UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator, with some thirty books to his name. His translations from Portuguese, Spanish and French include fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas, and non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. His books have won him both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (a prize he has also judged) and...

Joyce Crick taught German at UCL for many years. Since her retirement she has translated a variety of texts, including for Oxford World's Classics, which was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck prize in 2000, Selected Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and Kafka’s A Hunger Artist and Other Stories, both also for OUP. She talks here freely and widely about her explorations in English of Freud and Kafka. A hi...

In this podcast Timothy Mathews interviews Alessandro Gallenzi, the managing editor of Alma Books, about his long and varied experience in publishing translations of European literature and writing them. Hosted by Dr Tim Mathews (UCL) and Dr Simon Cooke (Wolfson College, Oxford). For further podcasts in the Between The Lines series visit the UCL website: www.ucl.ac.uk/cics/between-the-lines

The Lone Protestor - Fiona Paisley in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo. Fiona Paisley and Bernardine Evaristo discuss Fiona’s new work on the life of Anthony Martin Fernando, an Australian Aboriginal who protested against British imperial rule while he lived and worked in London and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s.

A conversation with translators Anthea Bell OBE and Dr Jo Catling about their work translating W.G. Sebald. Hosted by Dr Tim Mathews (UCL) and Dr Simon Cooke (Wolfson College, Oxford). For further podcasts in the Between The Lines series visit the UCL website: www.ucl.ac.uk/cics/between-the-lines

This lecture explores why Greek tragedy has played such a crucial role in the development of philosophy since the late eighteenth century. Focusing on the works of Hegel, Nietzsche and Freud, the lecture investigates how the return to antiquity was essential in formulating what we know today as the modern condition. From Hegel’s Antigone to Freud’s Oedipus, the predicament of the tragic protagonis...

The UCL Dutch Department hosted a panel discussion with Abdelkader Benali (author of Wedding by the Sea, and journalist) and Hisham Matar (author of In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and Booker Prize nominee) on freedom of speech, the Arab Spring and artistic responses now and in the past to revolutionary events. Jo Glanville, editor of Index on Censor-ship, chaired the event.

The monologue in a crowdsourced world: Have digital resources rendered the inaugural lecture obsolete? Digital resources and social media have changed fundamentally the way that we create, share and disseminate information. Digital Humanities (DH) is a collaborative interdiscipline where most research is done in teams. Yet the traditional inaugural lecture emphases the work of an individual: it ca...

Inspector Ermanno Sangiorgi was the courageous Italian policeman who, in late 1875, first discovered the most important piece of evidence in the history of the mafia: the ritual that must be undergone by anyone seeking to become a Man of Honour. In 2009 I unearthed a document in Sangiorgi's own hand that explains how the mafia took revenge against him. Sangiorgi tells a story rich in intrigue that...