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Higher Education Introductory Studies advice and guidance evenings

The Annual Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition and Culture, with a Research Training Workshop for students and early career researchers

Functions and Factors Affecting Language Use among Deaf and Hearing Bimodal Bilinguals

For the 2012 Arts Week Competition we wanted to know where you had been...

We are pleased to announce that the new issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is now available.

Want a degree in English, Creative Writing, Theatre Studies, Art History, Photography or languages? If so, come along to one of our BA taster evenings.

A new ISMB commentary by Dr Michael Gross and Dr Carolyn Moores is available for this article. The original article was published in the 13 April 2012 issue of Cell.

We are delighted to announce that on 19 April 2012 Professor Gabriel Waksman was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Clare et al., ATP-Triggered Conformational Changes Delineate Substrate-Binding and -Folding Mechanics of the GroEL Chaperonin. Cell (2012)

We are pleased to announce that the new issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is now available.

Carol Watts, Reader in Literature and Poetics, has had her book of poetry Occasionals reviewed in the US online journal Jacket2.

This week, Tokyo sees the opening of two plays written by playwright and Birkbeck lecturer Colin Teevan.

Dr Asibong talks about his research into French author, Marie NDiaye and the French psychoanalyst Andre Green.

The Department of European Cultures and Languages has a new MA in Comparative Literature starting in October 2012.

A new initiative at Birkbeck for training translators offers opportunities for both students and publishers.

Dr Sue Brooks talks about cliff erosion on the BBC's Inside Out East.

Three lectures in dialogue around the themes of identity from different subject perspectives.

Birkbeck Institute of Environment, University of London, in conjunction with the Ecology and Conservation Studies Society and Linnean Society of London invite you to attend this free lecture series.

Professor Simon Shaw-Miller will be one of the presenters at Hearing, Seeing and Imagining: Music and the Visual Arts taking place August 28-31 at Herstmonceux Castle.

Find out more about this studentship and how to apply before the deadline of 31 May.

Take a look at some of our Cert HE modules in World Arts and History of Art starting this April.

Dr Jessica Reinisch has been awarded a Wellcome Investigator Award for a research project into 'The reluctant internationalists: a multidisciplinary history of public health and international organisations, movements and experts in the 20th century'.

Professor Daniel Pick has just completed a research project, funded by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (2009-11), into the history of psychoanalysis in the 1940s.

Read the report from this recent international event at Birkbeck.

Zoltan Biedermann has received a grant from the AHRC to support research for his new book Mutual Conquests.

A report from a recent seminar from the CILAVS Director in Focus Series with Karim Ainouz and Mariana Cunha.

This year, during Adult Learners' Week (12-18 May), Birkbeck will be holding Try it! Birkbeck in your commUNIty, a week of workshops, lectures, performances, debates and information, advice and guidance sessions at Cambridge House in Camberwell.

Bill Bowring has recently been teachin undergraduate students at the Law Faculty of the Immanuel Kant University in Kaliningrad, Russia.

Radio Sweden's Gabriel Stein talks to Dr Matthew Weait who is in Sweden as part of a research project he is doing about HIV legislation in the Scandinavian countries.

The School of Business, Economics and Informatics is an excellent place for you to pursue your educational ambitions.

Tim Markham's recently published book looks at the myths and reality of war reporting.

Praise for the duet, Meeting Place, choreographed and performed by Martine Painter and Hamish MacPherson.

The School of Business, Economics and Informatics is an excellent place for you to pursue your educational ambitions.

Start the New Year by enhancing your professional development with one of our flexible study options.

Research by Gillian Symon and Katrina Pritchard tends to support OfCom's finding that people report themselves as 'addicted' to their devices.

Professor Øystein Linnebo will deliver his Inaugural Lecture on Tuesday 19 June at 5pm in B01, Clore Management Centre.

Podcasts from John McDowell's lectures on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 March 2012 now available...

Friday 2 and Saturday 3 March 2012 at Main building in Malet Street - John McDowell: The Epistemology of Perception

We've published our spring newsletter, where you can find out more about our department's research, publications and future events.

Tim Smith was interviewed on Film 2012 about his research.

Prosopagnosia - or face-blindness - was the subject of an open day held at the College on 20 September 2011.

Professor Claire Callender and Professor Sue Jackson from Birkbeck, University of London have been awarded a grant by the Nuffield Foundation to explore innovative HE courses designed for student parents.

Professor Sasha Roseneil, who gave a talk to the Faculty of Social Sciences at Brighton University on May 2nd on 'Transforming Intimate Citizenship', will be attending a couple of conferences this month.

New book by Professor Daniel Pick

Dr Atsushi Senju, Dr Angelica Ronald and Dr Victoria Southgate have been included by the Association for Psychological Science in its list of 30 international 'rising stars'.

We are delighted to announce a new MRC-funded ISMB interdisciplinary PhD programme.

Professor Denis Mareschal has been awarded a 2011 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.