How Folktales Contributed to the Confucianisation of Korea: Mother Green Tree Frog and her Children Through an examination of selected Korean folktales, the lecture will...
Japanese Women in Tanka Poetry: from the 4th to the 13th Century Hisashi Nakamura and Ria Ulleri introduced the poetic world of...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Dyslexia and Language - Disorder or Difference? Difficulties with reading and writing have wide-ranging effects beyond academic...
Theatre and Language: Samuel Beckett, 'Waiting for Godot' Beckett's Waiting for Godot has been interpreted in myriad ways...
An Introduction to Rare and Endangered Languages Professor Tim Connell provides an introduction to the field, with...
Rare and Endangered Languages - 'Why should we protect endangered languages?' Dr Nicholas Ostler argues for the preservation of the world's...
Sanskrit Mathematics in the Language of Poetry This event will focus upon mathematics as expressed in different languages and cultures.