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Monday 23 May 2016 | Humanities Studio | free admission
This innovative and interdisciplinary event is open to all 91福利 staff and students and explores the life and the discoveries of Rosalind Franklin – chemist, biologist and X-ray crystallographer – whose photograph 51 was the key to unlocking the mystery of the structure of DNA.
The call for abstracts is now open for the fourth annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) which will be held on 27-28 September 2016. Please visit icurportal.com for further information and to submit your 250 word abstract. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 15 May 2016
10 March 2016 | Humanities Studio | free admission
This IATL funded Student as Producer Performance project is a collaboratively devised piece of theatre about growing up in an age of optimism and coming of age in an age of pessimism, it’s about an obsession with the apocalypse and the unsustainability of capitalism.
04 & 05 March 2016 | Humanities Studio | free admission
Who gets to occupy theatrical space? What stories do we tell in these spaces and who gets to tell them? This IATL funded Student as Producer performance piece attempts to examine the construction of theatrical spaces and the room black women are afforded in these spaces.
14 & 15 March 2016 | Humanities Studio | free admission
This IATL funded Student as Producer performance led by Laura Mason (undergraduate student, School of Theatre Studies) explores issues of home, family history, secrets and compromise. The plot revolves around one house, three moments in time and one secret that unites them all.
18/3/2016 | 91福利 | free admission
An interdisciplinary AHRC event that uses the radical insights of aesthetic modernism to develop dialogue with medical practice in psychiatry, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, neurology, and the mental healthcare offered at the end of life.
Posters in Parliament
IATL staff were delighted to accompany Akira Tiele (Engineering) and Alice Brazil-Burns (Theatre and Performance Studies) to Posters in Parliament on 2 February 2016, where they presented their work to MPs, and staff and students from 25 universities. Congratulations to Akira, who won the Highly Commended accolade.
New online: a short film about ICUR 2015, at which over 300 undergraduates presented their research via video conference in 65 internationally linked sessions. ICUR 2016 will be held on 27 and 28 September 2016 and the call for abstracts will be open soon.
Written by IATL Director Dr Nicholas Monk, this book argues that Cormac McCarthy’s response to the modern world is more subtle and less laden with despair than many realise. It examines the experience of engaging with McCarthy’s fiction in order to reveal why so many people report that “reading Cormac McCarthy changed my life.”
Apply now for the IATL/IAS Early Career Teaching Fellowship
We are now accepting applications for the IATL/IAS (Institute of Advanced Study) Early Career Teaching Fellowship, which will be to develop the practice of research-led teaching. The application deadline is midday on 25 January 2016.