Summary of week three in Italian
Grandi Magazzini Di Settimio Severo
On the Italian version of this blog I have now added a summary of the week three topics.
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More seminar details…
We have updated our seminar pages with two new events and more details of the CAHO seminar series with sponsorship by Archaeopress. Have a look and hope to see many of you at our next event with Dr. Anne-Lyse Ravon on the 18th February, 5pm in the John Wymer lab.
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Versailles 1685
I ran a session for a group of Masters’ students yesterday, part of the 3D Recording, Modelling and Interpretation module. It was a great afternoon, with a really responsive group of students, who ended up planning  a game around the Mayan city state of Tulum.
I talked for about an hour, beforehand.
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iChamps at The MuSoc Takeover
Music now has two new iChamps, Harry Matthews and Anna Kent-Muller, who are helping to spread new digital skills in the department. Harry went to last week’s jazz and pop gig at Talking Heads to get started on the work:
Last Thursday MuSoc (the student music society) ran a night of live music performed by Southampton music students. The night’s music ranged from acoustic acts and jazz trios to funk/rock bands with large brass sections.
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Finnissy and EXAUDI at the Wigmore Hall
Jeanice Brooks (Professor of Music) has been listening to a recent performance of work by Southampton colleagues and friends: Michael Finnissy’s extraordinary Kelir for unaccompanied vocal ensemble was the highlight of a Wigmore Hall concert last Tuesday, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Kelir (1981) is the word for a curtain used for the shadows in Javanese puppet theatre. Its text is in Javanese, and consists of a ritual formula declaimed before the play begins.
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Next TNS workshop: ‘Impact and benefits of the arts: How arts institutions relate to the public and reach out to new audiences’
The next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) workshop will take place from 4:00-7:00pm on Wednesday 11th February 2015 in Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus.
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TNS workshop 11 February: Impact and benefits of the arts
Please join us for the next Transnational Studies seminar/workshop:
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
4.00pm-7.
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Recorded sessions now available from 10th LLAS e-learning symposium
Sessions from last week’s successful 10th anniversary LLAS e-learning symposium are now available online. Speakers presented on a range of topics from mobile learning, to Twitter for Italian, online interpreting, screencasting for pronunciation, open educational practice, e-portfolios, blended tandem learning, MOOCs and much more.
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Pérez de Ayala Lecture 2015: ‘A Latin American Country: The United States’
Humanities at the University of Southampton is delighted to welcome Felipe Fernández-Armesto, writer and British historian, who will be delivering the Pérez de Ayala Lecture 2015 on Monday 2 March 2015, at 6:15pm at the University’s Avenue Campus. The lecture is entitled ‘A Latin American Country: The United States’ and will be chaired by Professor Clare Mar-Molinero, Associate Dean (Internationalisation) and Professor of Spanish.
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Archaeopress Sponsorship
The details of the next two seminars are up on our seminar page, with more to follow shortly. I’d like to thank Archaeopress our new seminar sponsor for this semester. We will be detailing a number of seminar exclusive offers at each event as well as details of how to order and also publish with Archaeopress. So make sure you drop in….
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