Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Faculty News
Music: Music graduate Will Dryland wins Benslow Music Young Composers Competition
The second Benslow Music Young Composers Competition, in partnership with the London Klezmer Quartet, has been won by our graduate Will Dryland.
The winning piece ‘Whistler Medley’ will be premiered in a concert to be given by the London Klezmer Quartet on Saturday 31 October 2020 at Benslow Music in Hitchin.
Congratulations Will!
Read all the details at https://benslowmusic.org/index.asp?PageID=2157
(17 Jul 2020)
Music: Zoom in on Masters online events by Fondazione Cini
Dr Simone Tarsitani collaborated to Zoom in on Masters, a new online initiative of the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Musical Studies (IISMC) at Fondazione Cini, producing three online conversations with masters of important musical and dance traditions, accompanied by online performances, which have all been published on Fondazione Cini's YouTube Channel.
Find out more and watch the videos: https://www.cini.it/en/events/zoom-in-on-masters-iismc-online-conversations
(17 Jul 2020)
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Faculty Events
Wednesday 19 August 2020
- English Studies: Romantic Wellbeing 5:30pm to 7:00pm, Online (Zoom), Dr Amanda Blake Davis (University of Sheffield) and Alex Hobday (University of Cambridge)
Wednesday 26 August 2020
- English Studies: The Political Magnetism of Charles I 5:30pm to 7:00pm, Online (Zoom), Kathleen Foy (Durham University) and Kimberley Foy (Durham University)
Wednesday 2 September 2020
- English Studies: T.S. Eliot and the Anxious Body 5:30pm to 7:00pm, Online (Zoom), Cécile Varry (Université de Paris)
Wednesday 9 September 2020
- English Studies: Angels and Armed Women 5:30pm to 7:00pm, Online (Zoom), Dr Sarah Burdett (University of Warwick) and Caitlin Rankin-McCabe (Durham University)
Wednesday 16 September 2020
- English Studies: Trauma, Survival, and Remembering World War II 5:30pm to 7:00pm, Online (Zoom), Prateeksha Pathak (Cardiff University) and Dr Rosemary Walters (Independent Scholar)
The Faculty of Arts & Humanities has seven departments and one school. It also has a Liberal Arts programme and a Centre for Foreign Language Study. In the Times Good University Guide, almost every department is ranked within the top five in the UK.