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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

30 March 2017 – 1 April 2017 Avenue Campus, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, SO17 1BF Beliefs about language and language uses play a central role in social life. As a well-established field of inquiry, the study of language ideologies has allowed researchers from different approaches and disciplines (discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, social psychology, […]

The 25th EuroCALL conference will be held at the University of Southampton, in the United Kingdom, from 23rd -26th August 2017. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st January 2017 Submit your abstract here: http://www.eurocall-languages.org/conf2017 The programme will include individual papers, symposia, workshops, presentations on EU-funded projects, and posters. EUROCALL conferences are hosted under the auspices of the […]