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Fight, Flight or Freeze by EED graduate Elise Berdah featured on KMTV

Fight, Flight or Freeze, a highly topical touring immersive and interactive installation from 2017 Event and Experience Design graduate Elise Berdah which raises awareness of sexual consent, has been featured on KMTV – see the interview here.

Originally presented in the Drill Hall Library during the Student Wellbeing Festival in May, it was recently commissioned by Clara Lee, Vice President (Welfare) of Kent Union to be presented again in the Student Hub at Medway and Canterbury during November and December.  It may tour to other Universities and Colleges.

See the images and videos here.

The University retains its Fairtrade Certification

Thanks to the work of staff and students across the University and Kent Union, the University has successfully renewed its Fairtrade Status for a further 2 years.

Kent became a Fairtrade University in 2006 and has successfully maintained this status ever since; demonstrating our commitment to sustainable procurement and recognising our responsibility as a buyer with influence.

Being a Fairtrade University means we’re committed to making more Fairtrade products available on campus and raising awareness of Fairtrade.

Products which carry the FAIRTRADE Mark guarantee a fair deal to producers in developing countries to help them work their way out of poverty.  Fairtrade producers also receive a ‘community premium’ to invest in local health or education provision or improved production methods, and are committed to farming in ways which respect the environment.

The University has a Sustainable Food Steering Group that is made up of representatives from Commercial Services, Kent Union and the wider University as well as student members and as a group they are responsible for ensuring the continuation of the University’s Fairtrade Status.

For more information about Fairtrade or to get involved please visit the website or email sustainability@kent.ac.uk 

Kentmas quiz winner

Congratulations to Pebbles Buckley, a third year Criminology and Social Policy student, on winning the top prize of an iPad Mini in the ’12 days of Kentmas’ student competition.

The ’12 days of Kentmas’ is festive quiz which involves students answering daily questions about the University’s student experience.

Congratulations also goes to our eleven #Kentmas quiz runners up, who each won a £10 Amazon voucher.

Thank you to everyone who took part and we hope you will play along next year!

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Exams 2018 – Coming soon!

It’s time to start thinking about your exams.

Get prepared by looking at our webpages. www.kent.ac.uk/csao/exams

Please see below up-coming deadlines and dates for your diary.

Religious Observance Requests –            Deadline for submission Tuesday 6 February (17.00). Contact us exams@kent.ac.uk . See link for more information.

Personal Timetable Release –               Approx 2 weeks before the end of spring term. Follow us on Twitter for the first timetable announcement @UniKent_CSAO 

Complete Inclusive Learning Plan –         Deadline for confirming an Inclusive Learning Plan with Student Support & Wellbeing (if applicable) for arrangements to be in place for the exam period.

Examinations Start –                                       Tuesday 8 May

Examinations End –                                         Friday 15 June

Note Saturdays are included in the examination timetable

Contact us

Canterbury: exams@kent.ac.uk

Medway: medwayexams@kent.ac.uk

Twitter:  @UniKent_CSAO

PhD students publish in Biblical Interpretation

Two PhD students for the Department of Religious Studies have just been published in the journal Biblical Interpretation, Volume 25, Issues 4-5 (2017).

Biblical Interpretation publishes articles on various aspects of critical biblical scholarship in a complex global context.

Taylor Weaver, whose PhD project is titled ‘St Paul and Money: A Philosophical / Theological Paulinist Critique of Economy’, under the supervision Dr Ward Blanton, contributed the article ‘Paul and Political Critique: Liberalism, Ontology and the Pauline Community’. This considers how St. Paul’s communal activity and writing allows for thinking through contemporary political philosophical problems inherent in the concept of community, a problem that forms partially around notions of individuality and how communitarian or collectivistic sensibilities arrange the individual. To access the article, please see the page here.

Jenny Matheny, whose PhD project is titled ‘Judges 19-21 and Ruth: Canon as a Voice of Answerability’, under the supervision of Professor Yvonne Sherwood, contributed the article ‘Mute and Mutilated: Understanding Judges 19-21 as a Mashal of Dialogue’. With the assistance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s work with dialogism, this study uncovers theological and political nuances in close readings of the Judges 19-21. Access the article here.

The special double issue has been edited by Yvonne Sherwood, who contributed an article entitled ‘Grammars of Sacrifice: Futures, Subjunctives, and What Would Have/Could Have Happened on Mount Moriah?’, which may be accessed here.

To access the full double issue, please see the page here.

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William Rowlandson on Sartre in Cuba

Dr William Rowlandson, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, has published a new book titled Sartre in Cuba-Cuba in Sartre (Palgrave, 2017).

In early 1960, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir accepted the invitation to visit Cuba and to report on the revolution. They arrived during the carnival in a land bursting with revolutionary activity. They visited Che Guevara, head of the National Bank. They toured the island with Fidel Castro. They met ministers, journalists, students, writers, artists, dockers and agricultural workers. Sartre spoke at the University of Havana. Sartre later published his Cuba reports in France-Soir.

This book explores Sartre’s engagement with the Cuban Revolution. Sartre endorsed the Cuban Revolution, but his accounts became denounced as ‘unabashed propaganda.’ The  book explores such accusations. Were Sartre’s Cuba texts propaganda? Were they blind praise? Was he naïve? Was Castro deceiving him? Had he deceived his readers? Was he obligated to Castro or to the Revolution?

He later buried the reports, and abandoned a separate Cuba book. His relationship with Castro later turned sour. What is the impact of Cuba on Sartre and of Sartre on Cuba?

Find out more information about this book.

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Carol Service volunteers needed

The Chaplaincy are looking for volunteers again to help assist their Carol Service on Monday 11 December 2017 . Volunteers will allocate guests to their seats, assemble candles and collect donations.As volunteers are helping they have a guaranteed ticket to the event!

Volunteers will have to attend one of the following pre-training sessions at Eliot Chapel. Please fill out which one you will attend:

Thursday 7 December 17.15 – 18.00 or Friday 8 December 17.15 – 18.00

Volunteers will also have to attend another training session on Monday 11 December at Canterbury Cathedral at 14.00 – 15.30

Volunteers will then have to be at Canterbury Cathedral on Monday 11 December from 18.30 – 21.15 for the service.

To be a volunteer you have to sign up by Thursday 7 December.

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Winter Concert

The beautiful Royal Dockyard Church (Chatham Historic Dockyard) provides the stunning seasonal setting for a feast of musical offerings from University of Kent (School of Music and Fine Art, Medway) ensembles, the University choir and band and University chamber orchestra on 13 December.

Programme:

Part One

Kumpo: World Percussion Ensemble

Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3 (D.200): University Chamber Orchestra (Medway)

Pop, Rock and Soul Choir

Seasons of Love: Jonathan Larson

Merry Christmas Everybody: Slade

Part Two

Otono Porteno: Astor Piazzolla – Chamber Music Forum

Phase Study – Guitar Ensemble

Saxophone Ensemble

Aligato – Andy Scott

Charm or Smarm – Will Gregory

Improvisation Group

Nothing Personal – Don Grolnick

Go Daddy-O: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy –  Little Big Band

University Choir and Band (Medway)

The Lamb: John Tavener

Selection from ‘A Night at the Opera‘: Queen

FREE to attend but booking via the Gulbenkian.

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CPP launches the Advanced Journal of Professional Practice

The Centre for Professional Practice is delighted to announce the launch of the Advanced Journal of Professional Practice (AJPP). The AJPP is an online open-access, work-related journal dedicated to sharing of experiences and gold standard practices from anyone working in a professional role, as well as academics and students.

You can access the journal here.

The AJPP has been established as a portal for new knowledge created for the advancement of professional practice. AJPP hosts new creative work and welcome submissions of traditional or untraditional nature, but which demonstrate translational work-related professional practice application “, said Dr Claire Parkin, the Editor-In-Chief of the AJPP.

John Wightman, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, said: We welcome the appearance and creation of the Advanced Journal of Professional Practice (AJPP). The founding of the AJPP at the University of Kent will allow for the publication of new knowledge and innovations of a work-related professional practice nature or practical advancements. It will encourage its readers to apply new knowledge and skills or to unearth new found inspiration to develop innovative practices within their workplace.

If you are interested in publishing your work, please send email enquiries to AJPP@kent.ac.uk and submissions via the website.

Kent’s Centre for Professional Practice programmes and short courses give you the opportunity to gain academic recognitions for the skills, knowledge and experience you have developed in your workplace.