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Coming Soon – Ben’s Fresh Klang!

Postgraduate composer Ben Jameson tells us about his upcoming performance in an exciting new music series:  Kammer Klang is a concert series that was founded by cellist and curator Lucy Railton in 2008, and is currently directed by percussionist and composer Serge Vuille. The series presents thematically linked programmes of new contemporary classical, experimental, improvised and electronic music. Continue reading →

Italian film showing today: Benvenuto Presidente! (Riccardo Milani, 2013)

The Italian film, Benvenuto Presidente! (Riccardo Milani, 2013), will be showing in Lecture Theatre A at 6.30pm on Monday 20 October 2014. Review, introduction and discussion by Carla Ringland Mendez. All welcome! ************************************************* Questo film è una piacevole commedia che guarda alla situazione politica italiana in chiave ironica. Il protagonista è un allegro bibliotecario che ama pescare e raccontare storie. Continue reading →

Where’s the Composer in “Making Music with Open Data”

  Jack Webster (BA Hons Music 2014) has now embarked on the MSc/PhD programme in Web Science at Southampton. Here he tells us about a recent event on music and technology:  On Friday 10th October, the Open Data Institute hosted a lunchtime lecture on the topic of “Making Music with Open Data,” which, for research purposes, I headed up to London to attend. The lecture consisted of a presentation by Nicholas Tollervey and Simon Davy about their project, “Oompah. Continue reading →

The Anthropocene in Berlin

Live spiders perform I am writing this from Berlin, where I am for a long weekend of talks and performances on the idea of the Anthropocene: the notion that we no longer live in the Holocene but in a new geological era which is defined by the immense impact of one species (humans) upon earth. The concept was not meant to promote the exceptionalism of Homo sapiens, not to glorify humans at the expense of all other species and of the earth in general. It rather wishes to do the opposite. Continue reading →

UK language festival launched today

The Guardian has reported on the launch of the UK’s second annual national Language Festival, which aims to celebrate cultural diversity and build on the growing momentum behind language learning in the UK. The festival, which starts today, will include a variety of events, online Q&As and a social media campaign, and aims to unite students, teachers and the wider community in discussions about the benefits of a multilingual society. Continue reading →

CLLEAR seminar: Language Learner Autonomy: Asian perspectives

The first Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar of the new academic year will take place on Wednesday 22 October 2014 at 5:00pm in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus. The talk is entitled ‘Language Learner Autonomy: Asian perspectives’, and will be delivered by Dr Roger Barnard from the University of Waikato. Continue reading →

Professor Anna Mauranen visits Modern Languages

Professor Mauranen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki and Professor of English is currently spending the week within Modern Languages here at Southampton as a recipient of one of the University’s Diamond Jubilee Fellowships. Amongst other activities during her visit, she will be presenting the Centre for Global Englishes seminar: “English as Lingua Franca – Broken English?”, taking place today, Wednesday 15 October, in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus, from 5:00-6:30pm. Continue reading →

CGE seminar today: Professor Anna Mauranen

English as a lingua franca – Broken English? Please join us for today’s seminar by the Diamond Jubilee Fellowship visitor Professor Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki and Professor of English. Wednesday 15th October 2015, Lecture Theatre C (Avenue Campus) 17:00-18:30 Abstract: Although it has become generally accepted that English is the global lingua franca, debates over the desirability of this state of affairs have not died down. Continue reading →