Author Archives: Erin Forward

Cross-centre seminar Wednesday 8th March 2017

Cross-centre seminar, led by the Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) and chaired by Professor Jennifer Jenkins. When: Wednesday 8th March 2017, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Clare Mar-Molinero, Prof Roumyana Slabakova, Dr Dick Vigers and Prof Jennifer Jenkins. Perspectives on multilingualism Over the past ten years or so, multilingualism […]

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MeXsu Seminar Wednesday 1st March 2017: Fortíno Domínguez Rueda

When: Wednesday 1st March 2017, 5:15-6:45pm Where: Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Fortíno Domínguez Rueda, Universidad de Guadalajara Resistencias indígenas en el México contemporáneo: La lucha de los zoques de Chiapas, el Congreso Nacional Indígena y la propuesta de una candidata independiente a la presidencia de la república en el 2018. (Indigenous resistance […]

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Explore and experience Portuguese food cultures

Foodways of Knowing: Culture and Identity in the Portuguese Diaspora Join us on Monday 6th March at 5pm in Avenue 65/1163 for an evening of exploring and experiencing Portuguese food cultures, with Dr Rhian Atkin, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at Cardiff University and Principal Investigator of Calouste Gulbenkian-funded research project ‘Pão e […]

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TNS Seminar Wednesday 22nd February: Prof Patrick Stevenson

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 22nd February, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Room 1177, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Patrick Stevenson, University of Southampton The Language of Others: Writing Berlin Lives Berlin is a multicultural and multilingual city in the heart of Europe. But what do we know […]

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Wine and Tea Study Day 11th March 2017

We are what we drink: Understanding drinking cultures from the perspective of French Wine and Chinese Tea 11 March 2017, 10:00 – 16:15, Avenue Campus We are what we drink! What does tea tell us about the Chinese or Burgundy about the French? What does drinking means to the people who consume or, equally tellingly, refuse to […]

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Film screening for LGBT History Month

Join us in celebrating LGBT History Month 2017 with a free event on the subject of Trans Identities on Screen: Local and Global Perspectives. The event will include a screening of Tchindas (Cape Verde, 2016) and THEY (UK, 2016), followed by a Q&A on queer and trans representation in film, with local artist and maker of […]

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CGE Seminar Wednesday 8th February: Dr Sonia Morán Panero, University of Southampton

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 8th February 2017, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Lecture Theatre C Who: Dr Sonia Morán Panero, University of Southampton Orientations towards English as a lingua franca in the Spanish-speaking world: What is ‘English’ (for)? In this talk, I explore how university students from […]

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Debating Ethnography

The Centre for Transnational Studies hosts a new initiative on Debating Ethnography. The initiative was launched by Professor Marion Demossier and ML postgraduates Shawnee Harkness and Clelia Viecelli Giannotti. Its aim is to foster a research forum across the various disciplinary strands in Modern Languages, to engage more widely with ethnography as a research method, […]

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MeXsu and Department of Film Joint Seminar and Film Screening Wednesday 1st February 2017

When: Wednesday 1st February 2017, 5.15-7pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Pablo Naverette Part of the annual seminar series for the Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu). British activist Jody McIntyre travels to Venezuela with UK-Iraqi rapper Lowkey to spend time with ‘Hip Hop Revolución’, a dynamic collective of musical revolutionaries. They witness their […]

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CLLEAR Seminar Wednesday 11th January: Professor Monika Schmid

When: Wednesday 11th January, 4-5.30pm Where: B65, Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Professor Monika Schmid, University of Essex Once a native, always a native? Language attrition and constraints on bilingual development Part of the annual seminar series for the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR). Bilinguals are not, as François Grosjean […]

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