09 June 2020 New Publications and Resources on Contemporary German Jewish Literature and Culture Maria 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.
04 June 2020 Testimony in Practice: Art, Education, Performance Two new sets of guidance for practitioners seeking to work with witness accounts in different contexts have been launched by Professor Sara Jones.
03 June 2020 Global Literary Theory project expands with the appointment of three new research fellows GlobalLit 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.
27 May 2020 The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class Elystan Griffiths' monograph published by Boydell & Brewer.
10 February 2020 John Goodyear on Radio Bremen John Goodyear was interviewed on Bremen Zwei Radio about his Anglo-German life and touched on the world of academia post-Brexit.
31 January 2020 Professor Sara Jones on 'How we can ensure Holocaust survivors continue to be heard' Professor Sara Jones in the Guardian
29 January 2020 Grant secured for collaborative project 'Tackling the UK's languages crisis: a role for linguistics in schools' Dr Alice Corr and Dr Norma Schifano have been awarded £8,000 from the AHRC/OWRI initiative Language Acts and Worldmaking for the project 'Tackling the UK's languages crisis: a role for linguistics in schools'.
28 January 2020 New funding for research to support reading in a foreign language Dr Petar Milin and Professor Dagmar Divjak have been awarded the internal "High-risk, High-reward" grant for CAL for the project "Making the most of what meets the eye(s): Optimizing reading in a foreign language".
27 January 2020 Auschwitz 75 years on: preserving survivor's voices and listening to those of their children Professor Sara Jones writes for The Conversation.
19 December 2019 Firewood of Sarajevo Longlisted for Prestigious Arabic Literature Prize Novel inspired by workshop facilitated by Dr Anissa Daoudi, shares "counter-histories" of Algeria Civil War
04 December 2019 University of Birmingham and Oxford Lieder announced as Artistic Partners The University of Birmingham is delighted to announce a new partnership with Oxford Lieder
12 November 2019 Speaking Out: Words, images and politics of the feminist and LGBTQI+ movements Charlotte Ross seminar at the University of Trento, Italy.
Sustainability and environments How we are exploring issues of climate through the arts, humanities and law.
Birmingham ranked in top 70 in the world for Arts and Humanities The College of Arts and Law is placed 67th in the Times Higher Education 2022 rankings, making it one of the best places for study and research in this field globally.
British and German soldiers' stories reveal historic cinema and theatre insight A University of Birmingham expert is joining forces with British Army and the Bundeswehr to help strengthen bonds between German and British soldiers