March Madness Call for Nominations
It's time for March Madness! Get your nominations in over at The...
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Italian film showing today: Travolti da un insolito destino nellâazzurro mare dâagosto / Swept Away (Lina WertmĂŒller, 1974)
The Italian film, Travolti da un insolito destino nellâazzurro mare dâagosto / Swept Away (Lina WertmĂŒller, 1974) (114 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles) will be showing in Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus, at 6.30pm on Monday 29th February 2016. Review, introduction and discussion by via Skype by Emilio Audissino. All welcome! The trailer for this film can be viewed on YouTube.
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The Portuslimen Project. Geophysical Survey and Boreholes at Pozzuoli, the Bay of Naples
The Bay of Naples presents a bit of a conundrum when trying to understand the ancient port of Pozzuoli. The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD is well attested, but the upheaval and changes in the level of the terrain of the Campi Flegrei is less well known.
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Saxophone Masterclass
America saxophonist, Professor Jonathan Helton (pictured far right) visited Southampton on February 23. It was a fantastic morning full of saxophone talk and playing. Finalists Wayne Hau, Emily Cox and Laurence Astill and second-year student Hannah Brierley all performed for the masterclass. Following the class Dr. Helton and his duo partner, cellist Stephen Thomas played an exciting lunchtime concert of music for saxophone and cello.
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Perfect Pianists
Artur Rubinstein playing Chopin’s ‘Heroic’Â Polonaise no. 6
On Friday March 4th at 8pm on BBC 4, Professor David Owen Norris presents Perfect Pianists, a compilation of archive film of great pianists, including Benno Moiseiwitsch, Myra Hess, Artur Rubinstein, Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia – David filmed the links at the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands, so youâll hear him as well, playing Chopin on Chopinâs own Pleyel.
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MeXsu Seminar Wed 2nd March 2016: Dr. MĂłnica Moreno Figueroa
Please join us for the next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar.
When: Wednesday 2nd March, 5-6.30pm
Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
Who:Â Dr. MĂłnica Moreno Figueroa, University of Cambridge
Racism, privilege and whiteness in Mexico
Recognising racism in a context such as Mexico involves bringing the unrecognizable into the boundaries of recognition: Mexican practices of racism are currently unrecognizable.
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Routes into Languages employability webinar: âThe Versatility of Languages: transferable skills and cultural competenciesâ
The next Routes into Languages webinar on âThe Versatility of Languages: transferable skills and cultural competenciesâ takes place today, Friday 26th January 2016, from 12:00-1:00pm. The webinar will be live streamed and participants will be able to submit questions to a panel of experts. The discussions can be followed on Twitter at #RoutesLive.
For further details about this webinar, including information about the panel of experts, visit the Routes into Languages Live website.
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Modern Languages Year Abroad photo exhibition
There is still time to visit the Modern Languages Year Abroad photo exhibition currently on display in the North Corridor, Building 65, Avenue Campus! The exhibition features photographs from our Modern Languages competition winners and other competition entrants, in which they captured memorable moments from the Year Abroad.
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Southamptonâs Classical Sax Teacher Dr Angela Space Reveals Saxophone Scale-Off Results
Second-year music student Hannah Brierley won the 2016 Southampton Saxophone Scale-Off. Cool under the pressure of the Dr. Beat (operated by first-year Ewan Atkinson) and confident of her turn-arounds, she managed to best the finalists including last year’s victor, Wayne Hau, who came in second.
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Call for papers for LLAS/UCML/AULC âLanguages in Higher Educationâ conference now open
The call for papers for the 8th biennial joint LLAS, UCML and AULC conference is now open. The event, entitled âFrameworks for Collaboration and Multilingualismâ will take place at the University of Warwick on 6-7 July 2016. The conference aims to bring together language practitioners from Secondary, Higher, and Further Education to celebrate language collaborations and innovations across the sector.
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