Events

The Mummy’s Curse: The Truth Behind an Edwardian Rumour

Katherine L Aitchison — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:50:27 +0000

Anyone who knows anything about the horror genre will have heard stories of curses placed on tombs in Ancient Egypt to deter grave robbers and those who would plunder the graves of priests and pharaohs. But where do these stories come from and is there any truth behind them? On 21 May Professor Roger Luckhurst [...]

Professor Tariq Ramadan at the UCLU Arabian Society

guest blogger — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:03:31 +0000

Over the past 18 months the world has witnessed historic change in the Middle East. Unprecedented and unpredictable, the dynamics of transition in the Arab world have defied analysis and fuelled debate, and raised a plethora of essential questions for us to consider. Since October, the UCLU Arabian Society has hosted a series of lectures [...]

Sustainability: Concepts and Materiality

guest blogger — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:42:30 +0000

What does it mean to be sustainable? What enables or hinders sustainable behaviour? A one-day interdisciplinary workshop on sustainability, held on 18 May and organised through collaboration between UCL Anthropology and the Environment Institute, successfully bought different disciplines together to discuss what sustainability means. Keynote speaker Blanche Cameron, who among other roles is the founding [...]

The UCL Awards for Enterprise – inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs with stories of the last

guest blogger — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:00:11 +0000

A startling and inspiring story marked UCL’s fifth Annual Awards for Enterprise – that of Professor Roger Ekins, who invented technology that enables a single drop of a newborn baby’s blood to be used to test for thousands of different substances and ensure that they begin life in the best possible health. Yet the technology [...]

Have we won the fight against homophobia?

guest blogger — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:23:35 +0000

International day against homophobia and transphobia (IDAHO) is held annually on the 17 May. It commemorates the World Health Organisation’s decision to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders. To mark the day, Out@UCL asked the university’s Chair of Council and LGBT Equality Champion, Sir Stephen Wall, to give an informal talk about his [...]

Grant Museum wins Museums and Heritage Award for Excellence

guest blogger — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:35:46 +0000

Last night a contingent from UCL including colleagues from Museums and Public Engagement, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Heritage Without Borders headed down to the illustrious premises of 8 Northumberland for the 10th Anniversary Museums and Heritage Awards. In total three UCL projects had been shortlisted; the move of the Grant Museum for Project [...]

How do you use your own body to understand past landscapes?

guest blogger — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:22:35 +0000

Those attending Professor Sue Hamilton’s (UCL Institute of Archaeology) inaugural lecture on Tuesday 8 May at UCL were treated to a tour de force of more than two decades of archaeological fieldwork engaging with the artefacts, sites and landscapes from Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, Puglia in southern Italy to the monumental landscapes of Rapa Nui [...]

Why Classical Studies is important

guest blogger — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:03:40 +0000

Annette Mitchell writes about Professor Miriam Leonard’s inaugural lecture. Is Classics important today? After studying ancient history for more than 10 years, many people ask me what can you do with it? And it is a question I often asked myself until I started reading Freud and got curious about all the references he made [...]

UCL alumni reception in Greece

guest blogger — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:32:49 +0000

Alexia Svolou (Biochemistry 1992), Health Editor for a Greek national newspaper, reports on an alumni reception held at the British Embassy in Athens. It is an undeniable fact that Greece, my home country, has lived through better days, but despite our society’s gloomy mood – due to the continuing recession – the UCL alumni reception [...]

Honouring the Righteous

Robert Eagle — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:30:17 +0000

I have always thought that the Italian military from the 1920s until 1943 were simply fascists and puppets of the Nazis. At UCL on 24 April, Holocaust survivor Imre Rochlitz and his son Joseph presented the easily forgotten account of many Italian soldiers’ determination to thwart the transfer of up to 30,000 Jews into German [...]