SALIS - Research in SALIS
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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
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.
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Week 2 Wednesday, February 1812-13, 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
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Week 3 Thursday, February 2614-15, C 135 |
Ailbhe O’Flaherty SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: Jean-Philippe Imbert |
Zil inn fermé: Remembering the Chagos Islands in Contemporary Mauritian Literature
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Week 4 Thursday, March 514-15, C 135 |
Rosina Owens SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: Jean-Philippe Imbert |
Genocide Tourism: Defining and Theorizing in Preliminary Research
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Week 5 Wednesday, March 1112-13, CG19 |
Gerold Gerber University of Konstanz, Germany Chair: Martin Sauter |
Patterns of Community: Elites and Everyday Life in Malta |
Week 6 Thursday, March 1914-15, C 135 |
Bevin Doyle SALIS, Dublin City University Chair: Jean-Philippe Imbert |
Visual Arts in the Work of John Banville
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Reading Week |
Reading Week |
Reading Week |
Week 8 Thursday, April 214-15, 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
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Week 9 Wednesday, April 812-13, 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
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Week 10 Thursday, April 1614-15, 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 2314-15, 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 3014-15, 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.
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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
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The State of the Union in Richard Ford’s Independence Day.
Dr. Brian Duffy - Week 2, February 12
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Hispanic Testimonial Literature.
Dr. Pat O’Byrne - Week 3, February 21
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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
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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
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“I’m the only one”. Lesbian Nurses Experiences of the Irish Health Care Environment.
Ms Mel Duffy - Week 6, March 14
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Discriminating errors from mistakes in free written productions to access language
learners knowledge.
Ms Sylvie Thouesny - Week 8, March 27
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Embracing Intertextuality: George Sand and Intertextual Dialogue
Dr. Jacinta Wright - Week 9, April 3
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Exploring intercultural contact from the perspective of host culture students in DCU.
Mr. Ciaran Dunne - Week 10, April 10
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What Therapists think the interpreter’s doing – interpreter-user perceptions of mental
health interpreting in Ireland.
Ms. Krisztina Zimanyi. - Week 11, April 17
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Anglo-Ireland’s Ghosts: The rotting Big House.
Dr. Lidia Montero - Week 12, April 24
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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
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Using the Lollipop ELP in the Language Classroom: A Workshop
Dr Jenny Bruen, Veronica Crosby, Juliette Péchenart, SALIS, DCU - Week 2, October 4
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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
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Rebel Spirits? The Rise of the Penal State in Modern Ireland
Pr Michael Cronin, SALIS, DCU - Week 4, October 18
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Controlled Language Rule Refinement: Case Study on -ing Words
Nora Aranberri Monasterio, SALIS, DCU - Week 5, October 25
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Botanic References in Shakespeare's and Alvaro Cunqueiro's Hamlets
Rubén Jarazo Álvarez, SALIS, DCU - Week 6, November 1st
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Language is Contact, the Acquisition of Native Variation Patterns
Dr Isabelle Lemée, SALIS, DCU - Week 8, November 15
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The Bigger Picture: CinemaScope, Aesthetics and Ideology in 1950s France
Dr Douglas Smith, N.U.I., Dublin - Week 9, November 22
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Pan’s Labyrinth and Cinematic Representations of the Spanish Civil War
Dr Gabrielle Carty, SALIS, DCU - Week 10, November 29
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The Experience of Interculturality in Visual Impairment and Blindness
Esther Murphy, SALIS, DCU - Week 11, December 6
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Deich mbliana TG4 – 10 Years of TG4: Critical Perspectives and Editorial Hints
Dr Eithne O’Connell, SALIS, DCU - Week 12, December 13
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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 - Applying CAT to Subtitle Translations: Defying the Norm?
Dr Minako O'Hagan, SALIS, Dublin City University
The Grammar Book and its Cultural Artefacts - Differences in the Expression of Racism in French and English
Dr Maggie Gibbon, Dublin City University
Máire Nic Mhaoláin
Dr Angela Leahy, SALIS, 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