Event: YULETIDE HUMS!
Date: 2 December 2022
Time: 09:30
Venue: Faculty of Arts Library
The Christmas season is upon us, despite the warm weather HUMS is back with its Yuletide Special Event!
We are pleased to be hosting four wonderful speakers who address themes connected with Christmas in a typically light-hearted tone (based on some serious research).
- Ms A. K. Lakelett: Yule – Foods and Traditions in Finland - In Finland there are a lot of traditions around Yule, mostly about food, saunas ... and of course gifts brought by Joulupukki on Christmas Eve.
- Prof. Paul Sant Cassia:"A children's hoax on adults?" - Some anthropological reflections on Christmas.
- Ms Lara Bugeja:"The Abstracted Star" - Best known for his large-scale church paintings, this presentation seeks to explore the Christmas philatelic designs of EV Cremona during the "golden age" of Maltese Stamp Design from the collection held at the Malta Postal Museum.
- Dr Philip Ciantar: Strophic Music and Participation in Carol Singing - Participation in carol singing is generally facilitated by the strophic form. The music as structure is equally important for the collective singing of carols - as is the text and the pictures it evokes to build upon and to engage listeners.
The event will take place in the Arts Library, Faculty of Arts, second floor. We will be offering coffee at 09.30 and the talks of 15 minutes with time for Q&A in between will start at 10.00. The morning will be followed by seasonal drinks and nibbles to welcome in the jolly season.
Please send an email to Mr Mark Delicata, to let us know if you intend to join us.