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On 27 April 2022, the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ hosted a joint event between the Widening Participation staff and Student Networks around the theme of 'Sense of Belonging'. The event was open to all staff and students at the university. There was a chance to highlight the support, opportunities and challenges faced by staff and students who study and work at the university. The event included interactive workshops, insight presentations and discussion forums.

Staff and students from across the Faculty of Arts were involved in presenting, and attending the event. Sessions included 'Young Carers’, 'Commuter Student', and also the 'Mature Student Experience'.

Classics (3rd) in the UK’s top 5 institutions for research excellence according to the Times Higher.

89% of our overall research activity across the Faculty was judged in REF2021 to be of world-leading or internationally excellent quality.

Calling all students! The Digital Arts Lab (DAL) Student Showcase competition has just been launched for 2022. This is the third year of the DAL student competition, which enables our students to submit their best academic work or personal artefacts created through or about digital tools. This may be an academic assessment which utlises a digital tool (for example a video, podcast or website), a personal endeavour that uses or showcases a digital tool, or a short piece of writing that comments on the digital world (fiction and non-fiction are both welcome). Further guidelines here.

The winning submissions from last year can be found here. The judges were amazed at the winning entrants' creative use of technology and are looking forward to seeing this year's submissions. Winners from last year were part of a session at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ TEAL (Teaching Enhanced Learning) Fest, where they explained how they had gone about creating their digital entry at a session which included educators from across the UK and further afield.

The is due to culminate in a multi-day festival on the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ campus from 19 - 21 April. Helen Wheatley, Festival Director and Arts very own Professor of Film & Television Studies, is inviting you to come and participate in an exciting of activities and events. The FAB, ¹û¶³´«Ã½'s stunning new Faculty of Arts Building and the are at the very centre of these arts and cultural events, which include contributions from Arts colleagues as follows:

Classics and Ancient History

Michael Scott’s Was Fake News a Problem in Ancient Athens

Paul Grigsby’s Roman Coventry Activity Day

Francesca Modini’s Roman Coventry and Music

Cross Faculty Studies

Kirsten Harris’s Freedom in Utopia  

English and Comparative Literary Studies

Justin Tackett’s Make Some Noise

History

Beat Kümin’s Rethinking Hospitality

David Lees’ Cooking up the Past

Martha McGill’s Invisible Worlds: Humans and the Supernatural Enlightenment in Britain

School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures

Ronan Hatfull’s To Tell My Story: Remaking Hamlet – workshop on restaging Hamlet with Zoe Templeman Young and Devon Glover

Michael Pigott’s Listening to our Environments workshop and Concrete Cinema installation

Vishalakshi Roy’s Coventry Made Me ­

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

James Hodkinson’s The Art of Visual Storytelling

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes’s Rewind

Kate Astbury’s Celebrating Languages

Zhiyan Guo’s Chinese Culture in Words, Voices and Music

Mary Harrod’s Let’s Talk About Sex –

New scientific analysis of the composition of Roman denarii has brought fresh understanding to a financial crisis mentioned by Roman statesman and writer, Marcus Tullius Cicero, in his essay on moral leadership, De Officiis.

Coventry residents will be able to travel back in time thanks to an exclusive compilation of archive TV news and other documentary footage, brought together by researchers at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, and on show for three days in the city centre.

Theatre Absolute’s Shop Front Theatre in City Arcade will host the unique newsreel from Thursday 14 April until Saturday 16th.

A Coventry community language project involving the city’s schools, universities, local council, businesses and MPs has been named Parliament UK Community Campaign of the Year in the Your UK Parliament Awards 2022.

In the final episode of the series, Professor Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla gets us thinking about health and its delivery from a global perspective, by sharing her research on the Cuban Internationalist Solidarity Programme.

to find out more about what healthcare means to the professionals on the programme, as well as how the programme itself has impacted Cuban society.

The Faculty of Arts welcomed over seventy school students from across Coventry and ¹û¶³´«Ã½shire to its new facilities last week. Over two days the Year 12 students from Caludon Castle, Cardinal Newman and Solihull Sixth Form spent time in the new FAB building. They had taster sessions ran by academic staff, tours of the Arts Centre, Q & A ambassador session as well as time to hear from alumni. The local students also entered a creative competition where they took pictures of the new building.

Coventry's year as 'UK City of Culture 2021' draws to a close in April 2022. The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ will celebrate Coventry's magnificent tenure with a campus finale of the , taking place from the 19^th - 21^st April 2022.

But what does it mean to be a 'City of Culture', and from where did this scheme originate? Who chooses the 'winning' city, what sorts of criteria are used to select the winner, and what is expected of a city once they have been awarded the title?

In this episode of , PhD Researcher Emily Dunford - whose research specifically focuses on Coventry's tenure as - will answer these questions and more, providing insights into the wider social, economic and political aspects of the scheme and how it shapes the places where we live.