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Modern Languages Inaugural lectures

Inaugural lectures from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

# Episode Title Description People Date
4 Of all things broken and lost: Durs Grünbein’s Perspectives on Dresden and the problems of modern Elegy Professor Karen Leeder delivers the inaugural Schwarz-Taylor Lecture Karen Leeder 17 Oct 2022
3 ‘Arriving before us’: seeing, ingenuity and imagination in Dante: Simon Gilson's Inaugural lecture During his inaugural lecture, Professor Gilson will show how ideas about vision and cognate faculties such as the wits and the imagination are central to Dante’s masterpiece, the Commedia. Simon Gilson 22 Oct 2019
2 Creative Commons The Materiality of Medieval Manuscripts Henrike Lähnemann’s Inaugural Lecture for the Chair in German Medieval Literature and Linguistics. Henrike Lähnemann, Richard Ovenden, Sally Mapstone, kristin püttmann 15 Feb 2016
1 Creative Commons The Future of German Studies Round Table on the occasion of the Inaugural Lecture of Henrike Lähnemann Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Wilhelm Krull, Dorothea Rüland, Katrin Kohl 19 Feb 2016