The place of women in language: On gender, sex and power

Dr. José Santaemilia, Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Universitat de València, as well as a legal and literary translator will be at the school this evening at seven oc'clock.

The title of his talk is "The place of women in language: On gender, sex and power" . Until very recently, women have been largely invisible in language. In this talk Santaemilia will introduce students to the field of gender and language studies, which looks at history, philosophy or psychology to understand the reasons for women’s subordination in language, for the different conversational strategies used by men or women, or for linguistic sexism.

International Book Day

Today, as you all know, we celebrate The International Book Day, The same day Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died, according to tradition. But 2009 has not been a very good year for publishers, who are undergoing a great crisis due to a growing competitive digital industry. Small bookshops are suffering most from this situation. But in our Information Society traditional literacy is becoming something of the past. Digital literacy is what is at stake now because we are running the risk of leaving a great part of our population behind if we do not do something to fill the digital gap. See Europe's Information Society
to read how ICTs affect our lives every day.

VI EOI National Conference

Towards New Horizons was the title of the EEOOII Conference held in Las Palmas (The Canary Islands) last week. About 300 teachers from most Spanish Autonomous Communities attended it (April 2-4). Most Local Governments have committed themselves to the modernization ot the Official Language Schools as languages are becoming more and more a deciding factor in the opportunities offered to the citizens. Besides, as an Arabic proverb says

Jim Jarmusch, at the Film Institute

This week, the Film Institute is showing Dead Man, an anti-western, by Jim Jarmusch, an American independent filmmaker and script writer, whose films are admired by some of us because of his original approach. Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law are some of his early films. Jarmusch worked as an assistant to director Nicholas Ray. Through Ray's efforts, he became a production assistant on Wim Wenders' documentary, "Lightning Over Water" (1980). Read more at the wikipedia.