ONLINEEVENTS – Transnational/Multilingual Responses to the Pandemic

Datum
22. April – 27. April 2021 

The Insti­tute of Mod­ern Lan­guages Research has con­vened two events as part of the School of Advanced Study’s ‚Open for Dis­cus­sion’ series. Both events draw on the pol­i­cy rec­om­men­da­tions devel­oped as part of the past four years’ research in the con­text of the AHRC’s Open World Research Ini­tia­tive (OWRI).

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Covid-19, Inter­na­tion­al Per­spec­tives and Transna­tion­al Collaboration

22 April 2021

18:00–19:30 BST

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23366

Dur­ing a ‚glob­al’ pan­dem­ic, the capac­i­ty to learn from the expe­ri­ence of oth­ers and share knowl­edge across bor­ders is essen­tial. Respons­es to Covid-19 have var­ied marked­ly across the globe. The dif­fer­ences in the approach­es tak­en are due to sys­temic polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic con­di­tions, but also to cul­tur­al and his­tor­i­cal fac­tors. One les­son that has emerged clear­ly is that only a joint transna­tion­al effort will enable us to respond effi­cient­ly and deci­sive­ly to the threat of an ill­ness that knows no bor­ders. In this pan­el dis­cus­sion, Human­i­ties schol­ars of lan­guages and cul­tures will reflect on the han­dling of the pan­dem­ic in their cultural/geographic area of exper­tise – and sug­gest lessons to be learned from oth­er nations. They will then go on to explore the place of cre­ative and cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion in build­ing a more transna­tion­al­ly inter­linked post-Covid world – as well as the con­tri­bu­tions to be made by research in the Human­i­ties, and specif­i­cal­ly Mod­ern Languages.

_Discussants:_
Charles Bur­dett / Godela Weiss-Sus­sex (IMLR), Chairs

Astrid Erll (Frank­furt)
Charles Fors­dick (Liv­er­pool)
Igna­cio Peyró (Direc­tor Insti­tu­to Cer­vantes Lon­don and UK Coor­di­na­tor. Author)
Ale­jan­dro Are­nas-Pin­to (UCL)
Nel­son Mlam­bo (Uni­ver­si­ty of Namibia)
Leon Rocha (Lin­coln)

_Respondent_: Steven Wil­son (Queen’s Uni­ver­si­ty Belfast)

_All are wel­come to attend this free event, start­ing at 6pm BST. The join­ing link for the online event will be sent out to all those reg­is­tered pri­or to the event: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23366

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Lan­guages and the Pan­dem­ic: Pub­lic Health Engage­ment with Mul­ti­lin­gual Com­mu­ni­ties in the UK

27 April 2021

18:00–19:30 BST

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23365

Dur­ing a ‚glob­al’ pan­dem­ic, the capac­i­ty to learn from the expe­ri­ence of oth­ers and share knowl­edge across bor­ders is essen­tial, as is the need to recog­nise that lin­guis­tic and cul­tur­al mar­gin­al­iza­tion in the UK risks fur­ther alien­at­ing com­mu­ni­ties at a time of pub­lic health emer­gency. Covid-19 has at once revealed and exac­er­bat­ed pre-exist­ing inequal­i­ties across the UK. The dis­pro­por­tion­ate impact of the pan­dem­ic on Black, Asian and minor­i­ty eth­nic peo­ple has been doc­u­ment­ed in reports by the direc­tor of Pub­lic Health Lon­don, Pro­fes­sor Kevin Fen­ton. In one of these reports, he iden­ti­fies the need for cul­tur­al­ly appro­pri­ate and cross-lan­guage com­mu­ni­ca­tions for minori­tized com­mu­ni­ties in the UK.

Draw­ing on the exper­tise of those work­ing with mul­ti­lin­gual com­mu­ni­ties in the UK, this dis­cus­sion probes to what extent nation­al and local com­mu­ni­ca­tions and respons­es to COVID-19 can more effec­tive­ly address the com­plex needs of mul­ti­lin­gual com­mu­ni­ties in the UK, result­ing in more inclu­sive, social­ly egal­i­tar­i­an and effec­tive pub­lic health engagement.

_Discussants:_
Joe Ford / Nao­mi Wells (IMLR), Chairs

Li Wei (UCL)
Emma Whit­by (Chief Exec­u­tive of Health­watch Islington)
Yaron Matras (Man­ches­ter)
Clau­dia Lopez-Pri­eto (Cit­i­zens UK)
Car­oli­na Came­lo (Coali­tion of Latin Amer­i­cans in the UK)
Soledad Mon­tanez (Man­ches­ter / IMLR)

_All are wel­come to attend this free event, start­ing at 6pm BST. The join­ing link for the online event will be sent out to all those reg­is­tered pri­or to the event: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23365

The Insti­tute of Mod­ern Lan­guages Research has con­vened two events as part of the School of Advanced Study’s ‚Open for Dis­cus­sion’ series. Both events draw on the pol­i­cy rec­om­men­da­tions devel­oped as part of the past four years’ research in the con­text of the AHRC’s Open World Research Ini­tia­tive (OWRI).

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Covid-19, Inter­na­tion­al Per­spec­tives and Transna­tion­al Collaboration

22 April 2021

18:00–19:30 BST

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23366

Dur­ing a ‚glob­al’ pan­dem­ic, the capac­i­ty to learn from the expe­ri­ence of oth­ers and share knowl­edge across bor­ders is essen­tial. Respons­es to Covid-19 have var­ied marked­ly across the globe. The dif­fer­ences in the approach­es tak­en are due to sys­temic polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic con­di­tions, but also to cul­tur­al and his­tor­i­cal fac­tors. One les­son that has emerged clear­ly is that only a joint transna­tion­al effort will enable us to respond effi­cient­ly and deci­sive­ly to the threat of an ill­ness that knows no bor­ders. In this pan­el dis­cus­sion, Human­i­ties schol­ars of lan­guages and cul­tures will reflect on the han­dling of the pan­dem­ic in their cultural/geographic area of exper­tise – and sug­gest lessons to be learned from oth­er nations. They will then go on to explore the place of cre­ative and cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion in build­ing a more transna­tion­al­ly inter­linked post-Covid world – as well as the con­tri­bu­tions to be made by research in the Human­i­ties, and specif­i­cal­ly Mod­ern Languages.

_Discussants:_
Charles Bur­dett / Godela Weiss-Sus­sex (IMLR), Chairs

Astrid Erll (Frank­furt)
Charles Fors­dick (Liv­er­pool)
Igna­cio Peyró (Direc­tor Insti­tu­to Cer­vantes Lon­don and UK Coor­di­na­tor. Author)
Ale­jan­dro Are­nas-Pin­to (UCL)
Nel­son Mlam­bo (Uni­ver­si­ty of Namibia)
Leon Rocha (Lin­coln)

_Respondent_: Steven Wil­son (Queen’s Uni­ver­si­ty Belfast)

_All are wel­come to attend this free event, start­ing at 6pm BST. The join­ing link for the online event will be sent out to all those reg­is­tered pri­or to the event: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23366

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Lan­guages and the Pan­dem­ic: Pub­lic Health Engage­ment with Mul­ti­lin­gual Com­mu­ni­ties in the UK

27 April 2021

18:00–19:30 BST

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23365

Dur­ing a ‚glob­al’ pan­dem­ic, the capac­i­ty to learn from the expe­ri­ence of oth­ers and share knowl­edge across bor­ders is essen­tial, as is the need to recog­nise that lin­guis­tic and cul­tur­al mar­gin­al­iza­tion in the UK risks fur­ther alien­at­ing com­mu­ni­ties at a time of pub­lic health emer­gency. Covid-19 has at once revealed and exac­er­bat­ed pre-exist­ing inequal­i­ties across the UK. The dis­pro­por­tion­ate impact of the pan­dem­ic on Black, Asian and minor­i­ty eth­nic peo­ple has been doc­u­ment­ed in reports by the direc­tor of Pub­lic Health Lon­don, Pro­fes­sor Kevin Fen­ton. In one of these reports, he iden­ti­fies the need for cul­tur­al­ly appro­pri­ate and cross-lan­guage com­mu­ni­ca­tions for minori­tized com­mu­ni­ties in the UK.

Draw­ing on the exper­tise of those work­ing with mul­ti­lin­gual com­mu­ni­ties in the UK, this dis­cus­sion probes to what extent nation­al and local com­mu­ni­ca­tions and respons­es to COVID-19 can more effec­tive­ly address the com­plex needs of mul­ti­lin­gual com­mu­ni­ties in the UK, result­ing in more inclu­sive, social­ly egal­i­tar­i­an and effec­tive pub­lic health engagement.

_Discussants:_
Joe Ford / Nao­mi Wells (IMLR), Chairs

Li Wei (UCL)
Emma Whit­by (Chief Exec­u­tive of Health­watch Islington)
Yaron Matras (Man­ches­ter)
Clau­dia Lopez-Pri­eto (Cit­i­zens UK)
Car­oli­na Came­lo (Coali­tion of Latin Amer­i­cans in the UK)
Soledad Mon­tanez (Man­ches­ter / IMLR)

_All are wel­come to attend this free event, start­ing at 6pm BST. The join­ing link for the online event will be sent out to all those reg­is­tered pri­or to the event: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23365