UCL FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Bas Aarts was awarded a Follow-on Funding Grant by the AHRC for the project Extending the Englicious Platform for Primary English. During the project a team at the Survey of English Usage will work with the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) and St Aidan’s Primary School in north London to extend the English language teaching platform Englicious to a new audience, namely pupils at Key Stages 1 and 2 at primary schools.

Professor Lisa Jardine and the Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP) are delighted to announce the winning projects for the first CHIRP Interdisciplinary Research Projects Scheme. Professor Jardine wishes to thank all the applicants for their wonderful submissions, which made the competition extremely lively and interesting to chair. The following projects were selected:

A DVD is now on sale of Samuel Daniel's closet drama The Tragedie of Cleopatra, as presented by the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges at the Great Hall of Goodenough College on Sunday 3rd March 2013.

Researchers from UCL have used specially designed software to digitise the Great Parchment book, a crucial historical text documenting the City of London’s role in 17th century Ulster that was previously unreadable for over 200 years due to fire damage.

26 June 2013
A tribute from friends, colleagues and family >>

Sculpture Season at the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL opens this week. 13 emerging artists from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art have been invited to re-curate the Museum’s spaces with their own sculptures, interpretations and installations.

In the 2013-14 Guardian Rankings

Cultural historians, literary scholars, geographers and maritime practitioners from the Benelux-countries, France, Germany and the UK will come together for a symposium on port cities as places of cultural exchange in London on 29 and 30 May. The conference is jointly organised by UCL Belgium (Université Catholique de Louvain), UCL London and Senate House Library, University of London.

The evening of Wednesday 8th May saw the first event of the SELCS public engagement initiative, Café Culture. The event, 'What are Fairy Tales?', took place as part of the UCL Festival of the Arts. 38 people attended the event and they were a mixture of members of the public, and UCL-affiliated (students and staff). 

Tickets are now available for the FREE Live Poetry Event with award-winning Dutch poet Ester Naomi Perquin, organised by the School of European Languages, Culture and Society at UCL, in partnership with Poet in the City.

With the UCL Festival of the Arts running from 7 - 17 May, UCL News spoke to Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL Philosophy), Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, about the festival, and the importance of celebrating the arts at the time when many courses at other institutions are under threat.

How did the large and cultural powerful countries Britain, France, and Germany influence public debates in smaller countries like the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg?

BBC2 'THIS WORLD'
MAY 1, 9PM

Based on unprecedented front-line access to Italy's specialist antimafia magistracy and all branches of the police, The Mafia's Secret Bunkers reports on the fight against the 'ndrangheta.

The School of European Languages, Culture and Society at UCL, in Partnership with Poet in the City, is delighted to present an important new series celebrating the very best of contemporary European poetry. The Contemporary European Poets series brings to London celebrated poets from Hungary, Holland, France, Germany, the Faroe Islands and Italy, for showcase events at Europe House. Events will include live readings by the poets, with all poems read both in the original language and in brand new specially commissioned English translations. On 30 May Ester Naomi Perquin will take part in a FREE event on Dutch poetry at Europe House. 

Start: May 7, 2013 1:00:00 PM
End: May 17, 2013 7:30:00 PM
Location: various venues, UCL Bloomsbury Campus