East meets West at M-Shed
An exhibition which explores how Eastern Europeans living in and around Bristol remember life under state socialism – and how their experiences have shaped their lives in the UK – takes place at M-Shed next Monday [21 May].
Faculty of Arts
Theatre Collection awarded National Archives grant
The University of Bristol Theatre Collection has been awarded £22,371 by the National Archives under the latest round of The National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives.
University to host linguist Diego Marani
Eminent author, translator and linguist Diego Marani is to deliver a lecture on the secret life of dead languages on Thursday 14 June at 6.30 pm, Lecture Theatre 1, School of Chemistry.
Emeritus Professor receives prestigious archaeology award
Emeritus Professor Mick Aston has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 British Archaeological Awards.
Trench art features in new WW1 exhibition
Research by Bristol archaeologist Dr Nicholas Saunders into the trench art made by soldiers in the First World War has helped to inform a major new exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Metz which focuses on one year of that conflict.
New book puts Olympics in the picture
The first-ever book to offer an in-depth analysis of images and objects relating to the greatest sports show on earth is published this month by an art historian at the University of Bristol.
Record-breaking research collaboration targets 21st century challenges
The University of Bristol has welcomed a record-breaking 90 academic delegates from a leading Japanese university as it forges a pioneering international research collaboration. A high-powered contingent from Kyoto University travelled to Bristol this week [9 to 11 January] to discuss how the latest thinking and technologies could solve some of the planet’s biggest challenges.
Labour's membership crisis: no end in sight
Labour’s latest campaign to attract members has run into the sands because the party has failed to learn the lessons of past failure in the Blair years, according to an article by two University of Bristol academics published today in the journal British Politics.
Uranium-series dating reveals Iberian paintings are Europe’s oldest cave art
Paleolithic paintings in El Castillo cave in Northern Spain date back at least 40,800 years – making them Europe’s oldest known cave art, according to new research published today in Science
New Dean of Arts for University of Bristol
Michael Basker, Professor of Russian Literature and Head of the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol, has been selected to succeed Professor Charles Martindale as Dean of Arts from August 2012.