Page contents > September | Re-opening of the Language Centre Enquiries and Study Area | October | Velvet Revolution Quiz Night | How the arts made the Velvet Revolution | Comrade Couture | French Visual Art and Politics | November | Talking Stock: Germany 20 Years after the Fall of the Wall | December | Songs for after a war | La Grande Bouffe | January | February | Pinhole exhibition: Tinned cities ( Ciudades enlatadas) | LSE Second Life Exhibithin: Déjà Vu? | March | April | Language - Theory, Practice & Policy | May | June
In 2009 the LSE Language Centre will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a series of events. Some of these will be celebrations of existing projects...
September
Re-opening of the Language Centre Enquiries and Study Area
Date: Friday 25 September 2009; 10:00-15:00
Venue: C722, Clare Market Building, LSE, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE
To celebrate the reopening of our Reception, following a refurbishment over the Summer, we would like to invite members of LSE to come and see us, share something to drink, and find out more about the LSE Language Centre and what we do.
All this will be taking place on the European Day of Languages|.
October
Velvet Revolution Quiz Night
Date: Wednesday 14 October 2009
Time: 18:30
Venue: Quad Bar, East Building
A quiz matching innocent current LSE undergraduates against LSE staff whose academic specialisation (not to mention age) should give them an unfair advantage, and accompanied by press footage from the 1989-1990 period. Explore the high (and low, and even kitsch) culture of the 1980's. Info: Olga Sobolev (o.sobolev@lse.ac.uk|)
How the arts made the Velvet Revolution
Date: Wednesday 21 October 2009
Time: 18.30-20:00
Venue: Shaw Library, Old Building
Speaker: George Szirtes
An evening event, including a reading by the award-winning Hungarian émigré poet George Szirtes, together with performances of one act plays by Beckett and Havel, will be presented in the Shaw Library.
Comrade Couture
Date: Wednesday 28 October 2009
Time: 18:30-20:30
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
A journey into the amazing parallel universe of East Berlin’s fashion designers and experts in the art of survival. In the midst of the constraints of life in the GDR, there existed a fantasy world where it was possible to be individual and follow your own drummer. The most important characteristic of this bohemian scene was one’s personal style. But this was not something that could be purchased off the rack in the GDR. It was up to you to create your own image – to create your style with your own hands. In Comrade Couture| (pictured) we observe the desires, the passion and the dreams that were tried and tested, lived and performed in the shadow of the Berlin Wall.
Marco Wilms is director and producer of HELDENFILM. He grew up in the former German Democratic Republic and was spotted by a talent scout as a potential model when he was a student. Hence his own personal experience of the politicised alternative fashion scene of East Germany in the 1980s. He studied directing at the University of Potsdam Babelsberg. He has taught film-making in Vietnam and Thailand (for DAAD), in Russia (for GOETHE INSTITUT), in Berlin Germany (for HDK), and taught pitching in Lisbon (for EDN).
This screening will be followed by a discussion between Marco Wilms and Nick Byrne, Director of the Language Centre, LSE. Info: Nick Byrne (n.byrne@lse.ac.uk|)
French Visual Art and Politics
The French language team will work again with international visual artist Michel Herreria| throughout 2009-10. With Flippant| and Comment dire?| Michel previously created a series of graphic animations for LSE students. These are used as pedagogical props to discuss in French issues in politics in the post-A level LN130 French Language & Society 3| (Advanced). Info: Hervé Didiot-Cook (h.didiot-cook@lse.ac.uk|)
November
Talking Stock: Germany 20 Years after the Fall of the Wall
Date: Friday 20 and Saturday 21 November 2009
Time: 16:00
Venue: LSE
The Symposium “Talking Stock: Germany 20 Years after the Fall of the Wall” is jointly hosted by the LSE Language Centre, the Goethe-Institut London|, and the AMGS (Association for Modern German Studies)|, with input from some DAAD Lektoren. It will offer a round table talk by six international figureheads, and investigate economic, social, historical and political perspectives.
Parallel to the series of talks delivered in English, and debated in English and German, there will be a parallel programme of workshops for learners studying for AS /A2 and other similar examinations (CEFR: B1/B2 Level). Topics on offer: Business in East and West, Green Issues, Film/s, Neue Literatur, Zeitgeschichte, Demographic Change, Migrants, Nation-Building, Popkultur and ‘Double Club’. In the run-up to the conference, students will interact via the AMGS website| to prepare their personal or group presentation for the first workshop on Friday afternoon, outlining their views on “Germany Today”. Info: Astrid Küllmann-Lee (a.t.kuellmann-lee@lse.ac.uk|)
December
Songs for after a war
Date: Tuesday 1 December 2009
Time 18:30-20:20
Venue: D202, Celement House
The 3rd Session of Spanish in Motion|, Domesticating opinion: Propaganda and Censorship, starts with the film Songs for after a war (Canciones para después de una guerra, 102 min, 1971)|. Two more screening will take place this session, the second in January 2010 and the third in March 2010.
La Grande Bouffe
Date: Monday 14 December 2009
Time: 18:00 until late
Venue: El Camino
January
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No events scheduled to date
February
Pinhole exhibition: Tinned cities (Ciudades enlatadas)
Date: 16-23 February 2010
Venue: Atrium Gallery, Old Building, LSE
Inauguration: 16 February 2010, Time: 19.30.
This exhibition is part of a multidisciplinary project integrating art, marketing research and Spanish language for social sciences. Collaborating with the Spanish section of the LSE Language Centre on this project are:
Other Events in February:
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Sino-English and Theatre events with LSE literary festival
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China Development society/Chinese New Year
LSE Second Life Exhibithin: Déjà Vu?
Date: 25 February 2010 (onwards)
Venue: LSE Second Life Island
Inauguration: 25 February 2010, Time: 16:00
As part of the French Language & Society course (LN330), LSE students have curated the first ever LSE art exhibition on Second Life with graphic animations created by French visual artist Michel Herrreria and various artefacts from LSE campus.
As part of the project, Michel Herreria will be artist in residence at LSE during the week of 22 - 26 February and he will also be working closely with LN130 students on political stencils and graffitis.
This project is sponsored by LSE Annual Fund, Language Centre and Centre for Learning Technology
For further details, please check the LSE French Projects Page
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March
April
Language - Theory, Practice & Policy
Date: 15-16 April 2010
Venue: LSE
The LSE Language Centre has been awarded an EU grant to host a major language conference in April 2010; Languages in Europe - Theory, Policy and Practice |- with the aim of setting up a European wide network where HE language providers will share information on methodology, activities and good practice to see how effective EU policies are in areas of multi-lingualism and social mobility.
There will be two consultation events leading up to the conference, one at the House of Lords, another at the LSE. We will be working with the government agency 'The Languages Company' (originally part of DCSF) which will be our partner in the project under the personal direction of the Languages Czar, Dr. Lid King.
May
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Asian Languages workshop with Bristol University
June
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No events scheduled to date