What is the origin of human conflict and how can we make peace? The Bible offers one answer in the myth of Babel: God ‘confused their tongues’ of humanity so that humans could no longer cooperate as a species and threaten the power of the divine. But is linguistic diversity really the source of human…
Where do language & war intersect? Join BRLSI for our upcoming livestream from Ukraine exploring the roots of the Ukrainian language, and how best to protect at a time when it is at its most vulnerable. With all proceeds going to a Ukrainian charity, this is a talk we know you will want to support!…
Sign up for the BRLSI Big Read on Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, part of our annual celebration of Mrs Dalloway Day. Mrs Dalloway is one of the great modernist novels detailing a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-World War One England. Attitudes towards love and relationships altered…