Author Archives: Erin Forward

MeXsu Seminar Wed 20th April 2016: Dr José Juan Olvera Gudiño

Please join us for the next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration seminar (MeXsu). When: Wednesday 20th April, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr José Juan Olvera Gudiño, CIESAS Unidad Noreste, Monterrey, Mexico Popular music and migration in the northeast of Mexico. Circuits and conjunctures in a transnational context This paper will provide a […]

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CLLEAR Seminar Wed 16th March: Dr Nigel Harwood

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 16th March, 4-6pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Nigel Harwood, University of Sheffield Experiencing master’s dissertation supervision: two supervisors’ perspectives Using a multiple case study approach (e.g. Duff 2008; Merriam 1998), I interviewed the […]

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CGE Seminar Wed 9th March 2016: Prof Li Wei

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 9th March 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Professor Li Wei, UCL-IoE Post Multilingualism, Translanguaging and Linguistic Creativity This talk looks at examples of translanguaging practices in complementary schools for minority ethnic children in the UK, multi-modality linguistic […]

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Slides available from Prof Anna Mauranen’s seminar on 24th February

“How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca?” by Prof Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector and Professor of English, University of Helsinki, Feb 24th, 2016 As ELF research has shown, communicating in English as a Lingua Franca is highly successful despite manifesting certain non-standard features, much along the lines of dialects and other non-standard varieties. […]

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Diamond Jubilee Project update

Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki and Professor of English, spent the week of 22nd February in Modern Languages working with Jenny Jenkins on the Diamond Jubilee Fellowship project, ‘Linguistic diversity on the international campus’, that they are co-directing. As well as making progress on the overall project, including catching up with the […]

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MeXsu Seminar Wed 2nd March 2016: Dr. Mónica Moreno Figueroa

Please join us for the next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar. When: Wednesday 2nd March, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr. Mónica Moreno Figueroa, University of Cambridge Racism, privilege and whiteness in Mexico Recognising racism in a context such as Mexico involves bringing the unrecognizable into the boundaries of recognition: Mexican practices […]

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Global Englishes PhD conference, Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton, Friday 24th June 2016

On Friday 24th June 2016 from 10am to 5.30pm we are holding a one-day conference for up to 50 PhD students who are researching any aspect of Global Englishes. The event will begin with a keynote from Professor Anna Mauranen and then the rest of the day will consist of presentations and discussions from PhD […]

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CGE Seminar Wed 24th February 2016: Prof Anna Mauranen

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 24th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector and Professor of English, University of Helsinki How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca? As ELF research has shown, communicating in English as […]

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MeXsu Seminar Wed 17th February 2016: Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos and Dr Rosina Marquez Reiter

Please join us for the next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar. When: Wednesday 17th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos, University of Southampton and Dr Rosina Marquez Reiter, University of Surrey The discursive construction of moral agents among Latin American entrepreneurs in Elephant and Castle. This paper examines stories […]

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POSTPONED: TNS Seminar Wed 10th February 2016: Dr Scott Soo

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 10th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1177, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Scott Soo ‘A place of utter desolation and abandonment…’: Administrative noise, neglect and the commemoration of the camp de Gurs. The camp de Gurs was an internment centre that was initially […]

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