by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Languages & Literature
It is no secret that every area of the humanities is experiencing significant change. Questions concerning the coherence, identity, and purpose of modern languages are certainly the subject of a great deal of debate within the education sector. This edition of Talking...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Languages & Literature
‘Gardening in a gale’ was the great language educator Eric Hawkins’s metaphor to describe practitioners’ experience of teaching languages. Ten years later, following Brexit and the pandemic, and in the midst of a hapless policy landscape, what was a gale now feels...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
As long ago as 1492 a scholar pointed out ‘Language always escorted the empire’. It’s not enough to just recognise that: it’s time for action, write Durham academics Durham’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) launched its decolonisation initiatives in the...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
The Open World Research initiative (OWRI) has left rich legacies to build on, writes Professor Janice Carruthers, dean of research in arts, humanities and social sciences at Queen’s University Belfast I have just completed a four-year period as priority area...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Languages & Literature
Modern languages in the UK is at a crucial stage in its development, write Institute of Modern Languages Research director Professor Charles Burdett and Professor Claire Gorrara, dean of research and innovation at Cardiff University. If the discipline is to ‘thrive...
