ALT 100 Poems for Belonging, an anthology of poems by young writers from Gearies Primary School

ALT Launch of '100 Poems for Belonging' at Gants Hill Public Library

ALT You Belong Here mosaic, outside Gants Hill Public Library

ALT Entrance to Gants Hill Public Library, with 'You Belong Here' mosaic

ALT Decolonise MFL Curriculum Special Interest Groups

ALT ‘What does the war in Ukraine mean for us?’ brings together scholars in Slavonic and East European studies, as well as the broader modern languages community, to reflect on how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is reshaping our field. How can we as scholars respond? How are current methodologies being tested and repurposed, and what new paradigms are emerging? The war poses a challenge not only to those working directly on Ukraine and Russia, but across modern languages and the humanities as a whole; it raises fundamental questions about the post-Cold War era and the critical tools we use to understand it, including transnational and decolonial approaches. The event serves as a launch for a special issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies dedicated to these questions. The roundtable, chaired by Connor Doak (Bristol), will feature Kateryna Botanova (Basel), Andy Byford (Durham), Victoria Donovan (St Andrews), Stephen Hutchings (Manchester), Catriona Kelly (Cambridge),

ALT Kevin Amoke, Interludes: Refugee Worlding in Postcolonial Literatures and Life Writing Helen King, New Home: How Can Children become Active Participants in Literary Research into Refugee Narratives? Mai Musié, Memnon, Andromeda, and Chariclea: Exploring Migration and Blackness Amongst Northeast African Diaspora Communities of London through Ancient Greek Storytelling Charlotte Rudman, Capturing Medieval London: Framing and Perspective Darya Tsymbalyuk, More-than-human Communities and Environmental Impacts of Russia’s war on Ukraine

ALT REF2021 showcased examples of Languages/Humanities staff working with NGOs and Civil Society groups across the world. This event aims to explore how we might work further with NGOs and Civil Society groups and discusses some of the opportunities and challenges presented. The session will ask four questions: 13:30 How do we establish equitable and mutually respectful partnerships? Speaker: Andrea Padilla (UK Collaborative on Development Research: UKCDR) 14:15 What can we learn from Languages colleagues who have worked with NGOs and Civil Society groups? Speaker: Federico Federici (UCL) Respondents: Angela Crack (Portsmouth); Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle); Hilary Footitt (ILCS) 15:15 What do NGOs say about the role of languages in their activities? Speakers: Helen Machin (Tearfund) Laura de Oliveira (Save the Children International) 16:15 What’s next? How do we take this forward? Concrete suggestions for next steps including Networks and Publications

ALT Front cover of volume 41, 'Annali d’Italianistica'

ALT Montage of the front cover of 'Legion of Lost Letters', Ghost Passage, The Time Travel, and an image of Senate House