The Department of English and American Studies presents an invited talk by
Professor Dirk Vanderbeke (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
entitled Music and Language – An Evolutionary Approach to Multimediality
held on Monday 4 March 2024, 16.45 in room 3.05 (Křížkovského 10)-
In his talk, the author will focus on the combination of music and language but also touch upon dance as another medium which is almost inexorably linked to musical performance. Abstract here.
Dirk Vanderbeke is professor of English studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He has published on science and literature, evolutionary criticism, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, John Milton, science fiction, fantasy, crime fiction, vampires, comics and graphic novels.