Decolonising your reading list

A Future Learn video looking at the teaching and decolonising of modern foreign languages, and the validity of the prefix ‘modern’ in this context.

The Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies has partnered with the University of Birmingham to develop a Decolonising Languages Network, co-hosted between Birmingham and London. Explore event and training recordings.

Literary translator, writer and musician Coco Mbassi discusses the complexities of what it means to decolonise translation in a report produced as part of a Visible Communities virtual residency.

We facilitate dialogue between MFL specialists in schools, universities, HE ITT institutions and publishing, in order to mobilise pedagogical advances in decolonised curriculum development, in order to have positive practical impact on our students in the primary and secondary MFL classroom.

Academics for Black Survival and Wellness (A4BL) is a personal and professional development initiative for Non-Black academics to honor the toll of racial trauma on Black people, resist anti-Blackness and white supremacy, and facilitate accountability and collective action. A4BL also is a space for healing and wellness for Black people.