ILCS Conference Grant Scheme
The aim of this scheme is to support interdisciplinary research outside London and where institutional structures may be limited. The scheme is intended to support initiatives that provide a major contribution to the development of Languages, Cultures and Societies as a disciplinary field.
Applicants can apply for a maximum of £2,000.
The closing date for the call for applications in respect of events to be held between 1 September 2025 and 30 June 2026 is 28 April 2025.
2024 Competition Winners
Esteban Devis-Amaya, Enora Lessinger and Laurence Mann: ‘Translating across Cultures and Languages Conference Series’ (Oxford Brookes)
Monica Boria, Catherine Franc, Ana Niño Alonso, Ángeles Carreres and Marcus Tomalin: ‘Translation and language education in the age of Generative AI: theoretical and practical frameworks’ (Manchester)
Elena Anna Spagnuolo and Andrea Hammel: ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Narrating Stories of Child Evacuees and Refugees, Rethinking Reception Policies and Practices’ (Aberystwyth)
2023 Competition Winners
Simona Dr Martino and Anna Gasperini: ‘Seen and Heard: Voices of Transnational Girlhood(s) on Identity, Gender, and Culture’ (Warwick)
Caroline Summers, Ian Ellison and Arianna Autier: ‘Afterlives of an Essay: 100 Years of Benjamin’s Task of the Translator’ (Warwick)
Kaveh Abbasian, Tobias Heinrich and Alex Marlow-Mann: ‘Migrant Voices in Contemporary European Filmmaking’ (Kent)
Geraldine Lublin, Federico López Terra and James Robert Turner: ‘From and for Wales: New Ways of Thinking Shaping Modern Languages Research’ (Swansea)
2022 Competition Winners
Stephan Petzold, Anna Saunders and Caroline Summers: ‘"Wende ohne Ende"? Representing the East German Revolution and Transformation Years’ (Leeds)
Clara Garavelli, Emma Staniland and Isobel T. Webster: ‘Latinx Studies in the UK’ (Leicester)
Jessica Goodman, Simon Park, Marine Roussillon, Gemma Tidman and Kate Tunstall: ‘What does literature do?: Rencontres autour de Alain Viala’ (Oxford)
2021 Competition Winners
Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez and Rosina Márquez-Reiter: ‘Diversity and social justice in language teaching and learning: bringing theory and practice together’ (Open University)
Rebecca Irons and Katie Brown: 'Venezuela, Dispersed: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Venezuelan Migration and the Diaspora’ (Exeter)
Helena Miguélez-Carballeira and Maite Usoz de la Fuente: ‘Poetics of the Sayable: Framing Crisis and Conflict in Contemporary Spain’ (Bangor)
2020 Competition Winners
Derek Duncan and Ramsey McGlazer: ‘Queer Epistemicides’ (St Andrews)
Tom Smith: ‘Words, Musics and Marginalisation’ (St Andrews)
Steven Wilson and Hannah Grayson: ‘Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World’ (Stirling)
2019 Competition Winners
Martin Hurcombe: ‘Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context’ (Bristol)
Anja Louis and Abigail Loxham: ‘Gender and Transnational TV’ (Sheffield Hallam, Liverpool)
Rosalind Silvester: ‘Sino-French Synergies: The Value of Transcultural Creativity’ (QUB)
2018 Competition Winners
Claire Gorrara and Tom Albeson: 'Photography and the Languages of Reconstruction after the Second World War, 1944-49' (Cardiff)
Lisa Shaw, Alan Rice and Adjoa Osei: 'Gender, "Race" and Performance: re-visiting the Black Atlantic' (Liverpool)
Sami Everett and Rebekah Vince: 'Jewish-Muslim Relations in Performance Culture across the Maghreb and France' (Cambridge)
2017 Competition Winners
Rui Miranda: 'Post-Conflict Reconstructions: Latin American Democracies in Transition' (Nottingham)
Bill Marshall, David Murphy, Elizabeth Ezra, Cristina Johnston: 'Cinéma-monde: Film, Borders, Translation' (Stirling)
Dunja Fehimović: 'Decentred/dissenting connections: Envisioning Caribbean film and visual cultures' (Newcastle)