The first seminar of 2008 continuing the '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

This session 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:

The final programme in PDF format (557KB) and a poster for the event, in PDF format (550KB).
For more information about this event, please contact:
   Margaret Tejerizo (m.tejerizo@slavonic.arts.gla.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 details of seminars, including location and times, visit our events pages.
For more information about the Festival of Words, please contact:
   Margaret Tejerizo (m.tejerizo@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk)

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• 'The Chuvash Word - transalting the poetry of a "small" culture.'
  (Hon) Professor Peter France (Edinburgh University)
  21 January, 2008, 17.00
   Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.

• 'The power of singing and Estonian identity'
  Professor Martin Ehala (Tallinn University, Estonia) more > Event: Festival of Words (Seminar Series)
Lecture: 'The power of singing and Estonian identity'

Professor Martin Ehala (Tallinn University, Estonia)
Monday, 11th February, 5pm
at Glasgow University Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre

Professor Martin Ehala is the Chair of the Department of General and Applied Linguistics at the Tallinn University, professor from 1998. From 1996, he is one of the editors of Trames, an international journal of the humanities and social sciences. He was nominated a member of European Generation of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1997.
The main field of his studies is diachronic linguistics, particularly the theory of language change and language contacts: 'The analysis, modelling and control of the development of the Estonian linguistic environment' and 'Lineal and created kinship: a reassessment of language families and relationships'.'The power of singing and Estonian identity'

• 'Komar and Melamid: Nostalgic Irony in Contemporary Russian Art'
  Dr Rolf Hellebust (University of Nottingham)
  18 February 2008, 17.00
   Room A19*, Trent Building, University of Nottingham,
   *Lecture Theatre B (by video-link), Boyd Orr Building,
    University of Glasgow.

• 'The Polish Language'
  Dr John Bates (University of Glasgow)
  25 February 2008, 17.00
   Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.

• 'Translation Workshop: Translating Grossman and Platonov'
  Mr Robert Chandler (University of London)
  04 March 2008, 17.00
   Lecture Theatre A, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.

• 'The Beginning and End of Russian heretic discourse'
  Dr Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (University of Edinburgh)
  10 March 2008, 17.00
   Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.


• 'Re-presentations: Stravinsky, Janacek...in the fictional worlds of
  Milan Kundera'
  Dr P Bilek (Charles University, Prague)
  The 3rd Annual Alexander Lazarev lecture
  02 April 2008, 18.30
   Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.

• 'Emotion and mutually beneficial fieldwork'
  Dr J. Oldfield (University of Glasgow)
  14 April 2008, 17.00
   Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.

• 'Czech construction of society in feature films of the 1990s and 2000s'
  Dr. J. Čulík (University of Glasgow)
  21 April 2008, 17.00
   Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.

• 'The Council of Europe Charter for Regional and Minority Languages
  and the Languages of Central and Eastern Europe'
  Dr J. Dunn (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow)
  28 April 2008, 17.00
   Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.

 

First published: 13 January 2012

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