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What’s in a Name? On Afghanistan’s Fraught Persian Language Politics
What’s in a Name? On Afghanistan’s Fraught Persian Language Politics

Digital Humanities and Archiving, North India, North India Readings, Reading, Translations

What’s in a Name? On Afghanistan’s Fraught Persian Language Politics

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-04T11:32:00+01:00January 7th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, North India, North India Readings, Reading, Translations|Tags: Afghan, Afghanistan, BBC News, Current Globalising Movement, Dari, Farsi, language hierarchies, Languages, Persian|

Ronah Baha discusses the politics of the BBC's decision to name their BBC Afghanistan page 'BBC Dari', focusing on the rich diversity of Persian literary and civilisational linguistic histories.

Vahni Capildeo: The Mother Tongue is an Evil Myth

By admin_mulosige|2019-04-12T14:20:25+01:00October 21st, 2018|Categories: Horn of Africa, Poetry, Reading, Translations|Tags: belonging, Caliban, exile, Languages, Measures of Expatriation, mother tongue, polyglot, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Vahni Capildeo, world literature|

Is there such thing as a single language? Capildeo's poetry emphasises linguistic multiplicity even in monoglot societies.

Reading group with Javed Majeed (King’s College London)

By Jack Clift|2019-04-12T14:39:53+01:00February 22nd, 2017|Categories: Education and Taste, North India, Past events, Reading Group, Translations|Tags: Arabic, colonial, colonial knowledge, Empire, English, Grierson, India, Languages, Linguistic Survey of India, North India, orientalist, Perso-Arabic, Telugu, translation, transliteration|

Javed Majeed joined us for an informative and enjoyable reading group where we discussed his work on the Linguistic Survey of India and its superintendent, George Grierson.