Forthcoming events

An international workshop on 'Land Management and Protection: Experiences and Perspectives' will be held from Wednesday to Friday. It will include a field-trip to Malta's north west coast, where participants will visit coastal landslides at Anchor Bay and Ghajn Tuffieha Bay which are being monitored using the Global Positioning System (GPS) technique.

The workshop is jointly organised by the Geography Division of the University's Mediterranean Institute, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia's Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Padua in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute.

For more information e-mail john.schembri@um.edu.mt.

Weather data collection

Charles Galdies, head of the Metereological Office at Malta International Airport, will deliver a lecture on weather data collection on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Junior College room 23.

The lecture is of particular interest to students following science courses, engineering, architecture, and aviation.

For more information e-mail howard.j.zammit@um.edu.mt.

Literary translation

Linda Pillière from the Université du Littoral Côte d'Opal, Dunkirk, France, will deliver a lecture on literary translation in room LC117 on Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m., organised by the Department of Translation and Inter- preting Studies. Students of the department and the public are invited to attend.

Christianity in Malta after Arab rule

Important information about the Christian community immediately after the Arab conquest between 870 and1090 will be presented by Horatio Vella and Stanley Fiorini at a public theological encounter on Maltese ecclesiastical history being organised by the University of Malta's Faculty of Theology at the Archbishop's Palace, Valletta, on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Prof. Vella and Prof. Fiorini's presentation is based on research they have conducted on a long poem on Gozo written in Greek between 1135 and 1151 and held at Madrid's national library. The poem sheds light on the situation of the Maltese islands during Medieval times, and supports the possibility of the survival of Christianity during the Arab period.

Music and the global order

Ethnomusicologist from St John's College, Oxford University, Martin Stokes, will speak on Music and the Global Order, as part of the Works-in-Progress in Social Studies seminar series, at the Mediterranean Institute room 124 on Thursday at 6 p.m.

Ethnomusicology is the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts. Dr Stokes will discuss broad issues related to globalisation and ethnomusicologies of scale and his own work-in-progress on music and the Turkish Islamist movement.

Theatre shows for children

Two theatre shows for children based on Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach and Trevor Zahra's stage adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book will be performed at St James Cavalier (SJC) from Thursday and April 6, and May 14 to 19 respectively, by Teatru Qroqq, which is run by lecturer Isabelle Gatt and made up of a group of Bachelor of Education students who work with theatre practitioners.

For more information call SJC on 2122 3216.

French lectures

The Department of French is holding the following public lectures: Alain Blondy will speak on Les Lumières au XVIIIe siècle: la littérature comme discours politique tomorrow from 4 to 5.30 p.m. at the Old Humanities building, room 116.

Alain Génetiot, from the Université de Nancy 2, will give talks on: Les principes de la composition francaise on Wednesday, from 5 to 6 p.m. in LT2 (Car park 2); Le tragique dans Le Cid, Phèdre, La Princesse de Clèves, Les Fables et Tartuffe on Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Gateway hall D1; and La morale dans Le Cid, Phèdre, La Princesse de Clèves, Les Fables et Tartuffe on Friday, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Gateway hall D1.