Centre for Intercultural Studies
Hosted by UCL’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Centre for Intercultural Studies brings together four graduate programmes:
- Comparative Literature
- Film Studies
- Gender, Society and Representation
- Translation Theory and Practice
The programmes are interdisciplinary in nature and are taught on an interdepartmental basis by staff who, between them, cover an exceptionally wide range of expertise. In this way the Centre for Intercultural Studies provides a focus for teaching and research that cut across traditional subject boundaries.
The Centre for Intercultural Studies promotes exchange and interaction between diverse specialisms in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and beyond. Within the Faculty, its programmes draw on staff from the Departments of Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Italian, Scandinavian Studies, and Spanish and Latin American Studies, as well as from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Department of Information Studies.
Other contributing staff are based in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, the Faculty of Laws and the Faculty of the Built Environment. Being a multi-faculty university with a broad range of subjects and disciplines located in the heart of multicultural London, UCL offers plenty of scope for intercultural study.
Outside UCL the Centre for Intercultural Studies has collaborative links with the nearby School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and with Imperial College.
In addition to overseeing various interdisciplinary programmes, the Centre for Intercultural Studies organises research seminars and public lectures.
The Centre currently hosts a three-year ESRC Research Fellowship (Dr Moiria Inghilleri, 'Interpreters in Conflict Zones', started March 2008)
