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Successful First Year of Ningbo Mentoring Module

Description: This year, for the first time, the Department of History offered a Nottingham Advantage Award (NAA) module which focused on mentoring Ningbo students. Over the last few years, the Department has run a successful mentoring programme for students who arrive in Nottingham from the Ningbo campus.
Date:: 15/05/2013

Dr Sascha Auerbach's book recently published

Description: Sascha Auerbach, a lecturer in the University of Nottingham's Department of History examines the historical evolution of Chinese communities in early twentieth-century Britain and their significance in the development of race as a category in British law, politics, and culture.
Date:: 09/04/2013

Associate professor features on front page news article of Tokyo Shinbun

Description: Together with two co-translators (one, Julie Carpenter pictured on the left), I appeared in the leading article on the front page of the Tokyo Shinbun newspaper on 14 January 2013 (a leading Tokyo newspaper). This announced the publication of the English translation of the famous Japanese historian Shiba Ryotaro's multi-volume Saka no Ue no Kumo under the title Clouds Above the Hill.
Date:: 05/04/2013

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Forthcoming events

French Cultural Studies 25th Anniversary Conference

Date: 29 - 31/05/2013
Location:: Marseille
Description: French Cultural Studies 25th Anniversary Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS for May 2013

Exhibition: When the War was Over: European Refugees after 1945

Date: 10/06/2013
Location:: Highfield House (A11)
Description: "When the War was Over: European Refugees after 1945". A special talk on the subject of the exhibition by curators Nick Baron and Siobhan Peeling.

When the War was Over: European Refugees after 1945

Date: 10/06/2013
Location:: A11 Highfield House
Description: "When the War was Over: European Refugees after 1945" At the end of Second World War more than 11 million people on the European continent found themselves stranded far from home - former Nazi slave labourers, liberated prisoners-of-war and concentration camp survivors, as well as East Europeans fleeing westwards to escape the Soviet Red Army.

Nottingham Medieval @ 25

Date: 21/06/2013
Location:: Highfield House, University Park
Description: Richard Buckley to give a free public lecture on the on the spectacular archaeological discovery of the remains of Richard III, as part of a programme of events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Medieval Research.

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