SMLC Newsletter No. 15, September 2024 Edition

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:33:00 BST

A welcome from our Head of School, Stephen Forcer

EAS Pre-sessional English Programme 2023-24

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:06:00 BST

August saw the close of the 2023-24 EAS Pre-sessional English Programme with big student numbers, strong results and the return of the much-missed Social Programme and End-of-Course Ceilidh.

PhD Viva Success for Azalea Binti Kushairi

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 BST

Congratulations to Azalea Binti Kushairi, and her supervisors Dr Laura Martin and Dr Mirna Šolić, for successfully completing her PhD into Malaysian folkloric tales.

All Wrapped Up!: British Academy Fellowship 'New Geographies of Language in Minority Language Sociolinguistics'

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 BST

Bernie O'Rourke’s Mid-Career British Academy Fellowship came to a close earlier this year following an eventful twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, writing up of results and engagement with policy makers and language planners across a range of European minority language contexts.

Horizon Europe – Strategies to Strengthen European Linguistic Capital in a Globalized World (MultiLX)

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 BST

Earlier this year Bernie O’Rourke was part of a €3m Horizon Europe bid and has secured funding to lead one of the project’s main work packages, Language in Europe, with the University of Glasgow also set to host the European Language Policy Assembly in 2026.

CAMERA (Creative Approaches to Memory and Emotions through Research and Art)

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 BST

In the Academic Year 2023/2024, I was awarded two grants, the AHRC IAA and the Founders Fund for Creatives, to develop my impact project CAMERA, co-designed and co-run with artist Alex Withey (Glasgow School of Art) in collaboration with the Annexe Communities in Partick.

Students in Spanish write a bilingual book

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:42 BST

A group of students from the course on Languages and Community engagement have created a bilingual book about the

Building Solidarity Through Community Engagement

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:12 BST

A series of events aimed to explore stories of solidarity, displacement, and migration through art and film.

Manon Gillon: SMLC alumn

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 BST

A French and Spanish graduate tells us about the impact of her international experiences on her career

SMLC launches new Centre in Comparative Literature and Translation

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:25 BST

Guest speaker Deena Mohammed marks first of expected feature series hosted by the Centre

Scottish Gut Project | A Digest

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:40 BST

Join us for an evening of moving image, readings, discussion, and endless digestive puns to launch a series of new works resulting from The Scottish Gut Project—an interdisciplinary research project exploring (and challenging) the politics underpinning the mind-body divide and identifying new strategies for understanding and communicating the role the gut plays both biologically and culturally in our lives.

SMLC film club is back for 2024-25!

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:21 BST

After last year’s roaring success, we have planned a great lineup of films suggested by members of the School community.

Leading newspaper El País publishes an article on the impact of James Baldwin’s work in Spain

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:20 BST

El País discusses Jordi Cornellà’s work on American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin

Jan Culík interviewed by international media

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:47 BST

On 5th August, Jan Culík was interviewed by Slovak public service TV, Slovak public service radio and Slovak commercial TV station about UK riots.

A graduate of Czech Studies has received a major European translation prize worth 25 000 euros

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:48 BST

Eva Profousová, a graduate of Glasgow University, has just received the prestigious Straelener Übersetzerpreis award

Graduate of Czech Studies has a book published by Routledge

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 BST

Dr. Julia Secklehner, a Glasgow University graduate in Czech and German, has just had a book published by Routledge

New Poetry Book Gives Ukrainian Refugees a Space for Creativity and Self-Expression

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:54 BST

May 2024 saw the publication of Власними словами | In Our Own Words (Tapsalteerie Press), a multilingual collection of original poems and translations produced by Ukrainian refugees, with the help of other Glaswegians. The book is one of the products of a series of AHRC-sponsored workshops designed to use creative writing and translation to foster community and creativity.

Congratulations to Dr Piyusha Chatterjee!

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:24 BST

Dr Piyusha Chatterjee, currently Research Associate in SMLC, has won a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

First major international conference on gender and deindustrialization held in Glasgow

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:46 BST

SMLC researchers co-hosted the 3rd annual meeting and conference of a large international research project on Deindustrialization and Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) from June 24-26, 2024.

Tararà by Luigi Pirandello at the Circolo Empedocleo in Agrigento on 28th June 2024.

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:11 BST

On 28th June 2024 at the Circolo Empedocleo in Agrigento, the play Tararà by the Nobel-Prize winning playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) opened to a full house as part of the project, ‘Translating Pirandello in Agrigento: City of Culture (2025)’.

New Round of the AHRC IAA project ‘Mask across anatomy, anthropology, theatre and the visual arts’

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:01 BST

The AHRC IAA project ‘Masks across anatomy, anthropology, theatre and the visual arts’ has been funded for a second round in 2024! We look forward to working with Hyndland with high school students and to see new artistic outputs inspired by SMLC research

Strong media attention for Dr Guillem Colom-Montero’s work on overtourism in Europe

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 BST

In the last few months, Guillem has been interviewed in different BBC television and radio programmes, and his research has been discussed in a number of printed and digital media outlets in the UK, Ireland and Spain.

Sustaining Minoritized Languages in Europe (SMiLE)

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 BST

Research Associate Dr Alejandro Dayán-Fernández’s co-authored edited volume, Agency in the Peripheries of Language Revitalization: Examining European Practices on the Ground was published in May 2024 this year.

New PhD-led Workshop Series in Language and Society

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 BST

Our first PhD-led workshops in Language and Society took place on 7th May in the ARC.

PhD Completions in the Language & Society Cluster

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:39 BST

Congratulations to Dr Erin McNulty and Dr Ida Syvertsen who passed their viva earlier this year.

Impact Acceleration Award - Gaelic Connect: a digital hub for Gaelic speakers and learners in the city of Glasgow

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:36 BST

Bernie O’Rourke was awarded cross-Council funding of £47k from AHRC/ESRC/EPSRC to develop an app for language learning and use in multilingual cities. She is PI on this interdisciplinary project, bringing together researchers from the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of Social Sciences and the College of Science and Engineering.

Baroness Jean Coussins awarded honorary degree

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:07:18 BST

Baroness Jean Coussins was one of the distinguished recipients of an Honorary degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University at the 2024 Commemoration Day, which celebrates the founding of the University in 1451.

Professor Stephen Forcer elected as President of the Association of University Professors and Heads of French+

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:09:40 BST

Head of SMLC Stephen Forcer has been confirmed as the incoming President of the Association of University Professors and Heads of French+, taking over from Professor Martin Hurcombe at the University of Bristol