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What is on the minds of people fleeing the war in Ukraine? An interdisciplinary study by the University of Würzburg provides new perspectives.

In new research, MIT linguists explore how human language handles leaps from the here and now. What's the winning number for next week's Mega Millions? If Julie knew the number, Leah would know the number. But you know that neither person holds this precious secret - and not just because Mega Millions hasn't been drawn yet.

Project leaders at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab say their research could shed new light on the nature of language learning.

In the cluster of excellence Eurasian Transformations, led by Claudia Rapp (expert on Byzantine studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna), an international team of 31 academics i

Associate Professor Huw Griffiths, in English Literature, reviews On The Beach, a new Australian play by Tommy Murphy adapted from Nevil Shute's classic end-of-the-world novel.

Magical texts of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and neighbouring regions are the focus of a new research group at the University of Würzburg.

A new £2.4 million project at the University of Glasgow exploring manuscripts and knowledge in multiple religions in partnership with world experts in their field.

This year, the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries presents two  exhibitions  to mark the quatercentenary (1623-2023) of Shakespeare's First Folio, a copy of which is held in the Libraries'  Special Collections.

The CSAIL scientist pushes forward natural language processing research by creating state-of-the-art machine learning models and investigating how language can enhance other types of artificial intelligence.

University of Münster signs agreement with university in Chernivtsi There are fundamentally more important issues which people at Ukrainian universities are currently concerned about than research, studies and exchanges.

2023 marks the 400th birthday of The First Folio, the first printed edition of Shakespeare's collected plays.

Loud and deliberate screams in the labor and delivery room could actually be the result of theater-based vocal training that may be used to help women with pain management during childbirth.

Arts + Culture UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report shows diverse casts continue to draw larger, more diverse audiences Arts + Culture UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report shows diverse casts continue to draw l

New research by an expert at The University of Manchester has found that a major aspect of the traditional 'Manc' accent is still going strong in northern parts of the city, but is disappearing from people's speech elsewhere.

Dr Meg Brayshaw, John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature, reviews J.R. Burgmann's debut novel Children of Tomorrow and explores whether literary fiction known as "cli-fi" can make us feel for lives unlike our own.

While the world continues to witness the exchange of bombs and gunfire in Urkaine, the University of Toronto's  Ann Komaromi  is involved in the exchange of underground journalism and literature about the former Soviet Union.

Blog post by Rebecca Hurst, Creative Manchester Research Fellow. On 1 November 2022 I started a 9 month Knowledge Exchange fellowship within the University of Manchester's research platform, Creative Manchester , and working with Lime Arts , the city's NHS Trust arts and health organisation.