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  • Ethnography and Modern Languages: Critical Reflections

    Ethnography and Modern Languages: Critical Reflections

    November 4, 2017 9:45 am - November 4, 2017 5:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Writing Pain: Creative Summit

    Writing Pain: Creative Summit

    October 21, 2017 9:00 am - October 21, 2017 5:00 pm

    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, […]

     
  • Translating Development

    Translating Development

    October 12, 2017 1:00 pm - October 12, 2017 4:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Common Cause Workshop, Glasgow

    Common Cause Workshop, Glasgow

    September 27, 2017 10:00 am - September 27, 2017 4:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Liverpool Travel Seminar XI: Travel, Text and Image

    Liverpool Travel Seminar XI: Travel, Text and Image

    September 23, 2017 10:30 am - September 23, 2017 4:45 pm

    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 […]

     
  • The Future of Data in Public Life

    The Future of Data in Public Life

    September 19, 2017 6:00 pm - September 19, 2017 8:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Sites of Suffering, Sites of Memory: An AHRC/LABEX Symposium

    Sites of Suffering, Sites of Memory: An AHRC/LABEX Symposium

    September 15, 2017 2:30 pm - September 16, 2017 12:45 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Perspectives on Language and Translation Work in Business Communities

    Perspectives on Language and Translation Work in Business Communities

    September 14, 2017 8:45 am - September 14, 2017 5:00 pm

    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

    March 26, 2017 1:30 pm - March 26, 2017 4:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Researching translanguaging: key concepts, methods, and issues

    Researching translanguaging: key concepts, methods, and issues

    June 19, 2017 9:00 am - January 23, 2017 5:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Transnational Modern Languages

    Transnational Modern Languages

    December 2, 2016 9:00 am - December 3, 2016 5:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Human Zoos: The invention of the Savage

    Human Zoos: The invention of the Savage

    November 17, 2016 8:00 am - November 25, 2016 5:30 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities

    Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities

    November 17, 2016 9:00 am - November 25, 2016 5:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Beyond Language: Co-production and collaboration in language research

    Beyond Language: Co-production and collaboration in language research

    November 7, 2016 8:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Transnational Italies: Mobility, subjectivities, and modern Italian cultures

    Transnational Italies: Mobility, subjectivities, and modern Italian cultures

    October 26, 2016 9:30 am - October 28, 2016 7:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Beyond Words: A day to play with a sideways slant on language

    Beyond Words: A day to play with a sideways slant on language

    October 22, 2016 11:00 am - October 22, 2016 5:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas

    All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas

    June 10, 2016 10:30 am - June 10, 2016 5:00 pm

    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, […]

     
  • Shakespeare in French

    Shakespeare in French

    June 8, 2016 10:00 am - June 8, 2016 6:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Empires of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Sahara and the Steppe

    Empires of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Sahara and the Steppe

    May 27, 2016 9:00 am

    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 […]

     
  • A Network Assembly: Communication in the Superdiverse City

    A Network Assembly: Communication in the Superdiverse City

    May 13, 2016 9:30 am - May 13, 2016 4:15 pm

    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 […]

     
  • ‘Writing Place’

    ‘Writing Place’

    May 6, 2016 6:00 pm - May 6, 2016 7:30 pm

    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, […]

     
  • Literary Translation, Cultural Diplomacy and International Dialogue

    Literary Translation, Cultural Diplomacy and International Dialogue

    April 25, 2016 5:00 pm - April 25, 2016 7:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World

    Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World

    April 4, 2016 9:00 am - April 25, 2016 9:00 am

    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. […]

     
  • Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Reshaping the Discipline for the 21st Century

    Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Reshaping the Discipline for the 21st Century

    February 26, 2016 10:00 am - February 26, 2016 2:15 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Digital Transformations & Translating Cultures: An Update on AHRC Themes

    February 24, 2016 11:00 am - February 24, 2016 12:30 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Researching Multilingually: Possibilities and Complexities Postgraduate Workshop

    Researching Multilingually: Possibilities and Complexities Postgraduate Workshop

    February 12, 2016 10:00 am - February 12, 2016 4:00 pm

            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? […]

     
  • 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?

    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?

    January 8, 2016 9:11 am - January 28, 2016 11:00 am

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  • West African Literature and Thought in French: Translating Cultures

    West African Literature and Thought in French: Translating Cultures

    January 22, 2016 9:30 am - January 22, 2016 5:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Transnationalizing Modern Languages Summer School, Venice

    Transnationalizing Modern Languages Summer School, Venice

    September 21, 2015 9:00 am - September 24, 2015 5:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Authors and the World: Discourse on Literary Celebrity across Genres

    Authors and the World: Discourse on Literary Celebrity across Genres

    March 12, 2015 9:00 am - March 13, 2015 5:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Linguistic and Cultural Interchange: Policies and Practices

    Linguistic and Cultural Interchange: Policies and Practices

    February 20, 2015 9:45 am - February 20, 2015 5:45 pm

    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 […]

     
  • The Caribbean in Translation

    The Caribbean in Translation

    February 18, 2015 5:15 pm - February 18, 2015 6:15 pm

    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 […]

     
  • ‘Translating Cultures’: An AHRC Presentation by Professor Charles Forsdick

    ‘Translating Cultures’: An AHRC Presentation by Professor Charles Forsdick

    February 13, 2015 11:00 am - February 13, 2015 12:00 pm

    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.

     
  • What Is the Value of History in Policymaking?

    January 23, 2015 9:00 am - January 23, 2015 4:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Translating Cultures: A Symposium, 28-29 March 2014

    March 3, 2014 7:00 am - March 3, 2014 1:00 pm

    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 […]

     
 

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  • Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) Call for applications for funding from flexible funding pot

    Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) Call for applications for funding from flexible funding pot

    13th July 2017 / 0 comments

        MEITS is an exciting multidisciplinary project funded by the AHRC under its Open World Research Initiative (OWRI). It includes six research strands which explore multilingualism from a range […]

     
  • Common Cause Workshops 2017

    Common Cause Workshops 2017

    21st June 2017 / 0 comments

      Come and join us at Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, Liverpool on Wednesday 19th July 2017 for an opportunity to talk about meaningful partnerships between universities and BME arts, cultural […]

     
  • Common Cause Research Survey

    Common Cause Research Survey

    5th March 2017 / 0 comments

    We are pleased to announce the Common Cause Research project has launched its survey looking at collaborative Arts and Humanities research between universities and Black and minority ethnic communities. We […]

     
 

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  • Ethnography and Modern Languages: Critical Reflections

    Ethnography and Modern Languages: Critical Reflections

    November 4, 2017 9:45 am - November 4, 2017 5:00 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Liverpool Travel Seminar XI: Travel, Text and Image

    Liverpool Travel Seminar XI: Travel, Text and Image

    September 23, 2017 10:30 am - September 23, 2017 4:45 pm

    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 […]

     
  • Sites of Suffering, Sites of Memory: An AHRC/LABEX Symposium

    Sites of Suffering, Sites of Memory: An AHRC/LABEX Symposium

    September 15, 2017 2:30 pm - September 16, 2017 12:45 pm

    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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