ALT The MLRG is a postgraduate group, open to both PhD and MA students from the University of Southampton and other institutions. It is an interdisciplinary group predominantly for those conducting (socio)cultural and areas studies research within Modern Languages departments. It is also open to researchers based in other humanities disciplines with an interest in language or conducting research in a foreign language or territory. Previous seminars have been remarkably diverse in terms of both methodology and context, ranging from ethnographies of the Kabyle diaspora to contemporary Spanish cinema to the politicisation of translation theory in the Soviet Union. For this year, we have decided to replace the traditional seminar series with a sequence of collaborative roundtables. Each roundtable will be based on a broad theme, with three speakers briefly presenting their own research in relation to that theme, followed by an open forum for discussion. To join, please message us.