Come along on Saturday 21 March, 9.30 – 18.00, for a Symposium on Feminist Action at Kent in Grimmond LT1.
Join us in celebrating feminist research, scholarship and activism over the last five decades.
Open to all.
For more information, visit the Radical Woman project webpage.
Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah (Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in the School of English) has been invited to speak at an international symposium in Washington this week.
The Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, is hosting a symposium entitled ‘Connecting the Gems of the Indian Ocean: Eastern Africa – Swahili Civilization, Oman and the Gulf’.
The symposium opens with a discussion hosted by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the prolific and internationally celebrated literary figure, with fellow authors MG Vassanji and Abdulrazak Gurnah.
The panel will discuss the art of storytelling, ideas of cultural belonging, and personal experiences of growing up in East Africa.
The authors will read sections from their most recent award-winning novels, including Professor Gurnah’s 1994 novel Paradise which was shortlisted for both the Booker and Whitbread Prizes.
The day-long symposium will focus on the historic, commercial and cultural links that existed between the lands of the East African Swahili Coast, Oman and other countries of the Middle Eastern Gulf region.
There will be another chance for staff and students at the Medway campus to walk the labyrinth this Thursday 5 March.
The labyrinth will be set up in the Rochester Board Room (R.2.09, above the No.1 Bistro) from 12.30 to 2pm, with the last entry at 1.30pm.
Please come if you can.
On Wednesday 25 February Kent student volunteers took part in the third annual ‘Student Engagement and Philanthropy Month’ organised by CASE ASAP.
Over 100 universities worldwide took part to encourage their students to get involved with philanthropy in higher education.
Kent was among just 10 institutions to take part within the UK.
The Kent Law Campaign Student Group and volunteers from the Kent Law Clinic fostered the theme of #campaignlove and encouraged their fellow students to write thank you messages on the back of branded hearts to alumni and friends who have generously donated to the Kent Law Campaign.
A heart, along with a personalised handwritten thank you card, will be sent to our Campaign donors as a way of showing our appreciation.
We would like to thank everyone who got involved with celebrating the ‘Student Engagement and Philanthropy Month’ and for spreading the #campaignlove.
Photographs from the event can be viewed on our Facebook page.
There are various different ways you can get involved and support the Kent Law Campaign, visit our website for more information.
There will be an 8.30 service of Holy Communion (‘C of E’) in the newly refurbished Eliot College Chapel on the next five Wednesday mornings (March 4, 11, 18 and 25; Apr 1), marking the progress of Lent.
All welcome.
Worship will be over by 8.55, in time to start the working day.
The first of this month’s Lunchtime Concerts takes place this Wednesday 4 March, with the Deputy Director of Music, Daniel Harding, in a piano recital.
Focusing on the ideas of simplicity and beauty, the programme includes ‘Variations for Judith,’ a suite of reflections on the aria ‘Bist du bei mir’ by a selection of contemporary composers, to be performed in the presence of the suite’s dedicatee, Judith Serota.
The recital also includes pieces by Erik Satie, Amy Beach and the UK premiere of the Bill Evans-esque ‘Unicorn in Rainbows’ by Hertfordshire-based composer, Alison Wrenn.
The concert starts as usual at 13.10. Admission is free. Read more about the concert.
The Careers Café is a networking event with a difference!
Kent alumni, employers and staff members host tables in the café, at which students discuss topics to help them develop the ability to promote themselves to prospective employers, learn how to network and self-identify their skill set.
Register for the Careers Cafe at Medway on Monday 23 March at 16.00-17.30 in the Gillingham Building (G3-05).
Register for the Careers Cafe at Canterbury on Monday 30 March 17.30-19.30 in Woolf Foyer.
How does it work?
Students choose a table hosted by a mentor, where they will be invited to discuss a topic as well as summarise their discussion from the previous table, all within the space of five minutes. This will help the students to focus on concisely selling themselves and their skill as well as learning presentation skills. The questions students will be asked to focus on are:
Following the Café will be a secondary session, known as ‘Live LinkedIn’ where students can ask questions about their next steps (for example, ‘I realise I need leadership skills…’) and other students and mentors can help them identify what they can do to meet that need (eg ‘run for a society committee to develop those skills’).
Good Practice Benefits All. This is the theme of the Athena SWAN Awareness Event at Medway, and this is why the Athena SWAN Working Group would like to invite all staff to attend on Thursday 7 May 2015.
Working to the Athena SWAN principles, means working in a place where all staff are valued.
Kent received an Athena SWAN Bronze Award in April 2014, which recognised our commitment to the Athena SWAN initiative.
The initiative aims to advance the representation of women in science.
By perusing this agenda, we aim to create the best working environment for all staff, and this year’s event will cover themes relevant to staff across the Faculties.
We invite you to join us in the Rochester Boardroom at 09.30. The event will run until 13.45 and includes lunch.
We can confirm that Lenna Cumberbatch, Diversity Manager at the Royal Society, will give the keynote address. A panel discussion, led by the Dean of Sciences, Professor Mark Burchell, will give participants the chance to discuss the initiative and find out what we’re doing here at Kent.
There will also be workshop sessions on: Promotion; Career Planning for Early Career Researchers (and those wondering what their next step should be); and a special Research Services’ Grant Factory Workshop.
We welcome all staff – men and women; Medway and Canterbury based – to attend the event.
To find out more, and register for the event, go to the Athena SWAN webpages.
Professor Amalia Arvaniti and Dr Tamara Rathcke from the Department of English Language & Linguistics have secured funding from the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) to organise the seventh international conference on ‘Tone and Intonation in Europe’ (TIE 7) at Kent’s Paris centre in September 2016.
TIE is a series of biennial international conferences that started in 2004, the culmination of a European Science Foundation-funded research network, where Amalia Arvaniti served as one of the main coordinators.
TIE7 will focus on two themes: (i) the interaction of tone and intonation with other components of prosody, such as rhythm, and (ii) the relevance of prosody for the learning and teaching of a second language.
The conference will be sponsored by the Association for Laboratory Phonology and the International Phonetic Association.
The exact dates of the conference are yet to be confirmed; a call for papers will be released in the future.
For more information visit the KIASH webpages.
Enjoy cake and a cuppa at the 50th anniversary staff tea party on Tuesday 3 March in the Colyer-Fergusson from 14.30 until 16.00.
At the party you can peruse the 50th anniversary spring programme and chat to the 50th Team.
You will also have the chance to try our special 50th anniversary cupcakes!
Find out more on the 50th anniversary webpages.