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Interim President Hunter Rawlings with Martha Coultrap '71 and her husband, Harvey Bagg, during his library study dedication in Olin Library, March 3.

Researchers from the University of Warwick have teamed up with international artists to put on a free 6 day public programme at the Tate Modern in London spanning the visual arts, film, photography, design, architecture, spoken and written word running from 14-19 March 2017.

'Art in Action,' the weeklong campus visit of artist and activist Melanie Cervantes, will feature lunch and informal conversation with the artist March 14 at 12:30 p.m. on the fourth fl

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The National Library of Wales and Cardiff University are pleased to announce the signing of a collaboration agreement which outlines ways in which the two institutions will work together in the future.

Numerous Events Scheduled at Freie Universität Berlin during the 2017 Ovid Year ' 040/2017 from Mar 02, 2017 Numerous events have been scheduled to take place at Freie Universität Berlin to mark the 2000th anniversary of the death of the Roman poet Ovid.

Sam Halliday , Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature at QMUL's School of English and Drama writes about a new exhibition at the Wellcome Library: Electricity, The spark of life.

Researchers at Lancaster University are developing a computer system to allow investigation of the 10 million word corpus The development of the first ever large-scale collection of Welsh words that represents the full range of language used by people in everyday life is underway.

Writer, academic and diplomat Professor David Dabydeen from Warwick's Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies recalls five very different stories of mass migration from around the world on BBC Radio 4.

New research suggests that while class voting dominated British party politics for much of the post-war period, many working class voters no longer identify the Labour party as 'their' party.

Brand-new BBC Radio 4 drama about antibiotic resistance informed by expertise from University of Warwick Professor Chris Dowson played integral part of scientific advisor for programme Resistance - w

Inner Voices at Illinois will present "Manifesto," a performance of intersectional feminist voices of inspiration and intervention, at two locations in March.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The production of " Viva Verdi! " by the Lyric Theatre , opening Thursday at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts , is kind of a greatest hits show of the Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi.

German studies professor Patrizia McBride was drawn to montage because of its storytelling power. 'It assembles objects and narratives by culling fragments from different areas and then reassembling them,' she said in a 'Chats in the Stacks' talk Feb.

New research suggests that while class voting dominated British party politics for much of the post-war period, many working class voters no longer identify the Labour party as 'their' party.

ANN ARBOR'Have you ever forwarded photos taken by a friend to another friend, watched a clip from a television show on Facebook or quoted from a published work in a research paper?

FACULTY Q&A For the past seven years, University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera has been documenting the work of Chicana and Latina artists, writers and organizers who were active in civil ri

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts partners with Brighton Festival in May The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts ( ACCA ) is partnering with Brighton Festival as a co-producer on multiple events in the 2017 festival, which runs from 6-28 May.

Work to capture everyday words and phrases used by Welsh speakers is about to get underway with the launch of a specially designed app.

For more than a century, a photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken a month after the Battle of Gettysburg, was unknown to Lincoln scholars.

AUSTIN, Texas - The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the papers of actors, and husband and wife, Eli Wallach (1915'2014) and Anne Jackson (1925'2016).

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have created an interactive library of talking seeds, which gives users a potted history of the plants grown in the east end of London, and tells the stories of the people who grow them.

Marissa Nicosia, assistant professor of English at Penn State Abington and co-founder of the Cooking in the Archives blog.

On June 18, 1917, Benjamin Edward Shove submitted an application to be an orderly with the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit 39, which would accompany American forces to the battlefront in France.

Although voice-hearing is often associated with severe mental illness, it can be an important aspect of people's religious or spiritual life.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Public librarians must serve everyone in their communities - people of all races, those with disabilities, people who are not native English speakers, the elderly and the homeless.

Hundreds of seldom-seen photographs documenting the journey of African-Americans from the slavery era to the 20th century are now digitized and freely accessible to students and scholars around the world.

Harriet Phillips , Research Associate at QMUL's School of English and Drama , writes for The Conversation about the fascinating legacy of 17th century polymath Thomas Browne.

An innovative project to boost the language and communication development of nursery school children has been awarded £1 million in funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery.

A crowd-sourced multi-lingual translation of the first Harry Potter book will take place at a public engagement event called LinguaMania this evening.

The library of the University of Salzburg supported the Raphael Hospiz Salzburg through the sale of used books in flea markets.

The Polonaise, with which students opened the Uni-Ball for the first time, came off flawlessly and received much applause.

Andrew Hines , PhD candidate at QMUL's School of Languages, Linguistics and Film writes for The Conversation about President Trump's inauguration speech.

James Wells Gair, Ph.D. '63, professor emeritus of linguistics who throughout a long and distinguished career produced groundbreaking work on South Asian languages and their relation to other languages, died Dec.

A new podcast series in which Oxford University academics from very different fields discuss objects from the Ashmolean Museum has been launched.

In an examination of contemporary American literature, Ramón Saldívar, professor of English, shows how ethnic writers are creating a new racial aesthetic.

A commitment to unearthing and publishing great Australian writers is a driving force for new University of Queensland Press Chief Executive Officer, Jill Eddington.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Penn State University Libraries has been selected for one of just 17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants nationwide to make available online several of its special collections that document the historical connections among three important American labor organizations. The grant, administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and supported by the Mellon Foundation's Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program, totals $239,185 to fund the two-year digitization project.