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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

MML in the Festival of Ideas 2016

Festival of Ideas

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages will be contributing a number of talks to this year's Festival of Ideas (17-30 October).

The full programme is online now (http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/programme-now-available), and booking for events has opened.

TALKS

The Annual Schröder Lecture, Department of German & Dutch

Faust on Facebook, or how we lose track of everything by recording it all

Roberto Simanowski, University of Hong Kong

Thursday 20 October, 5.15 - 6.30pm, Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College

The Annual MML Faculty Lecture

Language as a tool for a foreign correspondent

Bridget Kendall, new Master of Peterhouse:

Friday 21 October, 5.30-6.30pm, Faculty of Law,Sidgwick Site

also:

Movements between Fact and Fiction

Emma Gilby and Guinevere Glasfurd

Saturday 22 October 12.30 - 1.30pm

Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

Moving (swiftly) on … Why should anyone care about Arts in Prisons?

Sarah Colvin, Preti Taneja and others

Saturday 22 October 3-5pm

The Webb Library, Jesus College

Literature, Retellings and the true Waste Land

Apostolos Doxiadis

Saturday 22 October, 4.30 - 5.30pm

Faculty of Law Sidgwick Site

Can emotions travel from one language to another?

Natasha Franklin

Saturday 22 October, 4.30 - 5.30pm, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site

Across the Atlantic and Back: Adventures of an English Pirate in Brazil

Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá

Saturday 22 October 5-6pm, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

Movement and Metamorphosis: Translating Kafka

Anthea Bell, Lucia Ruprecht, Andrew Webber, John R Williams

Thursday 27 October, 7-8.30pm, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms

PERFORMANCE

Arthur Schnitzler’sProfessor Bernhardi

Schnitzler Digital Edition Project and '[Foreign Affairs]' theatre company

Saturday 29 October, 6.30-8.30pm

Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Downing Site

HANDS-ON

Language Detectives (DTAL)

Saturday 22 October 11am - 4pm

Faculty of English, West Road

Taster Session in Modern Greek

Regina Karousou-Fokas

Saturday 22 October, 12.30-1.30pm

Faculty of MML, Sidgwick Site (venue in printed programme is an error)

Around the World with Marcel the French Explorer

Alliance Française

Saturday 22 October 2-4pm

Faculty of MML Sidgwick Site

Please also note the following language-related events (not organised by MML):

Migration and Language: Ancient Perspectives

James Clackson

19 October 6-7pm

St John’s College Old Divinity School, All Saints Passage

Language, Movement and Migration

Ángel Gurría-Quintana

Saturday 22 October, 11am - noon

Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

Biligualism: Literacy and Cognition

Roberto Filippi, Ianthi Tsmipli and Wendy Bennett

Saturday 29 October 2-4pm

Anglia Ruskin University East Road

Round-up of talks and activities related to language sciences(including details on some of the events above):