Digital Humanities subproject update: Languages and the UK Web Archive
Over the next few years and through a series of projects and events in collaboration with our cultural and community partners, our subproject will explore what a linguistically sensitive approach to research relating to digital technologies and media means in...
Unsettling Communities keynote and panel recordings now live!
Unsettling Communities: Minor, Minority and Small Literatures in Europe 23-24 February 2017 This conference focused on the comparative study of content, form, status, and reception of ‘minority’ writing in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. Speakers from...
Buenos Aires International Book Fair and Creative Writing/Literary Translation Workshop
The Creative Writing/Literary Translation workshop at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas, Buenos Aires was organised by Lucila Cordone (Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters) in collaboration with Cecilia Rossi (University of East...
Creative writing/Literary Translation workshop at the Instituo de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas, Buenos Aires
Images from the Creative Writing/Literary Translation workshop at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas, Buenos Aires, with Lucila Cordone (Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters) Cecilia Rossi (University of East Anglia) and novelist...
Early Career Researcher Event, Senate House, 29 March 2017
Dr Naomi Wells reports on the recent AHRC event she attended for Early Career Researchers from across the Open World Research Initiative, hosted at the IMLR Organised by Professor Janice Carruthers, Leadership Fellow in Modern Languages, and Dylan Law from the AHRC,...
Registration open for ‘Be not afeard: language, music and cultural memory in the operas of Thomas Adès’
With invited contributions from: Thomas Adès, Philip Hensher, Meredith Oakes, John Roeder (University of British Columbia), Peter Evans (Queen Mary University of London) and Mark Millington (University of Nottingham). Thomas Adès has drawn attention to the ‘mysterious...
Unsettling Communities conference report
Following on from a successful conference held in October 2015, Interpreting Communities: Minority Writing in European Literary Fields, this Institute of Modern Languages Research conference brought together scholars at the School of Advanced Study (University of...
Upcoming conference: Unsettling Communities: Minor, Minority and Small Literatures in Europe
Join us on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 February for 'Unsettling Communities: Minor, Minority and Small Literatures in Europe', a conference exploring the content, form, status, and reception of ‘minority’ writing in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. Click here for...
New report on Manchester’s linguistic landscapes now available
A new paper by Leonie Gaiser and OWRI multilingual strand leader Yaron Matras is now available. ‘The spatial construction of civic identities: A study of Manchester’s linguistic landscapes’ can be viewed here:...
Call for papers: Be not afeard: language, music and cultural memory in the operas of Thomas Adès
Senate House, London 24–25 April 2017 The conference organisers welcome paper proposals (20 minutes maximum, with 10 minutes for questions) for this event. The themes of the conference will include: The translingual negotiation between music, verbal, filmic and...