Dear colleagues

 

The AHRC Open World Research Initiative flagship project Language Acts and Worldmaking is pleased to share with you the full programme for our Worldmaking Live festival, happening King’s College London, Bush House 8^th floor, 3 June 9.30am – 5pm. We’d be delighted if you could come for all or part of the day.

 

Language Acts believes that languages and language learning help us encounter other peoples, cultures and ways of being – and since 2016, as part of our OWRI remit, we’ve funded small projects and events across the UK and abroad exploring this. Join us as we bring many of these projects together for the first time to examine the ways in which languages are experienced, practised, taught and researched. This diverse, exciting showcase will feature presentations, stalls, performances, posters, films and more, in what will be a celebration of all that the scheme has achieved so far: a Worldmaking community.

 

This event is free but registration is essential. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/worldmaking-live-tickets-61090543460 (includes lunch).

 

Programme

9.30am Registration & coffee

10.00 Welcome Prof Catherine Boyle

10.05 Worldmaking Live Stand displays, posters, films

Reveries about language: Sound, Image, Word Film and poetry collection

Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani Mina Ray

Ragadawn (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach, 57.5º T) Film

Shona Cameron

Enhancing the Visibility of Language Teaching and Learning Research in the UK: a Wikipedia Editathon Poster

Anna Comas-Quin

Classroom Acts: Performativity, Identity and the Emergence of New Communities in German Language Teaching Finger puppets and photos

Natalie Diebschlag & Daniela Dora

Multilingual Poetry Translation as a Catalyst for Change – Franco-Australian Connections Poster

Daniel Finch-Race & Valentina Gosetti

Language Learning Opens Doors to Other Worlds: Memory Acts through Digital Technologies Stand display & film

Tallulah Machin

Dynamics of Languages in Society Student Conference Poster

Anna Johnston & Christopha Da-Silva

Multilingual Digital Storytelling, Museum Artefacts and the Arts: Creative Pathways to Language-and-Culture Learning Film and 3 posters

Vicky Macleroy & Jim Anderson

Language, Communication and Restorative Justice: a One-Day International Workshop for Researchers and Practitioners Poster

Sarah Maitland

Austria in Transit: Displacement and the Nation State Poster

Aine McMurtry

Enjoyment as a Key to Success? The Role of Emotions in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Poster

Pia Resnick & Christine Schallmoser

Phragma: a binaural biography of the River Acheloos Sound installation

Nicolas Salazar Sutil & Stuart Mellor

Mother Tongue Other Tongue Poetry anthologies

Sarah Schechter

11.00 Morning Presentations

11:00 Classroom Acts: Performativity, Identity and the Emergence of New Communities in German language teaching

Natalie Diebschlag & Daniela Dora

11:15 Giving Languages the X Factor: Mother Tongue Other Tongue

Sarah Schechter

11:30 Multilingual Poetry Translation as a Catalyst for Change – Franco-Australian Connections

Daniel Finch-Race & Valentina Gosetti (Skype)

11:45 Everywhen: Knowing the Past through Language and Culture

Laura Rademaker (Skype)

12:00 Questions

12.20pm Performance: Reveries about Language: Sound, Image, Word 

Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani Mina Ray (with sound artist Alo Allik and Bridget Knapper)

1.00 ­Lunch

1.45 Afternoon Presentations

1:45 Phragma: a binaural biography of the River Acheloos

Nicolas Salazar Sutil & Stuart Mellor

2.00 Eloquentia Academica: The Theory and Practice of Early Modern Latin Academic Rhetoric

Sarah Knight

2:15 Dynamics of Languages in Society Student Conference

Anna Johnston & Christopha Da-Silva

2:30 Questions

2.45 Performance: Eritrean Coffee Conversation

Barbara Spadaro & Ruth Berhane

3.15 Afternoon Presentations

3.15 Project DaRT: A Collaborative Postgraduate Community of Practice in Translation Studies

Laura Linares

3.30 Enhancing Intercultural Understanding, Integration and Inclusion through the Arts

Mabel Victoria

3.45 Multilingual Digital Storytelling, Museum Artefacts and the Arts: Creative Pathways to Language-and-Culture Learning

Vicky Macleroy & Jim Anderson

4.00 Questions

4.15 Worldmaking Live Stand displays, posters, films

5.00 Thanks & close Prof Catherine Boyle

 

For further information about the Small Grants scheme and to read about some of the awardees' projects, please see https://www.languageacts.org/related-projects/.

 

We hope to see you there

 

Language Acts and Worldmaking team

 

Language Acts and Worldmaking

An AHRC Open World Research Initiative flagship project www.languageacts.org

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