Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: School of Modern Languages
Abstract
Italy offers an exceptional example for the study of translating cultures. In the 150 year history of the country as a nation state, communities identified as Italian have formed all over the world, while in the last 30 years Italy has also become a destination country for migrants from a variety of national, religious and ethnic backgrounds. All these communities have shaped the way in which 'Italianness' is understood within the nation and beyond its confines, while contributing to the formation of local identities in linguistic and cultural contexts markedly different from Italy.
The project will examine the forms of mobility that have defined the development of modern Italian culture and its interactions with other cultures across the globe. It will concentrate on a series of exemplary cases, representative of the geographic, historical and linguistic map of Italian mobility. It will look at the Italian communities established in the UK, the US, Australia, South America; at colonial settlement in Africa; and at the migrant communities in contemporary Italy.
Focussing on the cultural associations that each community has formed, the project will examine the wealth of publications and materials - journals, literature, life stories, photographs, collections of memorabilia, and other forms of representation - that are associated with these organizations. It will investigate the processes of translation that are evident at every level of the communities in question and that characterize all the textual/ visual material associated with them. It will analyse the significance of the choice of writing in the language of the host community or in that of the country of origin; the hybridization of linguistic codes. It will focus on the circulation of texts and materials within the communities themselves and beyond, examining the impact they have on notions of national identity.
At the same time as the project develops insights into transnational Italian cultures, it will produce a new framework for the discipline of Modern Languages as a whole, one which sees the study of the interaction of cultures as its most essential characteristic. The project will bring together researchers from the different subject areas of Modern Languages and show the importance of the connection with research in other arts and social science disciplines. In order to achieve this aim, the project will produce a major work of scholarship on the theory and practice of cultural translation, a reader on culture and translation for students of Modern Languages and a website which functions as a hub for related work on this theme. It will also serve to enhance public understanding of Modern Languages by fostering public debate between discipline specialists and policy makers.
The research outputs are intended to produce new frameworks to address contemporary concerns regarding linguistic/ geographical/ cultural mobility, they will serve an important pedagogical function, and will be of clear benefit to the wider community. They consist of five edited volumes, explicitly intended to further new methods of studying national languages and cultures and their inter-relation; three workshops; two international conferences and an exhibition to be staged at a variety of international locations; the website will provide an interactive context for the above publications and activities. The highly inter-disciplinary nature of the PhD and post-doctoral projects are intended to prepare a new generation of researchers in advancing skills of inter-cultural and inter-lingual awareness. The inter-disciplinary nature of the project, its addressing of new resources and its establishment of new research frameworks which locate translation and mobility at the centre of the study of contemporary cultures. The dissemination of the outputs is designed to take place at every level of secondary and higher education and to have clear public policy implications.
The project will examine the forms of mobility that have defined the development of modern Italian culture and its interactions with other cultures across the globe. It will concentrate on a series of exemplary cases, representative of the geographic, historical and linguistic map of Italian mobility. It will look at the Italian communities established in the UK, the US, Australia, South America; at colonial settlement in Africa; and at the migrant communities in contemporary Italy.
Focussing on the cultural associations that each community has formed, the project will examine the wealth of publications and materials - journals, literature, life stories, photographs, collections of memorabilia, and other forms of representation - that are associated with these organizations. It will investigate the processes of translation that are evident at every level of the communities in question and that characterize all the textual/ visual material associated with them. It will analyse the significance of the choice of writing in the language of the host community or in that of the country of origin; the hybridization of linguistic codes. It will focus on the circulation of texts and materials within the communities themselves and beyond, examining the impact they have on notions of national identity.
At the same time as the project develops insights into transnational Italian cultures, it will produce a new framework for the discipline of Modern Languages as a whole, one which sees the study of the interaction of cultures as its most essential characteristic. The project will bring together researchers from the different subject areas of Modern Languages and show the importance of the connection with research in other arts and social science disciplines. In order to achieve this aim, the project will produce a major work of scholarship on the theory and practice of cultural translation, a reader on culture and translation for students of Modern Languages and a website which functions as a hub for related work on this theme. It will also serve to enhance public understanding of Modern Languages by fostering public debate between discipline specialists and policy makers.
The research outputs are intended to produce new frameworks to address contemporary concerns regarding linguistic/ geographical/ cultural mobility, they will serve an important pedagogical function, and will be of clear benefit to the wider community. They consist of five edited volumes, explicitly intended to further new methods of studying national languages and cultures and their inter-relation; three workshops; two international conferences and an exhibition to be staged at a variety of international locations; the website will provide an interactive context for the above publications and activities. The highly inter-disciplinary nature of the PhD and post-doctoral projects are intended to prepare a new generation of researchers in advancing skills of inter-cultural and inter-lingual awareness. The inter-disciplinary nature of the project, its addressing of new resources and its establishment of new research frameworks which locate translation and mobility at the centre of the study of contemporary cultures. The dissemination of the outputs is designed to take place at every level of secondary and higher education and to have clear public policy implications.
Planned Impact
Transnational Italies has two broad aims: to write an alternative history of Italy since Unification, and reposition Modern Languages within the Academy. The concept and practice of cultural translation as we define it will have enormous global cultural and social impact, and make an exemplary contribution to a discipline in crisis.
Primary Beneficiaries
1. Members of the Italian community associations we work with include: St Peter's Italian Church (London), CO.AS.IT (Melbourne), Archivio memorie migranti (Rome), Patronato ACLI Brasile (Sao Paolo), Club Juventus (Addis Abeba)
We have identified less formal networks in Scotland and Argentina. We will use the existing networks of bodies such as the Italian Cultural Institute (London) and the Calandra Institute (New York) to engage with Italian communities in these locations.
Association members will provide primary material for the bilingual output: Italy Elsewhere, and for the exhibition series. Their active collaboration in producing outputs will generate reflection on family and community histories of change and continuity. Attendance at memory/art workshops, or theatre events with people outside the Italian community will lead to a contextualisation of processes of cultural exchange. Through the public validation of their contribution to the construction of a vernacular Italian national culture. Through Facebook and Twitter, their local experience will be placed in a global perspective.
2. Members of the communities in which the associations are located
The Project extends beyond the Italian heritage community to involve the general public in questions of translation and cultural diversity. Other linguistic communities will be addressed as active participants in events. The writing workshops facilitated by Shirin Ramzanali Fazel will be directed to any non-native speaker of English interested in creative writing. Art workshops will explore issues of translation through the creative adaptation of artistic techniques from different cultures. The photographic recall workshops explore photography as a way of creating cultural narratives. Theatre events in the UK as well as in Melbourne will be open public events.
3. Secondary School pupils
Transnational Italies will revise the place and function of Modern Languages in schools. The integration of 'Translating Cultures' activities into the Scottish S1-S3 curriculum will be assessed through written and verbal feedback from students and teachers. Samples of work will be collated and regarded as qualitative feedback. The experience at Drummond will result in the production in App integrating translation across the Humanities curriculum. The App will allow the project to feed into the English school curriculum, facilitated by school liaison contacts at Warwick and Bristol.
4. Public bodies
Transnational Italies stresses the importance of cultural translation in policy making and the delivery of public services. For many government bodies and NGOs translation is essential. We will involve agencies such as the Refugee Council to examine how such bodies understand and use translation. An NGO representative will join the Advisory Board. We will produce a series of information documents on aspects of 'Cultural translation in public practice' for distribution to public bodies.
Summary of Impact:
a. Recognize the complex and strategic role of translation in everyday cultural encounters
b. Enhance understandings of the value of translation in its multiple forms as a means of maintaining and inventing cultural tradition and identity
c. Validate a bicultural experience and history
d. Foster an understanding of cultural production as a key site of identity creation and change
e. Facilitate a creative engagement with diverse cultural traditions
f. Further social cohesion in a multilingual context
g. Inform the policy of public bodies in relation to translation and cultural identity
Primary Beneficiaries
1. Members of the Italian community associations we work with include: St Peter's Italian Church (London), CO.AS.IT (Melbourne), Archivio memorie migranti (Rome), Patronato ACLI Brasile (Sao Paolo), Club Juventus (Addis Abeba)
We have identified less formal networks in Scotland and Argentina. We will use the existing networks of bodies such as the Italian Cultural Institute (London) and the Calandra Institute (New York) to engage with Italian communities in these locations.
Association members will provide primary material for the bilingual output: Italy Elsewhere, and for the exhibition series. Their active collaboration in producing outputs will generate reflection on family and community histories of change and continuity. Attendance at memory/art workshops, or theatre events with people outside the Italian community will lead to a contextualisation of processes of cultural exchange. Through the public validation of their contribution to the construction of a vernacular Italian national culture. Through Facebook and Twitter, their local experience will be placed in a global perspective.
2. Members of the communities in which the associations are located
The Project extends beyond the Italian heritage community to involve the general public in questions of translation and cultural diversity. Other linguistic communities will be addressed as active participants in events. The writing workshops facilitated by Shirin Ramzanali Fazel will be directed to any non-native speaker of English interested in creative writing. Art workshops will explore issues of translation through the creative adaptation of artistic techniques from different cultures. The photographic recall workshops explore photography as a way of creating cultural narratives. Theatre events in the UK as well as in Melbourne will be open public events.
3. Secondary School pupils
Transnational Italies will revise the place and function of Modern Languages in schools. The integration of 'Translating Cultures' activities into the Scottish S1-S3 curriculum will be assessed through written and verbal feedback from students and teachers. Samples of work will be collated and regarded as qualitative feedback. The experience at Drummond will result in the production in App integrating translation across the Humanities curriculum. The App will allow the project to feed into the English school curriculum, facilitated by school liaison contacts at Warwick and Bristol.
4. Public bodies
Transnational Italies stresses the importance of cultural translation in policy making and the delivery of public services. For many government bodies and NGOs translation is essential. We will involve agencies such as the Refugee Council to examine how such bodies understand and use translation. An NGO representative will join the Advisory Board. We will produce a series of information documents on aspects of 'Cultural translation in public practice' for distribution to public bodies.
Summary of Impact:
a. Recognize the complex and strategic role of translation in everyday cultural encounters
b. Enhance understandings of the value of translation in its multiple forms as a means of maintaining and inventing cultural tradition and identity
c. Validate a bicultural experience and history
d. Foster an understanding of cultural production as a key site of identity creation and change
e. Facilitate a creative engagement with diverse cultural traditions
f. Further social cohesion in a multilingual context
g. Inform the policy of public bodies in relation to translation and cultural identity
Organisations
- University of Bristol (Lead Research Organisation)
- Arnhem Wharf Primary School (Collaboration)
- Castlebrae Community High School (Collaboration)
- Stills Gallery (Collaboration)
- Ikon Gallery (Collaboration)
- International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) (Collaboration)
- National Records of Scotland (Collaboration)
- SabirFest (Collaboration)
- Scottish Power Ltd (Collaboration)
- Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) (Collaboration)
- Creative Scotland (Collaboration)
- Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) (Collaboration)
- Multi-Cultural Family Base (Collaboration)
- Dante Alighieri Society Liverpool (Collaboration)
- Italian Historical Society (Collaboration)
- Lampedusa in Hamburg (Collaboration)
- Drummond Community High School (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- MammaMia Liverpool (Collaboration)
- Monash University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Italian Cultural Institute (Project Partner)
- Italian Institute of Culture (Project Partner)
- Christian Assoc for Italian Workers ACLI (Project Partner)
- Co.As.It. (Project Partner)
- Stills (Scotlands Ctr for Photography) (Project Partner)
- Global and Local (Project Partner)
- Queens College, CUNY (Project Partner)
- Migrants Memories Archive (AMM) (Project Partner)
Publications
Polezzi L
(2020)
A Conversation about Translation and Migration
in Cultus: The Journal of International Mediation and Communication
Polezzi L.
Cultural Translation Studies: Italy
Polezzi L.
(2020)
Transnational Italian Studies
Polezzi L.
(2015)
review: Tirabassi, Maddalena, e Alvise del Pra', La meglio Italia. Le mobilità italiane nel XXI secolo, Torino: Centro Altreitalie/aAccademia University Press, 2014
in Italian American Review
Polezzi L.
(2020)
Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation
Santello M
(2017)
'Quella era veramente è Little Italy, la nostra Little Italy': Multiple centres, cultural presence and the articulation of spaces of speech from Tasmania
in Language in Society
Simon S
(2022)
Translation and the material experience of migration A conversation
in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Spadaro B
(2020)
Transnational Italian Studies
Spadaro B
(2018)
Remembering the 'Italian' Jewish homes of Libya: gender and transcultural memory (1967-2013)
in The Journal of North African Studies
Spadaro B
(2018)
Gender and transnational histories of Libya
in The Journal of North African Studies
Spadaro B.
(2016)
Women in Transnational History: Gendering the Local and the Global
Spadaro, B
(2020)
Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation
Vieten U
(2016)
Cartographies of Differences
Wells N
(2020)
Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation
Wells N.
(2020)
Transnational Italian Studies
| Title | Adult Learners Drummond School |
| Description | Adult Learners: a workshop took place over five mornings with the aim of combining 4 disciplines - language, bookbinding, embroidery, and printmaking. Participants from a wide range of cultural backgrounds produced multimedia books exploring their individual histories using the different media to explore. Adult Learners - series of hand-made Translating Culture books. To be displayed at project pedagogy workshop in June 2015. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Impact | See Above: development of project theme within the adult learning experience. |
| Title | Art in Translation 8-26/2/16 |
| Description | Exhibition held at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews which brought together work of pupils at Drummond CHS and Castlebrae CHS partners in the TML project. Multimedia artwork was inspired by Leonardo's notebooks and by Paolozzi's ceramics. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Interest in the pioneering work on translating cultures by the pupils of Drummond and Castlebrae School. |
| URL | http://byretheatre.com/whats-on/ |
| Title | Autumn 2016 Castlebrae CHS |
| Description | Art project involving pupils and EFL adults learners creating a large scale moving sculpture inspired by the work of Alexander Calder. The complex delicate structures are read as a material metaphor for mobility, migration and cultural exchange. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Interest and requests for further information about the pioneering work on translating cultures at Castlebrae. |
| Title | BIM Microfestival of pedagogy for young learners, Cesena, November 2015 |
| Description | Exhibition of the artwork of pupils Drummond Community High School e Castlebrae High School (from 12 to 18), in collaboration with TML on the themes of migration, translation and cultural identity. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | The exhibition made the work of the project visible to school teachers and the general public at the festival on pedagogy for young learners. It has led to invitations for further participation in the work of the work of the group on pedagogy for young learners. |
| URL | http://www.katriem.it/bim-microfestival/mostre-e-installazioni-2 |
| Title | Exhibition 'Beyond Borders: Oltre i confini', Italian Cultural Institute, London |
| Description | The exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute was a smaller version of the exhibition that was presented at the British School at Rome. The exhibition coincided with the major project conference, 'Transnational Modern languages'. The exhibition opened on 2 December 2016 and closed on 16 January 2017. The exhibition presented a reading of the research that lies at the heart of TML. Its intention was to appear to the eyes of the visitor as a domestic environment, divided into rooms that correspond to our shared sense of living spaces. The "house" in which visitors to the exhibition were invited to enter was intended, metaphorically, as the space that culture and language offer us to "inhabit" our lives and our relations with other people. Beyond Borders also presented Italy is Out a photographic project by Mario Badagliacca, who has worked as artist in residence for the project, travelling to London, New York and Buenos Aires. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | The exhibition was seen by researchers across Modern Languages, by groups of teachers and pupils and by the general public. The exhibition presents a new way of disseminating research and the interaction between research and creative practice. Institutions in countries across the world are interested in staging the exhibition as a means of thinking about Italian culture in the world and questions of culture, language and translation. The exhibition was seen by the Italian Minister of Culture. |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/media-collection/exhibition-beyond-borders-transnation... |
| Title | Exhibition National records of Scotland |
| Description | Carlo Pirozzi (St Andrews) co-coordinated an exhibition at the National Records of Scotland. There were 2,495 visitors over the 38 days of opening. His map project developed for the exhibition is online at websites of National Records of Scotland, National Library of Scotland and the TML website. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | In three months from 1 Dec 2015 to 1 March 2016, there were 5,310 page views, with an average time spent viewing of 5 minutes, 36 seconds. The goal was to involve Scots-Italian community, introduce the TML project and develop connections for future collaborations. |
| URL | http://maps.nls.uk/projects/italians/index.html |
| Title | Exhibition: 'Beyond Borders: Oltre I Confini' The British School at Rome |
| Description | The exhibition, 'Beyond Borders' presents a reading of the research that lies at the heart of TML. Its intention is to appear to the eyes of the visitor as a domestic environment, divided into rooms that correspond to our shared sense of living spaces. The "house" in which visitors to the exhibition are invited to enter is intended, metaphorically, as the space that culture and language offer us to "inhabit" our lives and our relations with other people. Beyond Borders also presents 'Italy is Out' a photographic project by Mario Badagliacca, who has worked as artist in residence for the project, travelling to London, New York and Buenos Aires. Beyond Borders. Transnational Italy is not simply a visual display. In its various forms (photography, interviews, documents), the material of the exhibition is intended to come to life through the installations, allowing the stories that the material conveys (whether they are those of the people who the researchers have met or the stories of the researchers themselves) to emerge and an intense, participatory experience to take shape. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | The exhibition opened at the British School at Rome at the same time as the major project conference on 'Transnational Italies' on 26 October. It continued until 14 November. The exhibition was seen by hundreds of people: researchers, undergraduates, school teachers and school pupils from a wide variety of schools, the general public. The exhibition has generated a great deal of interest across a wide variety of institutions. Italian Cultural Institutes in different parts of the world have expressed interest in hosting the exhibition as have museums in Italy and elsewhere in the world. The exhibition will be shown in new York, Melbourne and Addis Ababa as a result of the interest it raised and resulting from the award of AHRC follow-on funding. Researchers reported changes in thinking about the nature and dissemination of academic research. members of the general public reported changes in the way that they thought of global Italian culture. |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/media-collection/exhibition-beyond-borders-transnation... |
| Title | Family trees and textile design |
| Description | Autumn 2014: art project at Drummond Community School on traditions of textile design in Scotland. Pupils researched their family trees and designed fabrics based on their own genealogies. This work is in progress and selected designs will be translated into prints using a variety of techniques. Pupils will work with professional printmakers and work towards an exhibition in spring 2015 (see below). Another group of pupils will produce a page for the project's Media Collection. Two sets of prints - Spring 2014. 8 prints (Paolozzi) Spring 2015. 11 prints (fabric design and family history) |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Impact | The preparation of the artwork embeds themes of the project into the learning experience of students at Drummond Community College. |
| Title | Italy is Out, SOLAS Festival in Perth (Scotland) |
| Description | TML Photographic Exhibition at the SOLAS Festival in Perth (Scotland) under the Translating Cultures-UNESCO programme of activities. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Engagement of the public of the Festival with the TML project and this specific research output. BS has been asked by visitors to speak about the TML research on Italian cultures across the world and the collaborative experience with the Artist in residence of the project, Mario Badagliacca. |
| Title | Leith Academy, Edinburgh, August 2016 |
| Description | TML Art and Cookery Project: a week long interdisciplinary workshop exploring cultural exchange through art and preparation of food. The project was led by Birgit Harris with 3 tutors leading cookery, bookmaking, drawing, painting, photography and printmaking skills. 10 spaces were available for Syrian students and 10 for local adult learners. The aim was to explore ways of cultural communication in situations where linguistic communication is limited. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Interest in the TML project and requests for further involvement and information from a wide range of people. |
| Title | Pop Paolozzi |
| Description | Spring 2014: art project based on work of Italian Scots artist Eduardo Paolozzi whose multilingual childhood led to a fascination with the creative possibilities of translation across different media. S1 pupils researched Paolozzi and produced prints inspired by his work. The most successful prints were produced professionally in collaboration with local employers SNIPEF (http://www.snipef.org/) and Edinburgh Printmakers (http://www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/). Pop Paolozzi! - exhibition held at St Andrews University May 2014. The exhibition was curated by year 2 students of Italian supported by a University curriculum enhancement award. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Impact | The impact is primarily the engagement of students in the themes of the project and the embedding of the project within their learning experience and the production of an artistic exhibition. |
| Title | Print Generation, Byre Theatre St Andrews, May 11-24 2015 |
| Description | Exhibition of prints by S3 pupils at Drummond CHS based on textile designs from their families' countries of origin. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | Part of the work of the project with community schools in Edinburgh. Selection of students' comments: 'you could express yourself and show your nationality in your own way and how you think of the nationality you are from' 'I really enjoyed making the patterns and learned more about Poland and its patterns' 'Found out that my dad was German. My uncle and granddad are the only ones in my family that aren't German (apart from me) |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2015/11/20/print-generation-st-andrews-byre-theatre-le... |
| Title | TML Student Exhibition |
| Description | Exhibition of work by students and adult learners at Castebrae and Drummond CHS partners of TML. Held at the Creative Exchange, May 25-June 8 2017 |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The exhibition showcased the selected art work (ceramics and print) produced by school pupils and adult learners involved with TML over the three years of activity. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QN5vOMW4yE&feature=youtube |
| Title | TML Student Exhibition, St Andrews University, May 2018 |
| Description | Exhibition of ceramic and print work by students at Castlebrae CHS partners of TML inspired by the art and nature of Namibia. Held at St Andrews University, May 2018 |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The exhibition showcased the selected art work (ceramics and print) inspired by the visit to Namibia of art teacher Julie Philip who was a member of the TML Global Challenges team. The exhibitiuon served to bring student artists into contact with new cultural experiences. |
| Title | Writing across languages and cultures |
| Description | The series of creative writing workshops has resulted in a range of forms of creative writing (poems, short stories, etc.) produced by the participants involved. Some examples have been uploaded to the workshops blog, alongside audio and video recordings of readings from the Being Human event listed above. In addition, for the project exhibitions, several of the workshop participants submitted pieces of creative writing produced during or inspired by the workshops which were gathered together in a printed booklet. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | The readings by the writers of some of their pieces at the Being Human Festival event received an extremely enthusiastic response and the writers have also been very happy to be able to bring their writing to new audiences both through the performance and printed booklet. Given the range and quantity of extremely interesting pieces of creative writing produced, there is also the potential to develop these pieces into a published anthology which we are currently exploring with the writers. |
| URL | https://writingacrossblog.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | The project (TML) has met and exceeded its objectives. The first objective of TML was to explore ways in which we can study Italian culture not simply as a phenomenon linked to the nation state but as a global phenomenon that has developed as it has been in constant contact with other cultural configurations. Researchers have investigated specific moments in the histories of the Italian communities established in the UK, the US, Australia, South America, Africa and of the migrant communities of contemporary Italy. The project team has analysed a wealth of publications and materials: journals, literature, life stories, photographs, collections of memorabilia and other forms of representation. All researchers in the project are continuing to reveal the complex forms of interaction that have defined global Italian culture over the last 150 years and are developing the methods of study that we need in order to make sense of the way in which people inhabit a transcultural world by looking at the specific nature of a changing sense of belonging to modern Italian culture(s). This research is at the heart of the publications that the project is producing. Researchers have been presenting their work at an extremely wide series of seminars, workshops and other events throughout the world. The level of interest in our approach to the question of the ways in which cultures are translated and how they impact on the daily lives of individuals has been remarkable. The research has revealed the complexity and huge variation of cultural and linguistic practices of different communities. The project is developing a new framework for the discipline of Modern Languages in Higher Education as a whole, one which puts the interaction of languages and culture at its core. The project is attempting to link the work that it is doing on global Italian cultures with the teaching of issues concerning cultural identity as they are taught in schools through a pioneering series of collaborations with community schools in Edinburgh. The project has also linked its forms of inquiry with people's wider sense of cultural diversity through a series of workshops in the West Midlands. The individual research projects of the team members on separate but connected articulations of Italian culture are revealing the dense network of ideas of belonging and difference. They have met with a huge amount of interest by members of the communities concerned and by the wider academic and non-specialist community. The work that the project in schools and within the wider community have revealed: the viability of 'translation' as a concept for exploring processes of cultural change and exchange; the value of 'translation' as a medium of self-reflection in artistic practice; the importance of art as a medium for the production of electively hybrid identities and practice; art and creative writing as a medium for exploring the interface local/global contact; the exhibition as a space of expression and cultural critique. Within the disciplinary field of Modern Languages, the model that TML has developed for the study of the transnational and transcultural that is based on the study of language and multilingualism, the concept of spatiality, the notion of temporality, and the performance of subjectivity has been adopted by leading specialists across Modern Languages disciplines and will form the basis of a new series of texts that will provide a new framework for the study of Modern Languages in Higher Education. They represent a set of new tools and approaches to the study of cultural and linguistic practices. The majority of the volumes in the series with Liverpool University Press, Transnational Modern Languages were published in 2020. |
| Exploitation Route | TML organized two major conferences in 2016 as well as two major exhibitions in Rome and London which have disseminated the findings of the project and encouraged very extensive participation in its aims and themes. Both conferences attracted capacity crowds while the exhibitions were extremely successful in showing how academic research can be disseminated through the use of multimedia installations. In 2017 there were further exhibitions in other parts of the world (see TML: Exhibitions for Impact). One of the key aims of TML was to produce innovative models for the way in which we think about culture, belonging and identity in a transnational world. The major events in 2016 were of clear importance in encouraging new ways of thinking about transcultural identity and practice. The publications of TML have developed and disseminated the approaches to cultural identity and translation that have been at the heart of the project. As indicated above, a key aim of the project was to produce a new framework for the discipline of Modern Languages in Higher Education. Working closely with Liverpool University Press, the project has produced a series of texts (the majority of which were published in 2020) that explore key concepts of the transcultural and which will show how its study can be addressed and pursued not only in Italian studies but in French, German, Hispanic, Portuguese and Russian studies. The intention is for this model to be expanded beyond the core disciplines that currently define Modern Languages in Higher Education. See LUP: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/series/series-13275/ Details of each volume are accompanied by a blog post about the aims of the book. The series will have a major impact on the development of Modern Languages in HE. The work that TML is pioneering in community schools in Edinburgh and through its writing workshops in the West Midlands has been hugely successful. The model that is being developed indicates how skills and knowledge transfer can be accomplished through practices of inter-linguistic transfer. It has already attracted the interest of government agencies in Scotland and Wales and the project will explore how the models with which it is experimenting can be scaled up both laterally and nationally. Members of the team have also engaged with teaching practice in primary, secondary and higher education in Italy. TML organized a major event at the British Academy in February 2016. The event presented the work that the project is accomplishing within Higher Education, within schools and within the wider community. Its aim was to provide a forum in which to discuss how we can reshape the discipline of Modern Languages for the 21st century. The event was sold out and was distinguished by the quality of the discussion on how Modern Languages can develop in a world that is increasingly defined by mobility, multilingualism, and the pace of globalization. The audience was made up of both specialists and non-specialists and a key topic of conversation concerned how the model of the project is developing can be disseminated as widely as possible. The event followed on from the three workshops that were organized in 2015 on public policy, pedagogy and methodology. All of which have addressed wide audiences and which have been concerned with key areas of practice. TML made a significant contribution to the Salzburg global seminar statement for a multilingual world, disseminated to over 1.5 million people in 2018. TML produced its own Policy Report, 'Reframing language education for a global future' in 2018. The Policy Report was launched at the British Academy in November 2018. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Security and Diplomacy |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/ |
| Description | TML organized two major conferences in 2016: one on 'Transnational Italy' at the British School at Rome and one on Transnational Modern Languages at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. The conferences were accompanied by the exhibition of the project, 'Beyond Borders: Transnational Italy' that presented the research of the project through multimedia installations. The exhibitions were very successful and in 2017 installations from the exhibitions were shown in other parts of the world (see TML: Exhibitions for Impact). One of the key aims of TML was to produce innovative models for the way in which we think about culture, belonging and identity in a transnational world. The major events in 2016 and 2017 clearly encouraged new ways of thinking about transcultural identity and practice. The publications of TML develop and disseminate the approaches to cultural identity and translation that lie at the heart of the project. As indicated above, a key aim of the project was to produce a new framework for the study of Modern Languages in Higher Education - a matter of very considerable importance given the declining national provision of the subject at a time of ever accelerating globalization. Working closely with Liverpool University Press, the project has produced and is continuing to produce a series of texts, 'Transnational Modern Languages', that explores key concepts of the transcultural and which shows how its study can be addressed and pursued not only in Italian studies but in French, German, Hispanic, Portuguese and Russian studies. The intention is for this model to be expanded beyond the core disciplines that currently define Modern Languages in Higher Education. The series will have a major impact on the development of Modern Languages in HE and thus develop a core impact of the project. The work that TML is pioneering in community schools in Edinburgh and through its writing workshops in the West Midlands has been hugely successful. The model that is being developed indicates how skills and knowledge transfer can be accomplished through practices of inter-linguistic transfer. It has already attracted the interest of government agencies in Scotland and Wales and the project will explore how the models with which it is experimenting can be scaled up both laterally and nationally. This element of the grant has been advanced further by the project TML: Global Challenges. Members of the team have also engaged with teaching practice in primary, secondary and higher education in Italy. TML organized a major event at the British Academy in February 2016. The event presented the work that the project is accomplishing within Higher Education, within schools and within the wider community. Its aim was to provide a forum in which to discuss how we can reshape the disciplinary field of Modern Languages for the 21st century. The event was distinguished by the quality of the discussion on how Modern Languages can develop in a world that is increasingly defined by mobility, multilingualism, and the pace of globalization. The audience was made up of both specialists and non-specialists and a key topic of conversation concerned how the model of the project is developing can be disseminated as widely as possible. The event followed on from the three workshops that were organized in 2015 on public policy, pedagogy and methodology. All of which have addressed wide audiences and which have been concerned with key areas of practice. TML participated in the formulation of the Salzburg Global Seminar's Statement for a Multilingual World that has been seen by over 1.5 million people. In the autumn of 2018, TML produced the policy document, 'TML: Reframing language education for a global future', that was launched at the British Academy on 9 November 2018. Several of the volumes (Italian, German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese) in the series 'Transnational Modern Languages' were published in 2020. See: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/series/series-13275/. A number of the methods and approaches developed during TML (e.g. sessions on ethnography and Modern Languages) are feeding into the Institute of Modern Languages Research training programme for postgraduate students of Modern Languages, open to all postgraduate students nationally and internationally. In 2022, the key volume of the Transnational Modern Languages series, Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook (eds. J. Burns and D. Duncan) was published. The text is available through Open Access and is already proving an invaluable resource in the study of the subject field. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | AHRC ECR Event University of Warwick |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/ECR-and-AHRC-PRC-members-Languages-and-Linguistic... |
| Description | Contribution to AHRC OWRI |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The AHRC has written that TML: 'played a significant role in the development of thinking around AHRC's Open World Research Initiative (OWRI). This £10m research initiative is due to make awards staring in 2016, and represents a key investment by AHRC in seeking to sustain the UK's research capabilities in modern languages. The grant, Transnationalising Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures, set out to provide a compelling new picture of how modern languages research is crucial in informing our understanding of key global shifts in world culture, looking beyond traditional notions of national culture / national literature.' |
| URL | http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunities/current/openworldresearchinitiative/ |
| Description | Wales/Scotland National Curriculum Development Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Loredana Polezzi and Derek Duncan co-organized a meeting between a delegation including Welsh policy makers, advisers and teachers involved in the design of the new Welsh policy for the promotion of Modern Languages (see 'Global Futures' document) and teachers/advisors involved in similar activities in Scotland. The meeting took place in June and took place at Castlebrae Community High School, one of the partners in the TML project. The most important impact is the emerging collaboration between Welsh and Scottish schools, teachers and educational advisors/policy makers. |
| Description | Warwick Commission on Cultural Value |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/warwickcommission/futureculture/ |
| Description | AHRC Language Acts and Worldmaking, OWRI, small grant |
| Amount | £1,150 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | Santander Travel Scholarship |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Santander Bank |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 12/2016 |
| Description | St Andrews University Fellowship |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of St Andrews |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 08/2017 |
| Description | University of Warwick Humanities Research Fund |
| Amount | £800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 09/2016 |
| Description | Warwick University (Humanities Research Fund) |
| Amount | £500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 04/2016 |
| Title | Data from Transnational Mod Languages (09-2018) |
| Description | Data from Transnationalizing Modern Languages (09-2018) Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures (TML) (funded by the AHRC under the 'Translating Cultures' theme, 2014-17) PI Charles Burdett, University of Bristol. CIs Jenny Burns (Warwick), Loredana Polezzi (Warwick/Cardiff), Derek Duncan (St Andrews), Margaret Hills de Zarate (QMU) RAs: Barbara Spadaro (Bristol), Carlo Pirozzi (St Andrews), Marco Santello (Warwick), Naomi Wells (Warwick), Luisa Percopo (Cardiff) PhD students: Iacopo Colombini (St Andrews), Georgia Wall (Warwick) Below is a short description of the project. Within the repository, there is a longer description of TML and each folder is accompanied by an explanatory text. The project investigates practices of linguistic and cultural interchange within communities and individuals and explores the ways in which cultural translation intersects with linguistic translation in the everyday lives of people. The project has used as its primary object of enquiry the 150-year history of Italy as a nation state and its patterns of emigration and immigration. TML has concentrated on a series of exemplary cases, representative of the geographic, historical and linguistic map of Italian mobility. Focussing on the cultural associations that each community has formed, it examines the wealth of publications and materials that are associated with these organizations. Working closely with researchers from across Modern Languages, the project has sought to demonstrate the principle that language is most productively apprehended in the frame of translation and the national in the frame of the transnational. TML is contributing to the development of a new framework for the disciplinary field of MLs, one which puts the interaction of languages and cultures at its core. The principles of co-production and co-research lie at the core of the project and TML has worked closely with a very extensive range of partners. It has worked closely with Castlebrae and Drummond Community High Schools and with cultural associations across the world. The project exhibition, featuring the research of the project and including the work of photographer Mario Badagliacca, was curated by Viviana Gravano and Giulia Grechi of Routes Agency. Project events in the UK have drawn on the expertise of Rita Wilson (Monash), the writer Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and all members of the Advisory Board. The project, in close collaboration with the University of Namibia (UNAM) and the Phoenix Project (Cardiff), has been followed by 'TML: Global Challenges'. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Data repository of TML |
| Description | Research data repistory of 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages', comprising record of the project's workshops, seminars and conferences; the project website; data collected by the project team; photographic record of the project exhibition. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data repository of TML provides an archive of the work of TML, detailed above. It is aimed to be a source of reference for interest in transnational Italian cultures and the work of the project. |
| URL | https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/1k66c9sl7ag0a2pxkal4txbcv1 |
| Description | Arnhem Wharf primary School |
| Organisation | Arnhem Wharf Primary School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Course design and provision of material for Italian classes (after-school, for children Yr. 3- 5) 6th Jan - 23rd March 2016 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Georgia Wall (PhD student Warwick) using ideas and material from the project contributed to designing material for teaching in Arnhem Wharf primary school. |
| Impact | The contribution is in the material that was used for the course design and provision of Italian teaching. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Castlebrae Community High School |
| Organisation | Castlebrae Community High School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 3 projects are underway exploring issues of linguistic and cultural translation in non-conventional contexts 1. Football: Jacopo Colombini (project PhD student) will compose an autoethnographic blog based on his experience of working in an intercultural frame with the school senior football team. 2. Art: a mural mapping Craigmiller (the estate where the school is located) in the world. The project will be delivered for the Creative Industries National 5 qualification). Pupils will document their research pathway as a contribution to the project website. The project has already attracted the interested of local community groups and may be expanded. 3. An interdisciplinary project on Italy working with a small group of pupils who are being taught outside the normal curriculum as they have particular learning needs. The group is working on the creation of an 'Italian wall' in a designated classroom and are planning a range of other activities including food and a small community based oral history project using mini ipads. They will work towards a contribution to the project website. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See Above |
| Impact | The outputs listed above will work towards a contribution to the project website: http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/ |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration with Dante Alighieri Society Liverpool |
| Organisation | Dante Alighieri Society Liverpool |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | Barbara Spadaro has established an informal collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society Liverpool, established as the local branch of the DA international network in Liverpool in the 1960s in Liverpool. The association now gathers mainly elderly people, whom in collaboration with BS and colleagues from the University explore opportunities for knowledge exchange (fe in relation of the history of the association and the Italian community in Liverpool) towards the organization of cultural activities and the reactivation of the association. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This provides opportunities to further disseminate the results of the TML project and to develop a new series of activities designed with BS and other local partners and stakeholders of Italian in Liverpool, along with colleagues and students at the University of Liverpool. |
| Impact | 'Language Acts and Worldmaking' OWRI Small Grant, awarded to BS for the design and organization of the event Italian Cultures in Multilingual Liverpool: Stories, Trajectories, Practices, Lark Lane Community Centre, 17 November 2018. The event was attended by more than 150 people, plus students and colleagues of the University of Liverpool. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration with Lampedusa in Hamburg |
| Organisation | Lampedusa in Hamburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Jacopo Colombini (St. Andrews) is currently interviewing members of the 'Lampedusa in Hamburg' group and organizers of the 'Ort_M' (migration memory) project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Colombini is also supporting and collaborating with local activists and refugees groups for the organization of the first International Conference of Refugee and Migrants in Hamburg (he took part in the mobilization tour in the refugee camps in Hamburg). He also interviewd members of FC Lampedusa Hamburg and Radio Refugee Network project. |
| Impact | This collaboration will feed directly into the doctoral study that Colombini is undertaking for the project and it will be a part of the research outcomes that are envisaged by the project. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Drummond Community School |
| Organisation | Drummond Community High School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Spring 2014: art project based on work of Italian Scots artist Eduardo Paolozzi whose multilingual childhood led to a fascination with the creative possibilities of translation across different media. S1 pupils researched Paolozzi and produced prints inspired by his work. The most successful prints were produced professionally in collaboration with local employers SNIPEF (http://www.snipef.org/) and Edinburgh Printmakers (http://www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/). Autumn 2014: art project on traditions of textile design in Scotland. Pupils researched their family trees and designed fabrics based on their own genealogies. This work is in progress and selected designs will be translated into prints using a variety of techniques. Pupils will work with professional printmakers and work towards an exhibition in spring 2015 (see below). Another group of pupils will produce a page for the project's Media Collection. Autumn 2014 - Spring 2015: A mixed-age group of pupils has begun to look at use of language skills by local employers. Particular emphasis will be on validation of skills of native speakers. Adult Learners: a workshop took place over five mornings with the aim of combining 4 disciplines - language, bookbinding, embroidery, and printmaking. Participants from a wide range of cultural backgrounds produced multimedia books exploring their individual histories using the different media to explore. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See Above |
| Impact | Pop Paolozzi! - exhibition held at St Andrews University May 2014. The exhibition was curated by year 2 students of Italian supported by a University curriculum enhancement award. Two sets of prints - Spring 2014. 8 prints (Paolozzi) Spring 2015. 11 prints (fabric design and family history) Adult Learners - series of hand-made Translating Culture books. To be displayed at project pedagogy workshop in June 2015 |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Edinburgh College of Art |
| Organisation | Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | An aspect of the work of Carlo Pirozzi on 'Transnational identity' was selected by the Graphic Design and Illustration Department of Edinburgh College of Art. The project involved 20 Masters international students. The outcome was small publication of artwork and a one-day event ECA Bookmarks on 24th March 2016. This event focused on academic study, exploring how artists' books are used, promoted and created in educational settings in collaboration with other institutions in Scotland. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Edinburgh College of Art has facilitated the work of Carlo Pirozzi for the project. |
| Impact | The outcome was small publication of artwork and a one-day event ECA Bookmarks on 24th March 2016. This event focused on academic study, exploring how artists' books are used, promoted and created in educational settings in collaboration with other institutions in Scotland. In recent years there has been a significant increase in uptake of the Masters program in Illustration and Graphic Design at ECA. We have always had an international group, however the differences (and similarities) have been made more apparent by the rise in numbers. We think this is good, and interesting for student projects of course, in the way it foregrounds current socio-political situations, but can also give them an intense experience in dealing with such matters in a protective and productive environment. This project 'Transnational Identity' is a timely opportunity for students to develop their personal ideas in relation to the diverse flavour of the Masters group and also in response to international concerns. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | ICLA |
| Organisation | International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | In March 2014 Loredana Polezzi was invited to become a member of the International Comparative Literature Association committee on translation (chaired by Prof. S. Berman, Princeton). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This provides the opportunity to further disseminate the results of the project and develop links with a range of practitioners on cultural and literary translation. |
| Impact | This collaboration will ensure the presence of the project in the activities of the ICLA. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | IHS/Co.As.It |
| Organisation | Italian Historical Society |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Paolo Baracchi (Italian Historical Society/Co.As.It) and Rita Wilson (Monash): application submitted Nov 2014 to the Local History Grants Program (Public Record Office of Victoria) to develop an online interactive multimedia resource for the IHS oral history database (a collection of approximately 300 interviews conducted among Italians in Australia during the 1980s and 1990s) |
| Collaborator Contribution | See Above |
| Impact | If successful, the application will develop an online interactive multimedia resource for the Italian Historical Society oral history database |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Ikon Gallery Birmingham |
| Organisation | Ikon Gallery |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | After J. Burns and N. Wells hired the Ikon's meeting room for their creative writing workshops, they were able to establish a formal partnership with the Ikon Gallery's events team for the Being Human Festival event organised in November 2016. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partner Contributions: For the event, the Ikon Gallery provided the room and facilities for the event free of charge and also listed the event in their printed and online events brochure, as well as assisting more generally with the organisation of the event. |
| Impact | Outcomes: The organisation of the Being Human Festival event 'Familiar Strangers: Writing across Languages and Cultures' (see Engagement Activities). |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | MCFB: Creative Nurture Group |
| Organisation | Multi-Cultural Family Base |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Margaret Hills De Zarate: Supervision of staff leading a creative nurture group for traumatised migrant women. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Opportunity to further disseminate the results of the project and develop links with a range of practitioners on working with refugees and migrant women. |
| Impact | Development of a research proposal. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Monash-Warwick |
| Organisation | Monash University |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We now have a Monash-Warwick Virtual Research Network (VRN) on Migration, Mobility, Translation, and Identity which is directed by Polezzi and Rita Wilson. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partnership facilitates movement of researchers between Warwick and Monash |
| Impact | The partnership will promote the interest in translation of the two centres. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | National records of Scotland |
| Organisation | National Records of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Carlo Pirozzi (St Andrews) initiated several collaborations, most with Scottish institutions such as the National Records of Scotland, National Library of Scotland, Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art. He co-coordinated an exhibition at the National Records of Scotland. There were 2,495 visitors over the 38 days of opening. His map project developed for the exhibition is online at websites of National Records of Scotland, National Library of Scotland and the TML website. In three months from 1 Dec 2015 to 1 March 2016, there were 5,310 page views, with an average time spent viewing of 5 minutes, 36 seconds. The goal was to involve Scots-Italian community, introduce the TML project and develop connections for future collaborations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The institutions named above have facilitated the exposition of the work of Carlo Pirozzi on Italian communities in Scotland. |
| Impact | He co-coordinated an exhibition at the National Records of Scotland. There were 2,495 visitors over the 38 days of opening. His map project developed for the exhibition is online at websites of National Records of Scotland, National Library of Scotland and the TML website. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Project partnership: Mammamia Association Liverpool |
| Organisation | MammaMia Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | Barbara Spadaro has established an informal collaboration with the association Mammamia of Liverpool - an informal school of Italian language and culture established by a group of Italian parents and teachers. This explores opportunities for knowledge exchange through the organization of cultural and education activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This provides opportunities to further disseminate the results of the TML project and to develop a new series of activities designed with BS and other local partner associations with colleagues and students at the University of Liverpool. This also provides links with a range of stakeholders and practitioners of Italians in Liverpool. |
| Impact | 'Language Acts and Worldmaking' OWRI Small Grant, awarded to BS for the design and organization of the event 'Italian Cultures in Multilingual Liverpool: Stories, Trajectories, Practices', Lark Lane Community Centre, 17 November 2018. The event was attended by more than 150 people, plus students and colleagues of the University of Liverpool. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Research consultant C. Pirozzi A Bench in the Road |
| Organisation | Creative Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | C. Pirozzi: Research consultant from 2014 to 2016 for A Bench in the Road, a play on the history of Italian immigration to Scotland, written by Laura Pasetti (commissioned by the Italian-Scottish Research Cluster project, 2013 and funded by Creative Scotland, 2015-2016, in co-production with the Piccolo Teatro, Milan). The play toured Scotland, performing to approximately 2000 people at 13 different theatres, and was sold out for a week at the end of January in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro, one of the most important theatres in Europe. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above |
| Impact | A Bench in the Road, a play on the history of Italian immigration to Scotland, written by Laura Pasetti (commissioned by the Italian-Scottish Research Cluster project, 2013 and funded by Creative Scotland, 2015-2016, in co-production with the Piccolo Teatro, Milan). |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Sabir Festival |
| Organisation | SabirFest |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Barbara Spadaro was invited to contribute to the third edition of the Sabir Fest of Mediterranean Citizenship. She organised two events at the festival to present the TML project, involving scholars, artists and translators, namely: the roundtable Graphic Journalism across the Mediterranean, with graphic journalists Takoua Ben Mohamed, Pietro Scarnera, Lelio Bonaccorso, Cem Dinlemnis and Elettra Stamboulis and a screening and Q&A event (with Dr Renata Pepicelli) featuring the first Italian documentary on Muslim Women in Italy (Porto il velo, adoro i Queen, Luisa Porrino, 2016). The Festival provided accommodation to the speakers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration provides the opportunity to further disseminate the results of the project through public engagement activities and develop links with a range of potential partners from international higher education, NGOs, publishers and translators from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. |
| Impact | Both events were highly successful (approx. 80 people attended each event) and raised awareness about the TML project and the work of the Arts and Humanities Research Council on issues of migration and cultural change in Italy, the Mediterranean and the globalised world. The Festival represented a terrific opportunity for networking with potential partners of inter-sectorial initiatives. A recent invitation to bring the TML Exhibition at the 2017 MediterraneoDowntown Festival in Prato stemmed from this successful collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Scottish Book Trust Call |
| Organisation | Scottish Power Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Two calls that Carlo Pirozzi created for writers, related to an aspect of his research for the project were selected by the Scottish Book Trust, a national organisation based in Edinburgh promoting literature, reading and writing in Scotland. The Trust's website promotes reading and writing to 20,000 online visitors a month. The goal is to promote the TML project to as wide an audience as possible. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Scottish Book trust has faciliated the research of Carlo Pirozzi (St. Andrews) for the project. |
| Impact | The collaboration with Scottish writers is integral to the work of Carlo Pirozzi and will feed directly into his research outputs. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Stills Gallery Edinburgh |
| Organisation | Stills Gallery |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Director of the gallery Deidre Mckenna has provided help and support in the planning of the project as an in kind contribution. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See Above. |
| Impact | The partnership with the Stills Gallery has been terminated owing to the departure of theDirector. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Study for Cultural Memory |
| Organisation | Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Barbara Spadaro has been appointed Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, IMLR, SAS, University of London (November 2014-January 2015, non-stipendiary fellowship). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The position at the IMLR will significantly enhance the research tools that B. Spadaro will be able to deploy in her work on the project. |
| Impact | The position will add to the sophistication and effectiveness of the methodology that B. Spadaro will deploy in the course of the project. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Title | Courses designed for S1 Learners |
| Description | Two itunesU courses designed for S1 learners by Chris Hume, Julie Philip, and Tanya Smith Language and Identity (based on the experience of Italians in Scotland) TML Mandarin Both courses are interdisciplinary explorations across art, language and history. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Pioneering courses on language learning and identity across art, language and history. The work pioneered by the project is feeding into wider discussions of curriculum development in Scotland and Wales. |
| Title | Project website |
| Description | Project website (interactive) |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Impact | The project website is the major outface of the project - now it is set up its impact will develop throughout the course of the project. The website contains a record of the all the events of the project and recordings of the talks and workshops that have been organized by the project team. It contains a section 'Media Gallery' which gives a series of short articles and visual information indicating the nature of the research of the project members, the kinds of methodologies that they are developing and the work that they are doing with Italian communities. It also includes a record of the exhibitions that the team has organized. It has had over 23,000 clicks and is attracting around 500 new visitors each month. |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/ |
| Description | 'Culture &Translation (or Google doesn't translate)' Workshop 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi delivered a workshop on translation participants in the Modern Foreign Languages Student Mentoring Scheme training weekend held at Cardiff University in October 2018 Most Important Impact: Training mentors in new approaches to MLs and Translation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Culture and Translation' October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi delivered a workshop on translation participants in the Modern Foreign Languages Student Mentoring Scheme training weekend held at Cardiff University in October 2017.Training mentors in new approaches to MLs and Translation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'From duality to mobility: translation, comparison and transnational circulation', University of St Andrews, April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination of project findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/research/seminars/seminararchive/2018/april2018/ |
| Description | 'Fuocammare: the (trans)national frame of Lampedusa', British School at Rome, 27 October 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Derek Duncan, Organiser and chair of roundtable: 'Fuocammare: the (trans)national frame of Lampedusa With Jacopo Colombini (St Andrews, Aine O'Healy (Loyola), Leonardo De Franceschi (Rome tre). The debate explored issues of migration and representation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/media-collection/ |
| Description | 'Google Doesn't Translate' February 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi delivered workshops on translation and multilingualism for two Seren Network Study Days held at Cardiff University in February 2018. Sensitization of gifted & talented students to new approaches in MLs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Heteroglossia & migration' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi contributed to the symposium 'Heteroglossia in/as Translation', University of Exeter, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Language, Translation and Migration: Conference and Public Summit', Warwick University, May 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-organization (with J. Angouri, Warwick, and R. Wilson, Monash, chair of TML advisory board) of three-day international conference and public summit; this interdisciplinary event gathered scholars, professionals and policy makers interested in migration, including city council and community representatives, an MEP, professional translators/interpreters and members of the Red-T initiative, among others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mitn/ltm/ |
| Description | 'Memory and the Museum: Tracing Italy in New York', conference presentation, Melbourne, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paper given by Loredana Polezzi at the 'Diaspore Italiane/Italy in Movement' conference held at the CO.AS.IT/Museo Storico Italiano, Melbourne, April 2019. The conference is part of a series of three events held in Melbourne, New York and Genoa; the TML project is present in all three events - two of which were organized by project partners: the CO.AS.IT/Museo Storico Italiano in Melbourne and the Calandra Institute of Italian American Studies in New York |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.diasporeitaliane.com/ |
| Description | 'Mobility and its memory' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi contributed a paper to the annual Conference of AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies), held in Baton Rouge in April 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 'My Hero Is You': coordination of collaborative translation into five indigenous languages of Namibia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'My Hero Is You': coordination of collaborative translation into five indigenous languages of Namibia and subsequent online publication + distribution of printed copies to schools Geographical Reach: International Activity Type: Translation Geographical Reach: International Primary Audience: Teachers and primary school learners Other Audiences: General public; families; translators and interpreters; teachers and students Activity Years: 2021-22 (ongoing) Result Description: Improving accessibility of Covid19 resources for children/minority groups in Namibia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/iasc-reference-group-mental-health-and-psychosocial-support... |
| Description | 'My Hero Is You: Launch event' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 'My Hero Is You: Launch event', participation in online event co-organized by The Phoenix Project and the University of Namibia; September 2021 Geographical Reach: International Activity Type: Translation Geographical Reach: International Primary Audience: Teachers and primary school learners Other Audiences: General public; families; translators and interpreters; teachers and students Activity Years: 2021-22 (ongoing) Result Description: Promoting Covid19 resources for children/minority groups in Namibia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | 'The Transnational Life of Objects' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi organized a panel (with Carlo Pirozzi and Margaret Hills de Zarate) and contributed a paper to the annual Conference of the John D. Calandra Institute of Italian American Studies, CUNY, one of the key TML partners. The conference, held in April 2016 was devoted to 'Migrating Objects: Material Culture and Italian Identity'.Academic network consolidation and dissemination of research; contact with visual artists and project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 'Thinking Outside the Box: Translation Studies. How can you study modern languages in a multilingual and transnational context?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi gave a presentation for the Seren Network Study Day held at Cardiff University in February 2017. Sensitization of gifted & talented students to new approaches in MLs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 'Translation and the Memory of Migration', Glasgow, November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi delivered a public talk on the TML and TML Global Challenges project at the University of Glasgow, November 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Translation and the Memory of Migration', University of Sydney, April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Translation and the Memory of Migration', University of Sydney, April 2018. Open seminar, School of Modern Languages, University of Sydney |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Translation, Self-Translation and Polyphony', Glasgow, November 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi contributed a paper, 'Translation, Self-Translation and Polyphony: Contemporary Italian Women Writers Narrating Migration' to the Translating Feminism seminar series, Glasgow University, November 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages in Schools in Edinburgh', London, 2 December 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 2/12/16. TML Modern Languages conference Presentation by Derek Duncan, 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages in Schools in Edinburgh' this paper has led to the development of an impact as research method initiative with Prof Catherine Boyle (Kings and OWRI) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/media-collection/ |
| Description | 'Why study languages?' Cardiff 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi delivered the opening presentation at a schools event held at Cardiff City Stadium in December 2017. The event encouraged learners from Wales to take up/continue with the study of languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Working with Translation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi led a team in the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University, which designed, produced and implemented the MOOC 'Working with Translation' in collaboration with Futurelearn. The course contains items on cultural translation, linguistic landscapes, translation and migration, directly linked to and resulting from the TML project. The course was launched in October 2016, in parallel with the final TML conference held at the British School at Rome. The first run attracted almost 10,000. The second run of the course is running in February/March 2017 and has already attracted more than 7,000 learners. Further runs are planned for the future, including one in July 2017 to be delivered in collaboration with the University of Namibia (UNAM) as part of the follow-on project TML Global Challenges. Learners have provided hundreds of testimonials about the transformative nature of the MOOC, both in professional and personal terms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/admin/courses/working-with-translation/2 |
| Description | 'Working with Translation' (MOOC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi led a team in the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University, which designed, produced and implemented the MOOC 'Workign with Translation' in collaboration with Futurelearn. The course contains items on cultural translation, linguistic landscapes, translation and migration, directly linked to and resulting from the TML project. The course was launched in October 2016 and revised in 2017. The second run took place in March-April 2017 and the thirds in September/October. The two iterations jointly attracted more than 13,000 users. A further run of the course is planned for March/April 2018 and will be delivered in collaboration with the University of Namibia (UNAM) as part of the follow-on project TML Global Challenges. Most Important Impact: Learners have provided hundreds of testimonials about the transformative nature of the MOOC, both in professional and personal terms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/admin/courses/working-with-translation/2 |
| Description | ACLA 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk stimulated interest and engagement with the project. Growing interest in the Us in research relating to the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | AHRC Commons Ground Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 21/6/16 AHRC Common Grounds festival: presentation by Derek Duncan and Loredana Polezzi of the range of TML's activities at national AHRC event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ahrccommons.org/common-ground-event/ |
| Description | An Evening Conversation on History, Memory and Fiction', Maaza Mengiste |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'An Evening Conversation on History, Memory and Fiction', Maaza Mengiste in conversation with Loredana Polezzi and Simone Brioni, Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series, Stony Brook University, November 2021 Activity Type: Public event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTC5Dj1YNfo |
| Description | Annual conference of American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The project team contributed two panels to the annual American association for Italian Studies conference in Boulder, Colorado, 25-28 March 2015. This is the primary research conference for academics and postgraduates of Italian studies in the USA. The two presentations were under title, 'Deterritorialized perspectives on unified Italy, 1860-1936'. Jenny Burns paper was entitled, '"Garibaldi, and the infant Samuel, and Queen Victoria, and other heroes of modern Italy": The impact of Italian political thought on the late C19th British imaginary'. The purpose of participation at a primary conference of this type was to disseminate aspects of the research findings of the project to an international audience, made up primarily of American academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.colorado.edu/aais/ |
| Description | Art in Translation Workshop June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | One day workshop across two secondary schools looking at art as expression of cultural translation. Selection of comments: 'actors outside academia can have the most forward thinking ideas about an area or object of academic study' 'scale this up and move it to more places' 'lots of people are interested in what I do' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | BIM Microfestival di Cultura Infantile, November 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Derek Duncan, Charles Burdett and Naomi Wells presented two three hour sessions on new approaches to intercultural study at the BIM Microfestival of young people's culture at Cesena, 28-29 November 2015. Description: Their contribution provided the opportunity to present the research of the project, the overall aims of TML for a rethinking of language learning in higher education and a presentation of the work that the project is accomplishing in Schools. It looked also at the subject of multilingualism and community language courses run by migrant cultural associations in the nearby city of Bologna. The audience was mostly made up of school teachers and the team was able to discuss and receive feedback from them on possible implications of the project's research for institutions such as schools in Italy, in relation to the the need to recognize the multilingual resources of students and to challenge the monolingual focus of education in Italy and beyond. The activity also included an exhibition of art work that the project is pursuing with community schools in Edinburgh. The event received very positive feedback and the invitation to collaborate in future projects concerning curriculum development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.katriem.it/microfestival |
| Description | Being Human Festival, St Andrews, November 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The one day series of workshops funded as part of the 'Being Human: festival in the humanities' initiative looked at the representation of migrants to Italy in a range of cultural forms. The workshops were led by members of the Archivio Memorie Migranti in Rome, a non-academic partner of TML. A seminar by Monica Bandella and Zakaria Mohamed Ali focussed on practices of translation of migrant testimony. Mario Badagliacca discussed the ethics of photographing inside migrant detention centres. Gameli Tordzro of PanAfrican Arts in Glasgow discussed practices of video filmmaking with Alessandro Triulzi.There was a screening of Dagmawi Yimer's documentary film 'Va pensiero', an exploration of racism in Italy today. The exhibition of Badagliacca's work lasted for a further two weeks. Overall the workshops aimed to counteract stereotypical media representations of migrants. The emphasis was on cultural practices which facilitated the expression of migrant subjectivity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2014/title,251376,en.php |
| Description | Beyond Borders. Transnational Italy: Interactivity and Intersubjectivity 'beyond Borders' of Modern Languages Research, B. Spadaro |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Feature the TML exhibition to members of the Media Histories Research Group at Liverpool and their network. The activity gave to B. Spadaro the opportunity to disseminate her research and the TML exhibition among colleagues and students. The workshop took place on 3 may 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Beyond Borders: Tango as Transnational Movement of Sound and Steps', New York, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi organized a panel (with Fred Gardaphè) and contributed a paper to the annual Conference of the John D. Calandra Institute of Italian American Studies, CUNY, one of the key TML partners. The conference, held in April 2017, was devoted to 'Italian Sonorities and Acoustic Communities: Listening to the Soundscapes of Italianità'. Academic network consolidation and dissemination of research; contact with visual artists and project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/calandra/annual-conference-italian-sonorities-and-acoustic-communities-li... |
| Description | Business Breakfast at Castlebrae CHS 25 May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Derek Duncan, 25 May 2016 Business Breakfast at Castlebrae CHS 'Developing Scotland's Young Workforce', presentation of TML's involvement with Castlebrae CHS at an event showcasing the school's range of non-academic partners. 100 guests included business leaders and members of the education community in Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | C. Burdett 'Hauntings of Empire: the continuing memory of Italian expansionism' University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Charles Burdett (Durham University) presented his paper 'Hauntings of Empire: the continuing memory of Italian expansionsim' at the Italian at Leeds and Leeds Institute of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies research event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/events/event/1696/hauntings-of-empire-the-continuing-memory-of-ita... |
| Description | CLER seminar presentation, M. Santello |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marco Santello presented the paper: "Experience of movement, cultural presence and language practices: on the heuristic merits of spaces of speech", CLER Research Seminars, School of Education, University of Leeds, 1 March 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Co-Creation in Modern Languages, Bath, June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi presented at the 'Bridging the Gap: Co-Production of Research in Modern Languages' event, held in Bath in June 2017. Dissemination and networking was achieved. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://gw4.ac.uk/bridging-the-gap/ |
| Description | Conference 'Transnational Italies: Mobility, Subjectivities and Modern Italian Cultures', British School at Rome, 26-28 October 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The conference, at the British School at Rome 26-28 October 2016, with keynote presentations from Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Marina Warner, represented an important output of the project. Accompanied with the project exhibition, it shed new light on the history of Italian cultural mobility. It explored how the notion of 'Italianness' has been dynamically reformulated and performed by individual and collective subjects drawing from ideas of the nation state and its regimes of citizenship, from transcultural practices and transnational imaginaries. It set out to broaden the frame in which we read Italian history, memory and culture, considering the multiple levels of their negotiation, mediation and remediation. It aimed to stress the fluid and relational nature of (Italian) culture and belonging, by investigating events, media and memories through which they have been materialised, imagined and performed. The conference had a capacity list of participants from locations across the world. It was a key event in disseminating the aims of the project and in encouraging the participation of researchers from a wide international range. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2017/01/09/tml-conference-transnational-italies-bsr-at... |
| Description | Conference 'Transnational Modern Languages' , Italian Cultural Institute, London, 2-3 December 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The conference 'Transnational Modern Languages', Italian Cultural Institute 2-3 December 2016, was a major event of the project and an important means of disseminating the work that TML is accomplishing. With plenary speaker, David Gramling (Arizona) and speakers from across the whole range of Modern Languages disciplines, working across the globe, the conference explored the notion of the transnational in its different articulations, and how the community of MLs can explore the nature of its underlying framework and rationale. The project also provided a means of encouraging participation in its major publishing enterprise with Liverpool University Press, 'Transnational Modern Languages'. The conference had capacity participation throughout. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2016/04/06/cfp-transnational-modern-languages-london-f... |
| Description | Conference Society for Italian Studies 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The presentation by Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff), Charles Burdett (Bristol), Jenny Burns (Warwick) and Barbara Spadaro (Bristol) was at the biennial conference of Society for Italian Studies (SIS), University of Oxford. The speakers presented the research of the project and its wider ambitious at a round table presentation and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://italianstudies.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SIS-Biennial-Conference-Programme6.pdf |
| Description | Conference paper British Academy of management, M. Santello |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | M. Santello presented the paper: "Linguistic Perspectives on Doing Fieldwork across Cultures: Language Bias and Monolingual Normativity at Work", Qualitative Research Symposium, British Academy of Management Conference, University of Newcastle, 6 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference paper, Heriot-Watt University, N. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | N. Wells presented the paper 'From imitation to appropriation: Reshaping the Italian language in migrant and intercultural associations in Bologna, Italy', focusing on the research she has conducted for the project at the conference New Plurilingual Pathways for Integration: Immigrants and Language Learning in the 21st Century (BAAL/Cambridge University Press seminar), Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. N. Wells' talk generated significant interest in the project from the audience and established connections with other related projects and networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nspk.org.uk/our-events/past-events/new-plurilingual-pathways-for-integration.html |
| Description | Conference paper, Italian Cultural Institute, M. Santello |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marco Santello presented the paper "Modern Languages, Intercultural Competence and Opportunities for Business Education". Paper Presented at the Transnational Modern Languages Conference, ICC, London, 2-3 December 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/media-collection/ |
| Description | Conference paper, Rapallo, Italy, N. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | N. Wells presented a paper on 'Bridging Sociolinguistics and Cultural Studies: Linguistic and cultural practices in migrant cultural associations in Bologna', focusing on her research approach and her findings developed during the project. There was significant interest from the international audience in the presentation, leading to the establishment of important research contacts and N. Wells was specifically invited by the conference organiser to contribute a chapter to a planned edited volume resulting from the conference (her abstract for the volume has been accepted but the editor is still in talks with an appropriate publisher). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.archivio-dipartimentolingue.unito.it/slimig2016/oss-home.asp |
| Description | Conference paper, University of Murcia (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | N. Wells presented the paper 'Language as a Site of empowerment and solidarity: Migrant cultural associations in Bologna and the teaching of the "mother language"', focusing on the research she has conducted for the project. The conference allowed for N. Wells to disseminate findings of the project at the most important international conference for sociolinguistics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.um.es/web/sociolinguistics-symposium21/ |
| Description | Conference paper, University of Warwick, J. Burns and N. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | J. Burns and N. Wells presented the paper 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Bridging experiences in research, practice and teaching'. The paper focused on the creative writing workshops they have been running in the West Midlands and how it is informing their research and teaching practices. The talk generated significant interest from the broad Modern Languages audience in the project's activities, particularly in relation to examples of successful impact activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference paper, university of Leeds, M. Santello |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Modern Languages, Intercultural Competence and Opportunities for Business Education". Paper presented by Marco Santello at the University of Leeds Digital Festival and Student Education Conference, 6 January 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Conference presentation (Cagliari, Italy) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Charles Burdett (Bristol), Jenny Burns (Warwick) and Barbara Spadaro (Bristol) presented their work at the the Conference of SISSCO (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History) 'Colonialism and National Identity', Department of History, University of Cagliari, 2-4 July 2015. Spadaro spoke on transnational methodologies to the study of Italian colonialism, Burdett on the work of Fallaci and the memory of colonialism, Burns on the postcolonial subject in contemporary Italian fiction. The purpose of the event was to bring the research of the project to an audience of historians and members of the general public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.sissco.it/articoli/colonialismo-e-identita-nazionale-loltremare-tra-fascismo-e-repubblica... |
| Description | Conference presentation (St Andrews) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The talks and presentation inspired discussion about the aims of the projects. Discussion concerning content and methodologies of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/school-of-modern-languages/events/InvisibleEmpires_Programme-Jun14... |
| Description | Conference presentation, British School at Rome, J. Colombini |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | J. Colombini participated in the debate, 'The reception of Fuocoammare in Germany'. Roundtable on 'Fuocoammare: the transnational f(r)ame of Lampedusa'. Conference 'Transnational Italies: Mobility, Subjectivities and Modern Italian Cultures, the British School at Rome, 26-28 October 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/media-collection/ |
| Description | Conference presentation, J. Colombini, Dublin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | J. Colombini presented the paper, 'Lampedusa in Hamburg. Representing Lampedusa in a transnational context' at the SIS Interim Conference 'Turning Points: Cultures of Transition, Transformation and Transmission in Italy. Trinity College Dublin, 29-30 April 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference, University of Dublin, N. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of a project panel at the conference, 'Turning Points: Cultures of Transition, Transformation and Transmission in Italy (Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference), Trinity College Dublin' N. Wells presented the paper 'Transnational cultural and linguistic practices in migrant cultural associations in Bologna', focusing on the research she has conducted for the project. The project panel generated significant interest from the audience of Italian Studies academics, particularly in relation to how the project is developing new approaches to research in Italian Studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.tcd.ie/Italian/news/582.TurningPoints.php |
| Description | Creative Writing workshops, West Midlands, J. Burns, G. Wall, N.Wells, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | These are a continuation of the creative writing workshops from 2015/2016 organised by J. Burns, G. Wall and N. Wells in collaboration with the writer Shirin Ramzanali Fazel in the West Midlands. The workshops explore creative responses to living in a multilingual and multicultural environment, and the most recent series (January-June 2016) took place at the Ikon Gallery in central Birmingham. The participants came from a diverse range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds, including writers based in Birmingham but originally from countries including Nigeria, Croatia, France, Somalia and Iran. The workshops have led to the establishment of ongoing collaborative relationships with a core group of highly engaged writers, leading specifically to the Being Human performance (see below) and contributions from the writers to the project exhibitions. Those who took part described the workshops as 'highly rewarding', 'a wonderful, encouraging atmosphere' and 'one of the most enjoyable projects I took part in'. They have also told us how the workshops have begun to directly influence their own writing, for example by encouraging them to experiment with writing in different languages in their work. The workshops also led to the establishment of the formal partnership with the Ikon Gallery listed under collaborations. More generally, the workshops have influenced the research of the members of the project team who took part, particularly in the development of more participatory and collaborative models of co-produced research which have been presented to the wider academic community through a number of conference presentations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://writingacrossblog.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Creative writing workshops (West Midlands) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | These are two series of creative writing workshops intended for the general public at Sandwell Arts Cafe (12, 19, 20 May 2015) and the Birmingham Ikon Gallery (3, 17 February 2016 and ongoing). They have attracted new and experienced writers from diverse backgrounds in the West Midlands keen to explore with us how they respond creatively to living in a multilingual and multicultural environment. The workshops were led by writer Shirin Ramzanali Fazel who has published novels and short stories in Italian and English, and focused on how we bridge gaps and move across languages and cultures in our lives. The first series of three workshops took place at Sandwell Arts Café in West Bromwich in May 2015, working in partnership with the Arts Manager for Sandwell Council. Six writers from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds joined us for the workshops, sharing new and original writing produced during the series (see example published here on our website: http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2015/09/07/familiar-strangers-a-poem-by-femi-abidogun/). After the workshops we maintained ongoing contact with the participants, and three of the writers have rejoined us for our second series of workshops currently running in Birmingham. This second series of workshops was designed after talking and meeting again with the participants from the first workshops to ensure ongoing collaboration. The workshops have moved to a more central location in central Birmingham and have consequently attracted significant interest from a large group of new and experienced writers from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds and nationalities (Croatia, Bulgaria, France, Nigeria etc.). The first two workshops have been a major success in terms of attendance with 10-12 writers at each workshop (the majority of participants plan to continue across the series but with some flexibility for those unable to attend all sessions). We have also recently created a blog for the workshops, where the participants have begun to share their reflections and writing, demonstrating the enthusiastic response to the content of the workshops: https://writingacrossblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/workshop-1-words-and-voices-wednesday-3rd-february/#comments. The continuation of participants, particularly three of the writers who've stayed in close contact with us since the first series of workshops last May and with the change in locations, also demonstrates the value of the workshops for participants as they develop their writing. As this new series of workshops continues until June 2016, we aim to continue to focus on developing further opportunities for participants to share their work more widely outside of the group, including plans for publication and participation in public arts festivals. The workshops are also directly influencing my own research for the project, particularly in relation to the construction of intercultural spaces which allow for the creative negotiation of linguistic and cultural differences. Bridging these experiences in research and practice will inform the future development of my research and impact-related activities, particularly in relation to making research and teaching in Modern Languages relevant to wider audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2015/09/07/familiar-strangers-a-poem-by-femi-abidogun/ |
| Description | Critical Cultural Translation: practice more than theory, June 12 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | One day conference involving academics, cultural practitioners and art curators exploring the function and value of story telling in representing and creating understandings of mobility and cultural exchange. Selection of comments: 'Telling stories through different languages constitutes who we are' This will 'help teachers in the classroom with new approaches to the learning of languages.' 'Repeat event in Edinburgh this time next year to see projects' progress' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/files/2015/05/SFCritical-Cultural-Translation-programm... |
| Description | Crossings: Filming the Mediterranean Passage, Edinburgh 14 November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Derek Duncan was invited to give a lecture on Lecture on Fuocoammare, the documentary film about the island of Lampedusa and winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The presentation provided the opportunity to disseminate research on migration to Italy and its representation in film. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Cultural Literacy in Europe (CLE), Birkbeck, April 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 16th-18th April, Loredana Polezzi, Co-Organization of first biennial conference Cultural Literacy in Europe (CLE), Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London. Prof. Polezzi is a member of core/founding group. Conference attended by more than 120 people, including academics, teachers, artists and policy makers. Impact: CLE core group produced the 'London Statement: Meeting the challenge of Cultural Literacy' (see below). Barbara Spadaro presented her work for the project at the same conference with the title, Travelling Memories: Transnational Trajectories of Italians from North Africa. Attendance and feedback: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cleurope2015&src=typd |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://cleurope.eu/events/cle-london-2015/london-statement/ |
| Description | Department of Italian Studies, UCL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jenny Burns (Warwick) presented a seminar paper on 'Transnational Tondelli' at the Department of Italian Studies, UCL. The audience was made up of academic researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students and members of the general public. Feedback at the event and follow-up by email (including from researchers not present at the seminar) indicates significant interest in developing this new perspective on an established contemporary writer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/selcs/italian/italian-events/Tondelli |
| Description | Discover Translation: Translation & Immigration, Exeter, September 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi contributed a public session to the first edition of 'TRANSLATION! A Festival of Language and Culture', held in Exeter in September 2017 . Her presentation drew on material from TML and TML: Global Challenges.The paper was entitled, Discover Translation: Translation & Immigration' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/translationfestival/ |
| Description | Event at the British Academy 26 February 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On Friday 26 February 2016 the British Academy hosted an event organized as part of the project, 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures' (AHRC large grant, 2014-2017) http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/ . The event presented the work that the project is accomplishing within Higher Education, within schools and within the wider community. Its aim was to provide a forum in which to discuss how we can reshape the discipline of Modern Languages for the 21st century. The feedback from the day demonstrates the huge enthusiasm for the work which the project is undertaking in HE and beyond, as well as the way core ideas and principles established in research and practice by the project team were actively taken up by the audience members. In particular, comments demonstrated clear intentions to put the ideas presented by the project team into use in participants' own practices in research, teaching and wider engagement beyond and within HE. Equally, feedback shows how successfully the core aim of the project to demonstrate the centrality of Modern Languages across disciplines and sectors was demonstrated to the large audience present. Feedback: What three new ideas or questions will you take away from today in relation to the role of Modern Languages in HE and beyond? • It's not just about languages in HE. It's about languages in all sectors. • That there is very substantial material beginning to appear to help Departments refocus curricula in the form of the transnationalizing volumes. • The openness, humanity and examples of pupils and teachers from Castlebrae. Thank you. • introduce 1st year module showing role French/French people/francophone people have played in Wales. • importance of responsive/two-way process when researching with practitioners • need to teach beyond and between narrow national (and ever-changing) borders • That we must emphasise ML work in our own communities to ensure its relevance. • I liked the idea of challenging other fields in their perception of what it is to be a linguist. Before explaining it to the public, which is of course the aim, institutions themselves must understand the importance of the field and its interdisciplinarity. • The way that language specific studies can function as a model for interdisciplinary studies more generally. • The role/metaphor of multilinguality as a mode of all sorts of different kinds of research + practice. • Who are the experts in transcultality? People operating translinguistically every day. • very important work with children in underprivileged areas, language is key to culture • Practise sharing. I would like to introduce the creative writing task "my favourite word" to my students • The need to develop a coherent identity for ML students + make sure they grasp the rationale behind their degree. • The importance of making MLs a fully inclusive subject • The importance of affect & emotion in how we research and teach this • The power of creative writing workshops in exploring identities/cultures/languages and discovering new messages/connections/ways of seeing the world. • Idea of using traditional ML subjects as a spring board in the thinking about how languages function in the wider community seems very promising • Multilingual turn in the disciplinary area • Approaching school teachers who do not teach who do not teach languages with the idea/concept of translating cultures across the curriculum • The idea of a post-monolingual world • the "wider picture" and how we could re-structure our language modules to respond to this • how to engage pedagogically with the translingual. • How to pursue the inclusion of language learning with other disciplines • Transfer learning from today to direct work with refugees • Support & leadership of HE in shaping and promoting the importance of culture & languages from early stages in schools. General comments: • The school example was hugely inspiring! • V. stimulating workshop. • Thank you for a wonderful session! • Inspirational day -thank you! • Thank you for a fascinating ½ day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2015/12/15/transnationalizing-modern-languages-reshapi... |
| Description | IMLR activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The activity gave the research team the opportunity to present the research project in all its dimensions, to field questions and to share the intended project development with a large group of people, mostly though not exclusively from an academic background. The talk was highly successful in raising awareness about the research ambitions of the project among the academic community in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Translating-Cultures-Conference.aspx |
| Description | Identities in Motion, Warwick, March 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi, with Mia Lecomte, participation in 'Identities in Motion. Legacies and Representations of Mobility in Contemporary Italy', workshop held in collaboration with TML and aimed at early career researchers, Warwick University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/people/postgraduate/panzarella/identitiesmotion/ |
| Description | In my Mother's House, Cardiff, June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 2nd June 2016, Luisa Pèrcopo was the convenor and organiser of the public event 'In My Mother's House', the screening of the documentary by Italian-Eritrean anthropologist Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Ostor; event held at Cardiff University in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Centre Wales (ICCW); the event was attended by more than 30 people from the general public. Connections with ICCW and with other local initiatives and communities to be developed as a result. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://iccw.wales/en/events-2/ |
| Description | Incroci di poesia contemporanea literary festival March 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 27th March 2015, Ana Luisa Amaral (Portugal) and Loredana Polezzi, participation in Incroci di poesia contemporanea section of Incroci di Civilta' Literary Festival (25th-28th March), Venice, Auditorium S. Margherita. The event was open to the public and attended by approx. 400 people; reports on the festival appeared in the local and national press. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Interactive workshop for 'Migrations' project, Welsh National Opera, September 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Polezzi was invited to provide expertise on migration and multilingualism for WNO team involved in the creation of a new opera project to be launched in 2020-21. Results of TML research were used to provide case studies and scenarios for the workshop. The event led to the incorporation of multilingual practices and historical perspectives on migration within the plans for the new opera |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education - presentation M. Santello |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marco Santello (Leeds) presented the following conference paper: "Language Layering and Popular Children's Songs: the Rearrangement of Italian Multilingualism in Australia". The paper was presented at the ICMME17, Braga, Portugal, 11-13 May, 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://bragaconfmultiling.wordpress.com/conference-programme/ |
| Description | Interview with Prof Suresh Canagarajah, Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'Decolonizing the Mobility Turn: Toward Non-Western Traditions of Spatial Linguistics for the Anthropocene', interview with Dr Suresh Canagarajah, Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication, Stony Brook University, April 2021 Activity Type: Public interview (on line) Geographical Reach: International Primary Audience: academic researchers, postgraduate students Other Audiences: General public |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/mic/interviews/index.php |
| Description | Invitation to present research in Korea, M. Hills de Zarate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Margaret Hills de Zarate was invited to present her research for TML to an audience of professional practitioners in Korea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited Lecture: Sheffield Hallam University, 9 September 2016, C. Burdett and N. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk discussed the work of TML and its impact on the study of Modern Languages in an increasingly globalized world. The talk stimulated wide interest from the audience keen to find out more about the project and to participate in future events and activities. In particular, the audience was excited to learn about the forthcoming book series and keen to use these books in their own teaching and research activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/langculttransnational/ |
| Description | L. Polezzi 'Visual and Verbal Memories: Italian Migrant Creativity across the World','Diaspore Italiane/Italy in Movement' international conference, Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa, June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 'Visual and Verbal Memories: Italian Migrant Creativity across the World', Loredana Polezzi panel co-organizer and respondent, 'Diaspore Italiane/Italy in Movement' international conference, Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa, June 2019 Primary Audience: Academics and visual artists Other Audiences: General public Result Description: Dissemination of project findings; ongoing collaboration with Italian American and Italian Australian visual artists; for the event, I also recorded a video interview with the painter and sculptor B. Amore. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.diasporeitaliane.com/ |
| Description | L. Polezzi Translation and Migration: From Erasure to Co-Presence', public lecture, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Activity Title: 'Translation and Migration: From Erasure to Co-Presence', public lecture, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, January 2020 Activity Type: Public lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Linguistic and Cultural Interchange (policy workshop, Warwick) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Linguistic and Cultural Interchange: Policies and Practices, University of Warwick, 20 February 2015 (with Jenny Burns, Loredana Polezzi and Marco Santello). This workshop brought together local and international policy-makers, practitioners and experts to share their experiences from both their personal and professional practices in relation to sites of linguistic and cultural exchange. Practitioners and policy-makers included: -Councillor Barry Henley for Brandwood Ward, Birmingham (also Chair of Governors at Oldknow Academy, Birmingham) -Mark Hinton, Community Engagement Officer, University of Warwick -Tsjerk Bottema, Senior Policy Advisor, Language, Education and Culture Department - Province of Friesland, The Netherlands -Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, published writer in Italian and English -Birgit Harris, Community Access to Schools Development Worker (South), Liberton High -Michele Righini, Director of the Casa di Khaoula Public Library in Bologna, Italy. Feedback from the day (see below) demonstrated the success in encouraging all participants (from both beyond and within academia) to reflect on the central, but typically neglected, role of language and culture in society, as well as thinking about new ways to respond to multilingual and multicultural realities in practice and in policy. Policy-makers and practitioners from a range of contexts and backgrounds were encouraged to reflect in greater depth on the role of language and culture in their work and how it can influence their future practices. The ongoing dialogue initiated with policy makers and practitioners at the workshop is also informing the development of the project as we pursue both our research and our partnerships and engagement with non-academic audiences. Feedback: General comments • An excellent workshop - highly interesting. Keep asking questions of these kinds • Probably the most interesting conference I've ever been to. • I found it very informative and enriching. • The workshop last Friday was very interesting and informative. • It was a pleasure to take part in the workshop on Linguistic and Cultural Interchange last Friday! It was an interesting program, with language theory, practice and policy all coming together in one. • I work in teacher education and consider multilingualism to be an area in which most teachers lack knowledge in. Ideas or points will take away from the day • Language plays a key role in policy making. • Language is a multi sensory and multi modal experience • Need to change lang. teaching in universities. • Diversity of expression of identity • Language as a multi-sensory experience • Activities related to language can be a way of community-building. • There is a need for policy & research to integrate a lot more. • The multimodal & multi-sensory approach to translation & translanguaging should inform Policy & Research. • The role of museums & libraries in the representation of "locals" & "migrants" lives. • Language compartmentalization must be overcomed in pedag. contexts. • Emphasis on practice - what people do not how they are defined. • Collaboration outside academia in conception of research. • Importance of the role of schools in creating a real multilingual environment. • Realizing policies in practices. • Affective/emotional dimension of multilingualism. • Language learning is always a multimodal experience but language teaching seldom is. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2016/01/26/linguistic-and-cultural-interchange-worksho... |
| Description | Loredana Polezzi 'A Conversation with Professionals: How Should We Support Language Volunteers?', Translation! Festival 2019: Languages in Motion, Exeter, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Activity Title: 'A Conversation with Professionals: How Should We Support Language Volunteers?', workshop, Translation! Festival 2019: Languages in Motion, Exeter, September 2019 Activity Type: Co-Organization and presentation, with Cari Bottois |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/translationfestival/ |
| Description | Loredana Polezzi 'Hospes and Hostis: Rethinking Translation and Hospitality', public lecture, 'Citizens' seminar series, Cardiff University, February 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Activity Title: 'Hospes and Hostis: Rethinking Translation and Hospitality', public lecture, 'Citizens' seminar series, Cardiff University, February 2020 Activity Type: Public lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Loredana Polezzi 'Macedonia Express: Colour, Sound, Vision, Texture, and Smell as Foundational Elements of Language', Translation! Festival 2019: Exeter, September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Activity Title: 'Macedonia Express: Colour, Sound, Vision, Texture, and Smell as Foundational Elements of Language', workshop, Translation! Festival 2019: Languages in Motion, Exeter, September 2019 Activity Type: Co-organization and presentation, with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Linde Lujinenburg |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/translationfestival/ |
| Description | Loredana Polezzi Opening remarks, Symposium on 'Interdisciplinarity in the Arts and Social Sciences', Manchester University, February 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Activity Title: Opening remarks, Symposium on 'Interdisciplinarity in the Arts and Social Sciences', Manchester University, February 2020 Activity Type: Workshop presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Marco Santello: paper 'Looking back at uneven linguistic repertoires' University of Barcelona |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Marco Santello presented the paper "Looking back at uneven linguistic repertoires in migration settings" at the seminar Migration, language and practices: Challenges in the 21st century, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 17-18 June 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Margaret Hills de Zarate presentation, The Secret Life of Objects, ECArtE Conference, Madrid |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Margaret Hills de Zarate presentation, September 2019-The Secret Life of Objects, ECArtE Conference, Madrid-Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Margaret Hills de Zarate, Heuristic Research and Material Culture, Ottersberg |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Margaret Hills de Zarate presentation, October 2019-Heuristic Research and Material Culture, HKS - University of applied sciences and arts in Ottersberg, Bremen, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 'Working with Translation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi led a team in the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University, which designed, produced and implemented the MOOC 'Workign with Translation' in collaboration with Futurelearn. The course contains items on cultural translation, linguistic landscapes, translation and migration, directly linked to and resulting from the TML and TML: GC project. The course was launched in October 2016 and revised in 2017. Further runs took place in March-April 2017, September-October 2017, March-April 2018 and January-February 2019. The five iterations jointly attracted more than 38,000 users. The 2018 and 2019 iterations incorporated material from the TML - Global Challenges project and were co-taught with staff from the University of Namibia (UNAM) who were part of the TML - GC research team. The MOOC has attracted an increasing number of learners from ODA-listed African countries, especially across the sub-Saharan region. Learners have provided hundreds of testimonials about the transformative nature of the MOOC, both in professional and personal terms. The MOOC has reached over 38,000 people.Learners have provided hundreds of testimonials about the transformative nature of the MOOC, both in professional and personal terms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/admin/courses/working-with-translation/5 |
| Description | Masterclass, N. Wells, Chile, Colegio Salesiano de ValparaÃso |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | While on fieldwork in Chile, N. Wells was invited to give a masterclass at the Salesiano School in Valparaíso to a large class of 40 students aged around 16-17. She gave an introduction to the subject area of sociolinguistics and to the research she was conducting for the project in Chile. The class brought the research of the project to a new audience with the students responding enthusiastically, asking many further questions about the research and demonstrating an excellent engagement and interest in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Mediterranean Re-Mapped, Cardiff, February 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 27th February 2016, Loredana Polezzi, with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, participation in public event 'Voices and Faces of a Post-Colonial Heritage', part of the 'Mediterranean Re-Mapped' project organized by the Italian Cultural Centre Wales (ICCW); event held at the Butetown History and Arts Centre in collaboration with Watch Africa and TML; the event was sold out and attended by more than 50 people from the general public. Connections with ICCW and with other local initiatives and communities to be developed as a result. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://iccw.wales/en/category/events/events-en/ |
| Description | Mediterranean Re-Mapped, Cardiff, February 2016 , L. Percopo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Result Description 27th February 2016, Luisa Pèrcopo was one of the convenor and organiser of the public event 'Voices and Faces of a Post-Colonial Heritage', part of the 'Mediterranean Re-Mapped' project organized by the Italian Cultural Centre Wales (ICCW); She also gave a brief presentation about Italian colonial history in Africa together with Serena Guarracino from the University Orientale di Napoli. The event was held at the Butetown History and Arts Centre in collaboration with Watch Africa and TML; the event was sold out and attended by more than 50 people from the general public. Connections with ICCW and with other local initiatives and communities to be developed as a result. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://iccw.wales/en/events-2/ |
| Description | Monolingual Logics and Multilingual Practices, Cardiff, January 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi, contribution on 'Monolingual Logics and Multilingual Practices', 17th AULC (Association of University Language Centres) conference, Cardiff. The two-day event was devoted to 'Shaping a Multilingual Society' and was attended by approx.150 academics, teachers, administrators and policy makers from around the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2016/03/01/three-recent-talks-on-translation-by-loreda... |
| Description | N. Wells, Engagement focused blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Details: This blogpost provided a more accessible overview of my research for the TML project and was published on the School of Advanced Study's widely read Talking Humanities blog. The post was also shared on social media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2018/07/17/a-sense-of-belonging-migrants-use-of-their-lang... |
| Description | Organization of workshop Queen Mary London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jacopo Colombini (St. Andrews) was one of the organizers of the event, 'Radical interventions: re-imagining border and migration struggles within academia and activism', Conference in Critical Border and Migration Studies. He prepared and chaired the workshop on 'How to Critique Today's Border Regimes?'. This was the second event aimed to create a network (called 'moblab') to connect academic and activist working on the field of Critical Border and Migration Studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.borders-in-motion.de/en/-/workshop-radical-interventions-re-imagining-border-and-migrati... |
| Description | Orkney Islands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The presentation showed how the notion of translating cultures forms part of wider transnational memory. Stimulated a great deal of interest in the work that C. Pirozzi is pursuing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.stmagnusfestival.com/programme.htm |
| Description | Panel at Monash ACIS conference 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Barbara Spadaro and Charles Burdett presented a panel at the Transnational Italian Studies Conference at the Monash Prato Centre, Italy in July 2017. B. Spadaro presented a paper on 'Drawing Transcultural Spaces: Graphic Narratives from Italy across Media and Memories', Burdett presented on the perception of time in narratives of Italian East Africa. Burdett also spoke at the conclusion to the conference. The panel was an opportunity to present the TML project and its potential for curriculum development. The activity gave to BS the opportunity to present her research to academics and postgraduates attending the conference. The presentation led to an invitation to contribute to the Special Issue of Modern Italy on Transcultural Italy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://monash.it/events/acis2017 |
| Description | Participation in Shakespeare in Venice Summer School, June-July 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 3rd July, Loredana Polezzi, participation in Shakespeare in Venice Summer School, The Shylock Project, Fondazione Cini, Venice; delivered workshop on translation and mobility. Impact: the summer school ran from June 15th to July 10th, was attended by approx. 30 students and theatre practitioners as well as a large number of members of the general public; the programme was linked to the an episode of the BBC 'Imagine' programme devoted to the rewriting of The Merchant of Venice (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06myq5v) and will lead to the first promenade production of the play in Venice's Ghetto (summer 2016); L. Polezzi has since been invited to hold a lecture on the same topics at the V&A in December 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06myq5v |
| Description | Performance and workshop, Being Human Festival, Birmingham, J.Burns and N. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This performance and workshop was organised by J. Burns and N. Wells from the University of Warwick in partnership with the Birmingham Ikon Gallery (UK) and as part of the nationwide 2016 Being Human Festival of the Humanities. The day of creative exchanges at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery explored how in multicultural communities we translate and transact between languages when we express experiences and emotions and listen to the stories others tell. In the morning, there were performances and readings from a multilingual group of Birmingham-based writers, followed by an afternoon drop-in workshop which invited the public to bring the words they each associate with feelings of hope and fear. Small groups then engaged in collaborative writing by sharing their words and ideas to produce together short pieces of writing. The event gave us the opportunity to share some of the writing produced in the workshops with a wider public, with audio and video recordings of the readings also made available online. The audience, which filled the room, were extremely enthusiastic in their response with many also staying to participate in the afternoon workshop, which allowed us to bring our workshop experience to a much wider audience. Participants described it as an 'inspiring' and 'enriching' event, and were keen to be involved in any future related activities, demonstrating the success and clear potential to further develop the creative writing workshops into a long-term programme of activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://writingacrossblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/familiar-strangers-being-human-festival-november-... |
| Description | Presentation (Cardiff) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | To raise awareness of the project Interest in range, ambitions and methodologies of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/newsandevents/events/history/moving-people-changing-culture.html |
| Description | Presentation (SOAS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jacopo Colombini (St Andrews) presented the paper 'The Archivio Memorie Migranti. Questioning Italianness and constructing new shared memories' at the SOAS workshop 'Lampedusa: Caught between shipwreck and tourism', 28 November 2015. The presentation enabled Colombini to discuss his research with the principal academics working on Lampedusa. It enabled him to create connections with some of the members of the 'Colletivo Askavusa Lampedusa' for his future fieldwork activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.soas.ac.uk/anthropology/events/anthropology-of-tourism-and-travel-seminar/28nov2015-lampe... |
| Description | Presentation (University of Reading) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to a defined group of early career academics that stimulated interest in the approaches and aims of the project. See above. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/eurotales/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/BA_EarlyCar021.pdf |
| Description | Presentation Addis Ababa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The series of presentations stimulated interest and particpation in the project among a number of groups resident in Addis Ababa. See above. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation Edinburgh workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Iacopo Colombini presented at the Workshop 'Mediterranean in Motion'. at the University of Edinburgh 5 May 2015. The main aim of my presence at the workshop was to present a paper with the title: Transnationalizing Lampedusa. Signifying migration in Italy and beyond'. He received relevant comments on methodology from members of the Department of History and of Department of PIR of Edinburgh University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://nationalismstudies.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/workshop-the-mediterranean-in-motion-university-... |
| Description | Presentation IMLR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk presented the project in the context of a national debate concerning the future of Modern Languages as a University discipline. Interest in the ambitions of the project across a large cross section of academics and professional translators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/imlr-relaunches-conference-post-national-modern-langu... |
| Description | Presentation IMLR 15 July 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 15 July 2015 - Women's Narrative and Politics of Belonging: Exploring Narratives of Historical Change, Institute of Modern Languages Research, SAS, University of London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Research%20Centres/CCM/Womens%20Memories... |
| Description | Presentation Society for Italian Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marco Santello (Leeds) presented the following conference paper: "Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism: Insights from Italian speakers in and out of Italy". Peter presented at the SIS Biennial Conference, University of Oxford, UK, 28-30 September, 2015. (this panel was chaired by Professor Martin Maiden (Oxon) but initiated by Marco Santello and is the first of its kind at the SIS). It creates a precedent for this kind of academic conference. Jacopo Colombini (St. Andrews) took part in the panel 'Questioning elements of Italianità' with the paper 'The Archivio Memorie Migranti. Questioning Italianness and constructing new shared memories'. Naomi Wells (Warwick) spoke on 'Convivial Multilingualism in Bologna: Language as a Site of Negotiation in a Centro Interculturale'. All the sessions received excellent feedback and requests fro more information about the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://italianstudies.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SIS-Biennial-Conference-Programme6.pdf |
| Description | Presentation University of Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Together with other PhD students from different institutions, Iacopo Colombini (St. Andrews) facilitated the workshop on 'Politics of Representation' at the first Edinburgh Conference in Critical Migration and Border Studies, 'Politics, Practices, and Discourse of Mobility'. The first part of the session was dedicated to a general introduction (with short theoretical insights) of the concept of representation. The facilitators used their own research experiences to raise questions and stimulate the discussion. He highlighted themes relevant for his research: the role of the collective memory; strategies to challenge media/politics hegemonic migrants representation; use of aesthetic for self-representation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.globaljusticeacademy.ed.ac.uk/news/politics,_practices,_and_discourses_of_mobility |
| Description | Presentation Warwick workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | J. Burns was invited to present her project-related research at a seminar on 'Mediterranean Migration in Interdisciplinary Perspective'. She received relevant comments on methodology and historical perspectives from colleagues from a number of institutions and disciplines working on Mediterranean mobility from the early modern period to the present. Extension of networks in Mediterranean Studies and in migration histories in Renaissance Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at ECArTE, Palermo, 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Margaret Hills de Zarate presented the methodologies behind her work at the Palermo Academy of Art (ECArTE), Italy (40 participants) Paper selected as one of 15 presentations to be published by ECArTE) European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ecarte.info/conference/ |
| Description | Presentation at ESRC conference, University of Birmingham, November 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff) and Naomi Wells (warwick) presented the paper 'Working Globally through Multilingualism and Translation', Multilingualism in Practice in the University ESRC Seminar, University of Birmingham, 13 November 2015. The purpose of the presentation was to show the importance of the work that the project is accomplishing to a specialist audience engaging with questions concerning multilingualism. This was a contribution to a wider debate in which the conference was an important marker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/education/mosaic/news-events/multilingualism-in-practi... |
| Description | Presentation at Glasgow University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Iacopo Colombini (PhD student at St Andrews presented 1st PGNOISIS symposium. He delivered a talk on Crisis in Lampedusa. Understanding media and policy-makers' interaction on constructing an emergency'. The purpose of the presentation was to bring an aspect of the work of the project to the community of postgraduates working in Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/pgnoisis/events.html |
| Description | Presentation at University of Rome, 10 February 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Charles Burdett presented the work of the project to a large group of postgraduate students studying in the Facolta di Lettere at the University of Rome, outlining the project's radical thinking on how the discipline of Modern Languages and literary studies can be reshaped for the 21st century. The talk created a great deal of interest among University staff and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at an International Conference, University for foreigners of Siena, Italy, M. Santello |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marco Santello (Leeds) gave a presentation titled "Diversità linguistica, canzoni e riappropriazioni transculturali dall'Australia" at the AIPI (Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano) Conference, University for foreigners of Siena, Italy, 6 September, 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.infoaipi.org/siena_18/Bando_Siena.pdf |
| Description | Presentation at an International Conference, University of Cyprus, M. Santello |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marco Santello (Leeds) gave a presentation titled "Italian migrants and the crossing of linguistic boundaries" at the 8th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics & Communication, University of Cyprus, 8 June, 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://inpra2018.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/programme_INPRA_FINALbis.pdf |
| Description | Presentation at an International Symposium, University of Sheffield (M. Santello) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marco Santello (Leeds) gave a presentation titled "Religious Experience, Space and Language Practices: a Transnational Perspective" at the Symposium Aspects of 'Performance through an Interdisciplinary Lens: an International Symposium', University of Sheffield, 9 May, 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://heavenlyacts.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/heavenly-acts-iv-poster-march-20174.pdf |
| Description | Presentation at the Institute of Modern Languages Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marco Santello (Leeds) was invited as a speaker as follows: "Mobilising Hidden Community Languages in Tasmania", Minor Translingualism Series, Institute of Modern Language Research (School of Advanced Studies), London, UK, 27 November, 2015. This was part of the minor transligualism series of the IMLR. The talk was part of the ongoing participation of Transnationalizing Modern Languages in the work of the Institute of Modern Languages research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://translingualisms.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/next-seminar-mobilising-hidden-community-languages... |
| Description | Presentation by TML researchers at the conference 'Diaspore italiane: Italy in Movement', Genoa, 27-29 June 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Recovering Traces of Italian Mobility (Spaces and Narratives) Genoa, Institution of Maritime and Migrations Museum, 28 June 2019 Chair: Charles Burdett (UK), Durham University Jennifer Burns (UK), Warwick University - Traces: assembling pasts and futures of Italian communities in London Derek Duncan (UK), St. Andrews University - "That child is wearing my jumper": recovering memories of the Arandora Star and the pedagogy of amnesia Teresa Fiore (USA), Montclair State University (PHD) - Italy's Transnational Migrations, Collective Memory and Empathy in Two Short Stories by Carmine Abate and Melania Mazzucco Clorinda Donato (USA), California State University, Long Beach (PHD) - Forging Transnational Identities in Italian American Chick Lit: The Novels of Adriana Trigian |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.diasporeitaliane.com/genova/program |
| Description | Presentation in Berlin, Ottersberg, Nürtingen, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Margaret Hills de Zarate presented her work and the methodologies that underlie her research at the following institutions in Germany: June 2015: Weissensee School of Art, Berlin, Germany (30 participants) June 2015: Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg, Germany (25 participants) June 2015: Hochschule für Kunsttherapie, Nürtingen, Germany (2 x 25 participants) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation in Hong Kong |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Together with T. Omoniyi, Marco Santello (Leeds) presented on "Illusions and Delusions of the Centre within the Framework of Globalization", Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centring and (de)standardization, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 6 June, 2015. The purpose was to spread the global reach of TML. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://programme.exordo.com/slxg2015/delegates/presentation/483/ |
| Description | Presentation of TML at UCML Plenary 30 June |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Charles Burdett presented the findings of TML and its implications for Modern Languages at a plenary panel of the University Council for Modern Languages on 30 June 2017. The presentation included talks from Charles Forsdick and the PIs of the four OWRI projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation of book 'Italy is Out', New Jersey City University, November 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mario Badagliacca, Derek Duncan and Edvige Giunta presented the book, Italy is Out, at New Jersey City University on 29 November 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.njcu.edu/community/events/italy-out |
| Description | Presentation of research, Universidad del Desarollo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Margaret Hills de Zarate presented her work on Italian communities in South America as part of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation to LLAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk stimulated a great deal of interest across the community of researchers, teachers, translators involved within the LLAS. Request for further information, interest in the project website and desire to be involved within the project activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/6873 |
| Description | Presentation, 'Iconicity and space: transnational stars and local identities' at University of Hull 'Icons of Italy' Interdisciplinary Conference: G. Wall |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion of ML scholars as ethnographers via a case-study of Maradona as a transnational icon. This presentation also served to attract more participant interest in the project, as an interview resulted from it. Promote project and engage other academic colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation, University of Leicester, November 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Naomi Wells (Warwick) presented the paper 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Negotiating Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Italy' as an invited speaker at the University of Leicester, School of Modern Languages, 4 November 2015. The purpose of the talk was to draw attention to the work that she is doing within the project and to draw the audience's awareness to the themes of the project and its range of impacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/modern-languages/newsandevents/transnationalizing-modern-languages... |
| Description | Presentation, University of Swansea, May 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Charles Burdett (Bristol) and Naomi Wells (Warwick), presented the seminar 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Translation and Identity in Modern Italian Cultures', invited research seminar , University of Swansea, 6 May 2015. The aim of the talk was to present the project, its aims and intended impact, to an audience of university staff, undergraduates and postgraduates. The feedback was impressive with members of the audience asking to follow the progress of the project and thanking the team for the quality of thinking about the rationale of Modern Languages and its applications in the widest context. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Project Summer School (Venice) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Summer School invited selected PhD students from across the globe (UK, Australia, Poland etc.) to participate in an intense 4-day programme of lectures, masterclasses, workshops and discussions on the subject of Transnational Italian Studies. Speakers included members of the team and leading experts on Italian mobilities, in addition to practitioners in the creative arts. In particular, an interactive workshop was organized with the Cantieri Meticci migrant and refugee theatre company from Bologna, providing an opportunity for the students and team to explore instances of transnational and multilingual creative practices. The theatre company is also directly involved in my own research and the workshop consequently also allowed for ongoing collaboration with them for the project. Feedback from the participants demonstrates the direct influence of the Summer School on the development of PhD students' current research ideas and progress, as well as on their future research plans and careers. In particular, the Summer School allowed the team to effectively share and develop their conceptualization of Transnational Italian Studies with a wider community of scholars based in Italian Departments across the globe. Feedback: • The Summer School resulted in an enlightening multi-disciplinary learning experience, and I came away from it with new insight into my own research and methodologies. • It has been a very rewarding experience, providing valuable input as well as interesting conversation with people with similar interests. • The "Transnationalizing Modern Language" project is, I believe, very important and timely in producing a specific outlook on contemporary Italy that Italy now needs more than ever. • It is possible that I would be, at some point in the next future, drafting applications to pursue further research, and the multiple viewpoints offered by the summer school will be crucial in this. • I have found the research surgeries most useful, providing me with very valuable input and performing very well as a sounding board to my ideas. • This rather unique opportunity of discussing the first draft of my new project with such relevant Italian-American studies scholars, as well as with such experts in transnational studies, significantly enriched my comparative methodology in a transnational perspective • The chance to discuss and ask questions in an actively participatory context (facilitated even further by the group activities, especially the theatre) also stimulated questions for me more specifically related to language, and this is something that has already impacted on my own research, encouraging me to make new contacts and utilize new networks. • I really enjoyed the entire Summer School and I found it very useful. In particular, I have loved the experience at the 'Biennale' and the idea of applying the same processes that I normally use to analyse literary sources to works of art; from this I got a couple of ideas that I would like to develop in the future. Moreover, I thought that the master classes were brilliant and that they provided original ways of investigating the theme of mobility. • The contribution of academics and PhD students with different backgrounds presenting their own approach to the study of Italian history, art, culture, and society, and the inclusion in the programme of seminars and activities focused on different forms of art provided a concrete example of the relevance of interdisciplinarity, and its richness and strength. • The complexity of reality and human experience calls for a great diversity, inclusiveness, and flexibility in terms of disciplinary approaches and objects of study, if academic research aims at accounting for reality and being responsive to it. I think this summer school really managed to convey that. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2016/01/25/transnational-italian-studies-summer-school... |
| Description | Project presentation, university of Exeter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Charles Burdett and Barbara Spadaro presented the project, its themes and its underlying methodologies at the Centre for Translating Cultures, University of Exeter. There were many requests for more information and for involvement in the project. Podcast of the event tracks 64 listening https://soundcloud.com/university-of-exeter/transnationalizing-modern-languages-mobility-identity-and-translation-in-modern-italian-cultures |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/university-of-exeter/transnationalizing-modern-languages-mobility-identity-an... |
| Description | Public Engagement Event, Bristol University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The event centred on Comics and Languages, featuring presentations of scholars and a comic workshop coordinated by Kate Evans, a British award-winning comic artist. Dr Spadaro presented examples of graphic journalists from Italy whose work centres on migration and transcultural contacts in Italian cities. The event was highly successful in raising the curiosity of children and teachers about the comic medium and multilingualism. The event also provided a training experience for Dr Spadaro in relation to creative workshop and presentations to schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Roundtable and presentation (Chile) N. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | N. Wells was invited to participate in this roundtable discussion with the author, Dr L. Carrera Airola, and historian Professor B. Estrada. The discussion centred on the book and more generally, the subject of Italian migration to Chile and across the globe, allowing N. Wells to introduce the wider research of the project. The event allowed for the dissemination of the project to a new and largely non-academic audience in Chile, leading to specific requests by email for further information on the project and opportunities to collaborate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | SIS conference BSR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The talk stimulated interest in the project and thinking in the academic community about its methodologies concerning migration and displacement. Considerable interest in the international community of Italian studies in the nature and methodology of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/research/events/sis2014/ |
| Description | School-university partnership |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Engage schools with work going on in the project. The work is at a preparatory stage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Scottish research network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Synergy between the work on the project and the AHRC 'La mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype' (see above). Interest in the project and in the work that C. Pirozzi is conducting on Italo-Scottish communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://lamammaitaliana.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Seminar at Sheffield Hallam University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Charles Burdett gave the presentation 'Modern Languages and Mobility: Redefining a Disciplinary Area' to the Languages and Cultures Subject Group, Sheffield Hallam University, 12 May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Society for Italian Studies, Conference, 'Turning Points' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The aim of these sessions involving 6 members of the TML team was to promote understandings of the range of TML research now that the project had reached maturity Derek Duncan's 'Films from Italy: a vernacular transnationalism': this paper explored questions of transnationalism and the management of linguistic diversity in recent Italian cinema. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.tcd.ie/Italian/news/582.TurningPoints.php |
| Description | Society for Italian Studies, Teachers of Italian Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On 18 June 2016 Charles Burdett and Derek Duncan presented the innovative interdisciplinary work led by TML in Edinburgh schools to national conference of Italian language teachers at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. This was part of the initiative, 'Choose Italian'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://italianstudies.org.uk/the-society/ |
| Description | Society fro Italian Studies Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jenny Burns and Charles Burdett presented the aims and ambitions of the project to the annual general meeting of the Society fro Italian Studies, the subject association of Italian studies in the UK and Ireland. The intention was to let an audience made up of academics, postgraduates and teachers of Italian know about the project, the research that it is producing and the audiences that it is reaching. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://italianstudies.org.uk/ |
| Description | Stills Gallery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interest in the project and the relevance of the questions explored in the project to people's lives in contemporary Scotland. Interest in the actuality of the themes addressed in the project and its relevance to people's everyday lives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.stills.org/ |
| Description | TML Mobility and Human Subjectivities Workshop, September 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This workshop has brought together scholars whose innovative work on ideas of mobility has challenged disciplinary boundaries and methodological frameworks, opening new and exciting ways of furthering the study of human subjectivities, identities and notions of cultural belonging. From different disciplinary backgrounds and proceeding from a range of critical perspectives, each speaker explores how subjectivity is articulated within transnational spaces where individual and collective identities are constantly shaped and transformed. It is now available online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2016/01/27/workshop-on-mobility-and-human-subjectiviti... |
| Description | TML Scotland Research Workshop, May 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop, 'TML: Scotland Research Workshop' held at Castlebrae Community High School on 30 May 2017 presenting projects of TML and TML: Global Challenges to range of education professionals and policy makers in Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | TML presentation at conference, 'Diaspore Italiane, New York, November 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | N. Wells, C. Burdett and B. Spadaro contributed to the TML plenary panel at this international conference 'Diaspore Italiane - Italy in Movement' (A Symposium on Three Continents), held at the Calandra Institute, New York, 1-3 November 2018. N. Well presented the paper, Transnationalism and Questions of Identity; C. Burdett presented a paper on Italian presence in East Africa; B. Spadaro spoke about the TML exhibition in Tunis. The conference brought together leading experts on migration to and from Italy from across the globe. The conference is part of a wider symposium organised by Italian migration organisations in Australia, New York and Italy. The panel generated significant interest from the audience of experts and practitioners from across the globe also working on the subject of Italian migrations, who were keen to discuss future collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.diasporeitaliane.com/new-york-november-2018 |
| Description | TML presentation at conference, Our Uncommon Ground, University of Durham, April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Charles Burdett, Jenny Burns, Derek Duncan and Barbara Spadaro presented the work of TML and TML: Global Challenges at the Durham conference on the future of Modern languages, April 2018. The presentation showed the work of TML from the perspective of different researchers engaged in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/research/uncommonground/ |
| Description | Taipei University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Interest of the international audience in the project and in the large grant theme of Translating Cultures. Sharing of methodological approaches. See Above |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Talk/Book Presentation: Italy is out: Derek Duncan, Mario Badagliacca, Edvige Giunta, St Andrews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk/Book Presentation: Derek Duncan, Mario Badagliacca, Edvige Giunta, presented the book 'Italy is Out' (Liverpool University Press, 2021) at an event open to the general public at the University of St Andrews on 10 November 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The book, Italy is Out, presented at the Italian Cultural Institute, London, 7 December 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The internationally renowned documentary photographer, Mario Badagliacca, in conversation with Professor Derek Duncan (University of St Andrews), Professor Charles Burdett (University of London) and Dr. Antonia Dawes (King's College London) at the Italian Cultural Institute London, 7 December 2021. See: https://iiclondra.esteri.it/iic_londra/en/gli_eventi/calendario/2021/12/a-round-table-with-mario-badagliacca.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/user117156473 |
| Description | The launch of the volume Il mondo si allontana |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in round table for the launch of the volume Il mondo si allontana: Il Covid 19 e le nuove migrazioni italiane, Centro Altreitalie - Globus et Locus, November 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.altreitalie.org/altreitalies_walls/news/presentazione-del-volume-il-mondo-si-allontana-il... |
| Description | Toronto Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Significant increase in awareness and participation in the project. Increased participation of academics in North America in the project and participation of Italo-American groups in the research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.italianamericanstudies.net/ct/html/ta/me/conferences/ti/conferences |
| Description | Transcultural Memory and the Intersection of Migration and Colonialism |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To disseminate TML research, notably Dr Spadaro's work on cultural memory, while contributing to the development of activities of the CCM. Dr Spadaro was involved as former Visiting Fellowship of the CCM, and organised the event with Dr Francesco Ricatti, University of the Sunshine Coast Australia. Featuring cutting-edge research from the UK and Australia on memory and transcultural contacts, the event enhanced the profile of the CCM-IMLR as national hub for Modern Languages Research. The organization of this event fostered the collaboration between Dr Spadaro and Dr Ricatti, towards the development of a Marie Curie grant application that would allow to Dr Spadaro to pursue her career. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Transcultural Objects: Memories of Italians from Libya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Barbara Spadaro delivered the paper, Transcultural Objects: Memories of Italians from Libya at the seminar 'Objects of Colonial Memory', UCL, 12 June 2017. The activity gave to BS the opportunity to discuss her research with a mixed audience of academics and museum curators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Translating Pain, August 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 10th -12th August, Loredana Polezzi, member of the organizing committee and participant in the symposium Translating Pain: An International Forum on Language, Text and Suffering, co-sponsored by the Monash-Warwick Mobility, Translation and Identity Network, the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and the Research Program in Global History, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Event attended by approx. 80 people across the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Conference attended by approx.. 80 people, including scientists, lawyers and other professionals. Barbara Spadaro spoke at the same conference with the paper: Transcultural memories of the diaspora from Libya: mediating and remediating Jewish Narratives of Sorrow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/acjc/translating-pain/ |
| Description | Translation, Translanguaging and Creativity: Invited talk D. Duncan, L. Polezzi, N. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | D. Duncan, L. Polezzi and N. Wells were invited to present their research for the project at this workshop alongside researchers from across the AHRC Translating Cultures large grants. The workshop also coincided with the visit of Dr Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong) who was invited to respond to the workshop presentations. The workshop offered the opportunity to disseminate the key findings of the project and establish stronger research contacts and opportunities for collaboration across the Translating Cultures theme. The talks by the team stimulated significant interest both from other workshop participants and from Dr Tong King Lee from the University of Hong Kong. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://translating.hypotheses.org/685 |
| Description | Transnational Italian networks and transnational Italian studies, September 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 24th-26th September, Loredana Polezzi, with Margaret Hills de Zárate, talk on 'Transnational Italian networks and transnational Italian studies' delivered at the 25th annual conference of the Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI), Centro Altreitalie, Turin; conference attended by more than 100 delegates, mostly representatives of state-funded or public research institutes, museums and libraries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://aemi.eu/page/2/ |
| Description | Transnational Ties, Transcultural Belonging |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Barbara Spadaro delivered the paper 'Transnational Ties, Transcultural Belonging, and Italian Citizenship: Roberto Nunes Vais' Memories of Libya' at the conference 'The End of Empire: European Popular Responses', University of Birmingham. The presentation gave to BS the opportunity to disseminate her research among historians and to expand her networks. The presentation was highly successful for networking and publishing activities. It led to the invitation to speak at the seminar 'Objects of Colonial Memory', UCL, 12 June. Invitation to contribute to a volume of the Past & Present Series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.endofempire2017.com |
| Description | Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Reframing language education for a global future, launch of Policy Report, British Academy, 9 November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The event at the British Academy on 9 November 2018 provided the opportunity to discuss the Policy Report 'Reframing language education for a global future', prepared by the large grant 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages' (TML) and TML:Global Challenges. The policy report has been disseminated very widely in the UK and internationally. It has been disseminated by colleagues at the University of Namibia and has also been used to support emerging multilingualism and translation initiatives (sensitization, development of local HE programmes) by University of Zambia (Zambia) and Kyambogo University (Uganda). Participants at the launch event at the British Academy included: Neil Kenny (Oxford, BA Lead Fellow for Languages) Charles Forsdick (Liverpool, Translating Cultures theme leader) Alison Phipps (Glasgow, PI Researching Multilingually) Rebecca Braun (Lancaster, PI Authors and the World) Charles Burdett (Bristol/Durham, TML) and Jenny Burns (Warwick, TML) ; Derek Duncan (St Andrews, TML), Lucy Jenkins (Cardiff, Modern Languages Student Mentoring Project) Nick Mair (former Chair, Independent Modern Languages Association & Dulwich College) Helen Myers (Chair ALL London and The Ashcombe School); Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff, TML) Karen Salt (Nottingham, Centre for Research in Race and Rights) Bernadette Holmes (Principal Researcher, Born Global) Hilary Footitt (Reading, PI The Listening Zones of NGOs); Janice Carruthers (Queen's, Belfast, AHRC Leadership Fellow in MLs) Claire Gorrara (Cardiff, Chair of UCML) Charles Forsdick (Liverpool, Translating Cultures theme leader) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/2018/09/24/tml-policy-report-and-ba-event/ |
| Description | Uncurated objects: global narratives, local presences, AAIS conference, Sorrento, Italy, Derek Duncan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A conference paper delivered at American Association for Italian Studies annual conference in Sorrento, Italy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Uncurated objects: global narratives, local presences, Derek Duncan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Exploration of curatorial practice as a TML research outcome at the conference, All Things Considered, University College Cork, November 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | University of Nursing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | 1-2 November 2014: International Conference of Art Psychotherapy, Margaret Hills de Zarate delivered a series of 4 lectures on the subject of cultural translation and associated workshops: Leaving, Arriving, Returning: migration and cultural translation Working with Refugees Things: an ethnographic perspective The madeleine, the Memento and the Accidental Monument University of Nursing, Taipei, Taiwan. Interest of an international audience in the aims and methodologies of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Venice Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The talk stimulated interest in the questions that the project is addressing. The talk reached an Italian public keen to know more about the work we are doing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=172457 |
| Description | Video interview for AHRC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Greater awareness of the project and of the importance of the large grants as part of the AHRC Translating Cultures theme. Awareness within the academic community and beyond of the research questions being pursued within the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Research-funding/Themes/Translating-Cultures/Pages/Trans... |
| Description | Vittoriano complex |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The activity desmonstrated the relevance of the project to questions concerning the experience of migrants living in contemporary Italy. Interest in the project among the participants of a major workshop held at one of the most central locations of Rome. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Weaving the threads of Italy's gendered pasts, Porto, March 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi contributed a paper to the conference 'Intersexualities: Crossing Bodies, Crossing Borders (March 2017), co-organized by the University of Porto and the Serralves Foundation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://intersexualidades.ilcml.com/en/ |
| Description | Why Languages Matter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The debate, organized as part of the Being Human festival at Bristol University, presented the aims and findings of the project to the general public and engaged the questioning of why the study of languages is vitally important for the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://beinghumanfestival.org/event/why-languages-matter/ |
| Description | Working with Translation: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) [UPDATE: one more run since 2018-19] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Loredana Polezzi led a team in the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University, which designed, produced and implemented the MOOC 'Working with Translation' in collaboration with Futurelearn. Reaching over 45,000 people in over 180 countries. The course contains items on cultural translation, linguistic landscapes, translation and migration, directly linked to and resulting from the TML project. The course was launched in October 2016 and revised in 2017. Further runs took place in March-April 2017, September-October 2017, March-April 2018 and January-February 2019. The five iterations jointly attracted more than 45,000 users. The 2018, 2019 and 2020 iterations incorporated material from the TML - Global Challenges project and were co-taught with staff from the University of Namibia (UNAM) who were part of the TML - GC research team and also (in 2020) with staff from the University of Zambia (UNZA), who have since been involved in follow on activities through Erasmus+, Commonwealth Fellowships and Phoenix Project collaborations. At the time of writing the 6th iteration has an audience of 5000+ learners. Most Important Impact? Learners have provided hundreds of testimonials about the transformative nature of the MOOC, both in professional and personal terms. The integration in the teaching team of colleagues from UNAM and UNZA is a direct result of TML collaboration and its continuing impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/working-with-translation/6 |
| Description | Workshop University of Warwick, N. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | N. Wells organised this workshop as part of the Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration network's programme of activities at Warwick. M. Hills de Zárate from the project was invited to lead the workshop, which introduced and elaborated on her own methodology developed as CI on the Transnationalizing Modern Languages project. The workshop allowed for the dissemination of the project's interdisciplinary methodologies to an audience of ECRs from across the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculties at Warwick, who commented by email on the 'wonderful workshop' as a 'great inspiration'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/bremnetwork/events/#Zarate |
| Description | Workshop at Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) 15 June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a one-day workshop at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), University of London: 'Women's Memories and Politics of Belonging: Challenging Historical Narratives of Labour, Welfare and Citizenship'. Barbara Spadaro (Bristol), RA on the project presented a paper on her research on the transnational domestic space, Jenny Burns (Warwick) acted as respondent to panel on 'Gendering Narratives of Postcolonial Belonging: Migration, Literacy and Political Activism'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Research%20Centres/CCM/Womens%20Memories... |
| Description | iMean 4 Conference, Warwick, April 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iMean 4 Conference workshop on 'Language and Mobility/Language's Mobility: Interdisciplinary Perspectives', University of Warwick, 8 April 2015 (Co-convened by Naomi Wells (Warwick) and Marco Santello (Leeds). Panellists: Jo Angouri, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick; Mark Hinton, Community Engagement Officer, University of Warwik; Loredana Polezzi, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick; Naomi Segal, Department of Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London; Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, translingual writer Description: This workshop invited a panel of interdisciplinary experts and practitioners to discuss movements between questions of mobility and language practices in their research and creative practices. It was organized in collaboration with the Centre for Applied Linguistics at Warwick for the iMean 4 Conference on Language and Impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/conferences/i-mean_4/ |