by Jack Tarlton | Sep 3, 2020 | Research blog
Jack Tarlton Actor and Workshop Leader This year has seen everything change for theatre and teaching. With the support of the Open World Research Initiative, the School of Advanced Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research however, I was able to adapt my...
by Marco Biasioli | May 27, 2020 | Research blog
Marco Biasioli PhD candidate, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, The University of Manchester It’s a frosty night in March 2018, but inside the 7000-capacity Moscow’s Adrenaline Stadium a band is heating up the crowd. The band sings in English, and people seem to...
by Professor Stephen Hutchings | Feb 11, 2020 | Research blog
Stephen Hutchings Professor of Russian Studies, The University of Manchester (Principal Investigator) Cultural diplomacy’s relationship with language seems on the face of it to be readily apparent and unproblematic. Cultural diplomacy strategies invariably include a...
by Professor Andy Byford | Oct 28, 2019 | Research blog
Professor Andy Byford Durham University The Sector and the Degree When diagnosing the ‘crisis’ of Modern Languages (ML) in the UK, the most widespread supporting illustration is the significant reduction in the number of student enrolments on degrees in ML, especially...
by Francielle Carpenedo | Feb 4, 2019 | Research blog
Francielle Carpenedo PhD student at the Institute of Modern Languages Research/School of Advanced Study; affiliated with the AHRC’s OWRI ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ project As part of my PhD research, I am studying Brazilian culture and community as...
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...
