School of Languages and Cultures: Public Engagement
The School of Languages and Cultures reaches further than just the student and staff community. We consider it part of our mission to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the wider public through projects that involve staff and students of the School. We are committed to engaging with a broad range of audiences and communities in creative and constructive ways, according to our particular strengths and interests.
Our activities are diverse; they draw on traditional academic activities of teaching and research, yet reach far beyond. Some projects involve performances for the general public or presentations of specific research, but many have a broader and more general scope and involve collaboration with cultural organizations within or beyond the City of Sheffield.
Whatever shape our activities take, they are all part of the same ambition: to foster a dialogue with and to make a contribution to local, national and international society.
*The School's External and Public Engagement Strategy 2013-2018 can be accessed following the link above.*
For more Information about public engagement in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities please see the Arts Enterprise pages
Some current and recent projects:
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In February 2012 the French Department Theatre Group staged “Le Malade imaginaire” by Molière. The director was Professor David Walker. This show formed part of an ongoing programme of collaboration with the TRAC theatre company in Provence.
Professor Susan Reid displayed some of her research in an Exhibition in 2011 called Inhabiting Space. The theme of this collaborative exhibition was to explore how people inhabit and make themselves at home in domestic spaces, particularly in spaces that have been by or for someone else. |
During 2011 and 2012 five authors, a photographer, a video artist and a group of Second Year students in Germanic Studies created a unique online portrait of the City of Sheffield that has become known as Citybook Sheffield. Citybooks is an international project for which artists portray a city in poems, short stories, photographs and moving images. Dr Henriette Louwerse of Germanic Studies is responsible for making Sheffield the only UK representative in this European initiative.
WordSurge is a word-image-performance project that involves writers and actors from the Sheffield community. First we try to catch the dynamics of the city of Sheffield into words; then we turn words into images and performances during the Festival of the Mind (20 -30 September 2012). This project is an offshoot of the citybooks coordinated for Sheffield by Dr Henriette Louwerse.  |
In Feburary 2011, Russian Film Week at the Showroom Cinema was a celebration of Russian films, all introduced by specialists with dual-language screening notes. The week ended with a round table discussion by a panel of experts including Honorary Research Fellow Andrey Shcherbenok.
Dr Peter Thompson (Germanic Studies) is a regular columnist for the Guardian's CiF Belief website and recently made a documentary on BBC Radio Three about the life, work and legacy of Georg Buchner. |
PlastiCities is an occursus-led project, engaging artists, writers, students and academics in conversations about our city. . Founded in 2011, occursus hosts and develops reading groups, workshops, public seminar series, writing, exhibition curation and publication. Contact: Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson (French)
Helga's Diary, an account of a young girl's survival in Terezín internment camp during the War has been translated by Professor Neil Bermel and will be published by Viking/Penguin on 28 Feb 2013.
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