Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Network

The network, Languages and international NGOs: cultural knowledge in communities in crisis (LINGOS) brings together linguists, international relations specialists, NGOs and professional interpreters/translators in order to: enable the four groups to focus together on the specific issue of languages and … Continue reading

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People

LINGOS is convened by a language researcher, an international relations specialist, and a professional interpreter: Hilary Footitt (Reading University) has experience in researching the role of foreign languages in war, having just completed the AHRC sponsored project, Languages at War: … Continue reading

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Aims and Objectives

LINGOS aims to bring together languages and international relations specialists, international NGOs and professional interpreters in order to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda which is of specific relevance to the language-related challenges which NGOs face, and to the role which … Continue reading

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