{"id":3300,"date":"2014-11-03T10:36:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2014-11-03T10:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:36:20","slug":"genius-of-language-festival-at-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/11\/03\/genius-of-language-festival-at-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Genius of Language&#8217; festival at Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a> is hosting a series of events under the title\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/geniusoflanguage\/\">&#8216;The Genius of Language&#8217;<\/a>, which explores the origins, diversity and creativity of language, as part of the\u00a0nationwide\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beinghumanfestival.org\/\">&#8216;Being Human&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0festival of the humanities. The events run between the 16 and 20 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday 16 November, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterbury.co.uk\/Beaney\/\">The Beaney House of Art &amp; Knowledge<\/a> will house an <a href=\"http:\/\/beinghumanfestival.org\/event\/genius-language\/\">interactive exhibition<\/a>, which explores questions such as &#8216;why is human language so special and how does it differ from the communication systems of other animals?&#8217; and\u00a0&#8216;how did language evolve in the human species?&#8217; A competition for students to exhibit work in this exhibition under the title\u00a0&#8216;The Origins of Language&#8217;\u00a0is currently running, please see the page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/news\/index.html?view=3188\">here<\/a>. A creative writing workshop on\u00a0metaphors, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/scott.html\">Dr Jeremy Scott<\/a> will take place \u00a0at 3pm on the day.<\/p>\n<p>In the subsequent week,\u00a0there will be two film screenings in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegulbenkian.co.uk\/\">Gulbenkian Cinema<\/a>\u00a0 followed by Q&amp;A sessions with experts from the Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics. <em>The Linguists<\/em> (2008) will be screened\u00a0on Tuesday 18 November,\u00a0followed by\u00a0<em>Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?\u00a0<\/em>(2013) on Thursday 20 November. Both films will be shown at 6.30pm on their respective dates.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday 19 November there\u00a0will be\u00a0a free public lecture entitled\u00a0&#8216;Why Bilingualism Matters&#8217; delivered\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lel.ed.ac.uk\/~antonell\/\">Professor\u00a0Antonella Sorace<\/a>\u00a0(University of Edinburgh), a\u00a0world-leading authority in the field of bilingual language development across the lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>Full details of the events can be found on the Genius of Language web page: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/geniusoflanguage\/\">http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/geniusoflanguage\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics is hosting a series of events under the title\u00a0&#8216;The Genius of Language&#8217;, which explores the origins, diversity and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/11\/03\/genius-of-language-festival-at-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39161,"featured_media":3315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135857,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}