UCL FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

We are pleased to announce that five research students within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities have been awarded funds to assist with their exchange to Yale next term. These students came from the following departments:

We are pleased to announce that five research students within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities have been awarded funds to assist with their exchange to Yale next term. These students came from the following departments:

The Slade School of Fine Art at UCL is hosting a multi-screen video exhibition to coincide with the London Olympics.

Regular readers will have noticed gradual changes in the editorial board of Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies over the past couple of issues. Partly necessitated by generational change we have started to restructure the board to give additional weight to the global aspects of Dutch Studies as reflected in Dutch Crossing and the manifold exchanges between the Dutch-speaking and Anglo-phone worlds in particular.

This summer Stefanie van Gemert (Comparative Literature PhD student and Teaching Assistant at the Dutch department) is running four workshops at the Wallace Collection and the UCL Art Museum on Dutch seventeenth-century art and the history of the Dutch East India Company.

New website launched for the campaign for languages

Speak to the future – the campaign for languages - has launched a brand new website at www.speaktothefuture.org.

The Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi will begin a residency at the Petrie Museum for Egyptian Archaeology at UCL, thanks to a partnership with the Poetry Translation Centre (PTC) and funding from Arts Council England.

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