Upcoming Events

For upcoming events, please visit: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/creative-multilingualism

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Creative Multilingualism was a 4-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This project has now finished, but Creative Multilingualism still exists as a research network in the form of a TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) programme based at the University of Oxford. To see any upcoming events, please visit the TORCH website: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/creative-multilingualism

You can view details on any of our past events by clicking on "Find out more" under any of the events listed below:

Past Events

Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project: MFL Teacher Workshops Online

Zoom
19 May 2021 – 16 Jun 2021

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Workshop

Drama and Creative Activities for MFL teaching online

Online (Zoom link to follow)
04 Dec 2020

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Workshop

Drama and Creative Activities for MFL in the Covid-Classroom

Online (Zoom link to follow)
02 Dec 2020

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Workshop

Drama and Creative Activities for MFL in the Covid-Classroom

Online (Zoom link to follow)
05 Nov 2020

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Workshop

Drama and Creative Activities for MFL teaching online

Online (Zoom link to follow)
22 Oct 2020

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Theatre

Multilingual Youth Theatre Online

Online (Zoom)
15 Oct 2020 – 17 Dec 2020

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Event

Imagine My Reality

Online
20 Jun 2020 – 20 Jun 2020

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Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project: MFL Teacher Workshop

Online
10 Jun 2020

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Discussion

Book at Lunchtime: Prismatic Translation

Online
10 Jun 2020 – 10 Jun 2020

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Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project: MFL Teacher Workshop

Online
04 Jun 2020

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Event

Multilingual Performance Project: MFL Teacher Workshop

Online
20 May 2020

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Event

Multilingual Performance Project: MFL Teacher Workshop

Online
19 May 2020

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Event

Multilingual Performance Project: MFL Teacher Workshop

Online
12 May 2020

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Workshop

CANCELLED Creative Multilingualism: New Perspectives on Modern Languages Research

Jesus College’s Ship Street Centre, Ship Street, OX1 3DA
17 Mar 2020

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Workshop

The body, making and (s)languaging

Birmingham Repertory Theatre
13 Mar 2020

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Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project: Teacher Workshop (Dublin)

Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24, D24 KV8N
24 Feb 2020

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Workshop

:X lngwijs (Secret Languages)

Rua Red, Dance Studio, Blessington Rd, Tallaght, Dublin 24
23 Feb 2020

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Workshop

Creativity with Languages in Schools

Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London
13 Feb 2020

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Workshop

‘Not so foreign’: creating bridges across languages

Somerville College, Oxford
11 Jan 2020 – 12 Jan 2020

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Author Q & A

Multilingual Identities in Francophone Indian Literature: Ari Gautier in Conversation

Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Building, Exeter College, Oxford
27 Nov 2019

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Exhibition

The Language Show

Olympia London, W14 8UX
15 Nov 2019 – 17 Nov 2019

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Workshop

Arabic Poetry and Stories in Translation

The Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, London WC1H 0PD
08 Nov 2019

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Conference

Multilingualism and multi-identities in Wales: a creative approach to research and practice

Cardiff University
06 Nov 2019

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Workshop

Our temporary nest of birds

Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton
04 Nov 2019 – 21 Nov 2019

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Workshop

Youth Theatre Project at Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre, London, NW3 3EU
30 Oct 2019 – 04 Dec 2019

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Workshop

Prime Theatre: half term workshops

Prime Theatre at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon
28 Oct 2019 – 29 Oct 2019

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Event

A Million Welcomes

Various venues, Birmingham
05 Oct 2019

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Workshop

Tongue-Tied

Foleshill Community Centre, Coventry CV6 5HS
05 Oct 2019

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Workshop

Decolonising Mother Tongues: Reading Punjabi Literature

Impact Hub Birmingham, Walker Building, 58 Oxford St, Birmingham, B5 5NR
28 Sep 2019

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Event

Wandering Kings and Travelling Tales in Borges

SOAS University of London, Brunei Gallery, Room B 102
20 Sep 2019

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Workshop

Multilingual Youth Theatre Project

Hampstead Theatre, London, NW3 3EU
18 Sep 2019

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Conference

Performing Multilingualism in Europe and Beyond: Migration, Globalisation, Utopia

School of Arts, Jarman Building, Jarman Studio 1 & 2, University of Kent
13 Sep 2019

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Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project: MFL Teacher Workshop (London)

Hampstead Theatre, London, NW3 3EU
11 Sep 2019

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Event

Linguamania: The Roadshow

Birmingham, Cardiff, Hull, London, Swindon (other locations TBC)
11 Sep 2019 – 30 Apr 2020

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Conference

Intersections of Language and Nature: Conservation, Documentation, and Access

University of Pittsburgh
06 Sep 2019 – 07 Sep 2019

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Workshop

Artificial Intelligence in the World of Languages

University of Pittsburgh
05 Sep 2019

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Workshop

Act yourself: uncover your hidden language story (Birmingham)

Birmingham REP Theatre
22 Jun 2019

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Workshop

Act yourself: uncover your hidden language story (Swindon)

Wyvern Theatre, Swindon
15 Jun 2019

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Event

Oxford Translation Day

St Anne's and Other Venues (Oxford)
14 Jun 2019 – 15 Jun 2019

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Workshop

Arabic Poetry and Stories in Translation

The Keynes Library, London WC1H 0PD & Room BG01 (Brunei Gallery), WC1H 0XG
14 Jun 2019

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Event

Russian film screening

Wolfson College, Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
06 Jun 2019

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Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project Workshop: Birmingham

King Edward VI Aston School, Birmingham
05 Jun 2019

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Concert

Poetry in motion - spoken word & hip hop performances

Lecture Theatre, Wolfson College, Oxford
05 Jun 2019 – 05 Jun 2019

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Conference

Scriptworlds 2019

Mosher Hall, UC Santa Barbara
31 May 2019 – 01 Jun 2019

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Talk

The life and times of a dying language

Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford
22 May 2019

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Talk

Translating Multilingual Britain

Lecture Theatre, Weston Library
08 May 2019

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Lecture

Weidenfeld Lectures

St Anne’s College (Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre), Oxford
07 May 2019 – 23 May 2019

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Symposium

Oxford German Graduate Symposium

Worcester College, Oxford: Memorial Room
04 May 2019

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Talk

The Paradox of Translation

Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford
25 Apr 2019

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Competition

Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation 2019

15 Apr 2019 – 12 Jul 2019

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Conference

The Creative Power of Metaphor

Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, Oxford, UK
29 Mar 2019

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Conference

Song beyond the Nation: Translation, Transnationalism and Performance

Wadham College, University of Oxford
20 Mar 2019 – 21 Mar 2019

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Event

Babel exhibition: Library Lates

The Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
08 Mar 2019

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Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project: Cardiff Launch

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
06 Mar 2019

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Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project: North East Launch

Hull Truck Theatre
28 Feb 2019

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Discussion

International Book Club: February meeting

Blackwell's Bookshop, Oxford
27 Feb 2019

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Lecture

The extroverted practice of literary translation: examples from Cameroon and beyond

Exeter College, Cohen Quad, Walton Street - Kloppenburg Room
26 Feb 2019

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Discussion

Translating the Russian Classics: from Lermontov to Pasternak

Queen's College, OX1 4AW
25 Feb 2019

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Talk

Imagining the abstract and non-imageable

47 Wellington Square (Ground Floor Lecture Room 1), Oxford
20 Feb 2019

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Concert

Yoruba Sonnets

Wolfson College, Oxford
15 Feb 2019

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Exhibition

Babel: Adventures in Translation

The Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
15 Feb 2019 – 02 Jun 2019

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Concert

Nadine Benjamin and Nicole Panizza

Holywell Music Room, Oxford
05 Feb 2019

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Talk

Dr Stefan Aquilina: 'Researching Early 20th-century Russian Theatre'

Seminar Room, TORCH, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
04 Feb 2019

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Event

Performing Languages

Curzon Building, Birmingham City University
01 Feb 2019 – 02 Feb 2019

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Lecture

Clarendon Lectures

Exam Schools, High Street, Oxford
22 Jan 2019

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Workshop

Loss Sings

The Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London
18 Jan 2019

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Exhibition

Slanguages exhibition

Parkside Building, Birmingham City University, B5 5JU
17 Dec 2018

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Book launch

Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings

SWLT, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS University of London
06 Dec 2018

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Workshop

Refugee Writings, Creative Encounters

Keynes Library, Birkbeck, University of London (workshop) & Room 116 SOAS, University of London (public event)
30 Nov 2018

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Seminar

Prismatic Finnegans Wake

Seminar Room 11, St Anne’s, Oxford
07 Nov 2018

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Symposium

Making multilingual theatre: a symposium

Birmingham Repertory Theatre
07 Nov 2018

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Concert

"Within my heart a blind bird is imprisoned": multilingual concert

Holywell Music Room, Oxford, OX1 3SD
01 Nov 2018

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Discussion

Literatures of Multilingual Europe

Room 2 Taylor Institution, Oxford
31 Oct 2018

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Seminar

World Literatures: Multilingual Locals and Cosmopolitan Dynamics

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Oxford
31 Oct 2018

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Workshop

Half term multilingual theatre workshop

Birmingham Repertory Theatre
29 Oct 2018

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Discussion

Unreckoned Things: Collaboration, Experiment and Voice in Translation

Keynes Library, Birkbeck & SOAS, University of London, Room 116
19 Oct 2018

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Talk

Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in Europe

47 Wellington Square, Oxford
18 Oct 2018

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Discussion

Language Lab: Hungarian

Ashmolean Museum Café, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH
18 Oct 2018

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Discussion

Language Lab: Estonian

Ashmolean Museum Café, Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH
17 Oct 2018

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Discussion

Language Cafe Special

Oxfordshire County Library
16 Oct 2018

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Discussion

Language Lab: Czech

Ashmolean Museum Café, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH
16 Oct 2018

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Discussion

Language Lab: Polish

Café W at Waterstones, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AF
15 Oct 2018

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Event

The European Camarade: collaborative poetry performances

35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, E1 6LA
13 Oct 2018

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Reading

Readings from the new translation of Pan Tadeusz

47 Wellington Square, Ground Floor Lecture Room, Oxford
09 Oct 2018

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Workshop

Language Learners in Anglophone Contexts

Jesus College, Oxford
01 Oct 2018

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Discussion

English PEN presents: Multilingualism and Performance

Waterstones, Broad Street, Oxford
22 Sep 2018

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Conference

Performing Multilingualism in World Literatures: Aesthetics and Activism

University of Oxford (Exeter College)
20 Sep 2018

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Concert

We are Children of the World – A Multilingual Concert

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
27 Jun 2018

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Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project: South West Launch

Prime Theatre @ the Wyvern, Swindon
20 Jun 2018

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Event

Oxford Translation Day 2018

St Anne's College, Oxford and other venues
08 Jun 2018

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Discussion

The languages of verse: multilingualism and poetry

Free Word Centre, London, EC1R 3GA
06 Jun 2018

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Exhibition

The Past is Now

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
24 May 2018

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Talk

Metaphor, emotion and multilingualism

Jesus College, Ship Street Centre Lecture Theatre, Oxford
23 May 2018

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Talk

Sweet voice and round taste: Cross-sensory metaphors and linguistic variability

Jesus College - Ship Street Lecture Centre, Oxford
09 May 2018

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Theatre

Périclès, Prince De Tyr: Performed in French

Oxford Playhouse
24 Apr 2018

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Theatre

A Berlin Kabaret! Lady Gaga meets Brecht

Old Fire Station, Oxford
20 Apr 2018

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Event

Scriptworlds @ Spring Insights

DAHC, University of California, Santa Barbara
14 Apr 2018

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Book launch

Book Launch: Palestinian women, political prisoners, and literary festivals...

SOAS, University of London
19 Mar 2018

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Conference

Transnational Lives and Cosmopolitan Biographies

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Oxford, OX2 6UD
17 Mar 2018

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Workshop

Multilingual Performance Project Launch & Workshop

Birmingham Repertory Theatre
08 Mar 2018

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Discussion

Celebrate Translating Arabic Fiction Today

Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building
03 Mar 2018

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Seminar

Musical & literary approaches to the operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford
02 Mar 2018

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Reading

CANCELLED Close-reading a Global Novel across Languages: Prismatic Jane Eyre

Seminar Room 10, New Library and Academic Centre, St Anne's College
02 Mar 2018

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Discussion

Conversations with Moroccan Poet and Writer Abdellatif Laâbi

Maison Française d’Oxford, OX2 6SE
20 Feb 2018

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Workshop

Scriptworlds: Workshop 1

Sankey Room, University of California, Santa Barbara
17 Feb 2018

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Talk

Figurative Frames in Political Communication

Ship Street Centre Lecture Theatre, Oxford
08 Feb 2018

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Discussion

Do you have butterflies in your stomach or little deers jumping in your heart?

Jesus College, Oxford
08 Feb 2018

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Conference

Creative Multilingualism Conference 2018: Creative Multilingual Identities

The University of Reading, Institute of Education
02 Feb 2018

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Discussion

Mother Tongues: Multilingual Identities

Waterstones Gower Street, London
18 Jan 2018

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Conference

Multilingualisms in World Literature Conference

SOAS, University of London
18 Jan 2018

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Author Q & A

An Evening with Mourid Barghouti

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London
11 Dec 2017

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Workshop

Arabic translation workshop: Love and nostalgia, poetry and song

The Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London
11 Dec 2017

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Exhibition

Slanguages Exhibition at Wolfson College

The Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford
10 Dec 2017

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Conference

Language and Development Conference

Dakar, Senegal
27 Nov 2017

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Museum Tour

Lost Languages on Found Objects

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
17 Nov 2017

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Talk

Revolution in Russia

The Okinaga Room (enter via Holywell Music Room), Oxford
27 Oct 2017

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Exhibition

Slanguages exhibition: launch party

The Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford
24 Oct 2017

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Talk

Mahler: reader, thinker, composer

Lecture Theatre, The Weston Library, Oxford
22 Oct 2017

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Event

Baudelaire: from the depths of beauty

Lecture Theatre, The Weston Library, Oxford
19 Oct 2017

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Event

Curiosity Carnival

Oxford University Museum of Natural History & Pitt Rivers Museum
29 Sep 2017

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Workshop

Circulating translation in the 19th century from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea

Radcliffe Humanities Building, University of Oxford
20 Sep 2017

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Lecture

Lecture: Is the Igbo Language in Danger of Extinction?

Shami Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University
26 Aug 2017

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Author Q & A

Arabic Poetry in Action: A Bilingual Event

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London
27 Jun 2017

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Workshop

Arabic Poetry and Stories Translation Workshop

Room S118, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House, North Block), SOAS University of London
27 Jun 2017

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Book launch

Book launch: Tamim Al-Barghouti's poetry collection 'In Jerusalem'

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London
26 Jun 2017

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Seminar

Great writers inspire at home: M. NourbeSe Philip

Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
26 Jun 2017

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Talk

Lunchtime talk: Unconstrained Translation

Lecture room 1, Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, 47 Wellington Square, Oxford.
16 Jun 2017

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Conference

Translation into Theatre and the Social Sciences Conference

St Hilda's College and Other Venues around Oxford
16 Jun 2017

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Workshop

Arabic Poetry and Stories Translation Workshops

Birkbeck, Room 102, 30 Russell Square
06 Jun 2017

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Seminar

ACLAIIR Seminar 2017: Translation Studies (+ translation slam!)

Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford
05 Jun 2017

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Event

Oxford Translation Day 2017

St Anne's College and other venues across Oxford
03 Jun 2017

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Workshop

Translation as a creative practice in contexts of crisis

Europe House, London, SW1P 3EU
26 May 2017

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Reading

Love, War and Madness: A Poetics of Fiction

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London
25 May 2017

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Talk

Garsington Opera Insight Talk: Pelléas et Mélisande

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD
03 May 2017

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Seminar

Seminar on Minority Languages in New Media: Towards revitalisation in Africa and Europe

Aston University
27 Apr 2017

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Workshop

Oxford Song Network hosts baritone Roderick Willams

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
26 Apr 2017

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Reading

Belarus Free Theatre, ‘Time of Women’

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
06 Apr 2017

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Conference

Conference on 21st-century theatre: Playwriting without borders

Wolfson College, University of Oxford
06 Apr 2017

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Event

Language World 2017: Progress for ALL

East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
24 Mar 2017

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Reading

Global reading of the Odyssey

Outreach Room, Faculty of Classics, Oxford
24 Mar 2017

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Conference

Language, Mobility and Belonging Conference

Somerville College, Woodstock Rd, Oxford
23 Mar 2017

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Competition

Oxford German Olympiad Competition

17 Mar 2017

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Author Q & A

The Arabian Nights: The Craft of Storytelling

G3, SOAS University of London, Russell Square, London
13 Mar 2017

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Workshop

Creativity and World Literatures: Languages in Dialogue Workshop

T102, SOAS, 22 Russell Square, London
13 Mar 2017

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Event

Language Show Scotland

SECC, Glasgow
10 Mar 2017

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Author Q & A

In Conversation with Patrick McGuinness

Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, Oxford
28 Feb 2017

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Reading

Multilingual Reading and Panel Discussion on 'Poetics of Translation'

Docotorow Room, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
28 Feb 2017

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Reading

German Reading with Yoko Tawada

Room 2, Taylorian, Oxford
22 Feb 2017

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Exhibition

Yoko Tawada Exhibition Launch

Voltaire Room, Taylorian, Oxford
17 Feb 2017

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Workshop

Masterclass in Chinese to English Literary Translation

Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College, Oxford
15 Feb 2017

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Workshop

“Forgotten Europe”: Translating Marginalised Languages

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Oxford
09 Feb 2017

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Symposium

Antônio Callado – A Centenary Symposium

Latner Room, St Peter’s College, Oxford
04 Feb 2017

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Event

An Introduction to Teaching Grammar

Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford
04 Feb 2017

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Conference

Conference: Languages & Creativity

Taylor Institution Library, St Giles, Oxford
28 Jan 2017

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Event

LiveFriday: LinguaMania

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
27 Jan 2017

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Book launch

Book Launch of Translation: A Very Short Introduction

Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s, Oxford
30 Nov 2016

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Talk

Talk and Concert of Russian Music: "The Guest from the Future”

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford
24 Nov 2016

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Seminar

Free public seminar on endangered languages: Kelabit (Indonesia)

Room 2, Taylor Institution, Oxford
23 Nov 2016

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Seminar

Free public seminar on endangered languages: Aragonese (Spain)

Taylor Institution Library, Oxford
09 Nov 2016

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Seminar

Free public seminar on endangered languages: Csango (Romania)

Taylor Institution Library, Oxford
02 Nov 2016

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Seminar

Free public seminar on endangered languages: Frisian

Taylor Institution Library, Oxford
26 Oct 2016

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Seminar

Free public seminar on endangered languages: Hrusso Aka

Taylor Institution Library, Oxford
19 Oct 2016

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Event

The Language Show

Olympia, London
14 Oct 2016

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Discussion

Remembering Assia Djebar

The Mosaic Rooms, London
06 Oct 2016

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Exhibition

Languitecture

P21 GALLERY, London
22 Sep 2016

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