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The UCLA Film & Television Archive , part of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television , presents a special screening of the critically acclaimed documentary " Gerrymandering " (2010), along with the first question-and-answer panel on the film.

First-known visit by descendants of the Irish philospher who gave the campus and city their name BERKELEY — The esteemed Irish philosopher George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne, never had a chance to see the campus and city that bear his name.

Francine D. Blau, ILR '66, credited with changing the way scholars and policymakers think about the role of gender in pay and other economic issues, is the 2010 winner of the prestigious IZA P

Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an online audio archive.

In his new book Gabriel García Márquez , Professor Stephen Hart (UCL Film Studies) provides a new insight into the novelist's life, work and political influences. This book provides a new perspective on García Márquez's use of 'creative false memory? and magical realism.

Arts 23 Sep 10 The world's largest collection of miscellanies is being collected and put online by researchers from the Faculty of English Language and Literature with the support of the Bodleian Libraries curators.

Celebrating Mexico: The Grito de Dolores and the Mexican Revolution opens today at the Green Library.

A theatre historian's new novel has shone a light on the way disabled people, forced to make a living as freakshow performers, were treated in the Victorian era.

AUSTIN, Texas — The archive of David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), author of "Infinite Jest" (1996), "The Broom of the System" (1987), "Girl with Curious Hair" (1989) and numerous collections of stories and essays, is now open at the Harry Ransom Center.

The effect on the teenage brain of books like Twilight and the Harry Potter series is to be examined at Cambridge University.

Solitary , an exciting new music theatre production commissioned and promoted by Peninsula Arts, is to be premiered on Monday 13 September, 7.30pm at the Roland Levinsky Building Theatre, University of Plymouth.

PA 245/10 The new Nottingham University Samworth Academy building will be the stage backdrop for a unique theatrical experience this weekend, the day after its official opening by Olympic champion, Dame Kelly Holmes.

Dr Philip Nitschke, author of the controversial book The Peaceful Pill, will be among guest speakers at a seminar on censorship at the University of Melbourne this evening at 5.15pm.

Arts 20 Aug 10 The Bodleian Libraries usually asks readers not to write in library books, but this week visitors are being encouraged to grab a pen and write inside a large wooden book.

Scholars gather to study unique manuscript from one of the greatest botanist/pharmacologist of the Islamic period McGill University's Osler Library of the History of Medicine houses the "Herbal of al-Ghafiqi" - one of the most remarkable medieval Arabic manuscripts on simple drugs.

Conquest is a man of contradictions: He has been called "a comic poet of genius" and "a love poet of considerable force" - but he made his mark as one of the first to expose the horrors of Stalinist communism.

Currently, many computer-based systems for teaching and translating languages are out of date or not user-friendly.

A project to document the unique language and culture of a remote Inuit community which is threatened by the effects of climate change is being launched by a University of Cambridge researcher.

By Gigi Marino Research/Penn State According to the book "Game Change," when political advisers sat down with Sarah Palin "to give her a potted history of foreign policy," they began with the Spanish Civil War, which, in fact, was not this country's first foreign war.

PA 210/10 What's the origin of the word 'radio'? And why have foreign words like 'guerrilla' and 'cuisine' become so firmly entrenched in the English language? A new video website project led by the

Cambridge University Library has taken delivery of the personal archive of musician, broadcaster and writer Deryck Cooke (1919-1976).

University of Nottingham News Press releases 2010 July Psyche on the page: conference to examine relationship between madness and literature PA 192/10 The use of fiction for educating clinicians, the

By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 27 July 2010 BERKELEY — It's a busy summer at the University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library for Mark Twain scholars, who are preparing for the

PA 192/10 The use of fiction for educating clinicians, the way in which literary portrayals of madness can inform the public, and the narrating of madness through poetry will be among the topics discussed as part of an international conference being hosted by The University of Nottingham.

Helen Josephine, head librarian for the Terman Library, said the Engineering School has been planning the state-of-the-art library for three years.