Week Two – Your Questions Answered
Trajan Forum Rome (Flickr)
Here is the video addressing some of the questions you have raised about Week Two.
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Modern Languages PhD students participate in Best of British 2015 conference
Six of our Modern Languages Distance MPhil/PhD students discussed their experiences as PhD students on the panel ‘Doing a Distance PhD: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ at the Best of British 2015 Conference held by the British Council Mexico in Mexico City on 13 and 14 February.
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Week One – Your Questions Answered
Fossa Traiana (on Flickr)
As part of Week Six we are today concentrating on answering questions raised on Week One. As a starting point Simon and I have created a video.
We have also added a video by Katherine where she introduces her research at Ostia and how it relates to Portus.
We have also added some additional cross-references to Hadrian’s Wall course both on the platform and on the blog for those of you who are registered on both.
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Junto March Madness Nominations Open
Today at the Junto, nominations for March Madness 2015...
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Italian film showing today: Venuto al mondo / Twice Born (Sergio Castellitto, 2012)
The Italian film, Venuto al mondo / Twice Born (Sergio Castellitto, 2012), will be showing in Lecture Theatre A at 6.30pm on Monday 2 March 2015. Review, introduction and discussion by Ciro Scognamiglio. All welcome! The trailer for this film can be viewed on YouTube.
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Costruisci il tuo modello di Portus e condividilo con noi
Partendo dalla discussione iniziata l’anno scorso su Twitter, tramite #buildyourownportus, e nel corso e successivamente raccolta nel post di Matthew Tyler-Jones  “The Portus MOOC and modelling“, ho trovato estremamente interessante che tante persone volessero costruire il loro modello di Portus per sperimentare la modellazione come un processo interpretativo.
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Celebrating women composers
Barbara Strozzi
Professor of Music Laurie Stras has been working on a programme for a special BBC3 event: Next Sunday is International Women’s Day, and BBC Radio 3 is marking the occasion with a weekend of programmes celebrating female composers, including live concerts and discussion panels, documentaries and debate. I’m taking part along with one of my Southampton colleagues.
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Build your own Portus in Sketch Up and share it with us
Following upon last’s year discussions initiated on Twitter via #buildyourownportus and in the course and summarised in a post by Matthew Tyler-Jones on “The Portus MOOC and modelling“, I have found extremely interesting how many people wanted to build their own Portus model and experience modelling as interpretative process.
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The Van Dyke Vanishments
Last weekend I went to Games Expo, East Kent, or GEEK as it’s more commonly known, in “London’s Famous Margate”. What drew me there was The Van Dyke Vanishments. Billed as an immersive experience through “art, theatre and gaming” how could I not go? With limited availability we snapped up the last tickets for Saturday and drove across to Margate after lunch.
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Next ILC seminar: ‘Impacts of Impact post REF2014’
The next Institute for Language and Culture (ILC) seminar will take place on Wednesday 4 March 2015 from 4:00-6:00pm in Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled ‘Impacts of Impact post REF2014’ and will be delivered by Professor Florence Myles from the University of Essex.
The research of 154 UK universities was assessed.
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