Students as Scholars at the University of Leeds Faculty of Arts

12/07/2017

Check out our two new blog posts, by Rhian Hughes and Annie Mitchell!

https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/sas/2017/07/12/rhian-hughes-on-prof-khairs-talk-the-new-xenophobia/

https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/sas/2017/07/12/annie-mitchell-on-dr-staffords-presentation-the-power-of-the-word/

11/07/2017

Check out our new blog posts from our students:

Tobias Bernander-Silseth, Mirella Cooper, and Melissa Harvey.

https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/sas/2017/07/11/tobias-bernander-silseth-on-prof-erlls-presentation-homer-goethe-walcott-gauging-the-depths-of-transcultural-memory/

https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/sas/2017/07/11/mirella-cooper-on-prof-rutlands-presentation-visualizing-the-nation-the-role-of-images-in-national-narratives/

https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/sas/2017/07/11/melissa-harvey-on-dr-boswells-talk-the-holocaust-and-public-space-from-the-physical-to-the-digital/

22/05/2017

Two new blog posts today!

Many thanks to Claire Turner and Amy Solomons for their reflective comments on the history of medicine and of the reformation.

https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/sas/2017/05/22/clair-turner-on-dr-bamjis-presentation-sudden-death-in-early-modern-venice/

https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/sas/2017/05/22/amy-solomons-on-prof-ropers-presentation-living-i-was-your-plague-dead-i-will-be-your-death-o-pope-luther-and-antipapalism/

07/04/2017

New blog post!
Many thanks to Ian Simpson for his reflective take on Old Norse literature and runes.

https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/sas/2017/04/07/ian-simpsons-on-prof-judith-jeschs-presentation-the-medialities-of-early-scandinavian-poetry/

Prof. Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham) is an expert on Old Norse language and literature as well as its society and was, as part of the Institute of Medieval Studies’ Open Lecture Series, invited to give a talk on her […]

18/03/2017

Q Step Summer Research Placements 2017 We are delighted to announce that current second year students studying in the Faculties of Arts, Environment, ESSL and LUBS can now apply for the Summer Research Placement Scheme. This year there are 30 placements […]

17/03/2017

New suggestions from artynet:

Politics-Power-Pictures - Reading Nicolas Bourriaud's The
Exform - Thursday 23rd March (Rebecca Starr [ed10r2cs])

Dr Bob McKay on "Brigid Brophy's Pro-animal Forms" (LASN
seminar, 22 March) (Caitlin Stobie)

Climate Exchange seminar 29 March 'The Global Sustainable
Development Goals Challenge' (Josine Opmeer)

Music Research Seminar: Alistair Zaldua, 'Music, Translation,
Improvisation' (Stephen Muir)

The 50th Anniversary of the Abortion Act 1967: The Social
History of Contemporary Debates - 27th April 2017 (Michael Thomson)

Shane Weller at CompLab@Leeds, 21 March 5pm LHRI
(Alessio Mattana [RPG])

Research Seminar with Rehana Zaman and Gill Park
(Laura Jarvis-King [FIN])

Visiting Artist's Talk - Gabriella Boyd - Monday 20 March 2pm
(Fiona Blair)

Datafication and data mining seminar this Tuesday (Heather Ford)

07/03/2017

New suggestions from Artynet!

1. Final reminder: Subaltern Voices in Modern French Literature
- Thursday 9 March 5.10pm (James House)
2. Centre for Aesthetics Seminar: Wed 8th March, Anne Eaton
(Illinois-Chicago) on 'Pictorial Rhetoric and Persuasion'
(Aaron Meskin)
3. Centre for Philosophy of Religion seminar (Mark Wynn)
4. Talk by Prof Minohara: A New Order for East Asia, 14th March,
12 noon (Caroline Rose [EAS])
5. IMS Open Lecture Reminder, 7 March, 17.30, 'The Archaeology
of Anarchy? Landscapes of War and Status in 12th-Century England?
(Axel Muller)
6. Visiting African Novelist Ayobami Adebayo 13th March.
(Samuel Durrant)
7. 2nd CARISCC PGR Conference, 'Reading Caribbean In/Securities
for Creativity' (Ruth Daly [RPG])
8. Interdisciplinary Renaissance and Early Modern Seminar
reminder - Dr Emilie Murphy, ?"that we might have the means to
learn French": Language acquisition and competence in early
modern English convents in exile? (Sara Barker)
9. REMINDER: PCI Research Seminar: Tools and Material(ities) -
7th March 5pm - 7pm (Linda Watson)
10. 'Waste' Event at Network of Hispanic and Lusophone Cultural
Studies - 11th May 2017 (Josine Opmeer)
11. (no subject) (Judith Eberharter)
12. Women in the Maidan Protests and the Conflict in Donbas
(Ilya Yablokov)
13. French theatre: Le D?ner de Cons, Weds 8 and Thurs 9 March, 7
pm, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre (Richard Hibbitt)

06/03/2017

Check out our new blog post (finally).
An intriguing report on Venezuelan cinema and politics, women studies, and the bond between society and visual arts.

https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/sas/2017/03/06/leah-dolan-on-the-screening-of-pelo-malo-womens-paths-research-group/

My name is Leah Dolan and I’m a second year English Literature undergraduate at the University of Leeds. I have a keen interest in independent cinema, visual arts, and intersectional feminism, and I chose to attend a screening of Venezuelan […]

28/02/2017

On behalf of
Dr Gregorio Alonso
Lecturer in Spanish History
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies (University of Leeds)
Director of the Centre for the History of Ibero-America http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/chia

_________________________

Dear all,

Please be kindly informed that tomorrow, Wednesday 1 March, at 17.00, March Gonzalo Capellán (University of La Rioja/Spanish Embassy in London) will be delivering the research talk: "A war of words. The new language of revolution from Mediterranean to Atlantic" at the University of Leeds.

In it he will unravel the changing meanings of the notion of revolution in the Modern Hispanic Worlds. Building on some convenient methodological notes on the conceptual history, the different modulation of the term across the Atlantic since 1808 will be addressed.

The event will be held at the Seminar Room 1.15 of the Business School in the Maurice Keyworth building and will be followed by a drink reception.

This research talk is part of the Centre for the History of Ibero-America's seminar series.

All welcome!!

16/02/2017

More events for your list!
1. Concert of electronic music in Leeds (James Mooney)
2. Reminder: ?Transcultural Adoption and Postcolonial Writing?
with Professor John McLeod (Ruth Daly [RPG])
3. REMINDER - Victorian Research Seminar TODAY (Richard Salmon)
4. Short Courses at the CDRC, Leeds - KNIME date- corrections
(Eleri Pound)
5. Seminar: Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance (ROAR)
(Laura Jarvis-King [FIN])
6. TOMORROW - The Comparative Job - 16 February, 5pm,
Douglas-Jefferson Room (School of English, 10 Cavendish Road)
(Laura Lucia Rossi [RPG])

07/02/2017

Today's topics from Artynet:

1. Camilla Speller "North American Turkey Domestication: What
can we learn from ancient biomolecules" Wednesday 8th February
17:15 (Sunny Harrison [RPG])
2. Sahil Warsi 'Afghan Belonging in Delhi through a Tower, a
Tomb, and a Bridge', South Asian Studies Seminar Weds 8 Feb 16:15
(Jesus Chairez-Garza)
3. Eighteenth-century seminar tomorrow (Jeremy Davies)
4. Can the Subaltern Speak online? Two special events as part of
the Sadler Seminar Series (Ines Soria-Turner)
5. Visiting Artist's Talk - Lucy Skaer - today at 2pm (Fiona Blair)
6. University of Leeds Poetry Centre: UPCOMING EVENTS (John Whale)
7. Centre for Aesthetics Seminar: Wed 8th February, Scrutton on
'Beauty Experiences in Depression Recovery Accounts' (Aaron Meskin)
8. Reminder - Leeds 'Omics Seminar Series: Introduction to
Microbiomics - today @ 3pm in Worsley SR 8.43X... (Stephen Moss)
9. Be Curious 2017: Parkinson Building, Saturday, 25th March
2017 from 10 ? 4pm (Alexa Ruppertsberg)
10. Upcoming: Leeds Migration Research Network / Sadler Seminar
Series (Adrian Favell)
11. Research Funding Symposium - 14th & 15th February Leeds -
(Margaret Credland)
12. Finding Africa Seminar: "Stiwanism and Gendered Identities in
Jinja (Uganda)" - Jane Plastow (Dima Barakat Chami [RPG])
13. Framing Russian translations of English children?s classics
in an ideological context (Ilya Yablokov)
14. Screening of Pelo Malo, Discussion and Director Q&A
(Lourdes Parra Lazcano [RPG])

02/02/2017

Plenty of events this week!

- TOMORROW - Quilting Points: Hannah Arendt's On Revolution
(Rachel Johnson)
- Public Lectures at the School of Law (Antony Butcher)
- Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy (c.
1350-c. 1650) - Project Presentation (Federica Pich)
- TODAY: Japan Forum: Downer on Women in the Sh**un' Palace in 19th-century Japan (Irena Hayter)
- REMINDER School of History Annual Public Lecture - Lyndal
Roper 8th February (Suzie May-Graham)

And don't forget:

TOMORROW 2-4pm - Reading the Fantastic Guest Lecture: 'Polar Lights, Sorcerers, and Otherworldly Journeys: the North in Baltic-Finnic Folklore' by Prof Ülo Valk