On October 5-7th MSLU hosted the festival of the students’ scientific club LINGUA SCIENCE FEST that unified members of all scientific groups of our university.
Students played intellectual games, created unexpected improvisations about science and studentship, delivered educational lectures and performed at the Anti-Science conference. The festival was aimed at popularization of scientific research among young people.
Olga K. Iriskhanova, vice-rector for research at MSLU delivered welcoming remarks at the formal opening ceremony on the 5th of October, telling about the conception and objectives of the first in MSLU’s history festival of the students’ scientific club that took place as part of the all-Russian festival NAUKA 0+. President of the Council of young scientists from MSLU Vyachelslav Samoylov and active president of the MSLU students’ scientific club Daria Sokolova shared with the guests the tasks set to the students’ scientific society and young people’s science.
The pinnacle event of the festival was held on Saturday, the 7th of October. Exhibition of scientific clubs and laboratories «Science market» staged for the first time at MSLU happened to be one of the biggest events, according to the participants of the festival, both students and representatives of scientific clubs and laboratories who prepared an ambitious programme of interactive activities. One could get memorable stickers for the participation.
Anna Leontieva, director of the laboratory for the study of sign languages who also participated in the event: “SCoDis team participated in the exhibition and we are very thrilled by it! We have got acquainted with the participants and representatives of different clubs, communicated with our students, drawn attention to our new club “Word and gesture”, we have even made an appearance on television! After the exhibition together with my colleague Olga Agafonova we had the floor as special guests at the Anti-Science conference where we gave a couple of “harmful” pieces of advice of how (not) to carry out a scientific research, students should not of course follow those. We hope that all the participants of the event enjoyed it just the way we did!”
Of course the most expected and vibrant event of the festival was the first Anti-Science conference to be held in a university for humanities – “Dark side of the Science”. The participants were not afraid to dismantle stereotypes about research and presented unusual reports on absurd and humorous topics from the fields of linguistics, psychology, literature and social studies. Daria Lysenko, fourth-year student of the faculty for German language, member of the student club “Practice of elocution” won with her report “Down with horoscopes: What slang-type are you?” By means of her own research she told what five groups of people she succeeded to find on the basis of their character features and the slang used. Daria studies linguistics at MSLU, she thinks slang does not contaminate a language if used properly.
