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Exam timetables are out!

We are pleased to announce that your Exam Timetable is now available to view on the Student Data System.

Your exam timetable can be found by clicking on Details and Study from the menu on the left hand side, and then select ‘My Exams’.

This is your exam timetable based on your module registration. If you have any doubts about the modules on your timetable then please contact the Humanities and Social Sciences Undergraduate Office or your School (for Sciences students) as soon as possible.

For more information about examinations please visit the exams webpages.

Students with Adapted Exam Arrangements: The venue that you have been allocated will be displayed on your exam timetable – specific room allocations will be advised when you arrive at the venue for your examination.

Canterbury based students living at Liberty Quays (Medway): Arrangements are being made to provide a guaranteed booking on the Campus Shuttle in accordance with the date and time of your exam. You will be contacted separately about this.

PLEASE BE REMINDED THAT MOBILE PHONES ARE NOT PERMITTED IN EXAMINATION VENUES AND ANY BREACH OF THIS RULE WILL BE TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY.

50th Canterbury parkrun

Join in on Saturday 7 March with the 50th Canterbury parkrun starting at the Kent Sport Pavilion.

Parkruns are 5km runs that happen throughout the country every Saturday morning at 09:00 with no charge.

Suitable for all, whether you want to run, jog or walk.

A great way to start the weekend with some exercise and fun with friends.

If you do plan on participating as a runner or volunteer, be sure to register.

Don’t forget to bring your barcode along on the day!

To celebrate 50 parkruns in the University’s 50th year there will be pastries and other goodies provided to participants at the Pavilion Cafe Bar afterwards, first come first served upstairs in the Pavilion.

International Women’s Day and a year of events Kent

Sunday 8 March is International Women’s day, and this year the theme is ‘Make It Happen’.

The theme and event aim to ‘encourage effective action for advancing and recognising women’. A goal shared by both the Athena SWAN Working Group (ASWG) and the 50th anniversary Project, ‘Radical Women: 50 Years of Feminism at Kent’. This year, the ASWG and Feminism Project, will be holding events to further the aim of advancing and recognising women.

  • Saturday 21 March- One day Symposium on Feminist Action at Kent (50th anniversary Feminism Project)
  • Thursday 7 May- Medway Athena SWAN Awareness Event
  • 27-28 June- ‘Austerity, gender and household finances’ conference (50th anniversary Feminism Project)

The ‘Radical Women’ events will showcase ways that feminist academics at Kent have improved women’s rights and wellbeing.

The Athena SWAN Charter, aims to advance the representation of women in science, technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics. While the focus of the Charter is on the Sciences, the work of the Kent Athena SWAN Working Group is aimed at improving the working environment of all staff- both men and women.

Engineering and Digital Arts recently submitted an application for an Athena SWAN Award, and today held a coffee morning to celebrate International Women’s Day. Profits raised from the purchase of refreshments from J’s Tea Bar on Friday 6 March are being donated to Women’s Aid, a national domestic violence charity that helps up to 250,000 women and children every year.

Staff in EDA will also be ‘Getting Their Purple On!’ Purple is the domestic violence awareness colour and was also one of the colours adopted in 1908 by the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) to symbolise the plight of the Suffragettes.

New bus service for Liberty Quays

Catch the new 140/141 bus from Liberty Quays and Pier Road to:

  • Dockside Outlet Centre
  • Universities at Medway
  • Chatham Town Centre
  • Chatham Station
  • Rochester
  • Strood
  • Strood Estates

The service will run every 20 minutes between approximately 08.30 and 18.00 hours.

This service is an extension of the 140/141 service on Mondays to Fridays that previously terminated at Dockside Outlet Centre.

Arriva’s full range of money-saving day, weekly, four-weekly, annual and student tickets will be valid on the extended service.

View Arriva bus discounts.

Full details of all Arriva services in Medway can be found on Arriva’s website.

Student publishes on poetry in the Third Reich

Stefanie Hundehege, a PhD student in the Department of German, has just published a chapter in an anthology about writers in the Third Reich.

The chapter is published as part of the volume Dichter für das Dritte Reich Band 3 [Poets Writing for the Third Reich Volume 3](Aisthesis, 2015).

The article, entitled ‘Baldur von Schirach der “Sänger der Bewegung”‘ [‘Baldur von Schirach The “Singer of the Movement”‘], highlights Baldur von Schirach’s impact as head of the Hitler Youth, the Reich’s Governor of Vienna and as a self-proclaimed poetic authority on literature and culture during and before the Third Reich.

Schirach, who was an early follower of the National Socialist movement and later a high-ranking party member, first became active as a writer as a student in Munich in the late 1920s. He produced a great number of poems, which he devoted to the service of the National Socialist party and its leader. Previous studies on Schirach focused almost exclusively on his political role in the Third Reich.

By focusing on a literary and ideological analysis of his main poetry anthology, Die Fahne der Verfolgten [The Flag of the Persecuted] (1931), Stefanie’s chapter is an attempt to place him as writer in the National Socialist movement and focus on his cultural and ideological contribution to the establishment and stabilisation of the Nazi dictatorship.

 

PhD student to give Sylvia Naish lecture

Melanie Dilly, a PhD student in German and Comparative Literature, has won the 2015 Sylvia Naish Lecture Competition and will deliver her lecture entitled ‘One Eye is not Enough: Stereoscopic Writing after WWII’ on 19 March 2015 at the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

The Sylvia Naish Lectures were launched in memory of Sylvia Naish, an accomplished linguist, translator, Friend of Germanic Studies, and benefactor of the former Institute of Germanic Studies.

Research students in the field of Germanic studies at universities across the UK are invited to submit proposals for this annual lecture. The winning entry carries a prize of £100.

The lecture is also published in abridged form in the next issue of the newsletter of the Friends of Germanic Studies.

In her lecture Melanie will argue that, owing to the rapidly increasing lack of first-hand witnesses, alternative paths for accessing memories of the Holocaust have to be found. These new paths are primarily defined by distance, understood in temporal, spatial and cultural terms. Read full details of Melanie’s lecture.

Coffee event for Ovarian Cancer awareness month

There will be a coffee and cake event in Keynes Senior Common Room at 10.30-11.30 am on 6 March 2015 in aid of ‘Target Ovarian Cancer’.

Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer in women; the good news about ovarian cancer is that if diagnosed at an early stage, the outcome is good. Ovarian Cancer can affect any woman but is most common in woman who have gone through the menopause

Ovarian Cancer is sometimes called ‘the silent killer’ because the early symptoms are often dismissed as being part of growing older or diagnosed as something else, such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Most women are not diagnosed until the disease has spread, which is why it is important that women know about the symptoms, so that they can seek advice as early as possible.

The most common symptoms of ovarian cancer are:

  • Bloating that is persistent and does not come and go
  • Difficulty eating and feeling full more quickly
  • Abdominal or pelvic pain that is experienced most days
  • Needing to wee more

Other symptoms such as urinary symptoms, changes in bowel habit, extreme fatigue or back pain may also be experienced.

If you regularly experience any of these symptoms, which are not normal for you, it is important that you see your GP. It is unlikely that your symptoms are caused by a serious problem, but it is important to be checked out. You should also mention if there are two or more cases of ovarian or breast cancer in either side of your close family, as ovarian cancer can sometimes run in families.

Professor Peer Zumbansen to deliver CeCIL lecture

Professor Peer Zumbansen, founding director of the Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute at King’s College London, will deliver the annual lecture for the Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) on Friday 13 March.

Entitled ‘International Law’s Local Blindside: Reflecting on the Public and Private in Global Governance’, Professor Zumbansen’s lecture will explore the nature of international legal sovereignty.

The lecture, to be preceded by a drinks reception at 5pm in Keynes Teaching Foyer, will begin at 6pm in Keynes Lecture Theatre 3. All staff and students are welcome.

On the same day, Professor Zumbansen will also attend a CeCIL workshop entitled ‘The Victims of International Law‘ beginning at 1.30pm in Keynes S17, during which members of CeCIL will present their work in progress.

CeCIL is an innovative research centre, based at Kent Law School, which aims to foster critical approaches to the field of international law, and other areas of law that touch upon global legal problems.

Fitness Fest, Tue 17 March

Feel the burn at this year’s Kent Sport Fitness Fest on Tuesday 17 March, featuring special guest master instructors Chris Roberts and Richard Callender.

With a variety of classes, it’s a killer way to try something new and feel great too!

In the University of Kent’s 50th anniversary year and in partnership with Worldfest celebrations, join Kent Sport and the fitness team in sampling a unique evening of group exercise at the fifth annual Fitness Fest party.

Tickets are free for Kent Sport Gold and Silver members and just £5 for Bronze and non-members.

Enquire at the Sports Centre or Pavilion receptions or call 01227 823623 or 01227 827430.

Then come to the Sports Centre on Tuesday 17 March from 6.15pm to 8pm in the Main Hall for an amazing evening.

Immediately preceding Fitness Fest, there will also be a unique ‘Switchback to the Future’ Spinning session before the main event ’50 bikes, 50 minutes, 50 years’. Join the fitness team with an epic musical journey from 1965 to present day. Places are limited for this element and should be booked separately as a normal class, either online or at reception.

So with such a great line up don’t miss out, be sure to ask for Fitness Fest tickets at the Sports Centre or Pavilion receptions or call 01227 823 623.

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