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    Kübra Gümüşay & Elif Shafak: How Does the Language We Speak Shape Our Lives?

    Sunday 27 August 17:15 - 18:15

    Kübra Gümüşay & Elif Shafak: How Does the Language We Speak Shape Our Lives? Book
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    Kübra Gümüsay’s Speaking and Being: How Language Binds and Frees Us explores how language creates our entire world, and how we can expand it. Gümüsay will be joined by novelist and political scientist Elif Shafak – whose work is often...
     

    Kübra Gümüşy, R F Kuang & Irene Vallejo: A Short History of Language

    Monday 28 August 20:30 - 21:30

    Kübra Gümüşy, R F Kuang & Irene Vallejo: A Short History of Language Book
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    Three lauded authors discuss how the past, present, and future of language is explored in their respective books. Irene Vallejo’s Papyrus, is a bestselling history of books and libraries in the ancient world; R F Kuang’s historical novel Babel is...