Dies Academicus: Ned Thomas
Renan, Arnold, Unamuno: Philology and the Minority Languages
Did developments in Indo-European Philology influence the perception of Western European minority peoples and also our own self-perception and behaviour? An event in 1864 on the coast of north Wales serves to dramatize and illustrate a wider history seen through the prism of linguistic science which was itself developing. The dilemmas of those times have not wholly disappeared.
Ned Thomas is a writer, journalist and academic who taught at the universities of Salamanca, Moscow and Aberystwyth before becoming Director of University of Wales Press. He founded the Mercator Centre which for thirty years has run projects on minority languages, linguistic diversity and literary translation. He is a Fellow of Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the Learned Society of Wales, and was recently awarded an honorary D. Litt by University of Wales Trinity St David’s.
Did developments in Indo-European Philology influence the perception of Western European minority peoples and also our own self-perception and behaviour? An event in 1864 on the coast of north Wales serves to dramatize and illustrate a wider history seen through the prism of linguistic science which was itself developing. The dilemmas of those times have not wholly disappeared.
Ned Thomas is a writer, journalist and academic who taught at the universities of Salamanca, Moscow and Aberystwyth before becoming Director of University of Wales Press. He founded the Mercator Centre which for thirty years has run projects on minority languages, linguistic diversity and literary translation. He is a Fellow of Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the Learned Society of Wales, and was recently awarded an honorary D. Litt by University of Wales Trinity St David’s.
Time
Wednesday, 14.05.25 - 05:15 PM
- 06:00 PM
Topic
Dies Academicus
Target groups
All interested
Location
Hörsaal XIV
Reservation
not required
Organizer
Keltologie Bonn
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Links
- https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/keltologie/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungsarchiv/dies-academicus-ned-thomas/ics_view