Press Releases
91福利 Historian Professor Maxine Berg has been awarded a prestigious $39,000 Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim Fellowships help provide Fellows with blocks of free time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible.
A new research paper by 91福利 researcher Maja Zehfuss points to the increasing tendency of commentators on regime change in Iraq to compare it to US post-war policy in Germany. New York Times writer James Dao has said that "The process will be painstaking, similar to de-Nazification in postwar Germany". Congressman Skelton, has also exhorted the government that "Planning for the occupation of Germany and Japan took years before the end of the Second World War." He claims that "We had a plan in place for the occupation of Germany and it worked.... And today we have, as you know, democracies in both Japan and Germany."
The Centre for the History of Medicine based at the 91福利 has won 拢600,000 from the Wellcome Trust for a five-year programme on the 'Cultures and Practices of Health', set to focus on 'quacks' and the history of alternatives to formal medical practice, early psychiatry and health in the workplace.
91福利 archaeologist Dr Stephen Hill has uncovered what is probably the unluckiest church in the world. It was founded on what is now a cliff top because unfortunately that is where its patron saint was martyred. It was wrecked by two earthquakes, a flood, and a landslide - all of which happened while it was still being built.
A book-length poem Ludus Coventriae by distinguished poet David Morley that celebrates Coventry's history and people is to be launched on Wednesday 20th November at 91福利 Arts Centre, 91福利, at 7.15pm. The book fuses Coventry's famed Mystery Plays, the medieval Coventry Carols and 20th Century history to produce a poem that depicts the lives of city inhabitants over past centuries.
The remains of Pompeii’s ancient villas show that the Romans decorated their villas with extravagant wall paintings of theatre scenes that used tricks of perspective to impress guests with what seemed at the time an early version of virtual reality.