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Discover how connecting classrooms across countries can energise language education. Join Lingua Connect students and teachers to explore and celebrate collaborative authentic learning. What happens when students learn each other’s languages while creating something together? Join students and teachers from Leeds and partner universities in Brazil and Mexico to explore how Collaborative Online International Learning...
From slang and texting to gender-neutral pronouns, why do linguistic innovations provoke such strong reactions? Discover why language change sparks controversy and what linguists really think. From new pronouns and texting abbreviations to slang, borrowed words, and changing grammar, language is constantly evolving. Yet every new development seems to provoke complaints that language is being...
Join us for a talk and a discussion exploring the history of emigration out of Russia and the former Soviet Union, from the imperial era to the present day. We shall take a look at who has been leaving, why and how – what social groups had the chance to emigrate, what motivated them to...
Public talk on the history of the German housewives’ movement, drawing links to the 21st century social media phenomenon of tradwives.
Join Ukrainian children's author, poet and translator Kateryna Mikhalitsyna for an interactive workshop exploring the world of picture books. Aimed at pupils aged 7-14, this engaging session will introduce pupils to storytelling, illustration and reading for pleasure through a selection of picture books, including Kateryna's latest work, Summertime on the Island. Pupils will also take...
For thousands of years, coins have carried words and symbols that tell stories about the people who made and used them. In this session we’ll open the University’s coin cabinets to share some of the collection’s treasures, from the earliest coins struck more than 2,500 years ago to pieces from many different cultures and times....
What happens when languages travel, meet and change? Drawing on her own experience of growing up speaking Punjabi in Yorkshire, Kashmir Kaur explores Punjabi as a diasporic language across places, generations and popular culture. Through maps, personal stories, Punjabi words, Gurmukhi and music - from bhangra and British Asian fusion to Panjabi MC, Diljit Dosanjh...
Join Angolan writer Israel Campos for an exploration of memory, identity and storytelling in contemporary Angolan literature. Drawing on his latest book Baloiço de Memória (Swing of Memory), a collection of short stories published in the year marking the 50th anniversary of Angola’s independence, Campos reflects on the connections between personal memories and the collective...
The British Library’s collections offer a fascinating window into the literary and cultural worlds of Europe and beyond. The British Museum, founded in 1753, and its celebrated Library—the predecessor of today’s British Library—began a collecting journey that expanded significantly in the 1840s, bringing books from across the world into its holdings. Since then, borders have...
Find out about the largely forgotten stories of British referees in the late 1940s and 1950s who were contracted to referee across South America. Even more controversies and stories than the recent men's World Cup 2026. This talk discusses the stories and experiences of British football referees who, in the late 1940s and throughout the...