A production of Henry V, a public lecture on Greece and Rome in silent cinema, and the chance to see a number of films made by Bristol Drama students are some of the highlights of the Autumn 2011 season at the Wickham Theatre.
One of England’s finest basses, Sir John Tomlinson, will be performing in Bristol for one night only next month. The recital ‘Michelangelo in Song’ will take place at the Victoria Rooms on Thursday 15 March.
Dr Richard Pettigrew, British Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, is co-author of an article that has been chosen by the Philosopher’s Annual as one of the ten best articles published in philosophy in 2010.
George ‘Johnny’ Johnson, the last surviving British veteran of the ‘Dambuster’ raids, is to deliver a talk about his wartime experiences to MA students in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology tomorrow (10 November).
Professor Christopher Page, a celebrated musician and musicologist, will be coming to the University of Bristol on Thursday [24 November] to give this year’s Tucker-Cruse Lecture in the Department of English.
An extremely rare Egyptian coffin, possibly belonging to the son of a king or a very senior official, has been ‘discovered’ at Torquay Museum by an archaeologist at the University of Bristol.
Professor Derek Offord has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year honours list for services to Russian studies in language and culture.
Anthropologist Jessica Galea has received a prestigious Fulbright Commission Postgraduate Scholarship Award to carry out research at Bristol into the health status of medieval archaeological populations.
The University of Bristol is hosting the Seventeenth Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association at Clifton Hill House this week (21-23 July), on the theme of ‘Rousseau’s republics’.
£300,000 has been awarded to the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge, along with a further £1.5million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for a joint research project to investigate why the HIV virus only emerged in the 1970s despite entering the human population many decades earlier.
