Emelia (BMus Music) worked with the Baudelaire Song Project team over the summer to bring to light the work of female composers and performers who have responded to the poems of Baudelaire – not an easy task!
Tag: French Language
‘French Verse in Renaissance Britain’: A Joint Honours Dream
‘Women were responsible for producing some of the most important and popular texts translated in Renaissance Britain’ – Lucy Painter shares some of her findings from 5 weeks studying a range of translated books from Renaissance Britain.
Stepping into my Discomfort Zone: Is radicalisation and extremism represented in experimental Francophone Culture, and what even is Neuroaesthetics?
In July 2018, Maria Allon joined forces with Dr Stephen Forcer, head of the Modern Languages department, for the research project ‘Understanding Extremes: Neuroaesthetics, Radicalism, and Experimental Francophone Culture’. This post reflects on Maria’s time on the scholarship, and what she has learnt about how Islamic terrorism is reported in the Francophone world, and whether works of experimental film on the topic can be used in neuroscientific study.