UCL FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

A free one-day festival dedicated to the celebration of London and Literature will give the public an opportunity to listen to and share thoughts with celebrated authors, poets and academics on all things London.

The UCL News podcast gives you the opportunity to listen to the latest news and research from around UCL every fortnight. Split up into three parts, you can either listen to the podcast all in one go, or save features for later listening. 

We are very pleased to announce that UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Heritage Without Borders won the Museums and Heritage Innovations Award for the project 'QRator: Visitor Participation Through Social Interpretation'.

Annette Mitchell, PhD student in UCL Greek and Latin, recently attended Professor Miriam Leonard's inaugural lecture and wrote about it on the UCL Events Blog.

UCL News has launched a new podcast to give you the opportunity to listen to the latest news and research from around UCL every fortnight. Split up into three parts, you can either listen to the podcast all in one go, or save features for later listening. 

UCL Art Museum is delighted to present Vincula (8th May – 8th June), a group exhibition of new artworks made in response to past masters.

3rd Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature in a Fast-Changing Global World
New Academic Building, LG02
Goldsmiths, University of London

Friday 8 June 2012
9.00 am – 6.30 pm

Applications are now open for the Provost's Strategic Development Fund, with  funding for £1.65 million over three years available in the following three strands:

A multimedia exhibition featuring film, images and rarely seen cultural objects from Sierra Leone that explores the role cultural heritage can play in reanimating post-conflict and developing societies opens at UCL this week.

Three UCL staff and several members of UCL’s alumni community have been recognised in the 2012 New Year Honours list.

The past year at UCL has seen a landmark larynx transplant, a lecture from Noam Chomsky, simulated missions to Mars and a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, among many other groundbreaking developments. UCL Communications has created the digital review of the year below: click on the images to discover more.

A celebration of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's tercentenary at UCL Art Museum

Exhibition dates: 9 January to 27 April 2012

The 2011 UCL Research Strategy calls for a transformation of the understanding of the role of our comprehensive research-intensive university in the 21st century.

Ulrich Tiedau (UCL Dutch) has been elected to the Executive committee of the University Council for Modern Languages (UCML), as representative for Area Studies.

Visitors and applicants are invited to see work in progress and meet students and staff at the Slade:

• Undergraduate Open Studios are on Wednesday 14 December between 10am and 4pm 
• Graduate Open Studios are on Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 December between 10:30am and 5pm.

A new Documentary-track PhD has recently been created, which allows suitably qualified candidates to submit an original filmed documentary along with their thesis.

UCLDH, CASA and UCL Museums project included in the 2011 Museum edition of the Horizon report

Deputy Director of UCLDH featured in the Times Higher.

Melissa Terra', Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH) was featured in the Times Higher this week in relation to her experiment into the way that social media can be used to make the most of the impact of her research.

Do you know someone who deserves recognition for their public engagement work? 

This is your opportunity to nominate a colleague for the third annual Provost's Awards for Public Engagement.

Closing date for nominations:
Monday 12 December 2011, 5pm

You can nominate someone from UCL for one of four £1000 prizes:

Wednesday 23 November, 6.00 - 7.30pm

Waterstones, Gower Street, WC1E 6EQ 

A photograph of a project in the Utah desert that simulates the environment on Mars has taken first prize in a UCL student photography competition.

UCL Arts and Humanities are holding an open day on 23 November. It will be a chance to learn about the Masters and PhD programmes available in the next academic year.

Centre for Early Modern Exchanges and UCL Art Museum Exhibition

In this slideshow Professor Helen Hackett (UCL English) and Dr Alexander Samson (UCL Spanish and Latin American Studies) discuss the new exhibition they have helped curate in the UCL Art Museum, Word and image: Early modern treasures from the UCL Collections.

Bas Aarts (Survey of English Usage, English Department) was awarded a UCL Enterprise Award for a project entitled Marketing the resources of the Survey of English Usage by the BEAMS Knowledge Transfer and Enterprise Board and the Vice-Provost (Enterprise).

UCL South Cloisters and Garden Room

12.30 - 5.00pm

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities is proud to announce the first annual Graduate Open Day will be held on Wednesday 23 November, 2011.