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Research, public and student events from around the Faculty of Arts and in collaboration with our partners in the creative industries.

Date: Wednesday 25th April
Location:: B38a Trent Building
Description: Modern Languages and Cultures research seminar with Ana Kolaric (University of Belgrade)

Date: Wednesday 25th April
Location:: B7 The Hemsley
Description: TRS Seminar: Lavinia Cerioni 'Christological Observations on Logion 114 of the Gospel of Thomas'; Yulia Rozumna 'Were St Basil's Words a "Betrayal of Faith" concerning the Holy Spirit? His ways of arguing for the Divinity of the Spirit'

Date: Wednesday 25th April
Location:: Machicado Suite, Willoughby Hall
Description: This seminar explores an artist's interpretations of historicising trauma in colonial and post-colonial contexts

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Keep up with the latest news from around the Faculty of Arts schools, departments and centres, and from our students.

Description: Dr Gillian Roberts, Associate Professor (American and Canadian Studies), has received a British Academy small grant for her project 'Postcolonial Film Adaptation: Race, Nation, and Cultural Power in the Global Cultural Marketplace.'Dr Ting Chang from the Department of History of Art has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 12 months for to research "Playing Empire in the 19th Century: Games, Spectacles and Colonial Subjects"Jimmy Brookes, PhD student, was recently awarded a year-long pre-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, under the direct supervision of Eleanor J. Harvey (senior curator) and James Barber (historian at the National Portrait Gallery), commencing 30 September 2018. Jimmy would would like to ensure that staff are aware of the placement for their own PG students (https://www.smithsonianofi.com/fellowship-opportunities/smithsonian-institution-fellowship-program/), and to make it known he would be very happy to share advice, examples from his application form, etc. to ensure that others can make use of this opportunity in the future.

Description: Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American PhD student,Peter Haysom's article '"Estes povos pastoris": entre a aldeia de Vilarinho da Furna e a literatura de Miguel Torga' will be published later this Spring in the Portuguese journal Cadernos de Literatura Comparativa, no.38.

Description: Success continues with further nominations in the Staff Oscars for the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies.

Description: Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, Paul Smith, comments on revival of French socialists.