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PoTW – Experiences of World War One: strangers, differences and locality
A local history workshop organised by British Association for Local History (BALH) and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. We are connected to the...
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PoTW – Location London: A Conference about Portraying the City on Screen
Gorgo in Piccadilly Circus(!?) The image of London on screen is as old as film itself, with the city’s landmarks becoming increasingly familiar to audiences around the world. This conference explores...
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PoTW – Aesthetic Adjectives and Disagreements about Taste
This workshop will bring together researchers in aesthetics, philosophy of language and linguistics to consider a topic significant to all these domains: aesthetic adjectives, such as ‘beautiful’,...
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PoTW – Online learning: Developing trends
Online Learning: Developing trends. User expectations of what learning is and how it is offered and supported are changing dramatically and rapidly. Remaining relevant is the most significant challenge...
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PoTW: Translating Cultures – 28-29/03/14
The AHRC’s themes provide a funding focus for emerging areas of interest to arts and humanities researchers. In recognizing that interdisciplinary and collaborative research often requires particular...
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PoTW – Virginia Woolf and Visual Culture
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) One-day conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies for the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, incorporating the 16th AGM...
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#PoTW – A State of Our Own: Second Independence, Federalism and the...
Map showing dates of Decolonisation and Independence in Africa The lecture interrogates the intriguing features of statehood and politics in Africa. It argues that the decolonisation process in Africa...
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#PoTW – BBC2: Origins; Influence; Audiences: A 50th Anniversary Conference
Hullaballoo and Custard © BBC On the 20th April 1964 the BBC launched its second television channel: BBC2. Although the launch was a flop (due to a major power cut) the station soon became a fixture of...
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PoTW – Ruth First: Não Vamos Esquecer (We Will Not Forget)
Ruth First The South African revolutionary Ruth First made an extraordinary contribution to activism and radical writing and research on Africa. She worked as a journalist in South Africa from 1946...
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PoTW – Paradoxical Languages: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women’s Writing
Throughout the history of Western culture the relationship between women and food has often been perceived as a metaphor for something else. From the much debated biblical episode of Eve and the apple...
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