Events
Out of the Wings Festival
The Out of The Wings annual festival returns to London on 2nd-6th with a fantastic programme of rehearsed play readings, workshops and a one-day forum celebrating theatre in translation.
Languages Memory: Conference
In our first conference, Languages Memory, we want to enliven our awareness of the ways in which languages are experienced, practised, taught and researched. We will reflect upon the place of language learning and engage with the material and historical force of languages in the world. The programme is in development and will be available shortly and registration will be open in due course.
Languages Inheritance: Roundtable
This roundtable brings together international authors Mireille Gansel and Faïza Guène with literary translators Ros Schwartz and Sarah Ardizzone to discuss languages inheritance and languages memory, across the writing and translation process.
Migrant Shores: Poetry Reading
This evening of poetry readings includes a selection of works from the recently published anthology, Migrant Shores. This book defies negative assumptions about the possibilities of translating poetry, and the capacity of poetry in translation to create new international readerships.
Making New Worlds from Old: The Translation and Transference of Ancient Mythology into Contemporary Hispanic Theatre (and Beyond)
This afternoon and evening event addresses this practice in today’s Hispanic theatrical tradition, examining the manner in which writers from the Spanish-speaking world readapt tales from the Biblical and ancient worlds for their respective audiences.
Worldmaking Wordshop: A stitch in time...
The Diasporic Identities strand of our Language Acts and Worldmaking project is involved with Counterpoints Acts and the Open University in co-organising and co-curating a week-long event, Who are we?, as part of Tate Exchange at Tate Modern London.
A Workshop for Translators and Interpreters: Languages at Times of Crisis
A two-day workshop for translators and interpreters which will use drama techniques and artistic practice to enable participants to explore and reflect upon aspects of their experience of working with languages in society today.
A Professional Learning Partnership: Developing and enacting language teacher identities across borders
In this seminar, we will share our experience of exploring our identities as teachers, language professionals, and expatriates, who have crossed cultural, institutional and virtual borders.
Language Acts and Worldmaking Debates: Interculturality and Creativity in Language Education
Can language pedagogy adopt an approach to Intercultural Communication that privileges less functional agendas in favour of more creative ones?
London Centre for Languages and Cultures Easter School 2018
The LCLC Easter school aims to give students an insight into university-style language study. The main objective of the Easter school is to push students' knowledge of their curricular languages beyond what they are taught in the classroom.