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Workshop „The Language(s) of Academia“
Event
- Starts on
- 02.09.26
- Ends on
- 04.09.26
Frankfurt/Main
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Language is an essential component of all research, but its importance for academic thinking, experimenting, and writing is seldom taken into account. This workshop is about precisely that: Language(s) of Academia. Participants discuss their personal perspective on the importance of language to themselves as scholars and scientists, which languages they use in their own work and when, and how do acts of translation shape, alter, hinder, or aid their thinking and communication. They also discuss whether their own experience of academic language(s) is different from those of previous generations.
In the face-to-face workshop in September, participants from Young Academies from around twenty countries will address these questions on the basis of short translations of their own scientific work into their respective native tongue, which they will have prepared in advance. The aim is to raise awareness for the challenges and potentials of multi-lingualism in academia – a characteristic feature that mostly remains hidden although many scholars and scientists do not communicate in their native tongue.
- Research Groups
participating Members
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David Labonte
- person_research_subject
- Bioengineering
- institution
- Imperial College London
- Phone
- +44 20 7594 5679
- d.labonte@imperial.ac.uk
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Kathrin Wittler
- person_research_subject
- Literary Studies
- institution
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Phone
- +49 30 838 633 07
- kathrin.wittler@fu-berlin.de
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