Event overview
Launch of new book 'Material Interculturality' on making sense with everyday objects by Cristina Ros i Solé and published by Routledge in 2024
Languages and cultures are not stuck to a particular land; they travel with us like 'shells on our backs'. Our languages and cultures make journeys to new destinations and landscapes and they help us feel at home wherever we go. This book looks at the way in which objects become the materiality of language that help us build a sense of place in our new destinations.
MATERIAL INTERCULTURALITY shows how objects can create new linguistic and cultural orders and how multilingual speakers use everyday artefacts to make meaning without words. Adopting an innovative approach to intercultural research drawing on work from visual and multisensorial ethnography, Ros i Solé critically reflects on what we know as interculturality by going beyond the verbal and the more-than-human to understand languages and cultures. This book expands the meaning of interculturality by seeing it as the result of the relations between people, places, and materiality. Using everyday multilingual artefacts such as clothes, cookie-cutters, LPs, books, and pens, it presents a new semiotic multilingual landscape where the intercultural is closely connected to the ground, and it is felt, rehearsed, and re-enacted through the stories and the memories contained in multilingual objects.
Cristina Ros i Solé has published widely in language education (including several languages textbooks), cultural identity, critical interculturality, and the internationalisation of higher education. Her research investigates the lived experience of multilingualism in today's conflicting transnational cultural and linguistic flows and the challenges it presents for world-making, identity, and belonging. Her work draws on post-humanism and new materialism theory and uses ethnographic and post-qualitative methodologies that challenge what counts as data. Cristina is Senior Lecturer in Language, Culture and Learning in the Department of Educational Studies and Chair of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Sep 2024 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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