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  1. Resurrecting Lost Languages Through Poetry -- with Professor Peter Constantine

    Resurrecting Lost Languages Through Poetry -- with Professor Peter Constantine

    Festival of Languages

    Over a quarter of the world's languages have less than a thousand speakers left and are now on the brink of extinction. More languages than are spoken...

  2. John Minford on Translating Hong Kong and Chinese Literature

    John Minford on Translating Hong Kong and Chinese Literature

    A two-part event - Pt 1 (The Hong Kong Poet P.K.Leung 也斯), Pt 2 (Translating China: From the I Ching 易經 to Louis Cha 金庸)

    John Minford, Emeritus Professor of Chinese at ANU, has been described as "the greatest living translator of Chinese literature into English". In...

  3. Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅
    Cancelled

    Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅

    A performance of lion and dragon dancers to usher in the lunar New Year

    Edinburgh's Yee's Hung Ga Kung Fu Academy will perform lion and dragon dances in St Mary's Quad to celebrate the beginning of the Lunar New...

  4. Tiepido-Cool
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    Tiepido-Cool

    A cross-cultural exploration of how we perceive shifts and contrasts of temperature, visually and through touch

    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...

  5. Professor Bhakti Shringarpure: 'Reframing African Literary Futures'

    Professor Bhakti Shringarpure: 'Reframing African Literary Futures'

    CIMS Seminar Series

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute welcomes Professor Bhakti Shringarpure from the University of Connecticut's Department of English and...

  6. CPI -- Research Seminar with Dr A. Dickow

    CPI -- Research Seminar with Dr A. Dickow

    Pascale Petit, Seductive Grammarian: the Audacity of Audacity

    In 2019, a graduate student at Virginia Tech, Annetta Riley, completed the first extensive study of Pascale Petit's poetry to date, under the direction of...

  7. Creative writing in Russia today with Maya Kucherskaya

    Creative writing in Russia today with Maya Kucherskaya

    Maya Kucherskaya is a best-selling author, critic, academic and founder of the leading creative writing school in Russia. In conversation with Margarita Vaysman...

  8. Cultural Memory Reading Group: Stef Craps on Memory Studies & the Anthropocene
    Cancelled

    Cultural Memory Reading Group: Stef Craps on Memory Studies & the Anthropocene

    Wednesday 19/02/20, 16:00, UCO 36. Recommended readings available on CIMS website: Reading Group

  9. 'Lost Detectives' Exhibition Launch and Reception

    'Lost Detectives' Exhibition Launch and Reception

    Come along to the launch event for artwork associated with the 'Lost Detectives: Adapting Old Texts for New Media' KE&I project, with Dr Claire...

  10. 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...