Tag Archives: France

Wine and Tea Study Day 11th March 2017

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 […]

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Translating secularism conference: updated programme

Translating secularism/ Traduire la laïcité Varieties of secular society 18-19 September 2015 Institut Français de Londres Professor Michael Kelly  will be hosting a two-day conference at the Institut Français de Londres on 18-19 September 2015 on: Translating secularism/ Traduire la laïcité: Varieties of secular society. Please see below for the updated programme. To register for this event, […]

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Registrations open for Translating Secularism conference 18-19 September

Professor Michael Kelly  will be hosting a two-day conference at the Institut Français de Londres on 18-19 September 2015 on: Translating secularism/ Traduire la laïcité: Varieties of secular society. Please see here for the full programme. To register for this event, please email :  tstl2015@soton.ac.uk with the following information :  full name / dept and […]

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“The threatening ‘Other’? On the collective imagination surrounding the Roma in France” Why Anthropology matters?: Contribution by Prof Marion Demossier

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 […]

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Translating secularism conference, 18-19 September Institut Français London

Professor Mike Kelly will be hosting a two-day conference at the Institut Français de Londres on 18-19 September 2015 on: Translating secularism/ Traduire la laïcité: Varieties of secular society. Please see below for the full programme. Friday 18th September 10.30-11.00 Welcome and introduction to the colloquium (Michael Kelly, University of Southampton) 1.00-12.30 Theories and Practices […]

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Recent publications from ILC researchers

Some more recent publications from ILC researchers in the Department of Modern Languages: Marion Demossier Demossier , Marion (2014) Sarkozy and Roma: performing securitization. In, Maguire, M., Frois, C. and Zurawski, N. (eds.) The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control. London, GB, Pluto Press, 24-44. Jaine Beswick Beswick, […]

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ILC seminar: Research leave presentations 1 October 2014

Join us on Wednesday, 1st October 2014 from 5.00pm-7.00pm in 65/ 1177 for the first ILC seminar of 2014-15. Research Leave presentations Dr Jane Lavery: ‘The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires’     Dr Mark Dinneen: ‘Brazilian Popular Culture: from Community Tradition to the Hybrid’       Dr […]

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Video recordings from ILC Symposium available now!

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 […]

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Professor Marion Demossier Inaugural Lecture 6 November

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 […]

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‘It’s all in the name: road signs and language memory in Brittany’.

Discarded in the hedgerow on a minor road in western Brittany, France was a signpost to Goulitquer; three metres away by the road, upright and mounted on a shiny new pole, emblazoned with a tiny coat of arms a sign to Goulitkêr. ‘Goulitquer’, ‘Goulitkêr’ are the same place of course, but the change of ‘q’ […]

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