Events

Game Changers II: human-computer interaction and climate action

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Lynda Dunlop will present the concept for a funding application to explore questions at the intersection of human and computer interaction, climate science and social movement theory with online publics.

How mothers’ speech influences children’s cognitive abilities, literacy skills, and educational achievement

Wednesday 29 May 2024

Anna Brown presents 'SES-related gaps in language ability -- are mothers really to blame?'

“The varicultural, translanguaging, and beginning with the small” - a talk by Professor Adrian Holliday

Monday 20 May 2024

This talk will look at how a seamless varicultural flow of diversity runs across the boundaries of cultures, both big and small, that are constructed within it.

Reassessing self-other constructions in intercultural communication

Friday 17 May 2024

In this seminar, we invite a discussion of Othering as a way of identifying inequality and injustice and promoting a more critical and contextualised understanding of cultural issues.

Bill 7633 on the restriction of the use of Russian text sources in Ukrainian research and education: analysing dynamics of the language policy in times of war

Wednesday 1 May 2024

This study looks into the current language policy in education and research in Ukraine and focuses on the issue of the influence of Russia-Ukraine war on shaping and debating this policy.