Blindsight: a strange neurological condition that could help explain consciousness DescriptionImagine being completely blind but still being able to see. Does that sound impossible? Dr Henry Thomas writes for The Conversation exploring Blindsight.Date:06/08/2020Categories: Arts and Law School of English, Drama and Creative Studies wins prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship DescriptionDr Jack Quin will be joining the Department of English Literature for 3 years this October to research 'Dual Forms: Modernist poetry and the poetics of sculpture (1880-1940).'Date:13/07/2020Categories: Arts and Law, Research From the Mastodon to Extinction Rebellion: Grant secured for research into the history of extinction DescriptionA senior Lecturer in Modern History in the Department of History, has been awarded a £167,000 grant from The British Academy to write Vanished, a history of extinction for Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House.Date:30/06/2020Categories: Arts and Law, Research Studia Patristica 100th volume published Description100th volume of Studia Patristica published with papers from the Sixth British Patristics conference held in Birmingham in 2016.Date:20/06/2020Categories: Arts and Law, Research Bringing Colston Down Description'But the BLM protests showed that Colston's weighty legacy was less substantial than we had imagined: Rebecca Gould writes for the London Review of Books on Bringing Colston Down.Date:15/06/2020Categories: Arts and Law, Research Two milestones for the Waseda and Shakespeare Institute collaboration DescriptionThe Shakespeare Institute's continuing research collaboration with Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan's premier university in Shakespeare studies, has this week passed two milestones.Date:10/06/2020Categories: Arts and Law, Research New Publications and Resources on Contemporary German Jewish Literature and Culture DescriptionMaria Roca Lizarazu, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages, has published a number of outputs on contemporary German Jewish literature and culture.Date:09/06/2020Categories: Arts and Law, Research Medicines and Medical Devices Bill 2019-20: Patient safety must be the priority DescriptionBirmingham Law School's Muireann Quigley, Jean McHale, Rachael Dickson and Laura Downey comment as the committee stage of the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill 2019-20 resumesDate:09/06/2020Categories: Arts and Law, Research The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee DescriptionJarad Zimbler edits collection for Cambridge University Press.Date:09/06/2020Categories: Arts and Law Global Literary Theory project expands with the appointment of three new research fellows DescriptionGlobalLit is an ERC-funded project that aims to reinvigorate the discipline of literary studies by looking at non-European approaches and focusing on texts from Islamic cultures.Date:03/06/2020Categories: Arts and Law, Research Displaying 1 to 10 of 308 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next