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• New exhibition inspired by iconic Leicester playwright Joe Orton to open its doors

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/new-exhibition-inspired-by-iconic-leicester-playwright-joe-orton-to-open-its-doors

  A new exhibition inspired by the life and work of Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton will open its doors at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in London on Sunday 5 February.

• Researchers shed light on why and how Stonehenge was built

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/researchers-shed-light-on-why-and-how-stonehenge-was-built

  Excavation of two quarries in Wales by a team of archaeologists and geologists - including Dr Rob Ixer, a researcher with the Department of Geology - has confirmed they are sources of Stonehenge’s ‘bluestones’, shedding light on how they were quarried...

• Violence reduction hub

  https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/our-hubs/violence-reduction-hub

  The Centre for Hate Studies' Violence reduction hub aims to produce word leading research that enables academics and policy makers to better understand patterns of different forms of violence.

• Leicester educational expertise benefits Gulf states

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-educational-expertise-benefits-gulf-states

  Education experts have headed to United Arab Emirates this week for a top-level meeting involving senior government officials from seven Gulf states.

• Report suggests current responses to hate crime in the UK are failing and letting down victims

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/report-suggests-current-responses-to-hate-crime-in-the-uk-are-failing-and-letting-down-victims

  Hate crime victims throughout the United Kingdom are being let down by the Government and criminal justice agencies, according to a new report undertaken by Leicester experts in collaboration with Amnesty International UK.

• Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces.

• Suggested reading

  https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/study/undergraduate/introductory-reading

  Thinking of applying for American Studies at the University of Leicester? Take a look at our suggestions for books, films and cultural activities that will aid you with your application and prepare you for studying at Leicester.

• Projects

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects

  The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain programme was driven by six linked projects incorporating some of the latest research in archaeology, genetics, history, linguistics, social psychology, and place-name studies.

• Modern Languages

  https://le.ac.uk/modern-languages

  Modern Languages at the University of Leicester is one of the leading centres for the study of languages, translation, and cultures in the UK. We offer courses in modern language and culture in French, Italian, Spanish and translation and interpreting.

• About

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/about

  The Impact of Diasporas programme was driven by six concurrent projects each using evidence and ideas from more than one specialism to ask new questions of evidence and develop new approaches to the study of the impact of deep‐time diasporas.