Please join us for a seminar given by the ILC visiting scholar Professor Ute Smit, University of Vienna. The seminar is also part of the CLLEAR and CGE seminar series. Wednesday 19 February 2014, 5:00 PM Avenue Campus Lecture Theatre C Topic: English-medium education in multilingual university settings: A sociolinguistic examination of interactive explaining in […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar on Wednesday 5 February at 5:00 PM (Avenue Campus Lecture Theatre C). The invited speaker is Dr. Victoria Murphy from the University of Oxford . The topic of her talk is ‘Multi-Word vocabulary and literacy development in children with English […]

The Institute for Language and Culture held a one-day symposium to explore New Directions for Research in Language and Culture on 6 November 2013. Recordings from the keynote speakers are now available on the ILC website in the Media content section. Enjoy! Professor Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool and AHRC Translating Cultures Theme Fellow Translating […]

Join us for the next Transnational Studies Seminar on Wednesday 29 January 2014. Art, Identity & Migration – The Spielberg Question David Glasser and Sarah MacDougall Ben Uri Gallery and Museum David Glasser, Executive Chair and Sarah MacDougall, Eva Frankfurther Curatorial Fellow for the Study of Émigré Artists of Ben Uri Gallery & Museum in […]

We will be holding an informal celebration of ML research with a  2013 imprint TODAY 9 December 2013, 5-6 in 65/1093. Colleagues are invited to present (in two minutes) one key research publication from 2013 – please contact Mary Orr (M.M.Orr@soton.ac.uk) with your name, title of your 2013 output, and its format (book, ed. volume, […]

Please join us for a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Centre for Global Englishes on English as a Lingua Franca in Higher Education Wednesday 4 December 5:00-6:30 PM Building 65 Lecture Theatre C   Researching English as the lingua franca of global higher education Many universities around the world nowadays describe themselves as ‘international’, and […]

The next seminar in the Centre for Transnational Studies seminar series will be given by Professor Carmen Bernand, Université Paris-X on ‘The Making of Latin American Music: Passion & Subversion’. Please join us on Wednesday 11 December 2013, 5.00pm-6.30pm in Building 65/1145. The Making of Latin American Music: Passion & Subversion   Professor Carmen Bernand, Université Paris-X The Americas […]

CLLEAR (Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research) and CGE (Centre for Global Englishes) will be hosting a seminar on Wednesday 20th November, from 5pm to 6.30pm in Lecture Theatre C. The speaker will be Dr. Martin Lamb, University of Leeds, on the topic: “Inspiring teachers: State school English Teachers who generate long- term […]

As part of the ILC symposium New Directions for Research in Language and Culture on 6 November 2013 Professor Marion Demossier, Modern Languages, will be giving her inaugural lecture ‘Changing Places.  The taste of Heritage in Burgundy’. The lecture will be chaired by Professor Ullrich Kockel, Heriot Watt University Edinburgh ‘Changing Places.  The taste of […]

The final programme for the ILC’s symposium ‘New Directions for Research in Language and Culture’ on Wednesday 6 November 2013 is now available. The full-day event will bring together researchers from Southampton and beyond to hear keynote presentations, engage in debates about the future of language and culture research, and hear about innovative research taking […]