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The writer Shirin Ramzanali Fazel from the project’s advisory board will be talking at the Birmingham Literature Festival this Thursday 15 October. The event titled ‘Writing Home’ focuses on the literature of immigrant nations and its position within the ethnically diverse region of the West Midlands.  The event is a partnership project with the University…Continue Reading Shirin Ramzanali Fazel at the Birmingham Literature Festival: Writing Home

The 25th annual conference of the Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI) took place in Turin at the Centro Altreitalie from the 24th to the 26th of September 2015. The title of the event was ‘Europe and Migrations in the 3rd Millenium and participants came from across Europe but also from as far as Australia….Continue Reading TML @ the 25th AEMI conference in Turin

We are delighted that Liverpool University Press has just announced the new series ‘Transnational Modern Languages’ on its website. This major new initiative will provide an essential resource for students of Modern Languages to study the interaction of languages and cultures in a world that is increasingly defined as post-national, globalizing and mobile….Continue Reading New Series Announced Transnational Modern Languages

The IMLR has uploaded its recordings of the event ‘What is Modern Languages Research?’ which took place on 15 July. Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan and Loredana Polezzi from the TML team present their ideas and views on what is an extremely topical question. Listen also to a range of other speakers including Catherine Davies, Charles…Continue Reading Listen to ‘What is Modern Languages Research?’

This podcast from the Australian radio SBS features an interview with Barbara Spadaro speaking from Sydney about her research on the memories of Italians from North Africa and the way in which our project addresses the study of memories and cultures by looking at every-day contacts and practices of translation experienced by Italians across the…Continue Reading Listen to TML’s Barbara Spadaro talking about her research on Australian radio

We held a really stimulating and enjoyable series of creative writing workshops at the Sandwell Arts Cafe in May this year, aimed at those writing and living between languages and cultures. Over the coming months we’re pleased to be able to share some of the writing from those who took part in the workshop. To…Continue Reading Familiar Strangers: A Poem by ‘Femi Abidogun

Italian Australian: Creating Culture, Defining Diaspora Museo Italiano, Co.As.It., 199 Faraday Street, Carlton 27 August – 16 October 2015 Tuesday – Friday 10am-5pm; Saturday 12.30pm-5pm Free entry     Opening event: Wednesday 26 August, 6.30pm Guest speaker: Professor Ghassan Hage, The University of Melbourne RSVP: ihs@coasit.com.au   Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at…Continue Reading Exhibition – Italian Australian: Creating Culture, Defining Diaspora

Transforming methodologies and disciplinary frameworks. A workshop on mobility and human subjectivities 20-21 September 2015 Venue: Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice The aim of the workshop is to bring 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,…Continue Reading Workshop on mobility and human subjectivities – Summer School Transnational Italian Studies -Venice, 20-21 September 2015

Summer School Transnational Italian Studies Warwick Venice Centre, University of Warwick Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice 21-24 September 2015 Summer School Programme The Summer school Transnational Italian Studies aims to create an intensive four-day learning experience for a selected group of PhD candidates interested in the study of Italian language and culture from a transnational perspective. The…Continue Reading Summer School Transnational Italian Studies – Venice, 21-24 September 2015

Critical Cultural Translation: practice more than theory Second TML Workshop  Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Friday 12 June 2015 Organisers: Derek Duncan (St Andrews) and Margaret Hills de Zarate (QMU)       Register free at AHRC@qmu.ac.uk Critical Cultural Translation Programme          …Continue Reading Critical Cultural Translation: practice more than theory