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As part of the Being Human Festival 2017, the MEITS Project is organising a photo exhibition which will take place in Belfast, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Nottingham, 17-25 November 2017. If you would like the chance for your photo to be part of this exhibition, we invite you to send us your images of how different languages feature around you – whether in your home, your neighbourhood, your community, or in your town or city. We want to know what multilingualism means to you, and you can interpret this in any way you like. You can submit up to three photos and please send them as attachments to the MEITS team at meitsbeinghuman@gmail.com. The submission deadline has been extended until 13 October 2017.

MEITS in The Guardian, 28 August 2017

Members of strands 2 and 3 working on sociolinguistic approaches to multilingualism in French and francophone contexts presented their research as part of the Society for French Studies’ annual conference in Durham on the 4th of July, providing an opportunity to publicise the MEITS project in the wider academic community.

On 6th and 7th July, Strand 2 of the MEITS project played host to a workshop organised by strand lead Nicola McLelland at the University of Nottingham. The workshop, entitled 'One rule for home, one rule for school? European experiences of 'good' language, 'bad language', and (the) standard language ideology in multilingual communities past and present', brought together researchers working in diverse multilingual contexts across Europe in which questions of language standardisation and language ideologies are of central importance.

Dr. Deirdre Dunlevy, research fellow on strand 3, and Prof. Mícheal Ó Mainnín, co-investigator on strand 3, recently published an article in The Conversation discussing the role of the Irish language in the current political negotiations in Northern Ireland.