Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 25th November 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1173, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Neil Wrigley, Prof Jon Adams and Prof Ulrike Meinhof The Impact of Research: What do we understand by it and what counts as evidence in the Humanities and […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 18th November 2015, 4-6pm Where: Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C Who:  Prof Jeannette Littlemore, University of Birmingham The Creative Use of Metaphor and Metonymy in Language Learning and Intercultural Communication Studies of figurative language (particularly metaphor) have […]

Henry Ettinghausen, who joined the Department of Spanish in 1965 and was Professor of Spanish at Southampton from 1983 until he retired in 2001, has just published online How the Press Began. The Pre-Periodical Printed News in Early Modern Europe (304 pages, incl. 90 illustrations, SIELAE, 2015. JANUS DIGITAL, ANEXO 3). It can be downloaded […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wed 21st October 2015, 4-6pm Where: Avenue Campus, 65/LTC Who: Prof Theo Marinis, University of Reading Acquiring definite and indefinite articles across populations: L2 children, children with SLI and children with Autism Spectrum Disorders In this talk I […]

When: Wed 14th October, 5-7pm Where: Avenue Campus, 65/LTC Who: Dr Ying Wang, University of Southampton Chinese university students’ ELF awareness: Impacts of language education in China A wealth of research into the global phenomenon of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has motivated the call for the development of ELF awareness in language pedagogies. […]

“The Benefits of Conflict: Trust and the Politics of Heritage in a Troubled World.” When: Friday 6 November, 6 pm Where: Avenue Campus, 65/LTB Photo credit: Archaeological Ethnography on Poros Island, Greece, directed by Y. Hamilakis (photo: F. Ifantidis).

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies seminar. When: Wed 7th October 2015 5-7pm Where: 65/LTC Ethnographic Insights into the Superdiverse Language Context of Belize In this presentation, I discuss the multiple indexical meanings of languages in a non-European and multilingual context with strong transnational traditions to study the links between social […]

Dr Jane Lavery’s book The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires (Oxford: Legenda) has received further media coverage in Mexico’s leading El Universal. See below for links to the article and an interview with Dr Lavery on El Universal’s TV channel. Estudian la obra multimedia de Ana Clavel La obra […]

Professor Marion Demossier was recently invited to contribute to a workshop in Paris, Fondation Jean Jaurés on “The threatening ‘Other’? On the collective imagination surrounding the Roma in France”. The workshop was organised by Counterpoint, a research consultancy based in London as part of the Bridges Project in collaboration with the Open Society European Policy […]

Professor Roumyana Slabakova, Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR), has recently published an article about her research on The Conversation. Read more here: Me, myself or I? Why it’s hard to use pronouns in the right way