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Call for papers for LLAS/UCML/AULC ‘Languages in Higher Education’ conference now open

The call for papers for the 8th biennial joint LLAS, UCML and AULC conference is now open. The event, entitled ‘Frameworks for Collaboration and Multilingualism’ will take place at the University of Warwick on 6-7 July 2016. The conference aims to bring together language practitioners from Secondary, Higher, and Further Education to celebrate language collaborations and innovations across the sector. Continue reading →

Italian film showing today: Mery per sempre / Forever Mary (Marco Risi, 1989)

The Italian film, Mery per sempre / Forever Mary (Marco Risi, 1989) (110 minutes, in Italian with Italian subtitles), will be showing in Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus, at 6.30pm on Monday 22nd February 2016. Review, introduction and discussion by Paola Visconti. All welcome! The trailer for this film can be viewed on YouTube. ************************************************* Questo film è ambientato in un carcere minorile di Palermo. Continue reading →

Centre for Global Englishes seminar: “How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca?”

The next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar will take place on Wednesday 24th February 2016 from 5 – 6:30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The talk is entitled “How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca?” and will be delivered by Professor Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector and Professor of English at the University of Helsinki. Continue reading →

Proposals for French spelling changes controversial

The BBC has reported on changes proposed to French spelling, approved by the Académie Française, which include the omission of the circumflex accent on some vowels, and of hyphens in some words. The news prompted a strong reaction on social media, following a report by the French TF1 website. You can read more and listen to a news report about the proposals on the BBC Website. Continue reading →

Italian film showing today: Lezioni di cioccolato / Chocolate Kisses (Alessio Maria Federici, 2011)

The Italian film, Lezioni di cioccolato / Chocolate Kisses (Alessio Maria Federici, 2011) (103 minutes, in Italian with Italian subtitles), will be showing in Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus, at 6.30pm on Monday 15th February 2016. Review, introduction and discussion by Paola Visconti. All welcome! The trailer for this film can be viewed on YouTube. Continue reading →

MeXsu Seminar next week: ‘The discursive construction of moral agents among Latin American entrepreneurs in Elephant and Castle’

The next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar will be taking place from 5:00-6:30pm on Wednesday 17th February 2016, in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled ‘The discursive construction of moral agents among Latin American entrepreneurs in Elephant and Castle’ and will be presented by Rosina Márquez-Reiter from the University of Surrey and Adriana Patiño-Santos from the University of Southampton. Continue reading →

Brazilian Carnival at the Students’ Union

This Saturday, SLAPS (the Spanish, Latin American and Portuguese Society) and the Brazilian Society are holding a Carnival in Bar 2 of SUSU (Southampton University Students’ Union) this Saturday. A display about the event can be seen along the north corridor of Avenue Campus, and more information about the event, including where to buy tickets, is available on the Facebook event page. Continue reading →

Study suggests different written languages are equally efficient at conveying meaning

The results of a recent study, led by the University of Southampton, suggest that despite the difference in the forms of different languages, native speakers of those languages can read passages in a comparable amount of time to each other. The languages used for the experiment were English, Finnish and Mandarin Chinese. Find out more details about the experiment on the University of Southampton news page. Continue reading →

University welcomes in the Year of the Monkey

University students and staff will be participating in celebrations today organised by the Confucius Institute to mark the Chinese New Year. A variety of activities and workshops will be taking place between 11:00 and 14:00 in the SUSU concourse, Highfield Campus, including calligraphy, Chinese knot weaving, paper cutting, Chinese games, tea ceremony, traditional music and an historical costume show. Continue reading →