The seven-week stretch of online Semester 2 comes to a close with the prospect of two weeks of Easter ‘break’ ahead before we resume again on 12th April. It’s been a hard stretch for all of us I think, and this relatively quiet fortnight ahead is welcome. But it’s been a productive time too … Viva Success … To begin with […]
Read moreThe research in the area of intercultural musicking is in its infancy at Manchester. Although it may seem far from our major Lantern specialist interests, its focus on intercultural personhood through klezmer performance, and on the languaging of (musical) praxis, and on the use of arts-based research methods may make it closer than it first appears. This event next month […]
Read moreCongratulations are indeed in order … Ivy has sailed through her Viva gaining an Aii Pass with just two required amendments and, in an interesting move by her Examiners (Juup Stelma and Aisha Walker), three invitations. Both examiners were highly complimentary about Ivy’s thesis and her Viva discussions of it. What a wonderful outcome from her doctoral studies. Congratulations once […]
Read moreAs led by Lantern Associate Eva Polymenakou, I am delighted to report the news today of the acceptance of the following abstract for an article in the IALIC 20th anniversary issue of Language and Intercultural Communication (LAIC) journal due out in spring 2022: “A praxis of ‘synclusion’: Challenging ethnocentric understandings of social inclusion” Eva Polymenakou and Richard Fay
Read moreHi Everyone I am trying to keep on schedule with a monthly newsletter. What’s new? The series of Lantern talks has now become quite firmly established as a weekly affair, with recent talks by: PhD alumni Magdalena De Stefani (who got up early for us in Uruguay and the birdsong on her patio in the early hours of a Montevidean […]
Read moreBeliefs and engagement in an institution-wide pedagogic shift Virgínia Teixeira Antunes, Alejandro Armellini, & Robert Howe Teaching in Higher Education DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2021.1881773 ABSTRACT This study addresses the attitudes of academic staff towards a large-scale pedagogic shift to Active Blended Learning (ABL). Beliefs about the shift and how it is translated into practice are explored. Four main categories are derived: ‘Active Innovators’ who believe […]
Read more15 April 4.30-6.00pm (UK time) Intercultural Musicking: Ensemble Performance, (Inter)Cultural Encounters, and Personal/Professional Transformations This session features members of our Intercultural Musicking core research area. Professor Caroline Bithell, Dr Robert Szymanek, Dr Richard Fay and Dan Mawson will offer short, complementary research papers exploring intercultural music-making, followed by invited responses and discussion. The department’s gamelan and klezmer ensembles (led by […]
Read moreLink Sylvester, K., Fay, R., Dawson, S., & Huang, Z. M. (January 2021). Intercultural Zoomery in a time of COVID-19. In TESOL ICIS Newsletter (special issue on intercultural learning online) The Manchester Institute of Education (at The University of Manchester, UK) welcomes several hundred new Masters-level students each year. The MA programmes they join are unfamiliar academic cultures which they need to become acclimated to if […]
Read moreOne direction in which the AHRC-funded Researching Multilingually projects took me (and others) was the exploration of ‘the languaging of wellbeing and distress’, a meeting point between clinical psychology and applied linguistics, interdisciplinary work led by Ross White now at Liverpool University. Interdisciplinary work, especially as it is transformed from multi-disciplinary work, is not easy in my experience, and this […]
Read moreIntroduction (by Zhuo ‘Min’ Huang) The concept Intercultural personhood was first coined by Kim (2008, 2015) in her work of the globalised way of being. I have adopted the concept and further expanded it in my doctoral study (Huang, 2019) and in my on-going work (e.g. Huang, 2020) about ‘intercultural personhood: an non-essentialist conception of individuals for intercultural research‘). My […]
Read moreA (belated) Happy New Year to everyone – may it end more kindly than it began. Things to look forward to this year include: a steady stream of researchers moving, at slightly different speeds, towards the finish line (e.g. Ivy, Felix, Sue, Helen, and Huran) a new series of LANTERN alumni/associate talks (see below) further work developing the idea of […]
Read moreAlthough the Researching Multilingually at Borders project ended back in 2017, the work from it continues to inform my work with colleagues (e.g. Jane Andrews) both in terms of: content (e.g. the value of a translingual researcher mindset, and modality (e.g. the value placed on collaboration, especially interdisciplinary, interpractitionary, intercultural, and multilingual collaboration). This blog posting is mainly concerned with […]
Read moreAs many of you will know, for the last decade I have been teaching World Music Ensemble Performance (klezmer) – WMEP-klezmer for short – in our Music Department. I have a musical self (website) in addition to my TESOL and Intercultural Communication/Education academic roles. WMEP-klezmer is an area of my professional practice that has its conceptual underpinnings and its research […]
Read moreHi Everyone I am trying to get back into regular, monthly Newsletters. Although this is a strange time of ongoing pandemic, there is quite a bit of news. First, congratulation to Ivy and Felix on their new appointments as Senior Tutors within MIE, and congratulations, too, to Olga for her Teaching award from her university students in Moscow. These awards […]
Read moreTeaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence: Revisited Michael Byram ISBN: 9781800410237 Published: 8th Dec 2020 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Availability: Available (recent release) Price: £21.95 This revised edition of Michael Byram’s classic 1997 book updates the text in light of both recent research and critiques and commentaries on the 1st edition. Beginning from the premise that foreign and second language teaching […]
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