Well, it’s been a long time (five years) since I posted a Newsletter. I never intended to leave it so long … but one thing led to another … In recent years, this LANTERN community has been spurred on by others (Eljee, Susan, Nahielly, and Min especially, to whom a big Thank You is long overdue), and as they have […]
Read moreIt seems that quite a few of us will be travelling to Barcelona at the end of November for the annual IALIC conference (see earlier posting with the Call for Papers). So far, I know that I will be there in two teams (one with Jane Andrews; the other with Lou Harvey, Jess Bradley and Min), and that current and […]
Read moreAfter the very successful Kaleidoscope event last week, and mindful of the valuable Lantern Lunch-time Talk series which really took off this year, I am now thinking about the future, one in which Susan Dawson steps down from her lead role in stimulating, curating, and feeding our community of researchers. A big “THANK YOU” is in order for this role […]
Read moreA bit of fun here …. My first attempt at being a klezmer DJ with my close friend and musical co-conspirator, Bob Shaw !! Otro Mundo Klezmer Special
Read moreI am delighted to announce that Susan Dawson – who has done, and continues to do, so much to make our LANTERN community and its blog so dynamic and valued – has been recognised for her contributions. We have just received notice that she has been given a Faculty of Humanities Award for Distinguished Achievement in recognition of her work […]
Read moreWhite, R. and Fay, R. (2016, April). Paradigm humility and appropriate methodology in Global Mental Health. Paper (to be) presented at The Emergence of Global Mental Health workshop, hosted by Kings College, London, April 28th, 2016. Discussion Topics: How is ‘mental health’ as an object of knowledge and global intervention construed, operationalized, and governed? What new networks of actors are emerging in […]
Read more“Es como llevar naranjas a … Sefarad” — Tales of Ladino from the Bulgarian Sephardic Community Leah Davcheva & Richard Fay Invited Guest lecture at the University of Cordoba, Spain, Friday 15th April. Abstract: In this talk, we provide an account of our multilingual, collaborative and narrative research project and also present our interculturally-framed analysis of these Tales of Ladino. […]
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Jane Andrews (University of the West of England, UK) + Sari Pöyhönen (Jyväskylä University, Finland) + Richard Fay (The University of Manchester, UK) + Mirja Tarnanen (Jyväskylä University, Finland) “Researching multilingually – exploring emerging linguistic practices in migrant contexts” Keywords: multilingualism, knowledge construction, linguistic practices Sociolinguistic research practice in the era of globalisation, complexity and demographic shift is bound to […]
Read morehttp://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118837436.html In this brand new volume (Link), there are chapters by the usual suspects including: Holmes, P., Fay, R., Andrews, J. and Attia, M. (2016). How to research multilingually: possibilities and complexities. In Z. Hua (ed.), Research methods in intercultural communication (pp.88-102). London: Wiley.
Read moreWe am pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue issue of the International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education 1(1). http://www.igi-global.com/journals/abstract-announcement/132256 A call for papers is included below. The next issue 1(2) will be a special issue dedicated to intercultural competences. Please also submit your proposals for special issues to the editors. Please contact us with […]
Read moreAbstract Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development DOI:10.1080/01434632.2015.1134554 Interviews with a small group of doctoral students at a British university indicate that the students feel that the programme provides an environment within which they develop interculturality through reflexive engagement with the PhD community and in some cases with the participants in their research. Significant here is that they are interpretivist, […]
Read moreI’m delighted that – as a consolidation of the first AHRC project I was involved in (the network grant Researching Multilingually), and as a stepping stone towards the current one (Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State) – we have just issued (initially to the researchers in this first RM-ly network) a Call for […]
Read moreAbstracts recently accepted for the 2nd BIBAC (Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures) International Conference (hosted by Cambridge University, UK, 31st July-01st August, 2016): Al-Masri, N., Frimberger, K. and Attia, M. (2016). ‘Hope is our bread and butter’: towards a human ecological language pedagogy in the context of siege. Fay, R., Hawley, R. and Sherwood, E. (2016, July). ‘Klezmer returns to college’ – intercultural experience and social engagement through […]
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