Philological Society
In my role as Hon. Secretary for Student Associates of the Philological Society, I was editor of the Philological Society Blog which went live in October 2016. There, we present reports on activities funded by the Society, members’ research, outlines of talks given to the Society, and short portrays of Council Members. I also used to manage the Society’s social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. In March 2019, I organised and hosted the Philological Society Early Career Researcher Forum at Wolfson College.
Media
Below you can find newspaper and magazine articles to which I have contributed or for which I have been interviewed:
- “Apprendre plus facilement l’anglais grâce aux séries? Easy!” (24 heures, 5 November 2021)
Outreach
I regularly give Outreach talks for sixth form students and younger pupils, general public engagement talks, and teach at the Oxford UNIQ Summer School.
The most recent topics of such talks include:
- ‘Older than Ancient: Mycenaean Greek at a Glance‘ (Oxford Open Day, Faculty of Classics, 2019)
- ‘What Armenian Grammar can tell us about Parthian History’ (Research in Ancient World Topics in the Modern World, Wolfson College, 2018 – pdf)
- ‘Old Persian Cuneiform‘ & ‘Iranian(s) and the Wider World‘ (Indo-Iranian Philology Day, Wolfson College, 2018)
- ‘Linguistics is fun!’ (Oxford UNIQ Spring sessions, 2018)
- ‘The Armenian Alphabet‘ (Introducing Ancient Scripts, 2017)
- ‘Armenia and the Graeco-Roman World’ (2016)
- ‘Home is where the market is – trade and print culture in the Armenian Diaspora’ (Bodleian Library, 2015)
- ‘Words and what’s behind them: an introduction to Comparative Philology’ (Oxford UNIQ summer school 2014–18)
- ‘Greeks and Persians’ (2015)
- ‘Persia and the Ancient World’ (2015)
- ‘Writing Old Persian Cuneiform’ (Ashmolean Live Friday, 2013)
Next to having edited the blog of the Philological Society, I have on occasion also contributed myself, most recently with posts about the Indo-Iranian Philology Day at Wolfson College, Oxford, and about Classical Armenian conditionals.
Since December 2017, you can also hear me as the ‘philological correspondent’ on VoxPop, the Classics podcast of the Faculty of Classics; here are the first two episodes: Ovid 2000 and Christmas.
In summer 2019, I have recorded a video interview with OxPlore in their series of ‘Big Questions’, discussing whether school was the best place for language learning. You can find the video below.