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2025
25
April
2025
| 10:00 Europe/London
Ƶ City of Literature has announced the full programme for the upcoming Festival of Libraries 2025, which will take place in libraries across Greater Ƶ from 4-8 June.This year’s Festival of Libraries is headlined by Dame Maggie
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21
March
2025
| 11:51 Europe/London
Esteemed poet and former Chancellor of The University of Ƶ, Lemn Sissay OBE, has been unveiled as a returning judge for the 2025 edition of the annual Micropoetry competition.
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24
January
2025
| 11:01 Europe/London
UNESCO International Mother Language Day (IMLD) 2025 takes place on 21 February, with an exciting programme of local celebrations announced by Ƶ City of Literature and their partners.This year will be the 9th International Mother Language
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2024
25
June
2024
| 17:09 Europe/London
12-16 June saw the return of Ƶ City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries, taking place across the whole of Greater Ƶ to celebrate the vital role that libraries play in wellbeing, culture and creativity.Creative Ƶ – the
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17
May
2024
| 13:50 Europe/London
Taking place in libraries across Greater Ƶ between 12-16 June 2024From 12-16 June 2024, Greater Ƶ will once again celebrate the Ƶ City of Literature Festival of Libraries – which promises a rich tapestry of vibrant events
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23
February
2024
| 13:57 Europe/London
UNESCO International Mother Language Day (IMLD) 2024 took place last week on 21 February, with an inspiring programme of local celebrations presented by Ƶ City of Literature and their partners.This year was the 8th International Mother
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26
January
2024
| 14:34 Europe/London
Creative Ƶ is delighted to present a number of events celebrating UNESCO International Mother Language Day (IMLD) 2024, in partnership with Ƶ City of Literature.This year will be the 8th International Mother Language Day observed
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2023
16
June
2023
| 12:59 Europe/London
7-11 June saw the return of Ƶ UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries, taking place across the whole of Greater Ƶ to celebrate the role that libraries play in wellbeing, culture, creativity and more.Creative Ƶ –
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09
May
2023
| 14:11 Europe/London
7-11 June 2023 sees the return of Ƶ UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries.Following the success of the past two years of celebrations, the 2023 festival showcases a vibrant programme of events in libraries across all ten
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14
April
2023
| 15:01 Europe/London
A language-themed trail around Ƶ Museum took place on 12 April and saw over 340 people take part.Families were invited to collect their ‘Looking for Languages’ trail sheets from members of the Linguistic Diversity Collective, find the
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22
February
2023
| 15:19 Europe/London
A new video podcast exploring multilingualism and linguistic diversity across the globe has launched, as part of Ƶ City of Literature’s International Mother Language Day 2023 celebrations.The podcast is hosted by Lecturer in Linguistics at
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17
January
2023
| 13:48 Europe/London
Creative Ƶ is delighted to participate in UNESCO International Mother Language Day (IMLD) 2023, in partnership with Ƶ City of Literature.This year will be the 7th International Mother Language Day observed in Ƶ, a
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2022
15
December
2022
| 17:52 Europe/London
Marking 40 years since Robert Bresson released L’Argent in 1983 - his final film, bookending a 40-year career - The University of Ƶ invites critical thinkers, cineastes and creative practitioners to explore Bresson’s oeuvre and
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30
November
2022
| 14:18 Europe/London
‘Supporting Ƶ’s language communities: Language endangerment and maintenance’ included a cross-disciplinary panel and marked the official launch of the Linguistic Diversity Collective. The event was well attended by University staff,
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20
September
2022
| 10:00 Europe/London
The Linguistic Diversity Collective and Creative Ƶ present a free event taking place on 19 October at 5.30pm in the University of Ƶ’s Alliance Ƶ Business School penthouse event space.‘Supporting Ƶ’s language
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29
June
2022
| 17:05 Europe/London
The UK’s regional final of the 21st international Chinese language competition took place in London last Monday, 27th June 2022. After two years of online broadcasts, Mandarin learners from universities across the UK took turns to impress the judges
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24
June
2022
| 12:43 Europe/London
The Department of Linguistics and English Language are hosting a special conference next week: a joint event combining the 29th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) and the ninth edition of the TripleA workshop
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20
May
2022
| 15:33 Europe/London
A new initiative in the Department of Linguistics and English Language has recently launched. The Linguistic Diversity Collective (LDC) comprises several academics in the department and aims to research and champion linguistic diversity locally
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26
January
2022
| 14:21 Europe/London
UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism.2022 is the fifth year that Ƶ has celebrated
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2021
14
January
2021
| 16:13 Europe/London
Due to popular demand, the deadline for entries for The University of Ƶ Making a Difference Awards has been extended.The new closing date is midnight on 24 January 2021. It is hoped the extension will help anyone struggling to meet the
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2020
29
October
2020
| 16:29 Europe/London
An Emeritus Professor from The University of Ƶ has won the prestigious Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize 2020 for her outstanding work in the foreign fiction category, the Russian translation of her novel, James Miranda Barry. Patricia
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17
February
2020
| 14:47 Europe/London
The University of Ƶ has been ranked first place for university language centres in the UK by EL Gazette. The University came ahead of the universities of Liverpool, Edge Hill (Brighton), King’s College London and Leicester on the
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2019
31
July
2019
| 10:49 Europe/London
A new scholarship has been set up to support students from lower income households to do a degree in modern languages at the University of Ƶ. The RWS Brode Scholarship Programme has been set up by RWS, one of the world’s leading
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2018
20
April
2018
| 14:12 Europe/London
The University of Ƶ is now the top-ranked University Language Centre for English language courses in the UK, according to the EL Gazette’s current Centres of Excellence rankings. Following the British Council inspection in November
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2017
01
September
2017
| 08:00 Europe/London
Proceed with caution. Gil C via ShutterstockPrecious N Chatterje-Doody, University of ƵAs stories of Russian “information warfare” in various Western countries continue to mount, governments, intelligence agencies and journalists are
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01
August
2017
| 15:00 Europe/London
Philipp Casula, University of Ƶ During the early years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union made a great push to reach out to the developing world, and particularly to the Middle East and Asia. It established particularly close ties with
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