Saturday 18th March 2023, 12:00-13:00, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site  

Bibas and Butler: Two Cambridge Women and the Making of Modern Languages. 

Prof Emma Gilby’s talk will look at some of the first teachers of modern languages in Cambridge, at the turn of the twentieth century. What kinds of modern lives did these pioneering linguists want to lead? What do they still have to teach us today?