exploring multilingualism
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?
Interdisciplinary conference in Budapest 9-11 October 2025, dedicated to exploring multilingualism and translingualism in art and education.
Our third roundtable on 25 February 2025 will feature two presentations on exile, displacement and dialects and multimodal/multilingual strategies.
We invite proposals on literary texts by multilingual authors from or about conflict zones. Our roundtables focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange of ideas among scholars of literary multilingualism.
Multilingual literary practices vary a lot – how can they be analysed? We present here a framework in seven degrees from hidden to completely mixed multilingual practices in literature, containing also questions and tasks.
A talk about poetry, languages and scripts, history, and geopolitics with the multilingual Uyghur poet Ramil Niyazov on 29 January 2025.
Multi-, trans-, pluri- or heterolingualism? Multilingualism terminology also does not translate neatly across languages. A call for creating together a free online glossary.
Discuss new pathways in literary code-switching and join in multilingual creative writing online on 9 December 2024. Students are welcome.
The second online roundtable on 19 November 2024 features discussions on multilingual literature in revolutions and civil war, and a reading.
