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What a Performance!

Our British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Kate Guthrie consulted on a documentary for BBC 4, broadcasting this month. She writes about her experience: Vera Lynn In early September, I received out-of-the-blue an invitation to consult on a BBC 4 documentary. The producers were in the middle of filming a three-part series tracing the evolution of music hall in Britain, from its mid-19th-century roots, through the Golden Age of variety entertainment, to the working men’s clubs of the 1950s. Continue reading →

Presentations from TNS Debate 25th November 2015: Prof Jon Adams, Prof Neil Wrigley and Prof Ulrike Meinhof

The TNS Debate The Impact of Research What do we understand by it and what counts as evidence in the Humanities and the Social Sciences Please see below the presentations from the seminar: Wrigley – TNS Debate Adams – Impact REF2014 Meinhof – Impact study cultural diasporas The post Presentations from TNS Debate 25th November 2015: Prof Jon Adams, Prof Neil Wrigley and Prof Ulrike Meinhof appeared first on The Institute for Language and Culture. Continue reading →

New resources available from ILC research projects

Please visit the ILC research project resources page for an updated list of resources produced through recent research projects in the Department of Modern Languages. These include websites, online exhibitions, databases, lists of publications, and videos from ILC researchers. Enjoy! The post New resources available from ILC research projects appeared first on The Institute for Language and Culture. Continue reading →

Future Modern Languages students to visit the University

A further group of future Modern Languages students are participating in a visit day on Wednesday 9th December 2015 at the Avenue Campus to meet Modern Languages staff and students, and find out more about Modern Languages study at Southampton. Our visitors may be interested to take a look at Get Ready for Languages, an online resource which aims to guide you to useful information about life as a Modern Languages student at Southampton. Continue reading →

Miss Sara Burgerhart’s English guittar

Congratulations to postgraduate researcher Jelma van Amersfoort on her article, “Miss Sara Burgerhart’s English guittar: The ‘guitarre Angloise’ in Enlightenment Holland,” published in the most recent issue of the Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (TVNM), the journal of the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands. Continue reading →

New scheme from Welsh universities to tackle language learning decline

The BBC has reported on a new scheme being launched by four universities, aimed at tackling the decline in language learning in schools. In this pilot initiative, funded through the Global Futures programme, undergraduate students from Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea will be providing coaching and mentoring support to school pupils to help them improve their language skills. To read more about this project, visit the BBC website. Continue reading →

New research story: Berlin Lives by Patrick Stevenson

Berlin Lives: Multilingual Metropolis Patrick Stevenson We know a great deal about multilingualism – but not as much as we might think. It’s certainly true, for example, that great efforts have been devoted to identifying and counting the world’s languages: global language research organisations tell us that over 700 languages are spoken by indigenous peoples in Indonesia alone. Continue reading →

Cosmopolitan operetta

On the 24 and 25 November, we were privileged to welcome Derek Scott as the first guest speaker for this year’s programme of Hartley Residencies in Music.  Master’s student Catherine Garry reports: Professor Derek Scott Launched in February 2015, the Hartley Residencies are a series of two-day events during which an eminent scholar is invited to share and discuss their current research. Continue reading →

Joint TNS and Archaeology seminar: ‘Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage’

A joint Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) and Archaeology seminar will be taking place from 5:00-6:30pm on Wednesday 9th December 2015, in Room 1173, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled ‘Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage’ and will be presented by Dr Rodney Harrison, Reader in Archaeology, Heritage and Museum Studies at University College London and Director of the Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage research programme. Continue reading →