The curious bronze, knuckle-shaped object pictured is an ancient weight excavated from the east coast of Italy. The inscription scrawled along its side is written in the language of ancient people, known to the Romans as the Frentani.
Having just returned from a year spent documenting the language and culture of the remote Inughuit community of north-western Greenland, Dr Stephen Leonard describes how he witnessed first-hand the manner in which globalisation and consumerism are conspiring to destroy centuries-old cultures and traditions.
Two Cambridge institutions, the Department of Linguistics and the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, have merged as of 1 August 2011 to form the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.
A “total immersion” event in Cambridge this weekend marks the climax of a conference examining the work of performers and their creative role in making music.
More than sixty events are taking place over the school holidays in museums across Cambridge.
A conference at CRASSH later this week will address some big and highly topical questions.
A new series presented by Michael Scott examines the history of luxury and the origins of our ambivalent attitude to the finer things in life.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz has announced the creation of a £300,000 fund to be awarded to Cambridge University researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
The power of “scriptural reasoning” to transform the way in which different faiths understand one another is to be the subject of a major lecture in Rome, by Cambridge’s Regius Professor of Divinity.
Chinese food contains a hidden recipe for living, a new analysis reveals.
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