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2021

THE LANGUAGES OF COVID-19: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL HEALTHCARE

This British Academy conference, organised by Dr Steven Wilson and Dr Piotr Blumczynski, explores how the pandemic has been narrated in different world languages from South America to Europe to East Asia.

Date(s)
June 21, 2021 - June 22, 2021
Location
Online
Time
10:00 - 18:30

Focusing on news articles, digital texts, political speeches, radio interviews, audio recordings, press conferences and graphic novels, the conference asks what new understandings of Covid-19 are revealed by a multilingual approach to the pandemic and what lessons can be drawn from a multilingual approach to disease that might be applied to the management of future epidemics and pandemics.

Zoom: for more details and to register click here

All are welcome to join us.

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24422

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