Postgraduate Open Afternoon on February 26th →

The School of Arts and Humanities will be holding a postgraduate open afternoon on 26 February 2010. You will have the opportunity to speak to course tutor, take a campus tour, meet current students and find out about our courses and admissions procedures. The marketplace will also have information about accommodation at the university, and finance issues.

The event takes place from 11am to 1pm.

Further details here

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PhD studentship in Medicine, Modernism and Technology →

The School of Arts and Humanities have been awarded a new fully funded PhD studentship for 2009: Medicine, Modernism and Technology. This PhD project will explore how emergent medical technologies, and the practices producing and produced by these technologies, configured and intervened into the sexed body in the period 1880 - 1939, a period particularly marked by technological advance. In the medical sphere this included a wide array of practices, discourses, equipment and medication developed in relationship to the body as the site of a sexed identity and its role in sexual and reproductive processes. At the same time developing modernist aesthetics in England, America and Europe are crucially concerned with debates about sex and/or gender of culture and its production while also rejecting pervious public structures of meaning and control in favour of privileging the private subject and his /her experience.

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New Japanese university exchange partner. →

The Japanese field is delighted to inform that Ehime University has joined us as our 10th exchange partner institution.

The university is in the region of Shikoku and the area is famous for Matsuyama castle and a hot spring.

The first two students from Brookes will start their Year Abroad at Ehime this September and we will welcome Ehime students in the following year.

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Japanese Studies awarded £500 from the Japan Foundation →

The Japanese field has been awarded teaching materials worth £500 from the Japan Foundation.

Suzuko Anai, Field Chair of Japanese Studies, commented:

'Japanese language books are expensive and often only available in Japan or in specialist bookshops in London. We are delighted to receive textbooks, dictionaries and CDs which we will put in the library for students to use.'

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Modern Languages Careers Evening, March 2009 →

The Modern Languages Careers Evening got off to a promising start as student reps and their teams prepared an enticing array of finger foods representative of the languages studied in the Department of Modern Languages.

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Visit by Professor Aldo Tollini from the University of Venice →

Professor Aldo Tollini from the University of Venice gave three lectures in the first week of March 2009 for the Japanese Language and Contemporary Society students as part of the Erasmus teacher exchange programme.

The lectures were as follows:

• The Japanese Language through the Nara period
• The introduction of Writing in Japan
• Problems in the Modernisation of the Japanese Language

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CESAR Exhibition at the Oxford Playhouse and Oxford Brookes University →

On 13th March 2009, the first CESAR exhibition, prepared by Sabine Chaouche and Monique Moreton, opened at the Oxford Playhouse. It aims to show visitors some aspects of French Theatre in the 17th and 18th centuries. Theatre was a very popular form of entertainment at the time and numerous companies toured the country. Playwrights such as Molière, Corneille and Racine came to be regarded as greats of French Literature but there were many others. Tragedy as a genre was at its height in the Early Modern period and was to lead to the birth of Classicism with Racine as its central figure. Drawing on the CESAR collection of engravings (http://www.cesar.org.uk), the exhibition provides a unique opportunity to discover different aspects of performance at the time and focuses on:

• Tragedians and acting;• Costumes in tragedy; • Playwrights; • The relationship between text and image through different frontispieces for "Andromaque".

This exhibition, which will be at the Oxford Playhouse (top room) until the end of April 2009, will transfer to Oxford Brookes University in May 2009 (11-15 May; Main Entrance).

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Talk by Dr Sabine Chaouche at the Oxford Playhouse →

On 13th March 2009, Dr Sabine Chaouche, Senior Lecturer in French, gave a one hour talk at the Oxford Playhouse, one of Britain's leading theatres. She discussed French Theatre in the Early Modern period and her focus was on the different Parisian playhouses, theatrical genres and forms of acting from the revival of performances in Paris in 1629 to the French Revolution. It was also an ideal opportunity to present the CESAR project (http://www.cesar.org.uk), the world leading resource at the service of all those with an interest in the French theatre of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Created by Barry Russell and later developed by Mark Bannister, it is hosted at Oxford Brookes University.

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Students on the Japanese Language & Contemporary Society course decorate the Japan room →

Students on the Japanese Language & Contemporary Society course decorate the Japan room

Students on the Japanese Language & Contemporary Society course decorated the Japan room with traditional dolls for the occasion of March the 3rd Dolls Festival 'Hinamatsuri', a day to pray for young girls growth and happiness.

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Internationalisation of the Curriculum →

Read Hilary Rollin's article in BeJLT about the multicultural language class, and the findings of a survey conducted with the collaboration of colleagues in Modern Languages at Oxford Brookes University and elsewhere.

BeJLT (Brookes eJournal of Learning and Teaching) is a peer-reviewed journal published online several time a year.

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