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 […]

The Centre for Transnational Studies hosts a new initiative on Debating Ethnography. The initiative was launched by Professor Marion Demossier and ML postgraduates Shawnee Harkness and Clelia Viecelli Giannotti. Its aim is to foster a research forum across the various disciplinary strands in Modern Languages, to engage more widely with ethnography as a research method, […]

Following the successful launch event, Intercultural Connections Southampton (ICS) are delighted to announce that their second Intercultural Staff Café will take place on Thursday 10 November 2016 from 14:30 – 16:30 in the Nuffield Kitchen. This is an opportunity to meet the University’s new Vice-President for Internationalisation, Professor Colin Grant. Professor Grant will be attending from 14:45 – 15:00. Complimentary drinks and cakes will be provided. The café […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Friday 14th October 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Tony Young, Newcastle University Intercultural Perspectives on Internationalising Universities More than four million people are now studying in Higher Education (HE) institutions outside their country of origin, and many […]

As part of the Intercultural Connections Southampton project, we’d like to find out more about your experience and feelings of working here.  We’ve written a short online questionnaire about intercultural and international aspects of working at the university and would be very grateful if you could complete it.  You can answer as much or as […]

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 […]

Please visit the ILC research project resources page for an updated list of resources produced through recent research projects in the Department of Modern Languages. These include websites, online exhibitions, databases, lists of publications, and videos from ILC researchers. Enjoy!