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Breaking down disciplinary walls: redefining the teaching of Translation for Intercultural Dialogue (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Penman, C., & Wilkinson, J. (2021, May). Breaking down disciplinary walls: redefining the teaching of Translation for Intercultural Dialogue. Paper presented at Breaking down the walls of Babel: dialogues in translation, University of Warwick

The study of translation is experiencing a revival and a transformation as recognition of its pedagogical value beyond the training of future translators grows. Training in translation not only enhances linguistic competence (Cook 2010) in both first... Read More about Breaking down disciplinary walls: redefining the teaching of Translation for Intercultural Dialogue.

From native to intercultural speaker and beyond: intercultural (communicative) competence in foreign language education (2020)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, J. (2020). From native to intercultural speaker and beyond: intercultural (communicative) competence in foreign language education. In J. Jackson (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication. (2nd). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036210

This updated chapter offers a critical re-evaluation of the concepts ‘intercultural speaker’ and ‘intercultural (communicative) competence’ in the light of developments in the field of language and intercultural communication over the last decade. A... Read More about From native to intercultural speaker and beyond: intercultural (communicative) competence in foreign language education.

Rewriting 'Selves' and 'Others' in 'Postmigrant' Theatre (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J. (2019, November). Rewriting 'Selves' and 'Others' in 'Postmigrant' Theatre. Paper presented at Translating Cultures, Cultures in Translation (19th Annual Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication), Universitat de València, Spain

The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of German-language plays engaging with stories of migration. After a relatively slow ‘trickle’ of plays narrating the experiences of Turkish ‘guest workers’ throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the opening of... Read More about Rewriting 'Selves' and 'Others' in 'Postmigrant' Theatre.

Migration, Borders and Hospitality in Recent German-Language Drama (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J. (2019, May). Migration, Borders and Hospitality in Recent German-Language Drama. Paper presented at 'Getting Stuck... Moving On...': Migration and Mobilities Research Network Annual Conference 2019, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Dialogicity, monologicity and the crisis of hospitality in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen. (2019)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, J. (2019). Dialogicity, monologicity and the crisis of hospitality in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen. Austrian Studies, 26, 91-105

This article argues that the combination of dialogicity, monologicity and polyphony in Jelinek’s play Die Schutzbefohlenen [Charges] serves to present Austria and the EU’s so-called ‘refugee crisis’ as a crisis of hospitality. Specifically, it analys... Read More about Dialogicity, monologicity and the crisis of hospitality in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen..

Narratives of Hospitality: Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Schutzbefohlenen (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J. (2017, August). Narratives of Hospitality: Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Schutzbefohlenen. Paper presented at Austria in Transit. Displacement and the Nation State. Cultural Responses in the Austrian Context, Kings College London, UK

'Postmigrant' Theatre as ‘Third Space’ (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J. (2017, June). 'Postmigrant' Theatre as ‘Third Space’. Paper presented at Interrogating the 'Third Space': Negotiating Meaning and Performing 'Culture’, 17th International Conference of the Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication

Rewriting(s) in Postmigrant Theatre (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J. (2015, May). Rewriting(s) in Postmigrant Theatre. Presented at Postmigrant Theatre from/in Germany, University of Edinburgh, UK

Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World (2014)
Book
(2014). Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is ‘on the move’, with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel and the blurring of boundaries between previously defined places, societies and cultures, the theme o... Read More about Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World.

Staging Liminality in the German-Polish-Czech Borderland: The Trinational Theatre Production Dreiland (2010)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, J. (2010). Staging Liminality in the German-Polish-Czech Borderland: The Trinational Theatre Production Dreiland. German Life and Letters, 63(1), 88-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2009.01484.x

In official European political discourse, borderlands, particularly those between old and new EU Member States, are positioned as ‘meeting spaces’ in which the idea of a unified Europe can be brought to life. In academic Border Studies, these ‘meetin... Read More about Staging Liminality in the German-Polish-Czech Borderland: The Trinational Theatre Production Dreiland.