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WiP Talks
WINTER 2010
All talks start at 3:00 pm in CHD 425
Yoko Kodama "The Image of Teachers: What do you see in the pictures of a teacher?" (March 19)
What was the image of your teachers when you were in school? What is the image of “yourself” as a teacher? What image of teachers is portrayed in society? Are there differences in terms of gender, generation, or culture? Read more
Monolingualism Is Curable!
Richard Slipp’s Story
I first sought treatment for a debilitating case of monolingualism in second-year university.
The decision was strategic: as an English major looking to go on to grad studies, I wanted to quickly acquire reading knowledge in a foreign language. I sensed my school French was a bit too rusty to be revived, and with a superficial familiarity with some German literature and a strange attraction to the sound of the language – German got the nod. Read more
Exciting Event
Wenda GU (谷 文達) (born 1955, Shanghai) is a leading contemporary artist from China who now lives in New York City. He is a conceptual artist working to bridge the cultures of the East and the West. His ongoing project, “united nations,” solely made of human hair, is a site-specific, historically contextualized series of installations he calls “monuments.” On Friday, March 26, from 3:30 to 5:30 pm, Mr. Gu will present his work, past, present and future, and answer questions from the audience. Read more
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Henning Andersen Visit
The Department of Germanic, Slavic and East Asian Studies is proud to announce that the previously postponed visit of the distinguished linguist Henning Andersen (professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters) will take place at the end of March.
Professor Andersen will give three lectures at the University of Calgary. The first lecture (Monday, March 29, 13:00-14:00, CH D425) will discuss the rationality of Russian numeral syntax and the second (Wednesday, March 31, 14:00-15:00, CH D425) the birchbark texts as a window on daily life in the Russian Middle Ages. Read more
Research News
One man's hobby – assisted by the globe-trotting of family, friends and colleagues – has become a book display at the University of Calgary. Nicholas Žekulin’s collection of all the 67 translations of the first Harry Potter book (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) has been on display in the lobby of the Language Research Centre (Craigie Hall D, 4th Floor) from February 24 to March 10. The event received extensive media coverage in Canada and beyond (Find out more). The Exhibition was opened with a “mini-conference”: Diana Patterson (Mount Royal U) spoke about “The Problems and Joys of Translating Harry Potter” and Jackie Seidel (ED) on “The Real Magic of Harry Potter”.