Latest Arts & Humanities News http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/art_and_human_viewer/rss admin 2006-09-05T09:26:57Z Kamila Shamsie to give the Orwell Lecture 2018 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1118/091118-kamila-shamsie-orwell-lecture The Orwell Lecture 2018, held annually at UCL, will be delivered by author Kamila Shamsie, on the question of ‘citizenship, migration and the transformation of rights into privileges’.  Natasha Downes 2018-11-09T14:51:50Z House of Doors opens up for Houses of Parliament http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1018/311018-house-of-doors-parliament A contemporary sculpture, created by UCL Artist-in-Residence, Kristina Clackson-Bonnington, has been chosen by the Palace of Westminster to mark the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918.  Colin Brook 2018-11-02T12:28:18Z Orwell’s Down and Out: Live heads to Paris http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0918/270918-Orwell-Down-Out-Paris The first ever live reading of Orwell’s iconic text in both London and Paris completes its journey this week.  Natasha Downes 2018-09-27T10:12:34Z Listen to Her! Egypt's women fight for their rights http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0918/240918-listen-to-her Egyptian women have been at the forefront of Egypt’s political and economic struggles with nearly 3 million protesting against sexual harassment in 2013, yet their fight against social stigmas at home and abroad remains largely unnoticed within Western circles.  Natasha Downes 2018-09-25T09:10:40Z George Orwell’s personal archive added to UNESCO register http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0918/190918-orwell-unesco The Orwell Papers, housed at UCL Special Collections, have been formally inscribed to the prestigious UNESCO Memory of the World International Register.  Nazia Begum 2018-09-20T13:34:38Z Dead Good: Rare opportunity to visit UCL Pathology Museum http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0918/180918-dead-good-pathology-museum There is a rare opportunity to see inside one of London’s most morbid museums as UCL Pathology Museum at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, opens its doors to the public for one weekend only this September. Natasha Downes 2018-09-18T08:37:50Z UCL academics win awards at Health Humanities Medal http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0918/130918-health-humanities-award Professor Helen Chatterjee MBE and Dr Daisy Fancourt have both won awards at the Health Humanities Medal, which celebrates good health and wellbeing through arts and humanities research. Nazia Begum 2018-09-14T13:44:19Z Fellowship of the rings: Bentham’s legacy http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0918/100918-bentham-rings The world-renowned English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), and the spiritual forebear of UCL, famously left his remains to science, but his head and strands of his hair are also the key feature of twenty-six memorial rings that he had made before his death.  Natasha Downes 2018-09-10T08:55:23Z UCL-led doctoral training partnership awarded AHRC funding http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0818/150818-LAHP-doctorate-studentships The Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded funding for doctoral training studentships to the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), led by UCL.  Natasha Downes 2018-08-15T11:27:25Z Two UCL academics shortlisted for Health Humanities Medal http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0818/100818-Health-Humanities-Medal Professor Helen Chatterjee and Dr Daisy Fancourt have been shortlisted for a prestigious Health Humanities Medal which celebrates good health and wellbeing through arts and humanities research. Nazia Begum 2018-08-10T15:50:29Z Deep groundwater in coastal deltas resilient to contamination http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0718/190718-bengalbasin Groundwater pumped from the depths of the coastal Bengal Basin supporting more than 80 million people is largely secure from contamination, according to new research by UCL and the British Geological Survey. Henry Killworth 2018-07-19T15:11:29Z UCL Festival of Culture - one week to go http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0518/290518-festival-of-culture This year’s UCL Festival of Culture explores some important and contemporary issues such as the migration crisis, identity, homelessness and brings all of these issues to life through talks, theatre, exhibitions, live readings and workshops. Jacinta M Mulders 2018-05-29T09:57:36Z Artist creates paint pigments from coal mine sludge http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0418/250418-coal-mine-paint  An innovative UCL artist has hit a rich seam of life in old coal mine water and created five new commercial fine art paint colours, which will be launched at a ground-breaking exhibition this month (April). Natasha Downes 2018-04-25T14:11:49Z UCL continues to perform strongly in QS subject rankings http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0218/280218-QS-subject-rankings UCL has 12 subject areas ranked in the global top 10 in the annual QS World University Rankings by Subject, improving upon last year’s position with Life Sciences and Arts & Humanities joining the top 10. Rebecca L Caygill 2018-02-28T17:33:07Z UCL’s Jeremy Bentham joins exhibition in New York http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0218/140218-jeremy-bentham UCL has mounted a meticulously-planned operation to enable its spiritual forebear Jeremy Bentham to achieve in death what he always wanted to do in life: visit America. Jacinta M Mulders 2018-02-14T07:44:53Z UCL Art Museum celebrates forgotten women http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0218/080218-women A new exhibition at UCL Art Museum entitled Prize & Prejudice reveals how young female artists won all the prizes at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art in 1918, the year women won the vote, only for many of them to disappear from sight.  Jacinta M Mulders 2018-02-08T12:56:55Z Turner Prize winner and London fine art duo to create world class artworks at UCL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0218/020218-fine-art Turner Prize winning sculptor Rachel Whiteread is returning to the university where she learned her craft to create an artwork that will be a centrepiece of UCL’s new multi-million pound student centre. Jacinta M Mulders 2018-02-07T11:22:04Z UCL turns clock back to Jane Fonda’s Barbarella as part of research celebration of 1960s films http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0118/ucl-turns-clock-back-to-jane-fonda-barbarella The clock was turned back to 1968  at a London cinema this week as part of the culmination of a three-year project by UCL academics to record, analyse, archive  and publicise the memories of almost a thousand people across the UK about what it was like to go to the cinema in the 1960s. 2018-01-25T07:43:38Z Lisa Milroy’s solo exhibition at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0118/160118-lisa-milroy Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is hosting a major solo exhibition of the UCL Slade School of Fine Art’s Head of Graduate Painting, Lisa Milroy. Jacinta M Mulders 2018-01-16T11:57:47Z Leverhulme Trust recognises UCL research excellence  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0118/020118-Leverhulme-Trust-Awards-2018 The Leverhulme Trust has recognised the excellence of UCL’s research, funding a doctoral training programme as well as making fifteen awards to academics to further their work in a wide range of fields including the study of the genes in yeast, chemistry and English literature. Margaret-Anne Orgill 2018-01-03T10:09:00Z A tribute to Randolph Quirk, a “towering UCL intellect” http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1217/211217-Lord-Randolph-Quirk The great British linguist, life peer and UCL scholar Baron Randolph Quirk has died at the age of 97. He passed away on Wednesday night. Rebecca L Caygill 2017-12-21T12:57:00Z Storytellers promoted co-operation among hunter-gatherers before advent of religion http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1217/storytellers-promoted-co-operation-in-hunter-gatherers-before-religion Storytelling promoted co-operation in hunter-gatherers prior to the advent of organised religion, a new UCL study reveals. 2017-12-05T15:13:08Z Treasury eyes UCL graduate’s road charging scheme as he returns for celebration http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1117/treasury-eyes-ucl-graduate-road-charging-scheme-as-he-returns-for-celebration Gergely Raccuja, the UCL graduate who won the £250,000 Wolfson Economics Prize with his road-charging scheme, returned to UCL for a celebratory lecture and dinner. 2017-11-15T10:07:32Z UCL joins with top Chinese university to train world leaders of the future http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1117/101117-ucl-pku-training-world-leaders Ruth Howells 2017-11-10T17:00:08Z UCL hosts event on conserving contemporary art http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1117/081117-conserving-contemporary-art As part of UCL Art Museum’s exhibition The composition has been reversed , a group including curators, artists, a historian and a conservator met yesterday to discuss issues unique to the conservation of contemporary art. 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