News
Victorian Studies Public Lecture
We are delighted to confirm that Professor John Bowen will be coming to the Victorian Studies Centre at Leicester on 20 November to give this year's Victorian Studies Public Lecture. His theme is 'Dickens, "Madness" and Marriage'. The lecture is based on his recent discovery, in previously unseen letters, that Dickens tried to have his wife placed in a mental asylum. The event will take place at around 5.15pm (details TBC). It is free and open to all. Please put this date in your diaries!
TEAP Sanctuary Scholarship
The English Language Teaching Unit at the University of Leicester is glad to announce we are offering a Sanctuary Scholarship to refugee and asylum seeker students who would like to obtain a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching English for Academic Purposes (PG Cert. TEAP). This is a Distance Learning programme that will provide you with the core competencies required for the design and delivery of effective teaching programmes in English for Academic Purposes (EAP), while furthering your knowledge across the range of key concepts and issues related to teaching EAP.
New Cooperation Agreement with Wallonie-Bruxelles International
The School of Arts is delighted to have established a Cooperation Agreement with Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) to host Simon Lambert as Academic and Cultural Liaison Officer for the UK. In this new role Simon Lambert will work towards creating and enhancing academic and cultural partnerships between the UK and French-speaking Belgium, both at the level of the School and the University and across the UK. The new agreement builds on the School’s prior successful links with Wallonie-Bruxelles International and will initially run for a period of two years.
Simon Lambert’s staff page can be found here.
Decolonising the Vikings: The Midlands Viking Symposium 2019
The Midlands Viking Symposium 2019 took place on Saturday the 27th of April at the University of Leicester, and was a great success. An annual event pitched at the interested public, the Symposium presents the latest Viking research by Midlands-based researchers, and rotates between the Universities of Leicester, Nottingham, and Birmingham.
The Shadow of Kishinev in Joyce’s Ulysses
Dr Anne Marie D’Arcy (English) will give the Annual Bloomsday lecture at the Irish Jewish Museum, on 12 June 2019. It will explore previously overlooked references to the Kishinev massacre in Ulysses, on 12 June 2019. Her lecture will examine Joyce’s treatment of that most pernicious of medieval myths, the accusation of ritual murder, which sparked the pogrom in Dubossary, as well as Ireland's response to the massacre – most notably the work of Michael Davitt. Anne Marie will also be giving the inaugural Bloomsweek lecture for the Irish National Museum of Childhood, on the depiction of Joyce's upbringing in his work (15 June), a keynote lecture on her forthcoming monograph, James Joyce and the Irish Middle Ages, at the Trieste Joyce School (23-29 June).
Further information is available here.
Exploring Saint-Denis and Notre-Dame
Dr Anne Marie D’Arcy (English) has written a blog exploring the foundation and construction of Notre-Dame cathedral for the Irish Humanities Alliance. You can find out more about the history of the cathedral and the related construction of Saint-Denis here.
50th Anniversary of Joe Orton's 'What the Butler Saw'
To mark the 50th anniversary of Joe Orton's play What the Butler Saw, Dr Emma Parker hosted an event at The British Library featuring actor Timothy West (Rance in the 1987 BBC version of the play) and Hayward Morse (who played Nick in the original 1969 production) plus Tony Award-winning director John Tillinger and Nikolai Foster, Artistic Director at Curve, Leicester.
The evening produced startling revelations and some rude stories about the original production of the play, in a typically Ortonesque manner.
Masters Excellence Scholarship in CSSAH
Applications for College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Masters Excellence Scholarships are now open. - Deadline 31 May
Looking back: A year in review for the School of Arts
Find out more about our successes and innovations in the School of Arts' first Annual Newsletter publication.
Winners of the 'Year Abroad' photo competition 2018
Results of this year's competition, taken from a collection of very impressive entries.
