Humanities

(Future Talks Postponed – 19/03) School of Humanities Research Talks 2019-20 schedule

Events / What's on 14 Feb 2020 Emma S.

Please note all sessions are postponed/cancelled until further notice - 19/03 All talks take place in GE403 16:00-17:00 unless otherwise indicated Date Speaker Feb 12 Yuhua Chen (School of Humanities)…

‘Introducing An Online Automated Transcription & Annotation Tool’ [Wed 12 Feb School of Humanities Research Talk]

Events / What our staff are up to / What's on 12 Feb 2020 Emma S.

'Transcribear – Introducing An Online Automated Transcription & Annotation Tool' - Dr Yu-Hua Chen Wednesday 12 Feb, 4-6pm, George Eliot Building 403 Reliable transcription and annotation (also known as “coding”)…

‘Smart Plan for Media Career and Cancer’ [Sociology student, Karen Bucknall, on YNUK TV]

BA Sociology / What our students are up to 4 Feb 2020 Emma S.

A mature student studying Sociology at Coventry University, Karen Bucknell is facing big challenges. One of them is a career in broadcasting and Social Media. The other beating bowel cancer. Karen has already won a…

French Film Club Returns for 2020! [Pauline Maleyrie, French; Languages for Global Communication]

BA Languages for Global Communication / Events / What our staff are up to / What our students are up to / What's on 4 Feb 2020 Emma S.

The French film club was back last Thursday ! Gwénola Bescond and Pauline Maleyrie screened the very popular French film “ Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis”, the story of a French…

Student Showcase: The Black Hand: alien or socially derived? [Elycia Elsom, BA History student, Year 2]

BA History / BA International Relations / What our students are up to 24 Jan 2020 Dr Simon May

This blog post was written by Elycia Elsom, a 2nd year BA History student undertaking the module A History of International Crime. Two theories have emerged in the discussion of organised crime:…

The expression of obligation in student academic writing [New article by Dr Benet Vincent, English]

What our staff are up to 23 Jan 2020 Emma S.

Students writing in the academy face a number of complex challenges in negotiating disciplinary and genre conventions. One of the most abstract of these is a consideration of reader expectations…

New book by Sociology Lecturer, Marcus Maloney, ‘Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming’, out now

BA Sociology / What our staff are up to 14 Jan 2020 Emma S.

New book out now by School of Humanities Sociology Lecturer, Dr. Marcus Maloney, with Associate Professor, Steven Roberts from Monash University and Dr. Timothy Graham from Queensland University of Technology,…

Experimental Poetry Exhibition, Sunday Jan 5th [Alyson Morris, English and Creative Writing]

Events / Undergraduate / What our staff are up to / What our students are up to / What's on 16 Dec 2019 Emma S.

BBC radio 4 interview with Dr. James Dawson, Politics

BA Politics / What our staff are up to 3 Dec 2019 Emma S.

Our Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Dr. James Dawson, was recently interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about the coming election in the area of the CU London campus in Dagenham. See…

Humanities experience day on November, 20th, 2019 [Victoria Rios Castano, Carlota Medina-Diaz and Pauline Maleyrie – Modern Languages]

Events / What our staff are up to / What's on 27 Nov 2019 Emma S.

Last week, we delivered a session in French and Spanish to a group of year 10 students from Grace Academy, Coventry. We talked about non-verbal communication through gestures in Spain…