Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners

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In this series—Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners—linguist Colin Gorrie will teach you how to read Old English texts like Beowulf with the aid of a dictionary. Like every language, English has a past. More than many languages, English has changed dramatically over the years: the language as spoken just a thousand years ago would…

Host Office Hours: Your Dream Salon Idea (hangout in the ii Café)

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Join Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek for another weekly hangout in the ii Café. This is the time to let your imagination go wild and think about the craziest salon ideas that might be on your mind. If you knew you couldn't fail, what salon would you like to host? If you could instantly reach any person…

Language, Ecology, and Evolution: Do Languages Adapt to Their Environment?

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Join linguists Colin Gorrie and Damian Romero to explore a controversial question: Do languages evolve to match the environment where they’re spoken?  Do languages spoken in one environment work the same way as languages spoken in another environment? Does the climate a language is spoken in determine how many terms it uses for things like…

$25.00

Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners

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In this series—Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners—linguist Colin Gorrie will teach you how to read Old English texts like Beowulf with the aid of a dictionary. Like every language, English has a past. More than many languages, English has changed dramatically over the years: the language as spoken just a thousand years ago would…

Liberalism – From Liberal Values to Illiberal Democracies

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In the second salon of the Ideas Shape the World – An Introduction to Social Movements series, Robert Nemeth will guide you through a discussion about liberalism and liberal values.  Liberalism is an ideology that premises liberty and individual rights, such as freedom of thought or assembly, the right to own property, and it also…

$20.00