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PA 268/09 "Roll up..roll up! The University of Nottingham is proud to present.." a web-based time machine which will take you back to the world of popular entertainment in Victorian Nottingham.

The UCLA Department of Design|Media Arts (DMA) is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this fall, including exhibitions, seminars and symposia.

Ghanaian master drummer Obo Addy, one of the forerunners of the "worldbeat" movement, will perform at the Dialogue in Music festival and symposium The UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology offers a series of events for the public's enjoyment throughout the year.

The UCLA Department of Art offers a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this fall, including exhibitions and public lectures.

The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures offers a variety of events for the public's enjoyment throughout the year.

New academic promotions announced at Imperial College London Staff take up new roles for new term %0A " By Danielle Reeves Thursday 1 October 2009 One hundred staff at Imperial College London have been recognised for their hard work with promotions announced today.

A unique evening of in-depth interviews, shedding light on the most powerful people in theatre over the past fifty years, will take place at the British Library next week (14 September 2009).

Whether it is an Oscar-winning turn from Kate Winslet in 'The Reader', Jack Nicholson chewing up the oak-panelled scenery in 'A Few Good Men', or a John Grisham page-turner by the swimming pool, the nation loves a good legal thriller.

Frontiers in Science Lectures Focus on Radiography and its Contributions to Advancing Science, Medicine Los Alamos, New Mexico, August 21, 2009-In a series of lectures starting Tuesday, August 25, Lo

For this year's participants in UCLA's annual summer Shakespeare program in England, the blog's the thing.

Crafted by linguistic students, it's been providing 'eargasms' since 1989 Sister from another mister.

Should we take creativity seriously at a time of global financial and environmental crises? Not if we want to find solutions, argues Professor Julian Evans (UCL Chemistry).

Exposure to positive and negative online reviews significantly affects the purchase intentions of UK and Chinese consumers, according to research at the University of Birmingham. George Christodoulides, from the University's Business School ran an experiment with a selection of UK and Chinese consumers to determine how electronic word of mouth (e-WOM) influences their buying behaviour.

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 25, 2009—Los Alamos National Laboratory today provided the following statement about the Draft Final Report of the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment (LAHDRA) Project. "This is an important document, and we take it seriously. We're in the process of carefully reviewing the draft final report and will submit a technical response during the 30-day comment period.

Scholar, author also to serve as director of UCLA's costume design center Deborah Nadoolman Landis, an Academy Award?nominated costume designer and scholar, has been named to the newly endowed David

The University of Birmingham library has received a donation of over three thousand books on Islamic Studies.

Cambridge, Mass. June 12, 2009 - Nicolau Sevcenko, widely regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on the cultural history of Brazil, has been appointed professor of Romance languages and literatures in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan.

Cambridge, Mass. June 12, 2009 - David Damrosch, a scholar of world literature, has been appointed professor of comparative literature in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.

Popular school playground games are to be converted into Wii-type computer games as part of a unique collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, London and East London, and the British Library and Nintendo.

A new wave of playwrights will see their work come to life on stage on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th June from 11am to 4.30pm when the plays they have written as part of the University of Birm

UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television has announced the winners of its Directors Spotlight competition, nine outstanding student filmmakers whose work will be screened at Westwood's Mann Bruin Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 11.

UCLA alumnus Dustin Lance Black, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "Milk," will be honored with UCLA's Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting award on Wednesday, June 10, at the Freud Playhouse on campus.

Cambridge, Mass. June 4, 2009 Harvard University today announced that it has received a $1.5 million gift from the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) to endow the F. O.

Four Princeton faculty members received President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies June 2.

BERKELEY — Three University of California, Berkeley, faculty members have been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the nation's oldest learned society comprised of nearly 1,000 eminent scholars from a broad range of disciplines.

African writers should provide alternatives to the media's negative narrative on the continent, according to literary experts who converged at the University of Birmingham.

Five graduate students in the prestigious Producers Program at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television will present their film ideas to a distinguished panel of judges during the annual Produ

Annual event will feature student animation work in a full range of styles UCLA alumnus David Silverman, director of numerous episodes of the hit show "The Simpsons," as well as the 2007 feature film

WHAT: With music and lyrics by Cole Porter and an original book by, among others, P.G. Wodehouse, "Anything Goes" is one of the most enduringly popular musicals in the American repertory and includes such classics as "You're the Top" and "I Get a Kick Out of You.

Events highlight writing, directing, producing, animation, industry future "Mesmerize Me," written and directed by Kate Hackett, will screen during "UCLA Festval 2009: New Creative Work.

Eight students have been named winners of the 2009 Spirit of Princeton Award , which honors Princeton University undergraduates for their positive contributions to campus life.

Research into the development of British Sigh Language by the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre at UCL featured on the BBC programme 'See Hear? on  15 April.

WHAT: The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, in collaboration with the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, presents Henry Purcell's late 17th-century English Baroque opera "Dido and Æneas," directed by M.F.A.

The UCLA Library has acquired the literary papers of the Los Angeles novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter John Fante (1909?83).

Jorge Prelorán, a pioneer in the field of ethnographic documentary film and a professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, died March 28 in Los Angeles following a 10-year battle with prostate cancer.