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 ...

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 ...

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.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lisa Robertson, an internationally renowned Canadian poet, feminist and essayist, will be the featured speaker for the University at Buffalo’s third annual Robert Creeley Lecture on ...

The Van Riper Lectures began in 1981, honoring Dr. Charles Van Riper, a pioneer in the field of speech-language pathology and audiology and founder of the Speech Pathology and Audiology program at ...

One of the biggest benefits of the Internet is the huge amount of information we all have available at our fingertips. Yet the biggest challenge for many of us is making sense of all that information.

As we eagerly await The Wolf of Wall Street coming later this year, cinephiles can get their film on the genius of Martin Scorsese by way of an hour-long lecture from just a few months ago. The ...

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 ...

Dubai: The first five nightly lectures on Islam in Arabic have concluded in Dubai’s Ramadan Forum, paving the way for the first-ever Bengali language lecture on Tuesday night. The forum is an annual ...

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 ...