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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...
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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....
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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...
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Translating Taiwan
Festival of Languages - Pay what you can £6 or £4
What does it mean to translate a museum, and how might this be understood in the context of Taiwan? This talk offers a relaxed late-afternoon journey of...
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Two interpreters, three languages and Laurence Olivier
Festival of Languages - Pay what you can £6 or £4
In August 2024, at the Edinburgh International Festival, Teatro La Plaza from Peru brought a production of Hamlet to the Lyceum Theatre. The play was performed...
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The origins of language with Cat Hobaiter
Festival of Languages - Pay what you can £6 or £4
A long list of human behaviours has been proposed as the reason we have language, but decades of research with other species have shown us that they have rich...
