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David Owen Norris learns a thing or two from Jane Austen

David Owen Norris is a pianist, composer, broadcaster, impresario, and Professor of Musical Performance at the University of Southampton. Always a pleasure to visit Chawton House, the home of Jane Austen’s brother, which now houses the International Library of Women’s Writing. I had a meeting with the director, Professor Gillian Dow, to discuss ways to mark this year’s 200th anniversary of the publication of Emma. Continue reading →

Bastien Terraz Concert

Bastien Terraz is a freelance double bass & electric bass player & teacher based in Southampton. He is a Southampton University music graduate (BA 2001, MA 2002) and has taught Jazz & Pop bass in the department since 2001. Bastien TerrazDouble Bass & Electric Bass Player & Teacherwww.bastienterraz.com I’ll be playing the Monday lunchtime concert on March 14th this year. Continue reading →

Jon Gingell in Wonder.land

Jon Gingell teaches guitar at Southampton as well as working for the National Theatre and in many other high-profile freelance roles.  He is a Southampton Music graduate. I have been working as programmer and copyist at the National Theatre on the recent production of ‘Wonder.land’, a new musical based on Alice In Wonderland created by Rufus Norris, Moira Buffini and Damon Albarn. Continue reading →

MeXsu Seminar next week: ‘The discursive construction of moral agents among Latin American entrepreneurs in Elephant and Castle’

The next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar will be taking place from 5:00-6:30pm on Wednesday 17th February 2016, in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled ‘The discursive construction of moral agents among Latin American entrepreneurs in Elephant and Castle’ and will be presented by Rosina Márquez-Reiter from the University of Surrey and Adriana Patiño-Santos from the University of Southampton. Continue reading →

Brazilian Carnival at the Students’ Union

This Saturday, SLAPS (the Spanish, Latin American and Portuguese Society) and the Brazilian Society are holding a Carnival in Bar 2 of SUSU (Southampton University Students’ Union) this Saturday. A display about the event can be seen along the north corridor of Avenue Campus, and more information about the event, including where to buy tickets, is available on the Facebook event page. Continue reading →

Study suggests different written languages are equally efficient at conveying meaning

The results of a recent study, led by the University of Southampton, suggest that despite the difference in the forms of different languages, native speakers of those languages can read passages in a comparable amount of time to each other. The languages used for the experiment were English, Finnish and Mandarin Chinese. Find out more details about the experiment on the University of Southampton news page. Continue reading →

MeXsu Seminar Wed 17th February 2016: Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos and Dr Rosina Marquez Reiter

Please join us for the next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar. When: Wednesday 17th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos, University of Southampton and Dr Rosina Marquez Reiter, University of Surrey The discursive construction of moral agents among Latin American entrepreneurs in Elephant and Castle. Continue reading →

Residency, reception and regions

Master’s student Daisy Smeddle reports on the most recent Hartley Residency, a programme that brings leading scholars to Southampton to interact with our postgraduates and staff over several days:  Professor Katharine Ellis from the University of Bristol is amongst the most esteemed musicologists of her generation. We were lucky enough to spend 2nd – 3rd of February exploring and discussing her current research fields with her. Continue reading →

University welcomes in the Year of the Monkey

University students and staff will be participating in celebrations today organised by the Confucius Institute to mark the Chinese New Year. A variety of activities and workshops will be taking place between 11:00 and 14:00 in the SUSU concourse, Highfield Campus, including calligraphy, Chinese knot weaving, paper cutting, Chinese games, tea ceremony, traditional music and an historical costume show. Continue reading →

Italian film showing today: Il rosso e il blu / The Red and the Blue (Giuseppe Piccioni, 2012)

The Italian film, Il rosso e il blu / The Red and the Blue (Giuseppe Piccioni, 2012) (97 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles), will be showing in Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus, at 6.30pm on Monday 8th February 2016. Review, introduction and discussion by Neil Tibbetts. All welcome! The trailer for this film can be viewed on YouTube. Continue reading →