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INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study * University of London

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Languages and Environments Reading Group
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23941

Tuesday 16 March, 2021
14:30-15:30
Online Reading Group

Convened by Daniel Finch-Race (Ca' Foscari), Kasia Mika (QMUL) and Nicola Thomas (Bristol)

This reading group will explore environments across linguistic and disciplinary boundaries. We will meet online, once every two months.

Participants will be invited to reflect on tensions between - on the one hand - needing a lingua franca for such research and - on the other hand - valuing non-Anglophone terms, discourses, and cultures in ways that move beyond dominant linguistic hierarchies and colonising forces.

Matters for discussion will include: what would help to foreground the value of working across languages in the context of environmental concerns? What landmark environmental studies have occurred in languages other than English? What are some particularly inspiring collaborations about environmental matters involving multiple languages and disciplines? What could a multilingual and multidisciplinary approach to environmental issues achieve?

The organisers warmly welcome all interested in discussing approaches to languages and environments, and the languages of environmental research, including graduate students, early career academics, and activists and practitioners working outside of academia.

The first text we'll discuss as part of this reading group is Natalie Eppelsheimer, Uwe Küchler and Charlotte Melin's 'Claiming the Language Ecotone: Translinguality, Resilience, and the Environmental Humanities'<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rnN2ClKiyY0gR2BuE22JijBob0e0uLnW/view>, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2014). The text can be accessed at the following link<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rnN2ClKiyY0gR2BuE22JijBob0e0uLnW/view>

If you are interested in attending the first meeting on Tuesday 16 March at 14:30 GMT you will need to register in advance to receive the online event joining link.
Go to: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23941 to register.


INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study | University of London
Room 239 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK
http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London is the UK's national centre for the facilitation and promotion of research in the humanities and social sciences.

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