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We’re delighted to announce that Professor Claudia Rapp will deliver the annual British Academy Public Lecture here at Leeds on Monday 10 March 2025. The lecture is free to attend and open to all, but booking is essential. Book your place here. The lecture will be held in the Esther Simpson Building, in Lecture Theatre 1.01. The lecture will begin at...
Language@Leeds, the University's interdisciplinary network for language research and scholarship, will host its first public research showcase on April 1, 2025. The showcase is titled ‘Language Research to Address Regional and Global Challenges’. It will bring together leading experts from the public and private sectors. The event is free to attend but booking is essential.
It is that time of year when we bid a fond farewell to some of our LAHRI Postdoctoral Visiting Fellows. These fellowships support recent PhD graduates from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures in their early postdoctoral careers. Our Postdoctoral Visiting Fellows are a vibrant part of our community. We’re proud of their achievements...
Five LAHRI postdoctoral visiting research fellows have been showcasing their latest works across the academy and beyond. Five of LAHRI’s postdoctoral visiting research fellows Hazel Brooks, Milena Schwab-Graham, Tamanda Walker, Victoria Vargas Downing and Wei Zhou have been showcasing their work through conferences, public engagement, lifelong learning, field trips, and publications. Milena Schwab-Graham and Wei...
In this post we focus on a colleague, letting you get to know more about them and their role. In the spotlight in this edition is Faculty Impact Development Manager, Alix Brodie-Wray. Hi Alix, can you explain what your job entails? My job entails working with academic and professional support staff to develop...
The University of Leeds' Place Research Group, part of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, invites you to our FREE upcoming Placemaking and Arts and Culture seminar. The event takes place on: Wednesday 26 June 2024 10 am - 1 pm. Stage@Leeds University of Leeds This event is for artists/cultural workers, policymakers and researchers...
The School of English are delighted to welcome Lemn Sissay, Bafta-nominated international prize-winning writer, to the launch of their exhibition 'Walking to Zero'.
For my researcher development trip, I visited Abolitionist Futures co-founder and organiser Sarah Lamble, Prof of criminology and queer theory at Birkbeck College. The busy streets of London echoed with anticipation at each footstep as I walked around the corner to reach Professor Lamble's office. Everywhere I looked was a mosaic of cultural dress, hums...
For my researcher development trip, I visited Abolitionist Futures co-founder and organiser Sarah Lamble, Prof of criminology and queer theory at Birkbeck College. The busy streets of London echoed with anticipation at each footstep as I walked around the corner to reach Professor Lamble's office. Everywhere I looked was a mosaic of cultural dress, hums...
About the project arts & abolitionist futures has been a community project engaging with principles from transformative justice to highlight the work of partners Abolitionist Futures – a grassroots collective engaged in political education to build capacity, working together to build a future without prisons, police and punishment. At present, the organisation is working on digitising...