Should we stop talking about The Crusades?
Join Professor @WilliamPurkis for his Inaugural lecture
🗓️ Wed 1 May
🕕 6-7pm
📍Arts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120)
Register 👉 birmingham.ac.uk/schools/his…
"Demolitions are undermining the existing economic fabric of the city"
Dr Marco Di Nunzio (@marcodinu) spoke to @BBCNewshour on Saturday on the #Gentrification of urban centres & the demolition of Piazza in Addis Ababa
🎧Listen from 23:30:👉🏼ow.ly/672G50RcXNg
📢3 weeks to go until Professor William Purkis (@WilliamPurkis) Inaugural lecture on 'Should we stop talking about The Crusades?'
🗓️Wednesday 1 May (18:00-19:00)
📍Main Lecture Theatre (room 120), Arts Building, @unibirmingham Edgbaston campus.
🔗ow.ly/xF2j50R3rKp
Just a few days left to send in proposals for "Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds," our joint conference with @CREMS_bham and @theBRIHC taking place 24-25 June! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/wp-conte…
Our Dr Marco Di Nunzio (@marcodinu) has studied the capital and largest city of Ethiopia Addis Ababa’s inner city for several years
He recently spoke to the @guardian about the impact of the demolition in the historic district
Read the full piece:👉🏼ow.ly/5WJ250RayQW 🧵1/2
ALT Dr Marco Di Nunzio.
ALT A woman sits among the debris of demolished buildings in the historic Piassa neighbourhood of Addis Ababa. A government redevelopment project is transforming the area, and people are being forced to move. Photograph: Michele Spatari/AFP/Getty Images.
Should we stop talking about The Crusades?
Don't forget to join us for our Professor William Purkis (@WilliamPurkis) Inaugural lecture.
🗓️Wednesday 1 May 2024 (18:00-19:00)
📍Arts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120)
🔗Register here👉🏼ow.ly/xF2j50R3rKp
📢Our Professor Candida Moss's (@candidamoss) book #GodsGhostwriters was officially released in the UK today!
Exploring how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament
Discover the book here:👉🏼hachettebookgroup.com/titles…
ALT God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Candida Moss. "This innovative and Lively book will change the way you read the New Testament. Moss reads between the the lines of familiar texts to explore the many roles of enslaved people in creating the foundational texts of Christianity" Helen King, Professor Emerita, Classical studies, The Open University. Photo credit: William Collins.
Explore the University of Birmingham's African Collection of art and artefects and challenge the colonial collector mindset through dance @theBRIHC @CAL_Postgrads
"Ukudansa: Exploring African Artifacts Through Dance!"
Join us in this immersive workshop crafted to inspire imaginative and interactive interpretations of African objects and artefacts housed at @unibirmingham through the power of dance!
more info:eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukudansa-…
ALT Vibrant illustration featuring a triangular pattern of vivid orange, yellow, red, and green lines. To the right, a tribal African figure wearing a mask and dancing. while on the left, tribal-style text reads: 'Ukudansa, A workshop that invites creative interpretation of african Atrefacts through dance.' Below, logos for University of Birmingham and We Don't Settle
"Ukudansa: Exploring African Artifacts Through Dance!"
Join us in this immersive workshop crafted to inspire imaginative and interactive interpretations of African objects and artefacts housed at @unibirmingham through the power of dance!
more info:eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukudansa-…
ALT Vibrant illustration featuring a triangular pattern of vivid orange, yellow, red, and green lines. To the right, a tribal African figure wearing a mask and dancing. while on the left, tribal-style text reads: 'Ukudansa, A workshop that invites creative interpretation of african Atrefacts through dance.' Below, logos for University of Birmingham and We Don't Settle
Dr Imogen Peck will be exploring some of the surprising parallels between early modern and modern approaches to #Cultural memory and issues of #National reconciliation
Register for tickets here:👉🏼hayfestival.com/p-21890-imog…
📢@unibirmingham will once again partner with
@hayfestival this year for 2024! 🥳
Our dynamic speakers will be Dr Christopher Haworth & Dr Imogen Peck plus Dr Katharina Karcher with Yordanka Dimcheva
Read our press release👉🏼ow.ly/fVlX50QVEX9
ALT Hay Festival signage. Photography credit: Sam Hardwick
📢Join us next week for our 'Bleu, Blanc, Rouge & Brown: French Histories, Colonial Spaces' event!
Dr Roxanne Panchasi will explore her experiences as both a racialized scholar of modern France & #Empire
🗓️Wednesday 20 March 14:00-16:00
📍 Hybrid
🔗birmingham.ac.uk/schools/his…
ALT A profile image of Dr Roxanne Panchasi - Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
We're excited to share the call for papers for "Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds," the conference we're organising this summer with @CREMS_bham (and with assistance from @theBRIHC). Please spread the word and send in your ideas!
How would you like an evening of dinosaurs & ABBA? Join @lapworthmuseum to be transported through time with ABBA Unearthed - listen to the Sekine Quartet as interstellar projections light up the night.
🗓️ March 12
🕕 6-7pm or 8-9pm
🎟️ £12 (student £8)
birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/…
Professor John Holmes & Dr Dion Dobrzynski have been collaborating with @BIFoRUoB @HEFiDigitalCAL & @RuskinToday to produce virtual reading walks of the #Forest site
Creating an immersive, interactive & educational resource from #Tolkien works
Discover👉🏼ow.ly/8RiJ50QMxir
This is on Wednesday afternoon, 1-3pm, at @artsatbham. Come and hear about gifts, love, self-destruction, and the supernatural in eighteenth-century Britain!
📢1 week to go until our next Hybrid event!
Join us for our 'Authorial Metadata and the #Global History Archive: trips, traps and tricks'
🗓️Wednesday 6 March (13:00-15:00)
📍Arts building room 250 (Fage seminar room) & zoom
🔗Register here:👉🏼ow.ly/Uen250QCSJY