🎥 Recording now available for Elena Frogameni's seminar on Language Conflict in Multilingual States

Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItA...

🎥 Recording now available for Carmen Herrero's seminar on The Role of Screen Media in Language Teaching

Watch on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ7a...

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking.

Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

University of Essex | Language and Linguistics | Departmental Seminar

Syntax, prosody and information structure in Uyghur
Michael Fiddler (University of California Santa Barbara)

🗓️ Thu 13 November
🕰️ 5PM *note the later time*
💻 Online via Zoom: essex-university.zoom.us/j/95446371646

Over a week ago, our Mastery Spanish students had the incredible opportunity to visit Peruvian artist Rebeca Romero in her London studio! They interviewed her in Spanish about decolonisation and Artificial Intelligence as a creative tool in art.

The winner of the 2025 Linguapax Award has been announced, and it's an amazing group in Colombia doing important work on language maintenance and revitalization under very difficult circumstance. Read more below
www.linguapax.org/en/hilo-de-j...

*Recording now available* 📹 for Megan Bowlers' Oct 16 seminar on "The languages crisis in UK education"

Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnWo...

University of Essex | Language and Linguistics | Departmental Seminar

The role of screen media in language teaching
Carmen Herrero (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Thu 30 Oct 12 PM
Online
Zoom: essex-university.zoom.us/j/95446371646

🗣️ How does multilingualism shape conflict and cooperation?

A recent workshop in Uganda brought together researchers from linguistics and political science to explore the complex relationships between language and conflict across societies.

Read more:
🔗 www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/10...

Tomorrow (Th 23 Oct) at 12 PM!

Non-iconic verb doubling in the Masana-Gizey continuum (Cameroon and Chad)

Guillaume Guitang (University of Oxford)

www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...

University of Essex | Language and Linguistics | Departmental Seminar

Non-iconic verb doubling in the Masana-Gizey continuum (Cameroon and Chad)
Guillaume Guitang (University of Oxford)

Thu 23 Oct 12 PM
Colchester Campus CTC 2.05
Zoom: essex-university.zoom.us/j/95446371646

This recent @itvanglia.bsky.social report 📺 on responses to prejudice against the Essex accent features research on accent bias by our department of Language and Linguistics 🗣️ at the @universityofessex.bsky.social

t.co/WdlCmmgVuH

Congratulations to Llinos Evans, BA student in Language and Linguistics, whose article titled “Fossil classifiers in Chinese chengyu and proverbs” has been published in the Essex Student Journal.

The cultural iceberg of translation (and AI)
David Katan

Thu 9 Oct 12:00
Colchester Campus CTC 2.05
Zoom: buff.ly/NSsy5g6

Learn a new language! 🗣️