Event: Public Talk on Falling in Love with Birds
Date: 10 March 2020
Time: 18:00
Venue: Faculty of Arts Library, University of Malta, Msida campus
On Tuesday 10 March Dr Natalino Fenech shall be giving a talk in Maltese entitled “Ninnamraw mal-għasafar, jew l-għasafar f’ħajjitna” (Falling in love with birds, or birds in our lives).
This talk is part of the Oral Traditions project of the Department of Maltese in the Faculty of Arts which is supported by the Research Fund of the University and Klabb Kotba Maltin.
The speaker will discuss the influence birds have on all aspects of our lives with an emphasis on the impact on language, literature, nicknames as well as expressions and proverbs, some of which are still in use. Bird names and their origins will also be discussed.
Natalino Fenech has been involved in scientific studies of birds since the 1980s. Apart from ornithological research, he is also specialised in ethno-ornithology, which studies the relationship and interactions between birds and people in all aspects of life.
More about Dr Fenech
He graduated from the University of Malta and obtained a PhD in social sciences from the University of Durham. He has published several papers as well as books, two of which won the first prize in the research category in the National Book Awards.
