On 24 June 2016, the University of Southampton’s Centre for Global Englishes held a one-day international PhD conference on Global Englishes in the Marcus Liebherr Lounge of Southampton Football Club. This conference was designed for doctoral and early postdoc students working in the research field of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), or more broadly, […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collbaration (MeXsu) seminar. When: Wednesday 11th May, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Lecture Theatre C Who: Prof Cathy McIlwaine, Queen Mary University of London Onwards and downwards: labour market experiences of onward Latin American migrants in London Drawing on recent research with the Latin American community in […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 4th May, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Jo Angouri, University of Warwick ‘The politics of language in the global workplace’ The study of multilingualism, language policy and planning have a long tradition in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 27th April, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1177, Avenue Campus Cross-Faculty Debate on Migration Research The Centre for Transnational Studies in the School of Humanities and the interdisciplinary Migration@Soton Research Network are organising a joint discussion meeting to discuss the current state of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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. […]

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 […]

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 […]