UCL FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

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

What sounds make up London’s global university? UCL Communications has announced the winners of its ‘Sounds of UCL’ competition, which invited staff and students to capture ambient audio clips that reflect the life of UCL.

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

Analyzing Discourses of Culture in a Context of Policy and Reform

UCL SELCS/Dutch Research Seminar – all welcome!

9-18 July 2013: learn Greek or Latin in London.

Details here

The UCL School of Languages, Culture & Society now has Facebook and Twitter accounts, featuring news, events, announcements and other highlights from SELCS.

What is experimental fiction? Concepts, Metaphors and the Case of the Postwar Neo-Avant-Garde in the Low Countries

UCL undergraduates are invited to a free, half day workshop by the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities on Wednesday 24 April 2013.

Deadline: May 31, 2013

The UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP) will sponsor the creation and/or development of two interdisciplinary research projects, with an Early Career Researcher [ECR] attached to each project for UCL Humanities (AH, SHS & SSEES) departments.