Latest news stories drawn from the Schools and Departments of the College of Arts and Law.
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- The Thrill of the Dark: Heritages of Fear, Fascination and Fantasy. Delivered in partnership between the University of Birmingham, University of Illinois and Stockholm University.
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- 25/09/2018
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- A University of Birmingham artist and historian is set to lead an outdoor procession as part of a performance and exhibition in commemoration of Captain James Cook's voyage from Plymouth to Australia on HMS Endeavour 250 years ago.
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- 24/09/2018
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- Cook's New Clothes is a collaboration between Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and Kirill Burlov, Ludovica Fales, Nikolaus Gansterer, Ruby Hoette, Simon Layton, Mo'ong and Keren Ruki to create a series of events carried by music, regalia, dance, drawings and spoken words.
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- 24/09/2018
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- Ilya Afanasyev, Nicholas Evans and Nicholas Matheou on the possibility of another kind of academic conference in this latest Verso blog post
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- 21/09/2018
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- Professor Charlotte Hempel is launch her new co-edited book (with George J. Brooke), the 'T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls' on Monday 1 October, 5-6pm. The companion comprises over 70 articles exploring the entire body of the key texts and documents labelled as Dead Sea Scrolls.
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- 21/09/2018
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- Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, Professor Mike Robinson discusses the challenges of preserving Jewish heritage.
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- 20/09/2018
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- Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, Professor Mike Robinson discusses the challenges of preserving Jewish heritage.
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- 20/09/2018
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- Professor Candida Moss reports for The Daily Beast on the discovery of ancient Roman ruins in Turkey, which are believed to be the long-sought remains of the church which hosted one of the most important events in Christianity.
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- 19/09/2018
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- Dr Abla Fedeli, former PhD student and member of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing's Codex Zacynthius project, writes about her discovery of fragments of the Qur'an in the University of Birmingham's archives in 2015, and the resulting media coverage and reporting.
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- 19/09/2018
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- Professor Lisa Bortolotti writes about self-narratives and the stories we tell ourselves for IAI News. Self-narratives are the means by which people establish continuity between their past, present, and future experiences and impose some coherence on their disparate traits and features.
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- 19/09/2018
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