Broken Bodies, Remade Wholes: Unwind as Frankenstein Retold and Reversed
Seminar
New technologies create new opportunities for anxiety, and using human body parts to create life is a special kind of horrifying fictional procedure. At first glance, Unwind by Neal Shusterman and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein approach this concept in inverted ways. In Frankenstein, a ‘monster’ is…
Creating A Place Among the Anthropo-scenes
Seminar
For Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, the world is in the grip of a ‘Great Derangement’: human inaction in the knowledge of great, avoidable danger. This 'danger' manifests in several forms, but I am interested in the changes to environment and climate. To engage effectively with these, environmental and…
Creating A Place Among the Anthropo-scenes
Seminar
For Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, the world is in the grip of a ‘Great Derangement’: human inaction in the knowledge of great, avoidable danger. This 'danger' manifests in several forms, but I am interested in the changes to environment and climate. To engage effectively with these, environmental and…
The impact of context on early foreign language learning
Seminar
It is a common belief that the best way to learn a foreign language is to go to the country where the language is spoken, because an immersive environment facilitates faster and better learning outcome. Research studies indeed showed an advantage of the target language context for improved…
The impact of context on early foreign language learning
Seminar
It is a common belief that the best way to learn a foreign language is to go to the country where the language is spoken, because an immersive environment facilitates faster and better learning outcome. Research studies indeed showed an advantage of the target language context for improved…
The impact of context on early foreign language learning
Seminar
It is a common belief that the best way to learn a foreign language is to go to the country where the language is spoken, because an immersive environment facilitates faster and better learning outcome. Research studies indeed showed an advantage of the target language context for improved…
The impact of context on early foreign language learning
Seminar
It is a common belief that the best way to learn a foreign language is to go to the country where the language is spoken, because an immersive environment facilitates faster and better learning outcome. Research studies indeed showed an advantage of the target language context for improved…