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Ahmed Khaleel
Higher York Volunteering Award for research student

Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2012

York student Ahmed Khaleel was presented with a Higher York Award for Student Volunteering, at a ceremony on 8 May at which his wife Noor also received an award.

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Recent York graduate wins prestigious Ertegun scholarship

Posted on Wednesday 9 May 2012

Laura Hulley, who graduated from York with a starred first in 2010, has been selected as one of the inaugural cohort of Ertegun Scholars for postgraduate study at Oxford.

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York student wins publishing prize as 'Next Great Novelist'

Posted on Wednesday 9 May 2012

York student Sophie Coulombeau beat strong competition from other talented authors under the age of 30 to win Route’s Next Great Novelist Award.

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Writer in Residence Summer 2012: Kamila Shamsie

Posted on Monday 26 March 2012

This summer term 2012 the John Tilney Writer in Residence in the Department of English will be Kamila Shamsie, an English-language Pakistani novelist.

Forthcoming events

Mon
28
May

Public Lecture by Baroness Jenny Tonge

'Political Whips and Freedom of Speech'. A public event organised by York PEN and part of the Prison Fictions and Human Rights Project.

Tue
29
May

Medieval Literatures Research Seminar

'Mind and Matter in Anglo-Saxon Medical Texts'

Tue
29
May

CECS Research Seminar

'Carving a Legacy: Queen Anne and the Politics of Public Sculpture'

Thu
7
Jun

HRC Summer Research Celebration

A party and collective book launch with a celebration of grants won in 2011 and 2012

Mon
11
Jun

Medieval Literatures Research Seminar

'Cultural memory, Identity and Medieval Media: a research project on the Franciscans of Mount Zion in Jerusalem and the Representation of the Holy Land (1333-1516)'


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