
MMLL Events in the Ƶ Festival, March 2023
We are happy to share details for upcoming MMLL events in the much anticipated 2023 Ƶ Festival. We hope you enjoy them!Friday 17thMarch2023,17:00-18:30, ONLINE
.Prof Ioanna Sitaridouis joined byDr Željko Jovanović(INALCO, Paris) and Prof Andrés Enrique Arias (Universitat de les Illes Balears)for an interactive recounting of the vanishing language of Djudeo-espanyol, an Ibero-Romance language spoken by Jews in Thessaloniki and diaspora.
Friday 17thMarch2023,17:00-19:30, Magdalene College
,an exhibition of works by painters Ruth Rix and Helga Michie.The event combines an immersive music experience with a panel discussion on the lived experience of migration and movement in Europe. With Annja Neumann, Silke Mentchen, and Georgina Paul.
Saturday 18thMarch2023,12:00-13:00, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site
.Prof Emma Gilby’s talk will look at some of the first teachers of modern languages in Ƶ, at the turn of the twentieth century. What kinds of modern lives did these pioneering linguists want to lead? What do they still have to teach us today?
Saturday 18thMarch2023,14:00-15:00, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site
. In this talk,Dr Anna Bermanintroduces Russia’s great women writers from the nineteenth century who have dropped out of literary history: Evdokiya Rostopchina, Karolina Pavlovna, Evgeniya Tur, and the “Russian Brontës”—Nadezhda, Sofiya, and Praskoviya Khvoshchinskaya.
Saturday 18thMarch2023,15:30-16:30, ONLINE
,Robert Britten.This online workshop explores the idea that poems, whenever they are written, read, spoken, sung, or memorised, are speech acts with the power to impact on the ways in which we perceive the world, think about and interact with it.
Saturday 18thMarch2023,15:00-16:00, St Catherine’s College, Ramsden Room (organised by Ƶ Alliance Française)
, Dr Sura Qadiri.
Saturday 25thMarch2023,11:00-13:00, Raised Faculty Building, 106 & 107, Sidgwick Site
,Daniela Dora.In this activity, participants will build the ‘architectural structure of a text’ by producing physical models based on literary texts. The selected texts all deal with environmental/ecological aspects (green literature).
Saturday 25thMarch2023,14:00-15:00, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site
.In this event, Andrew Sackin-Poll will be talking about some exciting encounters between literature and mathematics, and what this makes possible for the stories we will tell about our ordinary lives.
Saturday 25thMarch2023,15:30-17:00, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site
,Miriam Schwarz and Melina Mandelbaum.Aimed at all ages, this workshop offers an opportunity to playfully experience how stories shape our lives as citizens.How are stories used to include some people in communities, and to exclude others? Could we learn from literature to improve our political interactions?