Before you know it it’s time to move out. This can be a busy and stressful time but here are a few helpful tips to help you.

Top tips for:

• Living on-campus, Canterbury campus
• Living in Liberty Quays, Medway
• Living off-campus

Dr Tamara Rathcke, Lecturer in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, will be giving her talk entitled ‘Autosegmental-Metrical Approaches to Modelling Russian Intonation: Evidence and Issues’ at Humboldt University of Berlin on Wednesday, 6 June 2018.

Autosegmental phonology is an approach to phonology that allows the processing of sounds in language, such as tone and vowel harmony, to be independent of and extend beyond individual consonants and vowels.

Tamara will give an overview of the current autosegmental-metrical approaches to studying the intonation in the speaking of Russian, and present some original data that challenges some of the previous assumptions, and helps to advance our understanding of the structure of tonal representations (both in Russian and other languages).

The talk will be part of the lecture series organised by the Corpus Linguistics and Morphology research centre.

Further details of the their events.

The Department of Religious Studies is delighted to announce the launch of its new degree programme BA (Hons) in Global Philosophies, to begin in September 2018.

Global Philosophies provides an exciting, innovative opportunity to engage with intellectual thought from around the world. The programme offers a global approach to philosophical study with modules drawing not only on European or Western thought, but also on traditions originating in Asia, Africa and the Middle East from antiquity to the present day.

Professor Richard King, Head of the Department of Religious Studies, said of the programme: ‘The University of Kent is one of the few places in the country where students can study the wide variety of philosophical traditions that make up our global cultural heritage. This new degree provides an international focus for the study of intellectual thought around the world, both ancient and contemporary.’

For more details about the programme, please see the webpage.

Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, has just released the second instalment of his podcast series on ‘Nostalgia’.

In the latest podcast, Chris interviews Dr Paul March-Russell, Specialist Associate Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature. Paul talks about his earliest memories and how television played a role in shaping his identity, from Doctor Who and John Peel to Minipops. He discusses the pitfalls of ‘going back’ to one’s childhood home and about how he followed a path in academia – but that it wasn’t where he necessarily thought he would end up. He also reflects on the role of religion in shaping his values and goals.

To listen to the podcast, please see the page here.

Dr Simon Kirchin, Reader in the Department of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, has been interviewed for the website What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?

The site is run by Dr Clifford Sosis, Lecturer in Philosophy at Coastal Carolina University in the US. The site aims to ‘dig deeper into the psychology of philosophers’, asking about their broader personal experiences and what their backgrounds bring to the discipline.

The interview with Simon explores his life, including growing up in the Black Country. He discusses such diverse topics as his Protestant work ethic, hymns, the Sinclair 48k, performing at the Oxford Review, and how his teaching and his personal life inform his research, amongst (many) other things.

The interview was posted today, 1 June 2018, here.

Stamatina Liosi, a PhD student and Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, has just contributed a piece to the latest edition of Philosophy Now magazine, issue 126, June/July 2018.

Philosophy Now aims to showcase the discipline as exciting, worthwhile and comprehensible. The magazine began in 1991 and is now the most widely read philosophy periodical in the English language.

Stamatina’s article is entitled ‘Our Duty to the Dead’ and enlists the help of philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) to discover why we have a duty to treat the dead with dignity.

‘For those of us who think that intuitions or widely held beliefs aren’t enough to explain why things should be done in a certain way, deeper reasons must be found,’ explains Stamatina in the article.  ‘So let’s ask ourselves, why do we have the duty to treat the dead with dignity?’

The full piece can be accessed here.

Peter Nicholls, Dean of KentHealth, invites you to attend an all-staff briefing about the Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS).

The briefing is open to any member of staff who is interested in the development of KMMS and would like to find out more.

Two forums will taking place, one in Medway and one in Canterbury. The Medway forum will be on Monday 18 June, in R2-09, Rochester Building at 14.00. The Canterbury forum with be in Woolf Lecture Theatre on Tuesday 19 June, 12.30-14.00.

There will be an opportunity at the forum to ask questions about the Medical School, what the course will look like and how you can get involved.

Following on from Learning at Work Week, our Kent Experiences have been advertised and we have already received some great feedback from the first Special Collections tour which took place last week by Information Services.  We have a variety of different experiences now available, with our Estates Department having added 3 NEW activities.

You can view a brief descriptor of all the current opportunities by clicking on this link and then register your interest by following the outlined instructions or by completing this poll. Once your interest has been registered you will be contacted with more information and details of who to contact to finally agree your activity date and time

Most experiences can be arranged on a date and at a time which is suitable for you and they are a great opportunity for you to learn more about the organisation and areas of the University you wouldn’t normally get involved with.