
Creative Multilingualism: AHRC-funded OWRI research programme led by @UniofOxford. Aims to make languages more visible, valued & vibrant! Image by Cedoux Kadima
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ALT Blue background. Colourful cartoon of hands holding up a pile of books surrounded by white clouds and a yellow hot air balloon. Image heading reads “Creative Translation Days”, subheading reads “for all Key Stages, for schools in West Yorkshire, for Leeds Language Week”. Logo for Leeds Year of Culture 2023 in yellow beneath. Next to logo in bold it says “REGISTER NOW!” Image footnote reads “We harness the power of language and translation to celebrate heritage, unlock creative and educational potential, and inspire communities. www.stephen-spender.org”. SST logo in blue bottom left.

ALT Blue background. Colourful cartoon of hands holding up a pile of books surrounded by white clouds and a yellow hot air balloon. Image heading reads “Creative Translation Days”, subheading reads “for all Key Stages, for schools in West Yorkshire, for Leeds Language Week”. Logo for Leeds Year of Culture 2023 in yellow beneath. Next to logo in bold it says “REGISTER NOW!” Image footnote reads “We harness the power of language and translation to celebrate heritage, unlock creative and educational potential, and inspire communities. www.stephen-spender.org”. SST logo in blue bottom left.

ALT Exploring Language Diversity An evening of linguistically enriched drinks and snacks featuring contributions from researchers and creative partners in Hawaiian, Yoruba, Korean, and more. Jesus College Oxford, Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Patricia Daley: Linguistic defiance – language mobilization and new spaces of resistance Oiwi Parker Jones: A very short introduction to Hawaiian Jane Hiddleston & Laura Lonsdale: Writing between languages – 20 thoughts from authors on the borders Edwin Thomas: Street Slang – a local snapshot Elizabeth Cheetham: La Cabussada & Mambeado Venecial McBain: How to cook palm butter – a Kolokwa language lesson Haneul Lee: ‘-abilities’ in untranslatability – Paul Celan’s poems in Korean translation Santhia Velasco Kittlaus: Speaking in tandem – on relationality in language Kate Luxmoore Group (Kate Luxmoore (clarinets, vocals, keys), Colin Peters (bass), Yu Jhen Dai (violin): Celebrating English and Yoruba
![Laura Lonsdale and Jane Hiddleston presenting „Nicht ist vor dem Purismus zurückzuweichen, indem man ihm den organischen
Charakter der Sprache zugesteht [... J. Man muß sie verteidigen, wo sie im Sinne des Purismus am schlimmsten sind: wo sie als Fremdkörper den Sprachleib bedrängen.' (Theodor Adorno, translated by Sherry Weber Nicholson)
One should not yield to purism by granting it the organic character of language […] One must defend [foreign words] where they are at their worst from the point of view of purism: where they are foreign bodies assailing the body of language.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxouH1lX0A40laK.jpg?name=small&format=webp)
ALT Laura Lonsdale and Jane Hiddleston presenting „Nicht ist vor dem Purismus zurückzuweichen, indem man ihm den organischen Charakter der Sprache zugesteht [... J. Man muß sie verteidigen, wo sie im Sinne des Purismus am schlimmsten sind: wo sie als Fremdkörper den Sprachleib bedrängen.' (Theodor Adorno, translated by Sherry Weber Nicholson) One should not yield to purism by granting it the organic character of language […] One must defend [foreign words] where they are at their worst from the point of view of purism: where they are foreign bodies assailing the body of language.

ALT Yellow background. Image text reads “#SSTPoetryPrize #UkrainianSpotlight 12th May – 14th July”. Brightly coloured cartoon of a man holding a megaphone on right hand side of text. Image footnote reads “We harness the power of language and translation to celebrate heritage, unlock creative and educational potential, and inspire communities. www.stephen-spender.org”. SST logo in yellow bottom left.























