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Diasporic Contact Zones at the BBC World Service

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Bangladesh '71

This seminar organised by William Crawley and Marie Gillespie, examined the BBC World Service's coverage of the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 in English, Bengali, Urdu and Hindi.

BBC In Serbian For All Ex-Yugoslavs

This paper explores a drastically reduced Politics of Translation for Former Yugoslavia.

BBC Sinhalese, Tamil, and English for Sri Lanka

Sharika Thiranagama shows how the BBC, apart from being a global dispassionate observer is imbricated in Sri Lanka’s fractured ethnic landscape.

BBC World Service Arabic Service

As the World Service’s first foray into foreign-language broadcasting (1938) and its first initiative to branch out into non-English-language television (1994-96; 2008-present)

Berlin '89

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tuning In organised a Witness Seminar.

British Fair Play: Sports Across Diasporas

This project demonstrates how impartiality is played out and configured through the language of national identity and diasporic challenges to the hegemony of Britishness.

Bush House: Architecture, Space and Power

This research focuses on Bush House as a physical representation of the BBC World Service ethos and tradition.

Bush Writers 1940-2012

This project plugs a gap in public and academic knowledge about the remarkably polyglot, cosmopolitan and creative cultures of Bush House.