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 […]
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
This symposium will bring together scholars working on translingual women’s writing in the language fields of Italian, French and German. We will explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in languages that are not their mother tongues. Among the questions we will explore are the following: • Is translingual writing perceived by the […]
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 […]
Professor Rosaleen Howard is Chair of Hispanic Studies at Newcastle University. She joined the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool in July 2005 and works on the anthropology and sociolinguistics of the Andes. Her research is based on field work in areas where […]
This one-day workshop aims to probe whether the label and concept of a ‘minor literature’ (Deleuze/Guattari, 1975) can be usefully applied to contemporary writing by female Jewish authors in Germany and Austria. The workshop will explore what the term ‘minor’ could mean and contribute when discussing a broad range of contemporary authors and their aesthetics […]
This half-day workshop will explore research across languages as an embodied, sensory process. Scholars working with film, literature and participatory methods will focus particularly on questions of positionality and the role the senses play in the experience of the languages, cultures and objects we research. We will explore the opportunities and challenges of carrying out […]
