Languages in contact: social, cultural, and formal analysis

Trgovski dom, Corso/Korzo Verdi 52 Gorizia/Gorica, Italy Organised in partnership with the Slovene Research Institute (SLORI), the University of Udine (Italy) and the University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia), this conference will explore language contact phenomena among minorities and/or border communities in Italian/Slovenian border region. Programme 8.30-9.00: Registration 9.00: Welcome speeches 9.30-11.00: PART 1 9.30-10.00: Janice […]

Modos de producción, revolución y transición al capitalismo en América Latina

Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla Ctra. de Utrera, 1, 41013, Sevilla, Spain

This international conference is hosted in collaboration with Universidad Pablo Olavide, Seville, and Universitat Jaume I. Poster Call for Papers For more information please contact: congresomodosdeproduccion@gmail.com This event is organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research in collaboration with the Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Universitat Jaume I

International Symposium on Translingual and Transcultural Studies

This international symposium aims to contribute to the intellectual and multidisciplinary framework of studying translingual and transcultural communication that will help develop a better understanding of key issues in the practice of this important and complex field of research. Jointly organized by Zhejiang University (China) and Durham University (UK), the symposium brings together scholars who […]

Iberian Sound Cultures

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Recent years have seen a growing interest in ‘sound studies’, a field of study that addresses the role of the auditory in culture and society. This one-day symposium seeks to establish a dialogue between sound studies and Iberian cultural studies. It intends to examine the place of sound both across a range of Iberian contexts […]

Beyond Words: Multimodal Encounters in Translation

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Research into the theory and practice of translation has traditionally focused on the conversion of source texts into target texts. However, during the past decade the rise and sprawl of digital media has ensured that interconnections between different visual, aural, and oral modalities have acquired much greater cultural prominence – a development that has destabilised […]

Fulfilling Indigenous Peoples’ and Minority Rights to Culture and Language

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

The conference is supported by the Cassal Trust Fund and OWRI Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community, and is jointly convened by the Human Rights Consortium, the Institute of Modern Languages Research (School of Advanced Study, University of London), and Brunel University Law School - also in association with Senate House Library and the 12th Native Spirit […]

Call For Papers: Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Integration, Community and Co-Habitation

A conference of the UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin in collaboration with the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Call for papers deadline: 10 January 2019 Conference dates: 25-27 September 2019, Dublin Global mass migration on an unprecedented scale; dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean by refugees who are […]

The Politics of Contemporary German Culture

St Andrews University

At the University of St Andrews. Supported by the OWRI/IMLR Regional Conference Scheme. Co-organisers: Dr Dora Osborne (St Andrews), Dr Katya Krylova (Aberdeen), Dr Frauke Matthes (Edinburgh) This conference seeks to understand how the contemporary cultural landscape in Germany and Austria is being shaped by current political concerns and to consider, through dialogue between academics and […]

Living with/on the Border: writers, language and identity in north-east Italy from the end of World War II to the present.

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

This conference examines writing and identity in north-east Italy. We will explore the experiences, reflected in writers from the 1940s to the present, of the migrations of peoples between ex-Yugoslavia and Italy as a result of the end of WWII and its on-going aftermath. These experiences were often traumatic and are reflected in culture, language […]