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Glocalism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/31/glocalism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2014 Glocalism …a new peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, published every four months by the association Globus et Locus.
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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.
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Internationally renowned novelist joins Leicester’s top academics to discuss why climate change has been banished from fiction books
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dr-amitav-ghosh
Distinguished author and Booker prize nominee, Dr Amitav Ghosh, will join top scientists and a world-leading historian to explore how the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences have shaped, and can shape, our thinking about the climate emergency.
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Publications
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/publications
The Centre for Urban History provides publications to aid academic learning.
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Study
https://le.ac.uk/modern-languages/study
We offer a range of course options including languages at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as translation studies and international communication and culture, joint degrees in collaboration with other departments, and research opportunities within Modern Languages.
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International Migration in the Age of Securitisation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl3143
Module code: PL3143 Global migration levels have grown considerably since the turn of the millennium, due to factors such as wars, unrest, economic concerns, increased free movement and lower travel costs.
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Environment/Nature/Society
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy1412
Module code: GY1412 This module begins with a question that, at first, seems very straightforward but in reality is quite complex: what is nature? You'll be considering the ways that nature has been understood throughout history, by looking at ideas about nature in...
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International Migration in the Age of Securitisation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/pl3143
Module code: PL3143 Global migration levels have grown considerably since the turn of the millennium, due to factors such as wars, unrest, economic concerns, increased free movement and lower travel costs.
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Environment/Nature/Society
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gy1412
Module code: GY1412 This module begins with a question that, at first, seems very straightforward but in reality is quite complex: what is nature? You'll be considering the ways that nature has been understood throughout history, by looking at ideas about nature in...
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Environment/Nature/Society
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/gy1412
Module code: GY1412 This module begins with a question that, at first, seems very straightforward but in reality is quite complex: what is nature? You'll be considering the ways that nature has been understood throughout history, by looking at ideas about nature in...