On 6 March 2026, The Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at Senate House will host Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain—a symposium on the realities of working collaboratively across disciplines and languages, and what we can learn from different types of multilingual creative work, and what the impact can be.The event is hosted by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies and is supported by funding from the John Coffin Memorial Fund.
The Poetry Translation Centre will be co-hosting a workshop during the day:
PTC workshop (13:30–16:00): poetry, performance & translation across languages
This afternoon workshop will be co-led by Sophie Stevens, Fran Olivares, and the PTC’s Nariman Youssef. Participants will be able to share and experiment with ways to develop new work which explores connections across creative practice and different combinations of languages. Materials are provided in English.
Also on the programme
A hybrid roundtable asks How can filmmaking empower Indigenous women and advance gender equality? with interpretation from Portuguese to English, followed by an evening of readings and discussion marking the publication of The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Plays (Bloomsbury, 2025).
