Events
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Ethnography and Modern Languages: Critical Reflections
This workshop is intended to provide a forum to critically reflect on the position of ethnographic approaches and methods within modern languages research and teaching. Ethnography is a growing area […]
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Writing Pain: Creative Summit
The AHRC-funded research network Translating Chronic Pain is hosting a Creative Summit at Lancaster University. The event will bring together people living with chronic pain, representatives of pain charities, medical practitioners, […]
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Translating Development
A free seminar organised by INTRAC and the Universities of Reading and Portsmouth, with the support of the Institute for Modern Languages Research (IMLR). This seminar aims to provide a […]
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Common Cause Workshop, Glasgow
How do academics talk to Black and minority-ethnic (BME) artists? How can BME-led arts, cultural and heritage organisations make more mutually productive collaborations with Universities? There is a ‘common […]
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Liverpool Travel Seminar XI: Travel, Text and Image
The Liverpool Travel Seminar is a collaborative and interdisciplinary research forum launched jointly by Liverpool Hope University, the University of Liverpool, and Liverpool John Moores University in 2007. It provides […]
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The Future of Data in Public Life
The British Library is hosting the latest of its Data Debates on 19th September, in its Knowledge Centre. In this debate, a panel of experts will discuss what the future of data […]
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Sites of Suffering, Sites of Memory: An AHRC/LABEX Symposium
The symposium marks the end of the project ‘Dark tourism in comparative perspective: sites of suffering, sites of memory’, a Franco-British initiative funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council […]
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Perspectives on Language and Translation Work in Business Communities
Richard Hoggart Building Room 304 Goldsmiths, University of London 14 September 2017 08:45 – 09:15 Registration 09:15 – 09:30 Welcome (Susanne Tietze and Sarah Maitland) 09:30 – 11:30 Professor […]
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Films in Translation: All is not lost
The Films in Translation project is running a Let’s Talk public roundtable event at the BFI, London Southbank: Foreign Language Films and Cultural Mediation: Audiovisual Translation and its Publics View […]
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Researching translanguaging: key concepts, methods, and issues
5-Day Residential Course June 19th – June 23rd 2017 School of Education, University of Birmingham This free 5-day residential course is designed for researchers, including doctoral researchers, who […]
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Transnational Modern Languages
The Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8NX Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December 2016 Teaching and research in Modern Languages are conventionally structured in ways which […]
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Human Zoos: The invention of the Savage
Through an exhibition – the first presentation in the UK of Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage – and related activities (films, talks and discussions), audiences will be invited to explore […]
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Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities
What does it mean to be human? Why does our perception of what human ‘is’ actually matter? The University of Liverpool, home of the Translating Cultures theme leadership team, is […]
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Beyond Language: Co-production and collaboration in language research
University of Jyväskylä, Finland 7/12/16 Jessica Bradley, of Translating Cultures large grant project Translation and Translanguaging (TLANG), is leading a participatory workshop focussed on co-produced research and practice and their affordances for applied linguistics […]
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Transnational Italies: Mobility, subjectivities, and modern Italian cultures
The British School at Rome 26-28 October 2016 Keynote speakers: Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Marina Warner Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, 26 October, 6pm Large Grant project Transnationalizing Modern Languages is running […]
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Beyond Words: A day to play with a sideways slant on language
University College London Saturday 22 October, 11:00-17:00 The research team of the Translating Cultures project Child Language Brokering will be presenting a film and exhibiting art work created by young interpreters and translators […]
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All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas
British Library, Friday 10th June 2016, 10:30-17:30 This study day brings together leading specialists to explore Shakespeare’s cultural presence in Europe and the Americas. No writer’s work has been translated, […]
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Shakespeare in French
Date: 08/06/2016 – 10:00 – 18:00 Place: Institute of Modern Languages Research Venue: Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies Keynotes: Florence March, Nathalie Guérin (Université Paul […]
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Empires of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Sahara and the Steppe
Spectacular New Exhibition ‘Empires of Emptiness –Fortresses of the Sahara and the Steppe’ opens at Jackfield Tile Museum, Ironbridge 23 May – 21 September, 10am-5pm A stunning new […]
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A Network Assembly: Communication in the Superdiverse City
13th May 2016 Thinktank Birmingham’s award-winning science museum (http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/thinktank) Globalisation and changing patterns of migration mean ‘superdiverse’ cities are increasingly populated by speakers of multiple languages. The Arts […]
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‘Writing Place’
Members of the public are invited to ‘Writing Place’, a free event at which three contemporary authors will read from their recent books on landscape and place: – Karl Whitney, […]
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Literary Translation, Cultural Diplomacy and International Dialogue
The AHRC-funded project on the translation of the literatures of smaller European nations is pleased to announce its third public workshop, which will take place on Monday April 25th at […]
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Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World
This free online course has been developed by some of the RM Borders team and Elwira Grossman in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. […]
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Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Reshaping the Discipline for the 21st Century
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Friday, 26 February 2016 Recent public policy statements have stressed the need for concerted action to address the fact […]
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Digital Transformations & Translating Cultures: An Update on AHRC Themes
Wednesday, 24th February 2016, 11-12:30 School of the Arts Library 1st Floor, 19 Abercrombie Square, Liverpool L69 7ZG The AHRC’s themes, Digital Transformations and Translating Cultures provide a […]
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Researching Multilingually: Possibilities and Complexities Postgraduate Workshop
Am I allowed to include scholarly literature in Turkish? What if I conduct my interviews in Mandarin but have to write all my thesis in English? […]
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Thinking through the impacts of the globalisation of English(es) – What are the implications for the teaching and learning of languages, and what are the opportunities for working with multiple languages in research projects?
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West African Literature and Thought in French: Translating Cultures
A day celebrating contemporary writing in French from West Africa British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London £25 Adult; £18 60+; Student £15; Registered Unemployed £15; 18- £15; Friend […]
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Transnationalizing Modern Languages Summer School, Venice
Translating Cultures Large Grant Project Transnationalizing Modern Languages is organising a Summer School of lectures, seminars, discussions, and research activities in Venice, focussing on linguistic and cultural interchange in modern […]
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Authors and the World: Discourse on Literary Celebrity across Genres
Venue: Lancaster House Hotel conference centre, Green Lane, Lancaster, LA1 4GJ How does literary celebrity manifest in different genres? To what extent do authors, and ideas of authorship, translate from […]
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Linguistic and Cultural Interchange: Policies and Practices
University of Warwick Campus – Room LIB 2 20 February 2015 This is the first workshop of the AHRC-funded project, ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern […]
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The Caribbean in Translation
Location: Room 121, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham This even is part of the University of Birmingham’s Department of Modern Languages seminar series, organised in partnership with the FRANCOPOCO and Postcolonial […]
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‘Translating Cultures’: An AHRC Presentation by Professor Charles Forsdick
Location: The Project Room (1.06), University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square. Accompanying presentations from Translating Cultures grant holders Dr Genevieve Warwick and Dr Hephzibah Israel.
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What Is the Value of History in Policymaking?
Ministers and officials regularly invoke the phrase ‘learning the lessons from history’ without appreciating what it actually means. Understanding what history is, how it can help, is an important part […]
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Translating Cultures: A Symposium, 28-29 March 2014
A symposium on ‘Translating Cultures’ was held at Senate House, University of London, on 28/29 March 2014 to present and explore projects linked to the AHRC theme. Invited speakers included […]
