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May 13, 2023 wezg

Review: Adventure Everywhere – Pablo Picasso’s Paris Nightlife – by Dave Haslam

I like the art of Picasso, I like the city of Paris, and I like the books of Dave Haslam. I was therefore pleased to hear of the release of this book which studies the life and art of famous

October 31, 2022 wezg

Le Clic-Clac Pourri

[Literary Translation FR>EN] Ce jour-là, je n’avais pas les yeux en face de trous. Nous avions fait la fête toute la nuit, et jen’avais que deux petites heures de sommeil au compteur, dans le clic-clac pourri de ma soeur, don’t

May 30, 2022 wezg

Le Clan du Néon

Le Clan du Néon combat le gaspillage en éteignant publicités et enseignes lumineuses Baptisés Le Clan du Néon, Pêcheurs d’énergie ou Zéro Watt, des militants écologistes, actifs dans plus de vingt villes en France, mènent des expéditions nocturnes pour éteindre

March 20, 2021 wezg

Achats en Ligne

Il ne fait aucun doute que, alors que notre société entre dans le XXIe siècle, l’évolution des technologies l’accompagne. Les achats en ligne sont déjà une tendance croissante depuis quelques années. Comment la pandémie de Covid-19 a-t-elle affecté cette tendance?

March 20, 2021 wezg

Achats en Ligne

November 21, 2018 wezg

Contemporary Francophone “Afropean” Writers: From Francophonie to the Banlieue – Christopher Hogarth. School of Creative Industries, University of South Australia – Cardiff University MLANG 21.11.18

“Afropean” is a term that has its origins with David Byrne, the Talking Heads front man. It was used to describe a music fusion. Silvia Brancato on “Afro-European Literature” as “New Discursive Category”. This talks of the “Reciprocal embeddedness” of

December 22, 2017 wezg

Les Réseaux Sociaux

Les réseaux sociaux sont des phénomènes assez récents et dans la décennie qui a suivi son émergence, il a changé la façon dont nous utilisons Internet à travers le monde. Les « réseaux sociaux » renvoient à l’usage social d’internet

December 15, 2017 wezg

Nineteenth Century Revolutions and the French Working Classes

Q] What was the impact of the revolutions and political uprisings of 1830, 1848 and 1870 on the French working classes? The French Revolution was a critical event in global history. The effects of this revolution continued to reverberate across

November 30, 2017 wezg

Review: French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy – by Nick Parsons

This book focuses on the different components that comprise French Industrial relations, neatly divided up into 8 distinct chapters with a thorough introduction and conclusion. Each chapter goes into detailing a particular aspect of the French Labour movement. It looks

November 29, 2017 wezg

Seminar Presentation: A History of French Labour – 29.11.17

Today I gave a seminar presentation on the History of French Labour and below is the 15 slide presentation I prepared on Powerpoint for the seminar. History of French Labour – Seminar 29.11.17 The history, present and future of the

November 15, 2017 wezg

Review: France 1815-1914 The Bourgeois Century – by Roger Magraw

This book focuses on post-revolutionary France, during a period where the bourgeois consolidated their gains from 1789. Three further revolutionary changes of power occurred in France during the studied century and again it was the bourgeois who gained the most

November 10, 2017 wezg

La nationalité française, ça se mérite

« La nationalité française, ça se mérite ». Que pensez-vous de ce jugement ? Peut-être, dans un monde moderne et sans frontières du XXIe siècle, le besoin critique d’une identité nationale pourrait-il être moins pertinent qu’il ne l’était il y a plusieurs décennies.

October 29, 2017 wezg

Review: Marxism and the French Left – by Tony Judt

This is an in depth study of socialism in France. The book is broken up into a series of long chapters, each covering a critical period of the political left in France. The emergence of working class political culture in

October 29, 2017 wezg

Review: Marxism and the French Left – by Tony Judt

October 25, 2017 wezg

Review: A Social History of France in the 19th Century – by Christophe Charle

This is a translation from the original French and as such I feel that sometimes reads a little strangely as an academic study in that it sometimes has an unusual technique for presenting ideas. It is quite rich in statistics

October 25, 2017 wezg

Review: A Social History of France in the 19th Century – by Christophe Charle

October 25, 2017 wezg

World Talk Series – Cardiff University MLANG – Oh Lord, Emmanuel – Macron’s Fall From Grace? By Dr Nick Parsons – 25/10/2017

Delivered by experts from Cardiff University’s School of Modern Languages, the World Talk Lecture Series is a new series of talks on topics of current interest in various countries around the world. Dr Nick Parsons – Biography Nick Parsons completed

October 25, 2017 wezg

World Talk Series – Cardiff University MLANG – Oh Lord, Emmanuel – Macron’s Fall From Grace? By Dr Nick Parsons – 25/10/2017

October 8, 2017 wezg

Review: Revolutionary Syndicalism and French Labor: A Cause Without Rebels – by Peter N. Stearns

This short book, written in 1971, is a study of syndicalism and its effects on the French Labour movement in the twenty years preceding World War 1. French workers had learned the effectiveness of striking to improve their wages and

October 8, 2017 wezg

Review: Revolutionary Syndicalism and French Labor: A Cause Without Rebels – by Peter N. Stearns

September 30, 2017 wezg

Review: Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité at Work – by Steve Jefferys

This is a relatively concise look at Employment relations in France. Taken from a contrastive Anglo-Saxon point of view, the author explores the intricacies of the French economic system and how industrial relations are different in France than other Western

March 15, 2017 wezg

The Repeating Island – Representations of the Francophone Caribbean

With close reference to Benitez-Rojo’s notion of the ‘repeating island’, discuss how the Francophone Caribbean has been represented by writers, travellers and artists. This essay shall focus on how various writers, travellers and artists have represented the Francophone Caribbean.

December 21, 2016 wezg

Le Filtre Français

Après les attaques terroristes à Paris en novembre 2015, un filtre qui vous permet de changer votre photo de profil à celle du tricolore français est apparu sur Facebook. Ce filtre vous permet supposément de montrer votre solidarité avec les

December 17, 2014 wezg

Careers in Translation and Interpreting Event, Aston University, 17.12.14

On 17th December, with my translation (BA) colleague, Isabelle, from Cardiff University, we headed up the train tracks to the Midlands to the Careers event at Aston University. http://translation.blogs.aston.ac.uk/2014/11/18/careers-in-translation-and-interpreting/ The day’s talks promised to offer multiple perspectives on the different

December 17, 2014 wezg

Careers in Translation and Interpreting Event, Aston University, 17.12.14

November 2, 2014 wezg

Review: Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong – by Jean-Benoit Nadeau

Although this book was written over a decade ago, it is a great study of the French people that is still relevant today. It is an anthropological assessment and takes a broad stance in how it assesses France. The authors

October 17, 2014 wezg

Review: Derrida: A Very Short Introduction – by Simon Glendinning

The philosophy of Jacques Derrida keeps cropping up on my reading in Translation Studies. I’m getting a vague idea of deconstruction but really need to tackle the works of the man himself to truly understand his philosophy. I thought I’d

October 14, 2014 wezg

Review: The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance – by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Luise von Flotow, Daniel Russell

I discovered this book in the Cardiff University library and thought it would provide a valuable insight into translation in history. I am interested in general history of the Renaissance and Middle Ages and found that this book helped to

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