INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH

School of Advanced Study • University of London

 

Languages and Environments Reading Group (2)

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25993

 

10 June 2022

3.00pm - 4.00pm BST, UK time

Online Reading Group

 

Please note this event has been rescheduled from 19 May

 

Convened by Joseph Ford (IMLR), Kasia Mika (QMUL), Nicola Thomas (Lancaster) and Daniel Finch-Race (Bologna) 

 

This reading group will explore environments across linguistic and disciplinary boundaries. 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.

In this session, Julia Jung (IMBRSea) will lead a discussion on the intersection of languages and the environment and the way how we talk and think leads to changes in our actions. With specific attention to how this has played out in the ocean, we’ll reflect on the powerful connection between language, belonging and action. 

Readings for this session are, as follows: 

•            Philip E. Steinberg (2018), Editorial: The ocean as frontier, International social science journal 68 (229-230): 237-240.
•            Celine Germond-Duret (2022), Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development, Development and Change 0(0): 1–27. 
•            Tero Mustonen et al. (2022), Who is the ocean? Preface to the future seas 2030 special issue, Rev Fish Biol Fisheries 32: 9–16

The readings can be accessed here.

 

Please register in advance to receive the online joining link. To register for this session taking place on Friday 10 June at 3pm BST go to: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25993

 

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