In this 2016 TEDx talk, MBTI expert Jean Kummerow takes the audience through the different personality types with humor and personal experience. Our next event takes place on the 3rd June 2019 and we are thrilled to be welcoming Dr. Merve Emre to speak about her … Continue reading What’s Your Type? A TEDx Talk with Jean Kummerow
Author: Caitlin Coxon
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McGill University interviews Merve Emre
Our next event takes place on the 3rd June 2019 and we are thrilled to be welcoming Dr. Merve Emre to speak about her new book, What’s Your Type? Over the course of the evening, we will unpack questions around why personality tests are so popular and what their ongoing appeal says about humanity’s desire to define and label themselves. Dr. Emre will also be answering questions and signing books.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Tickets are available on Eventbrite.
People Sorting – another interview with Merve Emre
In mid 2018, Jessica Gross visited Merve Emre in New Haven and interviewed her for Longreads.com. They discussed the MBTI and their own personal history of friendship, leading to the question, if the MBTI is predicated on the understanding that a person’s personality type never changes, how does one account for personal evolution?
Whose Got Personality? An interview with Merve Emre
In September 2018, Deborah Chase interviewed Merve Emre for the Boston Review, and they discussed, “what the test really measures and what it misses, how it has come to function as a form of divination and therapy in an age of secular alienation, and why its claims of innateness are at odds with richer understandings of personality and character”.
Type-Casting Humanity
Dr. Merve Emre discusses the origins, evolution, and ongoing importance of the world’s most used personality test with Nam Kiwanuka on The Agenda with Steve Paikin. This interview was published online on 12th Nov. 2018. Our next event takes place on the 3rd June 2019 … Continue reading Type-Casting Humanity
What’s YOUR type?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world: approximately 1.5 million people take it each year, and it is used across businesses and universities to assist in training and hiring processes. The test uses 93 questions to sort people into one of sixteen categories, and it was originally invented by mother-daughter double act, Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs-Myers, to help people choose jobs appropriate to their personality type.[1]
You can take the Myers-Briggs personality test for free at http://www.16personalities.com (or click HERE) and let us know on social media what YOUR type is, in preparation for our next event.
Our next event takes place on the 3rd June 2019 and we are thrilled to be welcoming Dr. Merve Emre to speak about her new book, What’s Your Type? Over the course of the evening, we will unpack questions around why personality tests are so popular and what their ongoing appeal says about humanity’s desire to define and label themselves. Dr. Emre will also be answering questions and signing books.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Tickets are available on Eventbrite.
Source(s):
[1] Bahar Gholipour, ‘How Accurate is the Myers-Briggs Personality Test?’, Livescience.com (2019). Available https://www.livescience.com/65513-does-myers-briggs-personality-test-work.html, accessed 30/05/2019.
Madame Bovary: the Everest of translation
Adam Thorpe’s translation of Madame Bovary was published by Vintage in 2011. Prior to its release, he wrote a piece for The Guardian explaining his approach to translating the text, and justifying what he believed set his translation apart from that of Lydia Davis, whose own translation predated Thorpe’s by only a year.
Julian Barnes reimagines the end of Madame Bovary…
Writing for The Guardian in 2006, Julian Barnes reimagined the end of Flaubert’s iconic novel and provided Emma with opportunity to “correct” her story. This alternative ending was originally published in The Guardian on 30th September 2006 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first part of Madame Bovary in the Revue de Paris.
Writer’s Writer and Writer’s Writer’s Writer
Julian Barnes compares translations of Gustave Flaubert’s great novel, on the occasion of the publication of Lydia Davis’ translation in 2010. Read an extract from Barnes’ article here.
Sophie Barthes’ ‘Madame Bovary’ Just Doesn’t Live Up to Previous Adaptations
In a review for Observer.com, Rex Reed savaged Sophie Barthes’ 2015 film adaptation of Madame Bovary, awarding it only 2/4 stars and ultimately declaring, “the movie suffers from too much respect and not enough passion”. Read on for a brief extract.
Cardiff BookTalk 