A&H Latest News
Bas Aarts awarded AHRC Grant
Publication date: 1 July 2013
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.
Winners announced - CHIRP Interdisciplinary Research Projects Scheme
Publication date: 28 June 2013
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:
The Tragedie of Cleopatra – DVD now on sale
Publication date: 24 June 2013
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.
UCL software reveals Ulster’s forgotten history in fire-damaged book
Publication date: 20 June 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.
Tribute to Eric Handley
Publication date: 17 June 2013
26 June 2013
A tribute from friends, colleagues and family >>
Grant Museum taken over by artists for Sculpture Season
Publication date: 6 June 2013
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.
Symposium on Port Cities, Rivers and Hinterlands in North-Western Europe (29/30 May)
Publication date: 29 May 2013
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.
SELCS Café Culture opening event: 'What are Fairy Tales?'
Publication date: 21 May 2013
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).
Free tickets now available for Live Poetry Event with Ester Naomi Perquin (30 May)
Publication date: 10 May 2013
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.
UCL Festival of the Arts: Q&A with Professor Jonathan Wolff
Publication date: 29 April 2013
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.
Reference cultures in Europe – Major European research grant awarded
Publication date: 29 April 2013
How did the large and cultural powerful countries Britain, France, and Germany influence public debates in smaller countries like the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg?
The Mafia's Secret Bunkers (1 May)
Publication date: 23 April 2013
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.
Live Poetry Event with Prize-winning Dutch Poet Ester Naomi Perquin (30 May)
Publication date: 23 April 2013
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.
UCL Festival of the Arts May 7-17
Publication date: 19 April 2013
Start:
May 7, 2013 1:00:00 PM
End:
May 17, 2013 7:30:00 PM
Location:
various venues, UCL Bloomsbury Campus

