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Dr. Anna Harpin, who recently joined the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies as Associate Professor, has published 'Performance, Madness and Psychiatry: Isolated Acts'. The book, co-edited with Juliet Foster, is an exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays exploring the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. Performance, Madness and Psychiatry will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike. It features interviews, archival research, and academic analysis of this rich and diverse area of theatrical and psychiatric history. The book departs from a set of questions regarding the role and nature of theatre both within asylums and hospitals as well as beyond these spaces. The authors pause over questions of environment, architecture, politics, language, performance and power and try to illuminate the interrelations between madness and theatre in a number of periods and health contexts. This eclectic volume attempts to examine some varied voices that collectively challenge the dominant orthodoxies of psychiatry. In this sense the book argues that madness matters.

The application period for URSS bursaries 2014/15 is now open until Sunday 1^st February 2015.

URSS bursaries of up to £1000 are available to all 91福利 undergraduate students in any year, from any department and support living costs during a research project carried out over the summer vacation.

Speak to lecturers in favourite subjects (not necessarily in your own department) to see if they have a project you could work on and if they would be happy to supervise you.

Both you and the supervisor need to complete an online form.

URSS can help you stand out from the crowd, by giving you the opportunity to develop valuable skills to transfer to further study and future career, learn to reflect on and articulate your skills and experience more effectively and have your living costs supported whilst you work on real research.

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Dr. Nicolas Whybrow was a panel and keynote contributor to Stadt Kunst Linz, a public symposium on art in public space at the Architekturforum Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria (6 November 2014). See: The event was broadcast on regional television and a 15-minute radio interview given (in German) to Radio FRO 105.0, broadcast 14th November 2014. See: Stadt Kunst Linz

Angus Wu, first year Theatre and Performance Studies student, is to take part in the World Scholar's Cup competition to be held in Yale, USA, from the 19th Nov to 25th Nov