Rome News

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.

The University has celebrated its 50th anniversary with a special gathering at the prestigious art gallery, Galleria Borghese in the centre of Rome.

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SHOWCASING RAPHAEL

The University of Kent in Rome will be holding a conference – Showcasing Raphael – in the Auriana auditorium of the American University of Rome, via Pietro Roselli, 16, Rome (Gianicolo) on the afternoon of 1 April 2015 (from 1400, free registration, all welcome). Confirmed speakers and titles as follow below

SESSION I (TOM HENRY, SESSION CHAIR)

1400    TOM HENRY                       Welcome and Session Introduction

1405-   SHERYL REISS                    Raphael and the Patronage Game

1435-   DAVID EKSERDJIAN         Raphael and Dürer

1505-                                                   QUESTIONS

1510-   LINDA WOLK-SIMON       A Proposal on the Identity of the Sitter in Raphael’s

Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn

1540-   PAUL JOANNIDES              Raphael, a Cardinal and a Pope

1600-                                                   QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

 

PAUSE

SESSION II (CLAIRE VAN CLEAVE, SESSION CHAIR)

1620-   CLAIRE VAN CLEAVE      Session Introduction and Raphael’s Ajax

1630-   CLAUDIA LA MALFA        To paint a beautiful woman, I need to see many:

Raphael’s Portrait Drawings

1700-   BEN THOMAS                      Eloquence in Raphael drawings

1730-                                                   QUESTIONS

1735-   PAUL GWYNNE                  The Poet and the Prince of Painters: The program of

decoration for the Villa Medici by Francesco Sperulo

1805-   TOM HENRY                                    Raphael’s Self-portrait with Giulio Romano

1830-                                                   QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

 

DAVID EKSERDJIAN, Professor of History of Art, University of Leicester

PAUL GWYNNE, Professor of Classics, Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, American University of Rome,

TOM HENRY, Professor of History of Art, University of Kent

PAUL JOANNIDES, Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University of Cambridge

CLAUDIA LA MALFA, Professore Straordinario, Università Telematica Uninettuno; Adjunct Professor, American University of Rome

SHERYL REISS, President, Italian Art Society

BEN THOMAS, Senior Lecturer, History of Art, University of Kent

CLAIRE VAN CLEAVE, independent art historian

LINDA WOLK-SIMON, Director and Chief Curator, University Collections, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut

For further information please contact Prof. T.F.K. Henry, Professor of History of Art, Academic Director for Rome, T.F.K.Henry@kent.ac.uk

Intensive two-week summer courses for international students at Canterbury and Medway

Our International Summer School gives you the opportunity to have a taste of what our academic programmes can provide. All our courses are delivered by our top-ranking academic schools and have been designed to introduce you to the best of what Kent has to offer.

The School of Arts is running the ‘Exploring Visual Cultures ^[1]’ course. Full details about the Summer school can found here ^[2].

The University of Kent will hold a funding and information open evening for Postgraduate study on Monday 23 February 2015 in Darwin Conference Suite (Canterbury) from 5-7pm.

This will be a great opportunity to gather the information you need if you are thinking of applying for funding, and also to meet with staff from our programmes of study and ask any other questions you may have.