University of Exeter Intercultural Communication Lecture Series (2)

Join us in person for the University of Exeter Intercultural Communication Lecture Series! Tuesdays at 16:30-18:00 in person or online

The University of Exeter Intercultural Communication Lecture Series invites researchers who have made significant contributions to the field of Intercultural Communication to share their latest research with students and the wider academic community. The series will run in a hybrid format. Each event consists of a 50–60 minute presentation, followed by a Q&A session and a 40-minute workshop. The workshops will offer participants the opportunity to engage with data or questions related to the lecture. The thematic focus of the series includes everyday cultural and linguistic experiences, materiality, hospitality, homemaking, and artmaking, all approached through an intercultural lens.

Details

• Date: Tuesday 17 February 2026
• Time: 16:30-18:00
• Location: Harrison Building Room 209 or MS Teams

17 February: Prof Cristina Ros i Sole, Goldsmiths, University of London

'Material hospitality and acts of self-welcome'

Abstract

This talk will talk about the potential of the personal object for making oneself at home in a new location. A focus on migrants’ everyday life and the objects they transport to their new locations provides a new lens with which to look at the experience of the displaced individual and discusses the revisioning of histories and cultural identities in relation to personal biographies. Drawing on a study of multilingual everyday collections (Ros i Sole 2025) it will invoke the materiality of migrants’ mundane objects and their ‘travelling memories’ to analyse how meanings are disputed, interpreted, and revalorised in the present and are transformed into acts of self-welcome. Such a view challenges the traditional host-guest dichotomy in traditional accounts of hospitality where migrants’ agencies and their everyday material lives are omitted.

Bio

Cristina Ros i Solé is Senior Lecturer in Language, Culture and Learning, Department of Educational Studies and Director of the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths. She is currently Chairperson of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication. She has published widely in the areas of identity, the lived experience of multilingualism, and the multilingual student experience in Higher Education. Her latest book is 'Material Interculturality: making sense with everyday objects' (Routledge, 2025).

For any questions, please contact Dr Birgul Yilmaz [email protected]

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