Author: Eileen Hartney

Students registered for our unique Canterbury-Rome taught MA programmes in History of Art, Roman History & Archaeology or Ancient History enjoyed a three-day orientation trip to Rome, visiting our Rome Centre – AUR, exploring the city and a guided lecture to the Museo dell’Ara Pacis delivered by the University of Kent’s Dr Dunstan Lowe.

All costs for this trip, organised by our Administration team, are included in the overall tuition fees for the programme, so no extra cost to the students whatsoever.

Professor Ray Laurence, from the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies, who also delivers a module at the University’s Rome centre, will feature on BBC Radio 4’s Ancient Ways With Bettany Hughes on Friday 4 December 2016 at 11.00.

Bettany Hughes is a broadcaster and writer. In the programme, Bettany follows the ancient Roman road to Istanbul, tracing its route through Albania, Macedonia and Greece, exploring how the Egnatian Way helped to shape Europe and the Middle East. In the first episode, she journeys from the Adriatic shores of Albania to the Macedonian plain where Alexander The Great grew up.

Ray was interviewed for the programme on the contribution of Roman roads in the on-going definition of the geography of Europe, migration in the Roman Empire much higher than the levels experienced in Europe today as well as Cicero’s exile in Thessaloniki.

The series consists of three episodes, and will be found on the BBC’s iPlayer ^[1].

The University of Kent has conferred Visiting Lecturer status on Dr Claudia La Malfa.

History of Art at Kent is delighted to welcome Dr Claudia La Malfa.

After studying at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and completing her PhD at the Warburg Institute in London, Dr La Malfa has taught at the Universities of St Andrew’s, Bologna and at the American University of Rome. She lives in Rome and teaches for Kent in the History of Art (Canterbury and Rome) MA programme.

Dr La Malfa’s principal interests are in painting and sculpture in 15^th and 16^th century Rome with a focus on grotesque decoration, on ancient and modern sculpture, and drawing. In 2016 she will teach Discovering Rome in Rome with Prof. Tom Henry; and her appointment is for the next three years.

Dr Barbara Bombi, Reader in Medieval History, School of History, University of Kent, is co-organizing the Fourth Lateran Council Conference at Kent’s Rome centre, the American University of Rome.

A programme of the event is uploaded here:  www.lateraniv.com

 

British Ambassador to France Sir Peter Ricketts, GCMG GCVO paid a visit to the University of Kent’s Paris Centre on Wednesday, 1 October. An honorary graduate of the University of Kent, he enjoyed speaking with newly-inducted Paris MA students who will be spending their entire year at the University’s Postgraduate Centre in Paris. He was treated to lunch in the company of staff and students.

On hand to welcome the Ambassador to our Paris Centre was Dean for Europe Professor Roger Vickerman, Paris Academic Director Professor Peter Brown, Dr Carine Fréville, lecturer in Comparative Literature and Dr Alex Preston, lecturer in Creative Writing.

WORLD WRITERS’ FESTIVAL

SEPTEMBER 25 – 27, 2015

Presented by Columbia University and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

For the full program: www.festivaldesecrivainsdumonde.fr

Whether you’re a lover of poetry, the short story, the literary novel, non-fiction, or theater, there is something for everyone at the third annual World Writers’ Festival! The writers presenting at the Festival this year come from the four corners of the world: fifteen different countries to be exact. In multiple ways, they will be bearing witness to the global human condition today.

Participating writers include: Suleyman Al Bassam, Christine Angot, Carmen Boullosa, A.S. Byatt, Javier Cercas, Michel Faber, Aleksandar Hemon, Sayed Kashua, Etgar Keret, Yiyun Li, Les Murray, Florence Noiville, Edna O’Brien, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Gary Shteyngart, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Samar Yazbek.

Go to the University of Kent’s Paris Centre

The winners of the University Teaching Prizes 2015 have now been announced. 

Faculty of Humanities Teaching Prize
The first prize was awarded to Professor Ray Laurence (Classical and Archaeological Studies ^[4]) for his innovative curriculum development work at the University’s Rome centre, involving the development of local and international partnerships, use of new media, and site-specific forms of assessment.

University of Kent postgraduate student Julia Peters left Canterbury on foot on 28 March 2015 for a journey that has taken her through four countries (England, France, Switzerland, and Italy) and over 1200 miles (1900 km) to Rome, she is due to arrive this Sunday!

Julia says that the purpose of her journey was one of personal enrichment, “an initiative to promote The Via Francigena and the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, to conduct research on mobility in the Roman Empire and to further links between the European Centres of the University of Kent”. A number of University of Kent students, fellow pilgrims, have joined her along the way – Julia has made stops in 78 towns along the famous pilgrimage route.

Julia’s project received support from KIASH (Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Kent), in conjunction with the research of Professor Ray Laurence, in addition to the University of Kent’s European Centres. If you would like to read more about Julia’s project, and follow her to Rome, please visit her blog here.

University of Kent postgraduate student Julia Peters left Canterbury on 28 March 2015 for a journey that will take her through four countries (England, France, Switzerland, and Italy) and over 1200 miles (1900 km) to Rome, her final destination–and she’s doing it all on foot.

Julia says that the purpose of her journey is one of personal enrichment, “an initiative to promote The Via Francigena and the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, to conduct research on mobility in the Roman Empire and to further links between the European Centres of the University of Kent”. A number of University of Kent students, fellow pilgrims, have joined her along the way – Julia is making stops in 78 towns along the famous pilgrimage route.

Julia’s project received support from KIASH (Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Kent), in conjunction with the research of Professor Ray Laurence, in addition to the University of Kent’s European Centres. If you would like to read more about Julia’s project, and be updated on her daily progress, please visit her blog here.