{"id":8916,"date":"2018-07-19T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2018-07-19T16:53:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:53:51","slug":"congratulations-to-our-graduates-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/07\/19\/congratulations-to-our-graduates-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our final-year students\u00a0from the Department of <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Comparative Literature<\/a><\/u><u>,<\/u>\u00a0who graduated yesterday with their well-earned degrees. This is the culmination of three or four years of hard work (or longer for part-time students).<\/p>\n<p>A post-graduation party was held on campus, complete with a prize-giving ceremony for those who have made a particular contribution to the school. The Comparative Literature prize winners included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Thew won both Best Degree in Comparative Literature Roger and Agnes Cardinal Prize for the Best Dissertation<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Tomkins won\u00a0Runner-Up for the Roger and Agnes Cardinal Prize for the\u00a0Best Dissertation<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Achberger won Most Significant Contribution to Comparative Literature<\/li>\n<li>Kirsty Forrester won the Comparative Literature Dissertation Originality Prize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prior to the party, our graduates were awarded their degrees at a ceremony held in\u00a0Canterbury Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>An album of photos from the party has been added to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unikentsecl\/\">SECL Facebook<\/a> page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/unikentsecl\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=2041404259265200\">www.facebook.com\/pg\/unikentsecl\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=2041404259265200<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our final-year students\u00a0from the Department of Comparative Literature,\u00a0who graduated yesterday with their well-earned degrees. This is the culmination of three or four years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/07\/19\/congratulations-to-our-graduates-11\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":8955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8945,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions\/8945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}