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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.

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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.

 

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