#Public lecture

[motherlanguageday]

There are about 6,500 languages in the world.

There are about 6,500 languages in the world, and around 200 languages spoken in Manchester at any one time. UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism. It has been observed globally since 2000 and has important historical roots. In Bangladesh 21 February is the anniversary of the day when Bangladeshis fought for recognition for the Bangla language.

With many events taking place across the city, we have been very excited to welcome new organisations hosting IMLD celebrations this year! A special one for us too, as we launch a brand new exhibition with participants from 10 UNESCO Cities of Literature, on the theme of Threads.

You can join in the conversation by tagging us on social media @MCRCityofLit and using the hashtag #MotherLanguageDay.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Fund Gives Aid To German Jews," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 24, 1933. Page 20. ---- Thousand Acres of Land in Palestine Given for New Settlement ---- MONTREAL - Twenty-three thousand children are being educated in schools of Palestine with £185,000 budgeted for the cause of education. There are kindergarten, public, high and technical schools but the crowning achievement, according to Leib Jaffe, managing director of the Palestine Foundation Fund, is the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, the cornerstone of which was laid while guns were being fired in Palestine during the Great War. Art, philosophy, biology and mathematics are some of the subjects taught along with studies in tropical diseases, oriental knowledge and Semitics.

Mr. Jaffe made reference to the Wolfsohn library with its 260,000 volumes and to the 42 periodicals in Hebrew which are existent in Palestine. The Hebrew theatre, "Habimah," where as many as 3,000 gather to listen to noted musicians and to actors filling their roles in such operas as Samson and Delilah, plays an important part in Jewish Palestine. The great miracle of all, believes Mr. Jaffe, is the revival of Hebrew with 95 percent of Jewry in the country able to speak the language.

It is planned to settle German Jews on 1,000 acres of land which the Jewish National Fund is ready to set aside for the purpose, Mr. Jaffe said.

[statiifilia]

Faint Music, BY ROBERT HASS

Maybe you need to write a poem about grace.

When everything broken is broken,   and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine has studied her face and its defects remorselessly, and the pain they thought might, as a token of their earnestness, release them from themselves has lost its novelty and not released them, and they have begun to think, kindly and distantly, watching the others go about their days— likes and dislikes, reasons, habits, fears— that self-love is the one weedy stalk of every human blossoming, and understood, therefore, why they had been, all their lives,   in such a fury to defend it, and that no one— except some almost inconceivable saint in his pool of poverty and silence—can escape this violent, automatic life’s companion ever, maybe then, ordinary light, faint music under things, a hovering like grace appears.

As in the story a friend told once about the time   he tried to kill himself. His girl had left him. Bees in the heart, then scorpions, maggots, and then ash.   He climbed onto the jumping girder of the bridge,   the bay side, a blue, lucid afternoon. And in the salt air he thought about the word “seafood,” that there was something faintly ridiculous about it. No one said “landfood.” He thought it was degrading to the rainbow perch he’d reeled in gleaming from the cliffs, the black rockbass,   scales like polished carbon, in beds of kelp along the coast—and he realized that the reason for the word   was crabs, or mussels, clams. Otherwise the restaurants could just put “fish” up on their signs,   and when he woke—he’d slept for hours, curled up   on the girder like a child—the sun was going down and he felt a little better, and afraid. He put on the jacket   he’d used for a pillow, climbed over the railing   carefully, and drove home to an empty house.

There was a pair of her lemon yellow panties hanging on a doorknob. He studied them. Much-washed.   A faint russet in the crotch that made him sick   with rage and grief. He knew more or less where she was. A flat somewhere on Russian Hill.   They’d have just finished making love. She’d have tears   in her eyes and touch his jawbone gratefully. “God,”   she’d say, “you are so good for me.” Winking lights,   a foggy view downhill toward the harbor and the bay.   “You’re sad,” he’d say. “Yes.” “Thinking about Nick?” “Yes,” she’d say and cry. “I tried so hard,” sobbing now, “I really tried so hard.” And then he’d hold her for a while— Guatemalan weavings from his fieldwork on the wall— and then they’d fuck again, and she would cry some more,   and go to sleep.                        And he, he would play that scene once only, once and a half, and tell himself that he was going to carry it for a very long time and that there was nothing he could do but carry it. He went out onto the porch, and listened   to the forest in the summer dark, madrone bark cracking and curling as the cold came up.

It’s not the story though, not the friend leaning toward you, saying “And then I realized—,” which is the part of stories one never quite believes.   I had the idea that the world’s so full of pain it must sometimes make a kind of singing. And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps— First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing.

[russianlanguageday]

Russian Language Day 2024 celebration at the United Nations Offic at Nairobi (UNON).

On June 6th for the birthday of the great Russian poet Alexander.S. Pushkin, the United Nations celebrates the Russian Language Day/День русского языка.

Watch the Russian Language Day 2024 celebration at the United Nations Offic at Nairobi (UNON)!

[miroslawmagola]

Schweizer Parapsychologische Gesellschaft Nene Von Muralt A Letter To Miroslaw Magola : Miroslaw Magola : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[wetlandsday]

CANADA - 12th Annual World Wetlands Day at the University of waterloo.

The World Wetlands Day 2024 at the University of Waterloo celeberation will start a dynamic poster session and reception, showcasing a visual array of research and insights dedicated to wetland conservation. Dr. Andrea Kirkwood will then deliver a distinguished lecture titled "The Value of Urban Wetlands" from 6:00 to 7:00 pm in EIT 1015. For a global audience unable to attend in person, the distinguished lecture will be livestreamed, ensuring broad participation in this enlightening discourse. Please register to attend the distinguished lecture or to receive the livestream

Country : Canada Organizer : University of Waterloo, Canada

[translationday]

Smart Consecutive Interpreting (online workshop #2)

This two-day online course will give you all the tools to be able to successfully interpret consecutively for any audience, for any length of time, comfortably and with confidence.

What you will learn: On the first day, we will start by understanding the thinking underlying any interpretation, and how it can help you to follow any speech. On the second day, we will move to all that goes specifically into consecutive interpreting. By the end of the course, you will be able to interpret increasingly lengthy interventions using memory, analysis, and notes.

Have you ever become confused, and didn’t know how the speech fits together?

Have you ever worried that your speaker will go on too long?

Have you ever blanked on what your notes mean in the middle of a speech?

The course includes lecture, demonstrations and some exercises, small group work, and practice. Training is in English, and is not language-specific. Practicing interpreters who wish to improve their consecutive interpreting skills, as well as graduates from interpreting courses at any university or training center.  

Schedule: 16:00-18:00 / 20:00-22:00 Central European Time (Geneva)

This workshop is scheduled at a time meant to facilitate participation from time zones covering the Americas, Europe and Africa. If you prefer to attend earlier in the day, you may wish to register for the Smart Consecutive Workshop #1 on 28-29 October.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2023 | 04:00 PM ORGANISER: ATPD LOCATION: ZOOM ONLINE CH 

[internationaldayoflight]

Science lectures about light.

The Department of Physics, Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University will hold a series of popular science lectures about light will be held during the festival. Part of the lectures will be devoted to alternative electricity generation and the importance of light during hostilities and war.

International Day of Light 2023 in Ternopil, Ukraine.

[bossesmade]

Atoms and Human Knowledge, Public Lecture ,1957 - , Niels Bohr

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. Niels Henrik David Bohr is a Danish physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of atomic structure and quantum theory. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific inquiry. How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Bohr…

[starcurtain]

One thing I wish I'd see more of among Ratio fans is some thought about how he views himself as a teacher.

Like yes, of course he refuses to compromise on the quality and rigor of the education he imparts, and he would find it unforgivably unethical to lower his standards in order to pass more students who had not genuinely learned the material. This is core to his character.

However, as someone who is a teacher IRL, I know the absolutely miserable feeling setting that kind of standard can cause. There's the obvious disheartening sense of disappointment ("Are students these days really not capable of doing the work correctly? Is our future in danger, if this is the highest level of understanding our current generation of students can achieve?"), but even worse than that is the self-doubt.

"Is this somehow my fault? Am I not teaching this material in the right ways for the students to learn? Is there something I could have done differently to get through to these students? Would a better teacher have a higher passing rate?"

We know that Ratio does (or at least did) struggle with feeling inferior to the Genius Society, so I think it is also likely, as much as he absolutely will not budge on his academic standards, that he has doubts about his teaching ability as well.

This is the man who wants to educate the entire world to cure the disease of ignorance, and yet only 3% of his actual students are able to get there. How can someone who gets so few of his direct students to a state of enlightenment hope to enlighten the whole universe? If so few students are successfully learning the material of a given class, doesn't that mean the teacher is doing something wrong?Would a better teacher--would a genius, maybe--not be able to impart their knowledge more efficiently and educate even the most challenging of students?

As someone constantly struggling with that balance between keeping academic standards high while also meeting the needs of today's students, I think the passing rates of his courses must affect Dr. Ratio much more deeply than I've seen fans discuss. I think he would question himself harshly over his class success rates, and I think he must be constantly trying to push himself to become the best teacher he possibly can be.

tl;dr: I hope one day the HSR fandom will stop sleeping on the fact that Ratio is an actual practicing professor who probably has astronomical levels of teacher angst. 😂

[motherlanguageday]

Acquiring a second language why do we find it so difficult?

ADQUIRIR UNA SEGUNDA LENGUA: ¿POR QUÉ NOS PARECE TAN DIFÍCIL?

Series coordinated by Idoia Elola (Texas Tech University) y Ana Oskoz (University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

Public Lecture given Greg Kessler (Ohio University)

Language: English (simultaneous interpretation into Spanish)

The Instituto Cervantes Manchester and Leeds presents the second edition of the lecture series: “Acquiring a Second Language: Why do we find it so difficult?”, coordinated by Idoia Elola (Texas Tech University) y Ana Oskoz (University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), a forum aimed at teachers, language studentes, parents and the general public, which will consider how we learn a second, or a heritage language. Presenters will discuss various elements and difficulties that come with second-language acquisition including: myths and realities surrounding language acquisition and age, the effect of explicit knowledge and how it can affect learning, the use of language according to the context in which it is spoken, and the effect of education on our ability to learn a second language. The first lecture will celebrate the International Mother Language Day and will be given by Greg Kessler (Ohio University).

IMLD 2024: ACQUIRING A SECOND LANGUAGE: WHY DO WE FIND IT SO DIFFICULT? DATE: 21 February 2024 TIME: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm AGES: 18+ PRICE: Free FORMAT: Online THEME: Languages Skills ORGANISER: Instituto Cervantes

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“He Knocks the Spots from Darwin's Plan, Says Monkeys Have Devolved from Man,” Toronto Star. May 21, 1921. Page 3. ---- Canadian Press Despatch. ---- Ottawa. May 20. - New theories of the origin of man this morning at were presented a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada, by Prof. Charles Hill-Tout. F.R.A.I., F.RS.C., of Abbotsford, B.C. Prof. Hill-Tout took the opposite view to that presented in Darwin's theory of evolution, namely that anthropoids had devolved. from the human form rather than the human being had evolved from anthropoids.

The human race at the present time was much closer in its resemblance. to original type, he thought, than were anthropoids. There was much more possibility of monkeys evolving from human beings than vice versa.

[statiifilia]

An American Sunrise, BY JOY HARJO

We were running out of breath, as we ran out to meet ourselves. We

were surfacing the edge of our ancestors’ fights, and ready to strike.

It was difficult to lose days in the Indian bar if you were straight.

Easy if you played pool and drank to remember to forget. We

made plans to be professional — and did. And some of us could sing

so we drummed a fire-lit pathway up to those starry stars. Sin

was invented by the Christians, as was the Devil, we sang. We

were the heathens, but needed to be saved from them — thin

chance. We knew we were all related in this story, a little gin

will clarify the dark and make us all feel like dancing. We

had something to do with the origins of blues and jazz

I argued with a Pueblo as I filled the jukebox with dimes in June,

forty years later and we still want justice. We are still America. We

know the rumors of our demise. We spit them out. They die

soon.

[russianlanguageday]

Watch the ceremony starting at 3-00 PM GMT (Paris time)!

The Russian Language Day is celebrated on 6 June – the birthday of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

Join the UNESCO Celebration!

[miroslawmagola]

Alexander Imich letter to Miroslaw Magola

[petbrain]

you called me a yapper knowing full well im a barker