean-Philippe Imbert	Visual Arts in the Work of John Banville
Reading Week	Reading Week	Reading Week
Week 8 Thursday, April 2 14-15, C 135	Patricia Garcia SALIS, Dublin City University   Chair: Dr Brigitte Le Juez	Fantastic journeys in Everyday Places: Contemporary Representations of Space in Fantastic Literature
Week 9 Wednesday, April 8 12-13, CG19	Dominik Bartmanski Dept. of Sociology, Yale University, USA   Chair: Martin Sauter	Is Contemporary Poland a Postcolonial Society? The Emergence of Polish Postcolonial Autodiscourse after 1989
Week 10 Thursday, April 16 14-15, C 135	Dr John Gray School of Education University of East London, UK Chair: Fiona Gallagher	The Branding of English and the Culture of the New Capitalism – Representations of the World of Work in ELT textbooks
Week 11 Thursday, April 23 14-15, C 135	Dearbhle Mc Grath SALIS, Dublin City University   Chair: Dr Bruce Swansey	Gender and Metamorphosis in Mme d’Aulnoy, Angela carter and Marie Darrieussecq’s Tales
Week 12 Thursday, April 30 14-15, C 135	Marian Flanagan SALIS, Dublin City University	“Excuse me sir. Can you tell me where I might find Platform 9 ¾?”: An Evaluation of the Intelligibility and Acceptability of Example-based Machine Translation Subtitles of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone from an End-user’s Perspective.

 

Semester 1 2008

Week 3 Wednesday 12-13, CG 19	Jean-Christophe Penet SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: J.-Ph. Imbert	Challenging the Paradigm of Secularisation? Catholic and Political Belief in Contemporary France and Ireland.
Week 4 Thursday 2-3, C 135	Kieran O’Driscoll SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: F. Gallagher	Adapting Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days for Child readers, adolescents and EFL learners.
Week 5 Thursday 2-3, C 135	Dr David Denby SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: J.-Ph. Imbert	“How I tried to learn Arabic”.
Week 6 Wednesday 12-13, CG 19	Dr. Áine Furlong & Dr. Fionnuala Kennedy Waterford Institute of Technology Chair: F. Gallagher	Face-to-face Tandem Language Learning: a Zone of Proximal Development?
Week 7	Reading Week	Reading Week
Week 8 Thursday 2-3, C 135	Juliette Péchenart SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: F. Gallagher	Electronic European Language Portfolios (e-ELP’s): Which One to Choose and What to Do with It?
Week 9 Thursday 2-3, C 135	Martin Sauter SALIS, Dublin City Universit Chair: Dr David Denby	Construction and Management of Boundaries in Globalizing Societies: The Irish Case.
Week 10 Wednesday 12-13, CG 19	Dr Bruce Swansey SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: J.-Ph. Imbert	Hades and the Tropics: Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo.
Week 11 Thursday 2-3, C 135	Prof. Jenny Williams SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: Dr M. O’Hagan	When is a Theory not a Theory? Theorizing our Disciplines in SALIS.

 

2007 - 2008

Semester 2

Week 1, February 7

The State of the Union in Richard Ford’s Independence Day.
Dr. Brian Duffy

Week 2, February 12

Hispanic Testimonial Literature.
Dr. Pat O’Byrne

Week 3, February 21

Why hasn’t Technology Disrupted Academics Teaching Practices? Understanding Resistance to Change through the Lens of Activity Theory.
Dr. Francoise Blin & Morag Munro

Week 4, February 28

Around the World in Eighty Changes II: Translational Sequels – Exploring Multiple
Causes and Complex Emergence in the gestation of retranslation, and Reading a Gay Sub.
Mr Kieran O’Driscoll

Week 5, March 7

“I’m the only one”. Lesbian Nurses Experiences of the Irish Health Care Environment.
Ms Mel Duffy

Week 6, March 14

Discriminating errors from mistakes in free written productions to access language learners knowledge.
Ms Sylvie Thouesny

Week 8, March 27

Embracing Intertextuality: George Sand and Intertextual Dialogue
Dr. Jacinta Wright

Week 9, April 3

Exploring intercultural contact from the perspective of host culture students in DCU.
Mr. Ciaran Dunne

Week 10, April 10

What Therapists think the interpreter’s doing – interpreter-user perceptions of mental health interpreting in Ireland.
Ms. Krisztina Zimanyi.

Week 11, April 17

Anglo-Ireland’s Ghosts: The rotting Big House.
Dr. Lidia Montero

Week 12, April 24

Gaelscoileanna Multicultural Classrooms: Exploring the Potential for Transfer to Enhance L2 Learning Experiences.
Dr. Annette Simon, Ms Fiona Gallagher, Dr. Angela Leahy.

Semester 2

Week 1, September 27

Using the Lollipop ELP in the Language Classroom: A Workshop
Dr Jenny Bruen, Veronica Crosby, Juliette Péchenart, SALIS, DCU

Week 2, October 4

Dialogues between Poetry and Painting: Art in Exile. Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Edward James in Mexico
Jean-Philippe Imbert, SALIS, DCU

Week 3, October 11

Rebel Spirits? The Rise of the Penal State in Modern Ireland
Pr Michael Cronin, SALIS, DCU

Week 4, October 18

Controlled Language Rule Refinement: Case Study on -ing Words
Nora Aranberri Monasterio, SALIS, DCU

Week 5, October 25

Botanic References in Shakespeare's and Alvaro Cunqueiro's Hamlets
Rubén Jarazo Álvarez, SALIS, DCU

Week 6, November 1st

Language is Contact, the Acquisition of Native Variation Patterns
Dr Isabelle Lemée, SALIS, DCU

Week 8, November 15

The Bigger Picture: CinemaScope, Aesthetics and Ideology in 1950s France
Dr Douglas Smith, N.U.I., Dublin

Week 9, November 22

Pan’s Labyrinth and Cinematic Representations of the Spanish Civil War
Dr Gabrielle Carty, SALIS, DCU

Week 10, November 29

The Experience of Interculturality in Visual Impairment and Blindness
Esther Murphy, SALIS, DCU

Week 11, December 6

Deich mbliana TG4 – 10 Years of TG4: Critical Perspectives and Editorial Hints
Dr Eithne O’Connell, SALIS, DCU

Week 12, December 13

The State of the Union in Richard Ford's Independence Day
Dr Brian Duffy, SALIS, DCU

2006 - 2007

• Digitalizing the Translation Process
  Pilar Sánchez-Gijón.
• “Tha' sounds like me arse!” The Translation of Expletives into German in Roddy Doyle's The Commitments
  Susanne Ghassempur
• Adjusting to a Multicultural Ireland: Issues Confronting the Voice of Ireland's Blind and Visually Impaired in Our New Multicultural Society
  Esther Murphy
• Around the World in Eighty Shifts: Translating Jules Verne
  Kieran O'Driscoll
• Recycling Texts: Testing the Limits of Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) in the translation of DVD subtitles
  Marian Flanagan
• An Approach to Molly Keane's Literary Universe
  Lidia Maria Montero Ameneiro
• 'Abusive' innovation? Subtitling strategies used in TV anime and their effects on reading speeds
  Colm Caffrey
• Portrait of the young blogger as an artist- authorship in French and Irish adolescents blogs
  Cathy Fowley
• The European Intercultural Workplace Project
  Aileen Pearson-Evans
• New Pedagogies for the Cosmopolitan Undergraduate: generating a space for capability and identity development in the HE language classroom
  Veronica Crosbie
• Fashion Monsters - Fashion slaves. From Lautréamont's sawing-machines to Schiaparelli's scissors: Surrealism, Fashion and Monsters
  Jean-Philippe Imbert
• Eye Spy: Investigating Translation Using an Eye-Tracker
  Sharon O'Brien
• From Barrytown to Boomtown: Roddy Doyle on Screen
  Michael Cronin
• "Beckett before Beckett", or how did Samuel Beckett see modern literature before he became a writer: a study of his lectures in French literature at the age of 25
  Brigitte Le Juez
• In Search of Identity: Three Hungarian authors
  Vera Sheridan
• Do second language female learners differ from second language male learners? A variationist perspective on language and gende.
  Isabelle Lemée
• " … la plus sacrée de toutes les propriétés ”: Establishing the value of literature as property in nineteenth-century France
  Jacinta Wright
• Cohesion in website translation – translating for online search
  Annette Schiller
• The Translation Boom: Irish and Language Planning in 21 st century
  Eithne O'Connell
• Monitoring learners in Virtual Learning Environments: an activity theoretical perspective
  Francoise Blin

2005-2006

• Babel Atha Cliath: The New Languages of Dublin
  Prof. Michael Cronin , SALIS, Dublin City University
• Web Usability of Language Learning
  Dr Lesley Shield and Dr Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Open University
• The Learning Society: From Policy to Pedagogy
  Dr Veronica Crosbie , SALIS, Dublin City University
• The Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Hungarian Community
  Dr Vera Sheridan , SALIS, Dublin City University
• Living in Ireland since World War II
  Katalin Palmai Banki , SALIS, Dublin City University
• Multicultural Education in Third Level Education
  Dr Helen Bohan , SALIS, Dublin City University
• Rhyming Doublets
  Dr Maggie Gibbon , SALIS, Dublin City University
• Recruitment Talk for Students with German/English
  Lindsay Russell, SAP
• Dubbing: the Translator as Ventriloquist
  Dr. Abé Mark Nornes, University of Michigan
• Sinn Féin and Paramilitarism
  Dr Agnès Maillot, SALIS, Dublin City University
• CALL and the Development of Learner Autonomy: An Activity Theoretical Study
  Dr François Blin, SALIS, Dublin City University
Harry Potter and other Irish Translations
Máire Nic Mhaoláin
• Applying CAT to Subtitle Translations: Defying the Norm?
  Dr Minako O'Hagan, SALIS, Dublin City University
The Grammar Book and its Cultural Artefacts
Dr Angela Leahy, SALIS, Dublin City University
• Differences in the Expression of Racism in French and English
  Dr Maggie Gibbon, Dublin City University

2004-2005

• J.M.G Le Clézio, México and Michoacán: Writing the invisible Dream
  Mr Jean-Philippe Imbert, SALIS, Dublin City University
• Language Awareness as Help and Hindrance in Second Language Acquisition
  Dr Heinz Lechleiter, SALIS, Dublin City University
• Men, Women and Bullfighting: Matador , 1986 and Talk to Her , 2002, Almódovar
  Dr Dr Gabrielle Carty, SALIS, Dublin City University
• A Task-Based Approach to Language Learning in SALIS
  Dr Christine Appel, SALIS, Dublin City University
• The Ambiguous Representation of Oriental Heroes and Western Villains in Pépé le Moko by Julien Duvivier (1936)
  Dr Brigitte Le Juez, SALIS, Dublin City University
• A Small Insight into an Even Smaller Project on Language Learning
  Dr Anna Weiss, SALIS, Dublin City University

2003 – 2004

• How to Make an Application for Research Funding
  Prof. Jenny Williams et al., SALIS, Dublin City University
• E-Learning and the Future of Universities
  Prof. John Tiffin, Victoria University of Wellington
• Ourselves alone? Nationalism, Republicanism and Multiculturalism
  Dr Agnès Maillot, SALIS, Dublin City University
• Curriculum Design for Ill-Structured Knowledge Domains:
  The Case of Translation Studies
  Mr John Kearns, SALIS, Dublin City University
• Attitudes to ‘O Galego' – Assessing the Views of Galician Students
  Dr Bernie O'Rourke, SALIS, Dublin City University
• F. Scott Fitzgerald's ‘ Die Schönen und Verdammten' A Corpus-Based Study of Translator Style. First Results of a Data-Driven Analysis
  Dr Marion Winters, SALIS, Dublin City University
• Centre for Language Studies: Past, Present and Future
  Centre for Language Studies, Dublin City University
• ‘Meine Herkunft ist mein Schicksal' – Alsace and the Question of Cultural Identity in
  René Schickele's Prose Works
  Dr Áine McGillicuddy,Dublin City University
• Figuring Translation
  Prof Michael Cronin, Dublin City University