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  1. Whale song communication

    Whale song communication

    Festival of Languages - Pay what you can £6 or £4

    By Luke Rendell, School of Biology, with clarinet accompaniment by cetacean specialist Alex South. This event will comprise a short talk and question and answer...

  2. Finsterworld

    Finsterworld

    Join Dora Osborne (Department of German) for a screening of Finsterworld (2013), a darkly comic film about Germany. The film will be followed by a Q&A with...

  3. Tiepido-Cool

    Tiepido-Cool

    Participants will be invited to respond to the work of visual artist, Davide D'Elia, and to work collectively with word and image to produce prose poems...

  4. 'Roots' Workshop with Anisha Minocha

    'Roots' Workshop with Anisha Minocha

    Festival of Languages - Pay What You Can £10.00 / £8.00

    How can iterations of the sacred shape our own relationship to the environment? Based on Indian philosophical thought, this interdisciplinary workshop explores...

  5. Minority languages of Spain

    Minority languages of Spain

    Festival of Languages and Byre World - Pay what you can £6 or £4

    In this session, Professor Jordi Larios, Dylan Inglis and Ana Barazal Barreira will discuss three minority languages of Spain: Catalan, Basque and Galician....

  6. When language fades

    When language fades

    Festival of Languages - Pay what you can £6 or £4

    Around one in 11 people over the age of 65 live with dementia, and many of us know how hard communication can become, especially in the later stages. In Dr...

  7. Bright Club: The Language of Laughter

    Bright Club: The Language of Laughter

    Festival of Languages - Pay What You Can £6.00 / £4.00

    A comedy night like no other! Five university experts swap lectures for laughter under the watchful eye of their comedy mentor and our MC for the evening, Dr...

  8. Research Talk: Female Agency in Cinema

    Research Talk: Female Agency in Cinema

    "From Spaghetti to Aguardiente: Female Agency and Decolonial Representations in Italian and Colombian Western Cinema" by Dr Paula Barreiro...

  9. Lost Detectives

    Lost Detectives

    The 'Lost Detectives' project is devoted to the adaptation and popularisation of forgotten works of nineteenth-century Russian crime fiction. Claire...

  10. Multilingual Poetry Reading with Jordi Larios and Others

    Multilingual Poetry Reading with Jordi Larios and Others

    Festival of Languages - Pay What You Can £6.00 / £4.00

    To mark National Poetry Day, acclaimed Catalan poet Jordi Larios will read from his new collection, Thresholds. This will be followed by a reading by St Andrews...