The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages will be contributing a number of talks to this year's Festival of Ideas (17-30 October).
The full programme is online now (http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/programme-now-available), and booking for events has opened.
TALKS
The Annual Schröder Lecture, Department of German & Dutch
Faust on Facebook, or how we lose track of everything by recording it all
Roberto Simanowski, University of Hong Kong
Thursday 20 October, 5.15 - 6.30pm, Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College
The Annual MML Faculty Lecture
Language as a tool for a foreign correspondent
Bridget Kendall, new Master of Peterhouse:
Friday 21 October, 5.30-6.30pm, Faculty of Law,Sidgwick Site
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/mml-annual-lecture-language-tool-foreign-correspondent also: https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/news/next-master-peterhouse
Movements between Fact and Fiction
Emma Gilby and Guinevere Glasfurd
Saturday 22 October 12.30 - 1.30pm
Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/movements-between-fact-and-fiction
Moving (swiftly) on … Why should anyone care about Arts in Prisons?
Sarah Colvin, Preti Taneja and others
Saturday 22 October 3-5pm
The Webb Library, Jesus College
Literature, Retellings and the true Waste Land
Apostolos Doxiadis
Saturday 22 October, 4.30 - 5.30pm
Faculty of Law Sidgwick Site
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/literature-retellings-and-true-waste-land
Can emotions travel from one language to another?
Natasha Franklin
Saturday 22 October, 4.30 - 5.30pm, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/can-emotions-travel-one-language-another
Across the Atlantic and Back: Adventures of an English Pirate in Brazil
Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá
Saturday 22 October 5-6pm, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site
Movement and Metamorphosis: Translating Kafka
Anthea Bell, Lucia Ruprecht, Andrew Webber, John R Williams
Thursday 27 October, 7-8.30pm, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/movement-and-metamorphosis-translating-kafka
PERFORMANCE
Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi
Schnitzler Digital Edition Project and '[Foreign Affairs]' theatre company
Saturday 29 October, 6.30-8.30pm
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Downing Site
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/arthur-schnitzlers-professor-bernhardi
HANDS-ON
Language Detectives (DTAL)
Saturday 22 October 11am - 4pm
Faculty of English, West Road
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/language-detectives
Taster Session in Modern Greek
Regina Karousou-Fokas
Saturday 22 October, 12.30-1.30pm
Faculty of MML, Sidgwick Site (venue in printed programme is an error)
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/taster-session-modern-greek
Around the World with Marcel the French Explorer
Alliance Française
Saturday 22 October 2-4pm
Faculty of MML Sidgwick Site
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/around-world-marcel-french-explorer
Please also note the following language-related events (not organised by MML):
Migration and Language: Ancient Perspectives
James Clackson
19 October 6-7pm
St John’s College Old Divinity School, All Saints Passage
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/migration-and-language-ancient-perspectives
Language, Movement and Migration
Ángel Gurría-Quintana
Saturday 22 October, 11am - noon
Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/language-movement-and-migration
Biligualism: Literacy and Cognition
Roberto Filippi, Ianthi Tsmipli and Wendy Bennett
Saturday 29 October 2-4pm
Anglia Ruskin University East Road
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/bilingualism-literacy-and-cognition
Round-up of talks and activities related to language sciences (including details on some of the events above): http://www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk/public-events
