by Professor Andy Byford | Oct 15, 2018 | Research blog
Professor Andy Byford Durham University In an earlier post (‘After Herder’), I argued that the division of humanity into communities by language was vital to the ontology of Modern Languages. I also hinted that this principle of humanity’s divisibility was where...
by Professor Stephen Hutchings | Oct 11, 2017 | Research blog
Stephen Hutchings Professor of Russian Studies, The University of Manchester The process leading to OWRI involved discussions over the legacy of the 5 national Language Based-Area Studies Centres which were co-supported by the ESRC and the AHRC from 2005 to 2016....
by Dr Zoë Roth and Denise Grollmus | Aug 2, 2017 | Research blog
Zoë Roth Assistant Professor of French, Durham University Denise Grollmus University of Washington Scholars in the humanities have for several decades now been expected to justify their value in the face of a neoliberal, market-led approach to higher education, dating...
by Professor Yaron Matras | Jul 11, 2017 | Research blog
Yaron Matras Professor of Linguistics, The University of Manchester (Leader of the Multilingual Communities Strand, and Founder of the Multilingual Manchester Research Unit) In its call for an Open World Research Initiative (OWRI), the AHRC invited proposals for a...
