- About
- Conveners
- Past events
About
'Multilingualism and Exchange', a Research Group taking place in 2014-15, will conduct seminars and roundtables throughout the academic year. It will unite scholars of different disciplines to discuss the intellectual and commercial trajectories of goods, travellers and texts which enabled contact between early languages in western Europe and the Mediterranean (c.1000 B.C. – c.1500 A.D.). We intend to explore how far multilingualism was affected by mobility and exchange, considering the phenomenon in the light of the varying international structures of trade, religion, scholarship,and diplomacy which underpinned it. The seminar series will interrogate the nature and extent of linguistic contact involved in the transmission of material culture, seek to reconstruct the networks which permitted this transmission to take place, and examine the impact of mobility on cultural identity.
Conveners
Conveners
Tekla Bude (Junior Research Fellow, Newnham, Faculty of English)
Sara Harris (Junior Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex, Faculty of English)
Philippa Steele (Bristish Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Magdalene, Faculty of Classics)
Faculty Advisors
Bill Burgwinkle (Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Department of French)
Paul Russell (Professor of Celtic, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Robin Osborne (Professor of Ancient History, Faculty of Classics)
Past events
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1414-2014: Literary Internationalism in the Year of 3 Popes 9 Oct 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building (NB different day) David Wallace (Pennsylvania) at Multilingualism |
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Writing in South Italy: Adaptation, Exchange and Identity 21 Oct 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Katherine McDonald and Nick Zair (Cambridge) at Multilingualism |
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Langtoft’s Chronicle: Multilingualism of the Other 4 Nov 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Jane Gilbert (University College, London) at Multilingualism |
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Pots, Languages and Peoples: Ancient Western Europe 18 Nov 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Fac of Classics, Room 1.04 (NB. Different venue*) Alex Mullen (All Souls College, Oxford) at Multilingualism |
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Welsh Poetry and English Politics in the Wars of the Roses 2 Dec 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Helen Fulton (York) at Multilingualism |
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From the Severn to the Rhine, c.850-c.1150 27 Jan 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Elizabeth Tyler (York), Thomas O’Donnell (Fordham) -Multilingualism & Exchange |
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Languages in Contact: Greek and Anatolian 17 Feb 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Room S2, 2nd floor, Alison Richard Building. NB: Different date, time and room* José Luis García Ramón (Cologne) -Multilingualism & Exchange |
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Michele Savonarola as Self-translator 24 Feb 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room S3, 3rd Floor, Alison Richard Building. NB different room today* Gabriella Zuccolin (Cambridge) -Multilinmgualism & Exchange |
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Round table: The Greek Dialects 5 Mar 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building. NB Different date* Stephen Colvin (UCL), Matthew Scarborough and Rupert Thompson (Cambridge) -Multilingualism & Exchange |
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Visibility and Multilingualism 5 May 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building. Philippa Steele (Cambridge)~ Multilingualim & Exchange |
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Round table: Byzantium 19 May 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building. Round table – Multilimgualism & Exchange |
