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20 December 2019

Faculty of Arts and Humanities International Masters Scholarships

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at The University of Sheffield is offering two international faculty scholarship awards, worth £10,000 each for overseas students to take a taught MA programme.

17 January 2020

Call For Papers: BAAL VocabSIG Annual Conference 2020

Proposals are welcomed for: a) Paper presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) and b) and poster proposals. A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted to baalvocabsig@hotmail.com by the 1st of February 2020. Please specify in your email if your submission is for a poster or paper presentation and do not add tables or diagrams in the abstract submission.

16 January 2020

Aesthetics of Drone Warfare Conference

There are two weeks left to register for the Aesthetics of Drone Warfare: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference, taking place 7-8 February 2020 at the Humanities Research Institute, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield S3 7QY.