Events
Language Acts and Worldmaking Debates: Should Second Language Acquisition & Second Language Teaching be aligned & how?
This debate addresses one of the perennial issue surrounding Teacher Development in Primary, Secondary and Higher Education.
Online Skills for Modern Language Practitioners
This two-day workshop will provide an opportunity to try out online tools that can support the learning and teaching of languages in different contexts and how we can research this. This workshop will be aimed at MFL teachers.
The History of the Waiwai from the Arrival of the Missionaries to the Demarcation of Land
Rodrigo Waiwai, from the indigenous village Mapuera, in the northern part of the Brazilian Amazon, will give a talk on the history of the Waiwai taking as a departure point the first contact with the missionaries that settled in the area in the late 1940s.
The Waiwai and First Contact with the Missionaries
Rodrigo Waiwai, from the indigenous village Mapuera, in the northern part of the Brazilian Amazon, will give a talk on the history of the Waiwai taking as a departure point the first contact with the missionaries that settled in the area in the late 1940s.
Exploratory Practice for Continuing Professional Development
Exploratory Practice for Continuing Professional Development is part of the Language Acts and Worldmaking project under the Diasporic Identities research strand.
Between partitions and translations: Reviving Andalusian visions at the turn of the twentieth century Palestine
We will be welcoming Dr Yuval Evri (SOAS) to give a short talk about his current research on visions of Muslim/ Jewish cultural relations.
Language Acts and Worldmaking Debates: Modern Languages—A Discipline (still) in Search of an Identity?
The second Language Acts and Worldmaking debate will address three key issues: Are current definitions of language competence adequate for today’s multilingual populations and social encounters?
The Songs of Songs: Solomon, Rūmī, and St. John of the Cross
This is a poetic triptych with voices, songs and music based on: The Song of Songs attributed to King Solomon in the Bible (Old Testament), The Spiritual Canticles of St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) and The Odes on Mystical Love by the Persian poet Rūmī (1207-1273).
Faces of the Infinite
The conference is intended to generate the first comparative overview of the extent to which Neoplatonist philosophy has permeated poetic forms, styles, themes and figurative language as well as poetic theory in seven principal languages of the greater Mediterranean region, from late antiquity to the modern period.