Cracking symbols and codes, deciphering ancient texts, and uncovering millennia-old secrets are some of the mystifying feats for which fictitious archaeologists are often credited. While we can’t all ...

Students and lecturers held a protest over the potential future of modern languages courses after a university suspended ...

Starting from the French experience, speaker Prof. Claire Extramiana will talk about the importance of language as a tool for communication in the case of foreigners or immigrants in a new country.

AN American scholar of wide range, at the same time thorough and unpretentious, is a rarity; a philologist who is neither perversely wrongheaded nor the victim of a preconceived theory is a still ...

VOLTAIRE defined Etymology as a science where vowels signify nothing and consonants very little. This is so far true that even the wisest books on Language affect one, after all, like a series of ...

With a spoken version of his recently published text, “Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema,” Martin Scorsese delivered the Kennedy Center’s annual Jefferson Lecture this past April, ...

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will present Language, a Remarkable Human Tool lectures at the Susi Q Senior Center, 380 Third St. The lectures are from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday and May 17. Sue ...

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Most of the courses/lectures at the Institute of Sociology are held in German language. At the Faculty of Educational and Social Sciences, however, there are many courses in the disciplines of ...

Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems, says Tomson Highway. As this year’s CBC Massey lecturer, the acclaimed Cree playwright and author explores some of the ...

Starting from the French experience, speaker Prof. Claire Extramiana will talk about the importance of language as a tool for communication in the case of foreigners or immigrants in a new country.