News Archive 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

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

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

-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)

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.

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.

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.

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
