The Conference of Young Linguists in Dialogue, YLD2011

Young Linguists in Dialogue is an annual student conference. This year’s meeting will be held at the University of Wrocław (Poland). The main goal of the Conference of Young Linguistics in Dialogue is to ensure a good communication between students of various linguistic fields and from different linguistic traditions and environments, thus offering them a … More The Conference of Young Linguists in Dialogue, YLD2011

Here comes ‘Momo’, if you want to see how dialogue works?

About the book, MOMO: Momo, also known as The Grey Gentlemen or The Men in Grey, is a fantasy novel by German author Michael Ende, published in 1973. It is about the concept of time and how it is used by humans in modern societies. The full title in German translates to Momo, or the … More Here comes ‘Momo’, if you want to see how dialogue works?

My Left Foot

My Left Foot is the 1954 autobiography of Christy Brown, who was born on June 5, 1932 in Dublin, Ireland to a bricklayer and a housewife. As one of 13 surviving children, Brown went on to be an author, painter and poet. My Left Foot documents the story of his life, a life afflicted by … More My Left Foot

First ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies: Only connect …

Albanian Society for the Study of English (ASSE) organizes its First International Conference on British and American Studies, which is hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Vlora between 11-13 June 2011. I am going to present my research titled ‘ The discourse level features of newspaper columnists in respect to … More First ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies: Only connect …

The Fifth Child

The Fifth Child is a novel by Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988, and since translated into a number of languages. The book describes the changes in the happy life of a married couple, Harriet and David Lovatt, which occur as consequence of the birth of Ben, their fifth child. The novel is … More The Fifth Child

Hate Speech Bans: For and Against

06-04-2011 At Copenhagen University, Institute for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS) hosted an interesting and popular debate upon Hate Speech. Whether it should be banned or not seems to take a lot of think-tanking and brain storming. Two remarkable professors in their subject areas discussed the reasons and justifications for their claims. Eric Heinze, Professor … More Hate Speech Bans: For and Against

Listening to Radicals, reporting from the Seminar

13 April 2011, DIIS, Copenhagen The term ‘radicalization’ has sounded very scary and improbable to tackle due to such provocative actions as  the attacks on Washington D.C. and New York in September 2001, the 11 March 2004 bombings in Madrid’ the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, as well as the November 2005 riots in … More Listening to Radicals, reporting from the Seminar

Panel: Tolerance and Value Differences

On 30 of March 2011, the meeting was organized by the Politiken, Humanity in Action and the British Council at City Hall, Copenhagen. The quality and number of the Panelists (Peter Gundelach, Richard Jenkins, Dolan Cummings and Yildiz Akdogan) was notably remarkable. The topic was very interesting and the participants were highly into the subject. … More Panel: Tolerance and Value Differences