University of Exeter Intercultural Communication Lecture Series (4)

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 24 March 2026
• Time: 16:30-18:00
• Location: Building:One Constantine Leventis Room or MS Teams

24 March: Dr Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield

'Artmaking through an intercultural lens: reimagining everydayness'

Abstract: In this seminar I consider artmaking as an intercultural encounter, focusing on the everyday. I draw on examples from my research in arts and health programmes, including my current project which focuses on creative journaling with mothers and birthing parents (Bradley, 2025-2026). The arts, in terms of methodologies, practices and contexts, are dynamic intercultural spaces, and interculturality in and through art has been examined from diverse perspectives. Indeed, there is much that interculturalists can and do bring to the study of participatory arts with communities. This goes beyond ‘arts-based research’, or ‘creative methods’ in a social sciences context, instead exploring intercultural lenses on art, including artmaking processes, artworks and the experience of engaging with art. Focusing on data from research with journaling groups over the past four years, I will consider the role of artistic practices and collective making in reimagining the everyday, and set out future directions for research embedded in creative community contexts.

Bio

Dr Jessica Bradley is a Senior Lecturer in Literacies and Language at the University of Sheffield’s School of Education. Her research bridges applied linguistics, creative arts and intercultural communication, exploring how language, identity and belonging are enacted in diverse cultural contexts through ethnographic and arts-based methods. She has the title of docent in Creative Inquiry and Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is co-editor in chief of Language and Intercultural Communication Journal. She currently leads a BA/ Leverhulme Trust-funded project which explores creative journaling and perinatal wellbeing (Bradley, J. (2025) SRG25\250201 Creative journaling at the intersections of art, motherhood and health: practitioner identities and entanglements. British Academy/Leverhulme Trust small research grant - with Wellcome Trust).

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

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