Festival of Words - Seminar series

Published: 13 January 2012

Organised by CRCEES and the Slavonic Studies Section of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Oct - Dec 2007

The following lectures are part of the autumn's 'Festival of Words' seminar series organised by the CRCEES and the Slavonic Studies Section of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures.

Event: Festival of Words
Festival of Words - Special Seminar Series
Session 2007-2008

Organised by CRCEES and the Slavonic Studies Section of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures

CRCEES and the Slavonic Studies Section of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) have joined forces to present a special series of seminars, cultural events, literary readings and film both to celebrate and to advertise the wealth of languages and cultures now taught in collaboration by them and also to prepare for the major Winter Festival which they will be organising from November 2008 to February 2009.

Throughout this current session there will be regular events to display the diversity and richness of the languages now available at Glasgow University for both students and members of the non-academic community - from Lithuanian to Slovene, from Uzbek to Hungarian.

There will be an Open Night on December 10th 2007 when guests will be invited to a special event to mark the achievements of CRCEES at the end of this highly successful year.

Programme October-December '07:

For more information about this event, please contact:
Margaret Tejerizo (margaret.tejerizo@glasgow.ac.uk)

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Programme January-April '08:

The seminar series reconvenes after the Christmas break, with the first seminar by (Hon) Professor Peter France (Edinburgh University) taking place at 17.00 on 21 Januray.

January 2008:
Mon 21 Jan    'The Chuvash Word - transalting the poetry of a "small" culture.' 

        
February 2008:
Mon 11 Feb    'The power of singing and Estonian identity'
Mon 18 Feb    'Komar and Melamid: Nostalgic Irony in Contemporary Russian Art'      
Mon 25 Feb    'The Polish Language'

March 2008:
Mon 04 Mar    'Translation Workshop: Translating Grossman and Platonov'               
Mon 10 Mar    'The Beginning and End of Russian heretic discourse'

April 2008:
Mon 02 Apr    'Re-presentations: Stravinsky, Janacek...in the fictional worlds of
  Milan Kundera' (The 3rd Annual Alexander Lazarev lecture)
Mon 14 Apr    'Emotion and mutually beneficial fieldwork'
Mon 21 Apr    'Czech construction of society in feature films of the 1990s and 2000s'
Mon 28 Apr    'The Council of Europe Charter for Regional and Minority Languages
  and the Languages of Central and Eastern Europe'

For more information about the Festival of Words, please contact: (margaret.tejerizo@glasgow.ac.uk)


First published: 13 January 2012