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Professor Yiyan Wang describes an animal with a very split personality and the dissociation between the auspicious golden rats of Chinese social media and the disease-harbouring vermin so hated in Mao Zedong’s China. We also hear a little about her own encounters with Wellington’s most unloved creature.
The School of Languages and Cultures has coordinated an expert team to produce two multilingual issues of the journal Toitoi, showcasing stories, poems and art about Latin America and Southeast Asia for the Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence (CAPEs).
Café Littéraire, a new French book club organised by Dr Yuri Cerqueira dos Anjos is a monthly event for people to discuss French literature, and share reading experiences in a cosy environment over a cup of coffee. Readings are in French and discussion can be in French or English.
From using Netflix to practise German, online language buddies, the vagaries of the umlaut, to the discovery of a rare painting that inspired the German novelist Fontane, the German Colloquium organised by Dr Diana Feick and Dr Richard Millington was a day of varied presentations for New Zealand Germanophiles.
Dr Helena Cook introduces the Pasifika Pathways programme and shares with us a little about her background, her recent experiences, her love of Wellington and some personal goals in 2020.
