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Installazione di bellissimi lavori artistici sui temi come migrazione, traduzione e scambio culturale, realizzati dagli alunni tra i 12 e i 18 anni di due scuole di Edimburgo, Drummond Community High School e Castlebrae High School, in collaborazione con TML. Aggiornamenti su questo ambizioso e sorprendente progetto con le scuole di Edimburgo sul sito TML…Continue Reading Progetto TML con due scuole di Edimburgo in mostra al BIM! MICROFESTIVAL DI CULTURA INFANTILE, 24-29 Novembre 2015, Cesena (ITALY).

Charles Burdett and Derek Duncan incontrano insegnanti di lingua delle scuole di ogni grado e ricercatori universitari di comunicazione interculturale offrendo un corso di formazione dedicato al nuovo approccio dello studio delle lingue moderne proposto da Transnationalizing Modern Languages. Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures (progetto finanziato da Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK)….Continue Reading TML partecipa al BIM! MICROFESTIVAL DI CULTURA INFANTILE, 24-29 Novembre 2015, Cesena (Italy)

This exhibition opened by Professor Will Fowler marks the second year of a three-year collaborative project between the AHRC-funded Transnationalizing Modern Languages Project led at St Andrews by Professor Derek Duncan (Italian) and the Art Department at Drummond Community High School, Edinburgh. One of the aims of the project is rethink the place of languages…Continue Reading Print Generation – St Andrews, Byre Theatre, Level 4 May 11-24

Tuesday November 24 The Legal Aliens Theatre Company are putting on a workshop at Castlebrae Community High School using performance to explore issues of migration and language. The workshop will involve S1 pupils from Castlebrae and a group of P7 pupils from Castleview Primary School. The workshop is part of an ongoing series of events…Continue Reading Workshop at Castlebrae Community High School

The conference ‘Interpreting Communities: Minority Writing in European Literary Fields’ took place at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London on 29th and 30th October 2015.   The programme covered a variety of languages and cultural contexts, from Basque literature to postcolonial Italian writing.   Loredana Polezzi, from the TML project, spoke on re-reading translation…Continue Reading Re-reading translation ethics and politics in relation to contemporary mobile communities

20th October 2015, 18.00 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas   Loredana Polezzi, Cardiff University From truth to honesty: migration, writing and self-translation Traditional models of translation are deeply associated with the language of faithfulness and betrayal, while travel accounts, like all factual writing, are often judged on their authenticity. Yet migrant authors often…Continue Reading From truth to honesty: migration, writing and self-translation

Charles Burdett and Barbara Spadaro presents the TML project at Exeter’s Centre for Translating Cultures. This talk will present the progress of the AHRC large grant Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures. The project aims to explore the ways in which Italian communities have formed across the world and it…Continue Reading TML project at Exeter’s Centre for Translating Cultures. An audio recording of this lecture is now available

Keynote speakers: Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Marina Warner The conference is part of the AHRC funded project Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures  and opens the project exhibition at the British School at Rome.   The history of Italians and of Italian culture stems from multiple experiences of mobility and transnationalism. Such experiences reflect the history…Continue Reading CFP Transnational Italies: Mobility, Subjectivities and Modern Italian Cultures Conference, British School at Rome, 26-28 October 2016

30 October,  6pm Venue: the Byre – University of St Andrews On October 3 2013, more than 360 people died in a shipwreck as they tried to reach Europe. The catastrophe drew the world’s attention to the ongoing loss of lives in the Mediterranean. Two years on from the disaster, Antonino Maggiore’s documentary ”3 October 2013-3…Continue Reading BYRE WORLD – Screening of Antonino Maggiore’s documentary ‘3 ottobre 2013 – I giorni della tragedia’

Writing without Frontiers: a ten week course at Drummond Community High School sponsored by TML.         Led by published author Vicki Jarrett the course explores different forms of creative writing across languages and borders.    …Continue Reading Writing without Frontiers