Events

University of Dundee

Puka Urpi (Red Bird) is the first full-length fiction Kichwa Indigenous film by the Ecuadorian filmmaker Segundo Fuérez. This is a rare opportunity to see some of the exciting recent Kichwa Indigenous film production being released in Ecuador and to speak with the director about the film during a post-screening Q&A.

The event is a student-staff collaboration, and the Dundee University Languages Society will provide refreshments. The film will be in Kichwa and Spanish with English subtitles, and consecutive interpreting for the Q & A session will be provided by our students with the support of Dr. Claudia Marqués-Martin and Dr Peter Baker.

The event is open to all, free to attend and whilst the film does deal with the theme of death, it is suitable for children.

Alliance Française, Glasgow

Lapin is cold. Very cold. But how can he warm up? Join author and teaching artist, Tania Czajka, and her Parisian garden friends on a charming bilingual adventure set in the cold of a French winter.

Visit the website for more information and to book your place. Please note a small charge applies.

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Author Fiona Sironic will be a guest at Meet the Author in February 2026 to present her novel 'Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft' in conversation with Rainer Fußgänger from the Goethe-Institut Sweden.

The session will take place online and in German.

Visit the website for more information and to register for the free event.

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Infuse joy into your language classes with gamification! Join the free Linguascope webinar to learn simple, low-prep and low-tech games that engage all students, promote language proficiency at all levels, and release dopamine for improved focus and motivation.

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Edinburgh

Join CinemaAttic to enjoy a film-themed quiz to test your knowledge and support our efforts to fundraise for this year’s Catalan Film Festival.

Come with friends or make new ones on the night and join a team with them! We will have the bar open and Colombian street food being served by our friends at Sabor al Toque throughout the evening, and after the quiz is over, we’ll enjoy a screening of last year’s audience-award winning short film, Imade. Then stick around afterwards for more drinks, conversation, and music!

Visit the website for more information and to book (note a small charge applies).

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Glasgow

In 1836, a military pronouncement in Santiago de Cuba sparked a brief popular uprising in which people of different racial backgrounds demanded civil and political rights. Havana’s authorities crushed the movement. This talk will address that failed revolution through the case of Candelario Villafaña, a free man of colour brutally punished for challenging the established order.

Led by Dr Jesús Sanjurjo (University of Strathclyde) and Yaimara Izaguirre (Universidad de La Habana) on behalf of the Hispanic Society of Scotland.

HSoS members and Strathclyde University students have free entry. Small charge applies otherwise.

Visit the website for more information and to register attendance.

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In a live online conversation on Friday 27 February, Jad Salfiti (Independent journalist at ARTE and in the past among others BBC, Deutsche Well, Al Jazeera English) will speak to the Goethe-Institut about his career and experiences with learning German.

This event is part of the Business Lunch Series by the Goethe-Institut. It will be held in English with a short introduction in German.

Visit the website for more information and to register to bring along your S2-S6 learners.

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Glasgow

We’re delighted to confirm that the first face-to-face meeting for the TOIIS network will take place at SCILT’s base in The Ramshorn on Saturday 28 February, from 10:00am to 1:30pm. 

This half-day event will include a presentation of Calciamo, an interdisciplinary project combining Italian and PE which was launched as a competition across Scottish schools in 2025. There will then be opportunities for attendees to work in groups to moderate resources they have created and brought along, as well as some discussion around SQA materials. Throughout the morning there will also be some fun activities, opportunities for networking (over coffee and pastries) … and plenty of Italian spoken!

Please visit the website using the link above to book your place (please register by Wednesday 25 February).

Full address:

The Ramshorn

98 Ingram Street

University of Strathclyde

G1 1EX

For car parking information, please refer to the University website.

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Hinckley Island, Leicestershire

Registration for Language World 2026 is now open!

Taking place 13-14 March in Leicestershire, the theme for the 2026 event is Collaboration at the heart of languages education.

The theme is deliberately broad to encourage all language educators – whatever their language or phase of teaching – to come along and join the action, so that we can grow professionally and, over time, inspire future generations to love their languages. 

If you have something you would like to share at the event, submissions are being accepted until 4 November.

Visit the website for more information and to register.

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