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CIPCS & TNS Tuesday 14th March: Dr Bryan Gibson

When: Tuesday 14th March, 5pm Where: 65/1163, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Bryan Gibson, John Hopkins University Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War This talk is co-sponsored by the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCS) and The Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) From 1972 to 1975, the White House ran a covert operation to support Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy from Baghdad. Continue reading →

Italian film showing today: Nessuno mi può giudicare / Nobody Can Judge Me (Massimiliano Bruno, 2011)

The Italian film, Nessuno mi può giudicare / Nobody Can Judge Me (Massimiliano Bruno, 2011) (93 minutes, Italian subtitles) will be showing in Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus, at 6.30pm on Monday 6th March 2017. Review, introduction and discussion by Anita Idigbo and Carla Ringland-Mendez (Final year BA Modern Languages students in Spanish, French and Italian). All welcome! The trailer for this film can be viewed on YouTube. Continue reading →

Conducting Acis and Galatea

Isabel Tuffin-Donnevert as Galatea Lucy Grant (year 2) tells us about the her experience as Musical Director of the university’s Chamber Opera Society production last weekend: Acis and Galatea is an opera composed by Handel, based upon a text by the author John Gay. The opera was first performed in 1718 as a single act piece; however, Handel later devised a two-act opera, first performed in 1739, and it was this version we performed. Continue reading →

Cross-centre seminar Wednesday 8th March 2017

Cross-centre seminar, led by the Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) and chaired by Professor Jennifer Jenkins. When: Wednesday 8th March 2017, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Clare Mar-Molinero, Prof Roumyana Slabakova, Dr Dick Vigers and Prof Jennifer Jenkins. Perspectives on multilingualism Over the past ten years or so, multilingualism has become a hot topic in linguistics research. Continue reading →

Next CGE seminar: Perspectives on multilingualism

The next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar will take place on Wednesday 8th March 2017 from 5:00-6:30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled ‘Perspectives on multilingualism’ and will be chaired by Prof Jennifer Jenkins from the University of Southampton. All welcome! Here is the abstract for this seminar: Over the past ten years or so, multilingualism has become a hot topic in linguistics research. Continue reading →

MeXsu Seminar Wednesday 1st March 2017: FortĂ­no DomĂ­nguez Rueda

When: Wednesday 1st March 2017, 5:15-6:45pm Where: Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: FortĂ­no DomĂ­nguez Rueda, Universidad de Guadalajara Resistencias indĂ­genas en el MĂ©xico contemporáneo: La lucha de los zoques de Chiapas, el Congreso Nacional IndĂ­gena y la propuesta de una candidata independiente a la presidencia de la repĂşblica en el 2018. Continue reading →