Our world literature expert Prof. Louise Hardwick has written The Guardian obituary for Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé, who wrote uncompromisingly and often provocatively about race, gender, colonialism and the complexities of a globalised world bit.ly/3VVZcQf

Our Connecting Cultures research promotes and connects diverse cultures, fostering social inclusion, shared ownership, and a sense of belonging. Through our work, we’re changing lives and bridging gaps through innovative projects that celebrate diversity.

Welcome to the first Tranformative Humanities lecture College of Arts+Law delivered by Dr Isabel Jaén Portillo from Portland State
'Empathy and the Transformative Power of Fiction' Fiona de Londras School of EDACS

📢PGRs! Have you submitted your thesis, or plan to in the next 12 months? 📢

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Very much looking forward to being in Singapore to meet partners, alumni, offer holders, and colleagues on behalf of College of Arts+Law Birmingham Law Uni of Birmingham next week. Arts and Law alum in Singapore? Come along Tuesday evening birmingham.ac.uk/alumni/events/….

Looking forward to reading today's enormously significant decisions from the Court.

25 scholarships under the Ireland-Palestine Scholarship Programme (IPSP) for the 2024-2025 academic year from applicants living in the occupied Palestinian territory are currently available. Further details in the link below! dfa.ie/prep/ramallah/…

Fascinating interview.

Will need to read this carefully but the impact of Dobbs is notable. Solidarity to LGBTQAI+ siblings living with this decision in Uganda.

Call for participants for Ulster University & Trinity College Dublin ReproCit study exploring how abortion access at home has impacted on people's sense of belonging in Ireland.

Have you had an abortion since 2019? Did access to legal abortion matter to you?

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🚨 Ireland, Spain, Malta & Slovenia announce ‘readiness’ to recognise Palestine when conditions allow. Called for “urgent” ceasefire

Congratulations to Candida Moss whose 'God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible' is out next week and 'shift[s] the paradigm [to] tell the early Christian story... from the perspective of the enslaved' spectator.co.uk/article/new-li…

Do not underestimate how dangerous this discourse is to the Rule of Law. One's job as a lawyer is to represent people who need representation. In litigation the state's job is to represent perceived public interest. The system works when both duties are robustly discharged.

This is a serious challenge if Labour becomes the next Government. Do they carry on with this trend, taking advantage of the ways in which it eases governance, or do they right the constitutional order and restore meaningful accountability to Parliament?

NI 'offers greater protection to women compared with E&W where they can be prosecuted for terminating pregnancies after the 24-week limit...“It doesn’t make any sense that you wouldn’t just use that minimum gold standard to extend to the whole country”' theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

'If we keep allowing for occupation, and we keep allowing for starvation...we're going to see it more often...I am seeing food being used more and more and more as a tool of war, and the people that suffer the most are always children'

Important decision from the Privy Council on who has standing to challenge development projects considered to pose environmental risks.