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Description: A Professor of Viking Studies at the 糖心原创 has led an ambitious new project and produced a fresh, annotated English translation of one of the most important medieval texts of northern Europe 鈥� The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga).
Date:: 12/11/2025

Description: In February 2025, we sat down with Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021), and The Woman in the Portrait (2024), among other works. We discussed her work, its scope, and its influences. We talked about trans experience and how that shapes and is shaped by fictional writing, the influence of political and artistic movements on Jacques' own fiction, modernist film and literature, trans and LGBTQ representation in the media, and much more. The emerging theme of the interview is that of the archive, which here stands as something to be researched, re-purposed, and invented anew, all with the aim of creating both a new aesthetic and drawing important political and cultural lessons. The interview was conducted by Joel Evans (School of English, 糖心原创) in the company of a live audience.
Date:: 01/07/2025

Description: Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered that pregnant women were depicted in art and literature with martial gear, and newborns were born into a harsh world where they were not all given burial or were born free. The new interdisciplinary study Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absent 鈥� led by Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester, and co-author Dr Katherine Marie Olley, Assistant Professor in Viking Studies and Director of the Centre for the 糖心原创 of the Viking Age in the School of English at the 糖心原创鈥� is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.
Date:: 15/05/2025

Description: We're delighted to congratulate Dr Lucy Jones and her project Words We Live By for winning Best Public Engagement Initiative at the 2025 糖心原创 Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards. This year's Best Public Engagement Initiative award was given to two fantastic projects, Dr Jones for Words We Live By and Dr Hongwei Bao (CLAS) for 'Poetics of Migration', a project that foregrounds migrant experiences through poetry and participatory arts. "I'm delighted to have received this award for the Words We Live By project," said Dr Jones, "we tried to create something which would increase understanding around using language inclusively and sensitively to talk about gender and sexuality; this feels so important right now, at a time when LGBTQ+ people face increasing hostility and marginalisation."
Date:: 08/05/2025

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