The MultiLX online seminar series unfolds over four semesters, with four dynamic seminars each term. Designed as a space for conversation, collaboration, and curiosity, the series brings together researchers, artists, and practitioners who are reshaping how we think about language, culture, and communication in an increasingly diverse, digital, and multilingual Europe. Across interactive talks and creative exchanges, the series invites participants to explore fresh perspectives on language, identity, and inclusion, and to consider how these shape our experiences in research, education, and everyday life.
Autumn 2026 | Languages, sport and youth: Bridging theory and practice
The MultiLX Seminar Series, “Languages, sport and youth: Bridging theory and practice,” brings together scholars and practitioners to explore how sport shapes the linguistic lives of young people in minoritised language contexts. Structured across four sessions, the series moves from theory to empirical research and finally to on-the-ground experience.
The opening seminar sets the conceptual frame, engaging with questions of gender, identity, and the political and social dynamics that emerge when language and sport intersect. The second session presents ethnographic work from diverse sporting environments, highlighting how youth practices, club cultures, and everyday interactions become spaces where languages are learned, negotiated, and contested.
The third seminar turns to community voices, featuring practitioners and activists who work directly with young athletes and linguistic initiatives, offering insights into the challenges and possibilities of fostering minority language engagement through sport. Details of the fourth and final seminar will be announced soon.
Collectively, the series illuminates sport as a crucial site of linguistic socialisation and a meaningful arena for understanding youth experiences in minority language contexts.
Spring 2026 | Arts, culture and community: creative conversations across boundaries
This series of online seminars will promote interdisciplinary and cross-sector conversations about the ways in which arts, culture and community intersect and overlap.
Poets, performers, curators and academic researchers will provoke discussion about the power of language, representation and creativity. Discussions will extend beyond academic research to consider the role of imagination and creativity in conceptualising and representing that which is often overlooked or difficult to express – from absence and silence, to sounds and rhythms, to hopes, dreams and collective actions.
Sessions will also engage with topics and issues raised by online audiences. The aim of the seminars is to create a space in which risks may be taken and great leaps ventured, with no holds barred.
Spring 2027 | Digital languaging and language technologies
Additional details will be provided in due course.
Autumn 2027 | Linguistic ethnography in multilingual and multimodal contexts
Additional details will be provided in due course.
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