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News Archive 2021

Prof Pedro Rebelo collaborates with Geraldine Timlin in a show called Silent Spring
22 November, 2021

Pedro Rebelo, Professor of Sonic Arts and director of SARC has collaborated with Donegal based visual artist Geraldine Timlin in a show entitled 'Silent Spring'.

AEL SWAN International Men's Day Fundraising Event for PIPS
23 November, 2021

Staff and Students came together for a coffee and a traybake, and support PIPS, a local suicide and self-harm prevention and support charity

Launch of Friel Reimagined, new drama project in AEL
10 November, 2021

A project team led by Dr Paul Murphy has launched ‘Friel Reimagined’, an innovative drama engagement and research project.

Vivienne Griffin, PhD Student at SARC is one of this years Oram Award Winners
9 November, 2021

The Oram Awards - a platform for innovation in sound, music and related technologies returns in 2021 for it's 5th edition.

Caring from Behind the Face Mask in Healthcare: Learning from the Dramatic Arts
9 November, 2021

Dr Paul Murphy has recently published an article in a leading medical education journal with colleagues in Medicine at QUB and Psychiatry at RVH.

Dr Leon Litvack presents a short BBC broadcast on author James Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson'
Latest News | 1 November, 2021

To commemorate the birth of eighteenth-century Scottish travel writer and literary biographer James Boswell, Leon Litvack presented this short BBC broadcast on the author’s Life of Samuel Johnson:

Recent Graduate of AEL Dr Anselm McDonnell has a recently commissioned work played on BBC Radio 3
28 October, 2021

The short work, Coimheascar (which means both twilight and ambush in Irish), was one of three commissioned to mark the autumn season

Right Now I Want to Scream: Prof Cahal McLaughlin and UU's Siobhán Wills interviewed on Canada’s CTV
4 October, 2021

Watch Canada's CTV News's Angie Seth interview with Directors Cahal McLaughlin and UU's Siobhán Wills on their AHRC funded film, Right Now I Want to Scream: Police and Army Killings in Rio.

Six more full recordings added to the PMA research project website
Latest News | 4 October, 2021

We are delighted to announce that six more full recordings have been added to the PMA research project website.

Dr Leon Litvack discovers three more Charles Dickens Letters
Latest News | 30 September, 2021

Dr Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project, has discovered three new letters written by Dickens to a Glasgow woman only identified as “Miss J.D”.

Lucy Baxter, Lecturer in Film Practice, has article published in the Irish News
Latest News | 22 September, 2021

Lucy Baxter's article entitled 'Commercialising our creative industries' was published in the Irish News 22nd September 2021

Film Studies and Production Students win the Anjool Maldé Young Journalist of the Year Award
Latest News | 30 July, 2021

Jack McCann (Director and Producer), Malin Hempill (Cinematographer) and Joseph Scott (Editor) receive the prestigious Anjool Maldé Young Journalist of the Year Award for their film 'Skeletor' produced as part of their BA in Film Studies & Production

Meet Our Modern Languages' Olympians
20 July, 2021

Two former Modern Languages' graduates, James MacSorley, (Law with Spanish) and Rebecca Edwards (French and Spanish) will be representing Team GB in the forthcoming Olympics in Tokyo

Junior Academy of Music launch their Virtual Summer Concert Video 'This is Why We Sing'
Latest News | 19 July, 2021

The Junior Academy of Music (JAM) programmes, a part of AEL, have launched their Virtual Summer Concert Video, 'This is Why We Sing', celebrating the end of the academic year and the 10 year anniversary of JAM.

Broadcast students and Broadcast lecturer Don Duncan launch "Civil Rights, Climate Wrongs" animation
7 July, 2021

Broadcast lecturer Don Duncan has launched "Civil Rights, Climate Wrongs," an interdisciplinary animation project consisting of two animated stories directed by Broadcast MA students and alums, and sound designed by a recent graduate of Music.

Congratulations to PhD student Brian Devlin on his successful viva
7 July, 2021

Many congratulations to PhD student Brian Devlin on his successful viva (6 July 2021). Thanks so much to examiners Dr Kevin Murray (UCC), Marcas Mac Coinnigh (QUB) and well done too to Brian’s supervisor, Dr Micheál Ó Mainnín.

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MA Arts Management included in the Economic Recovery Masters Studentship
28 June, 2021

MA Arts Management is included in the Economic Recovery Masters Studentship Scheme where the Department for the Economy (DfE) will be offering fully funded places for candidates who meet the eligibility criteria and who have applied by 5th July 2021.

Dr Leon Litvack discovers further Charles Dickens Letters
28 June, 2021

The Times reported on a Charles Dickens letter discovered and published by Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project.

JAM 4 students’ end of the year showcase 11 June 2021
16 June, 2021

JAM 4 students’ end of the year showcase: promising electronic music producers and our future sound engineers!

Outstanding success for AEL at the National Student Media Awards, SMEDIA 2021
Latest News | 10 June, 2021

At the recent SMEDIA awards Queen's students came out on top taking home the largest haul of awards.

Síobhra Aiken, lecturer in Irish, awarded the Adele Dalsimer Prize
8 June, 2021

Síobhra Aiken who has recently joined AEL as a lecturer in Irish has just been awarded the Adele Dalsimer Prize for Distinguished Dissertation by the American Conference for Irish Studies

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Queen’s Announce Scholarship Endowment to Honour Poet Michael Longley CBE and Professor Edna Longley
1 June, 2021

Queen’s has announced the endowment of a £400,000 poetry scholarship and the creation of a classroom known as the Longley Room, in recognition of the lifetime of poetry excellence from Michael Longley CBE and his wife, Professor Emerita Edna Longley.

Lucy Baxter receives extensive news coverage of a VR experience relating to her PhD
Latest News | 31 May, 2021

Lucy Baxter, Lecturer in Film Practice, receives extensive news coverage of a VR experience developed as part of her Mental Abuse Matters PhD research.

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Dave Robb (AEL) has secured AHRC funding of £158,000
31 May, 2021

Dave Robb (AEL) has secured an AHRC Research Development and Engagement Fellowship (£158,000) for the project The Political Songs of Gerhard Gundermann in an East German and International Context.

'Performance without Barriers’ has been awarded AHRC grant of over £500k
26 May, 2021

Dr Franziska Schroeder and her 'Performance without Barriers’ research group have been awarded a highly competitive AHRC research grant, worth over £500k.

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Advertisement for Teaching Assistants 2021-22
24 May, 2021

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons to enable the School of Arts, English and Languages to compile a register of Teaching Assistants for academic year 2021-22. Closing date is 4pm on Wednesday 16 June 2021

AEL academics admitted to the Royal Irish Academy
24 May, 2021

Two distinguished academics from AEL have been admitted as members to the Royal Irish Academy for 2021.

QUB Broadcast Students (past and present) shortlisted for National Student Media Awards, SMEDIA 2021
Latest News | 19 May, 2021

Broadcast students and alumni were shortlisted at the recent National Student Media Awards, SMEDIA 2021 for works produced during their studies at Queen’s University, Belfast.

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School of AEL and Queen's Global Opportunities offer Virtual Internships

Are you interested in completing a Virtual Internship with an International Company?

The Research in Film Awards (RIFA) is now open for submissions!
Latest News | 4 May, 2021

The Research in Film Awards (RIFA) celebrates the best in academic filmmaking. RIFA remains the only awards dedicated to recognising arts and humanities research through the medium of film.

Queen’s Technicians Networking Event 23 April 2021
Latest News | 29 April, 2021

The School’s Arts Technicians are acknowledged for their work during the Covid pandemic

Victoria Baltag, PhD researcher, interview by QUB Voices is available on Podcast
Latest News | 22 April, 2021

Victoria Baltag, AEL PhD researcher, presents her work at QUB Voices and discusses the topic of creative protest.

Seamus Heaney Centre lecturer Dr Garrett Carr’s 2018 border manifesto is on show in Düsseldorf
12 April, 2021

A Border People's Parliament was held in Stormont in 2018 and during it Seamus Heaney Centre lecturer Garrett Carr composed a border manifesto with about 150 border residences.

Broadcast lecturer Don Duncan has completed and released a second animation "Ivor"
Latest News | 8 March, 2021

Broadcast lecturer Don Duncan has released a second animation in his ongoing series of animated mini-documentaries which looks at aspects of the experience of the Irish language had by Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist learners and speakers of it.

Dr Shonagh Hill launches Marie Curie fellowship website with a series of interviews
Latest News | 26 February, 2021

A series of interviews with female-identifying theatre makers in NI marks the launch of Dr Shonagh Hill’s Marie Curie fellowship website.

Dr Leon Litvack discovers second suspect 'Charles Dickens' letter
Latest News | 1 February, 2021

Dr Litvack, Principal Editor of the Dickens Letters Project, has discovered a second letter, which in his professional opinion, he suspects to be inauthentic.

Dr Leon Litvack has identified the 'South Coast Forger' as the author of Forged Dickens Letters
Latest News | 19 February, 2021

After the appearance of two articles in the Sunday Telegraph on his discoveries of purported Dickens forgeries, Dr Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project, has identified the ’South Coast Forger' as the author of both.

NI Science Festival 15 February - 28 February 2021
Latest News | 15 February, 2021

SARC are again delighted to be part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival and this year we are proud to deliver a diverse range of events over the two week period

Green Future Media - showcasing environment-related media work by QUB Broadcast students
1 February, 2021

Launched this week, Green Future Media is a student-led online multimedia project, anchored in the Broadcast Production department.

Dissensual Grooves LP and screen printed essay by -ence released 29 Jan 21
Latest News | 27 January, 2021

-ence is a new collaborative project between improviser and Professor of Music Paul Stapleton (AEL) and electronic musician and Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Ricki O'Rawe (AEL)

Dr Leon Litvack article published in The Times
Latest News | 26 January, 2021

Leon Litvack (AEL), Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters project, discovers a new letter to Thomas Latimer (9 March 1841); the author bemoans his father's growing burden of debts, which the son is forced to repay.

CfP Contested Resonances: Virtual Conference 29th-30th July 2021
Latest News | 25 January, 2021

Call for Papers: Contested Resonances: Creativity, Listening and Performance in Conflict Transformation Virtual Conference 29th-30th July 2021. Hosted by the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute.

Dr Leon Litvack uncovers suspect “Charles Dickens” letter
Latest News | 25 January, 2021

Leon Litvack (AEL), Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project, has uncovered a letter which, in his professional opinion, he considers to be inauthentic.

Professor Philip McGowan discusses The Great Gatsby
Latest News | 12 January, 2021

Philip McGowan, Professor of American Literature is one of Melvyn Bragg's guests on this week’s In Our Time on Radio 4 discussing F Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel The Great Gatsby

Dr Leon Litvack published in The Times Dec 2020 re. Charles Dickens Letters
Latest News | 7 January, 2021

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