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2024 Competition Winners
Esteban Devis-Amaya, Enora Lessinger and Laurence Mann: ‘Translating across Cultures and Languages Conference Series’ (Oxford Brookes)

Monica Boria, Catherine Franc, Ana Niño Alonso, Ángeles Carreres and Marcus Tomalin: ‘Translation and language education in the age of Generative AI: theoretical and practical frameworks’ (Manchester)

Elena Anna Spagnuolo and Andrea Hammel: ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Narrating Stories of Child Evacuees and Refugees, Rethinking Reception Policies and Practices’ (Aberystwyth)

‘What does the war in Ukraine mean for us?’ brings together scholars in Slavonic and East European studies, as well as the broader modern languages community, to reflect on how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is reshaping our field. How can we as scholars respond? How are current methodologies being tested and repurposed, and what new paradigms are emerging? The war poses a challenge not only to those working directly on Ukraine and Russia, but across modern languages and the humanities as a whole; it raises fundamental questions about the post-Cold War era and the critical tools we use to understand it, including transnational and decolonial approaches.
The event serves as a launch for a special issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies dedicated to these questions.
The roundtable, chaired by Connor Doak (Bristol), will feature Kateryna Botanova (Basel), Andy Byford (Durham), Victoria Donovan (St Andrews), Stephen Hutchings (Manchester), Catriona Kelly (Cambridge), Ve

Kevin Amoke, Interludes: Refugee Worlding in Postcolonial Literatures and Life Writing

Helen King, New Home: How Can Children become Active Participants in Literary Research into Refugee Narratives?

Mai Musié, Memnon, Andromeda, and Chariclea: Exploring Migration and Blackness Amongst Northeast African Diaspora Communities of London through Ancient Greek Storytelling

Charlotte Rudman, Capturing Medieval London: Framing and Perspective

Darya Tsymbalyuk, More-than-human Communities and Environmental Impacts of Russia’s war on Ukraine

REF2021 showcased examples of Languages/Humanities staff working with NGOs and Civil Society groups across the world.
This event aims to explore how we might work further with NGOs and Civil Society groups and discusses some of the opportunities and challenges presented.
The session will ask four questions:

13:30 How do we establish equitable and mutually respectful partnerships?
Speaker: Andrea Padilla (UK Collaborative on Development Research: UKCDR)

14:15 What can we learn from Languages colleagues who have worked with NGOs and Civil Society groups?
Speaker: Federico Federici (UCL)
Respondents: Angela Crack (Portsmouth); Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle); Hilary Footitt (ILCS)

15:15 What do NGOs say about the role of languages in their activities?
Speakers:
Helen Machin (Tearfund)
Laura de Oliveira (Save the Children International)

16:15 What’s next? How do we take this forward?
Concrete suggestions for next steps including Networks and Publications

Front cover of 'Annali d’Italianistica', volume 41

11:00 – 12:30
Building An Impact Case Study

Nuria Capdevila-Arguelles (Exeter)
Abir Hamdar (Durham)
Carol Tully (Bangor)

Chairs: Charles Burdett (ILCS) and Liz Wren-Owens (UCFL)

12:30 -13:00: Lunch break

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Speakers:

Francesca Dell'Olio (ILCS/University of London): 'On Italianness and Critical Transnationalism: Towards a Decolonial Praxis in Language Education Across Borders'
Guilherme Adami (Universidade de São Paulo): 'Decoloniality, Learning, and Playfulness: a Path to Making the Unspeakable Visible'
Rafael Lomeu Gomes (UiT Norges arktiske universitet): 'Decolonising Multilingualism: Language Teaching and Learning at the Home-school Intersection'
Francesca Helm (Università Degli Studi Di Padova): 'Building Translocal Relations as a Potentially Decolonial Practice in Language Education'
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza (Universidade de São Paulo): 'Language and Education: A Southern Perspective'
Li Wei (UCL Institute of Education): 'Translanguaging pedagogy and decolonising language education'

Chair(s): Charles Burdett (ILCS), Jamille Pinheiro Dias (ILCS/CLACS)

Speakers

Francesca Dell'Olio (ILCS/University of London): 'On Italianness and Critical Transnationalism: Towards a Decolonial Praxis in Language Education Across Borders'
Guilherme Adami (Universidade de São Paulo): 'Decoloniality, Learning, and Playfulness: a Path to Making the Unspeakable Visible'
Rafael Lomeu Gomes (UiT Norges arktiske universitet): 'Decolonising Multilingualism: Language Teaching and Learning at the Home-school Intersection'
Francesca Helm (Università Degli Studi Di Padova): 'Building Translocal Relations as a Potentially Decolonial Practice in Language Education'
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza (Universidade de São Paulo): 'Language and Education: A Southern Perspective'
Li Wei (UCL Institute of Education): 'Translanguaging pedagogy and decolonising language education'

Chair(s): Charles Burdett (ILCS), Jamille Pinheiro Dias (ILCS/CLACS)

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