exploring multilingualism
Join us for a Multea Talk on 20 March 2026 with Ina Hein, Universität Wien: “Experimenting with Multilingualism in Contemporary Japanese literature: Hoshi Tsuki Yoru ‘StarsMoonNight’ by Taiwan-born Japanese Author Li Kotomi”
A first collaborative online workshop on 16 February 2026 to create clear definitions and concepts in multilingual literary studies.
Easy-to-read books are increasingly popular among multilingual readers. In two workshops on 15 and 26 January 2026 we discuss how Easy Language functions in a multilingual context.
Join us on Wednesday 10 December 2025 for a presentation of the new EU COST Action project “Literary multilingualism and social transformations in superdiverse societies” (MultiLiLiTrans).
On Tuesday 11 November 2025, the multilingual transmedia artist and scholar Daniel Graziadei presents some of his poetry and PicturePoems, expanding the in-between of languages.
Our fifth roundtable on 28 October 2025 will feature two speakers, on writing between languages and a multilingual uprising.
The Journal of Literary Multilingualism (JLM) is preparing a special issue on Multilingual Literature in Conflict Zones. Deadline for abstracts is 1 April 2026.
Minority writers are breaking out of preconceived ideas about minority literature and exploring multilingual creativity in a new anthology.
What happens when a multilingual writer has lost a language? What strategies does the writer employ for recovering, discovering and uncovering the language for creative work? Discussion with Dinara Rasuleva and Sabira Ståhlberg on 17 June 2025.
Our fourth roundtable on 13 May 2025 will feature two presentations, on indigenous Sámi artivism and post-Soviet multilingual graphic narratives.
The Offstαge discussion forum offers an open platform for discussing challenges and questions researchers of literary multilingualism are facing in their work.
The first Offstage event on 1 April 2025 presents LeviNet and discusses challenges researchers face when working with Primo Levi’s multilingual letters.
A creative writing exercise for exploring languages and enhancing the ability to decode, interpret, and create multilingual and multiscript texts.
Six steps for a creative writing class about language use and multiple languages in daily life.
Multi-, trans-, inter-, pluri- and heterolingual and polyglot are terms characterising authors writing in multiple languages, but which one is most suitable?
