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New Doctoral Training Centre in Extinction Studies
The Leverhulme Trust has awarded funding for a new interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership in Extinction Studies.
Curating and exhibiting visual culture in times of coronavirus
An interdisciplinary online seminar series about the impact of COVID-19 on visual art.
Dr Alex Bamji on 16th Century quarantine practices in BBC article: The 432-year-old manual on social distancing
Dr Bamji helps BBC Future explain how one 16th Century doctor utilised social distancing practices to contain a plague outbreak the city of Alghero in Sardinia.
Dr John Gallagher presents BBC Radio show about playwright and poet Aphra Behn
Thursday 7th January saw the School of History’s Dr John Gallagher present Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3, discussing 17th-century female playwright, poet and spy Aphra Behn.
Isla Paterson wins the Algerian Studies Master’s Dissertation Prize 2020
Congratulations to Isla whose dissertation explores Algerian Kamel Daoud’s non-fictional text, 'Le peintre dévorant la femme'.