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  • Sami Zubaida

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida

    We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.

  • Spanish Pacific – the exhibition and the catalogue

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/06/18/spanish-pacific-the-exhibition-and-the-catalogue/

    Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on June 18, 2014 During my research trip to Seville in January 2014, and then again in March, I had the opportunity to visit the exhibition Pacífico: España y la aventura de la Mar del Sur ( Pacific : Spain...

  • What if the Philippines and Guinea belong to America?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/03/20/what-if-the-philippines-and-guinea-belong-to-america/

    Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 20, 2014 In the context of the Carceral Archipelago project, my research addresses the circulation of convicts to and within colonial and post-colonial Latin America, in connection to other (“free” and “unfree”)...

  • Unwell or Unwanted? The Mental Health of Western Australia’s Convict Population

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/10/17/unwell-or-unwanted-the-mental-health-of-western-australias-convict-population/

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 17, 2016 By Kellie Moss Western Australia welcomed the transportation of convicts in 1850 as a solution to the economic problems which had affected the colony since its foundation as a free settlement in 1829.

  • Most distant detection of a black hole swallowing a star

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/black-hole-swallowing-star

    A University of Leicester astronomer has led an international team that determined the distance of the furthest black hole consuming a star detected to date.

  • Events in Israel, Palestine and the Middle East

    https://le.ac.uk/about/conflict-support/israel-palestine

    See more about the current events in Israel, Palestine and the Middle East, and the University's response.

  • University of Leicester heart research receives £7 million funding boost

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/bhf-award

    The British Heart Foundation has awarded £3 million to the University of Leicester (BHF) to support its world-class cardiovascular disease research over the next five years

  • Partners

    https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/partners

    Find out more information about the Centre for New Writing's partner organisations.

  • New research uncovers secrets of space’s mysterious black holes

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/black-hole-vs-white-dwarf

    X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss;|Scientists have uncovered clues into the reasons why mysterious black holes grow in size, after discovering an amazing struggle between a star and a black hole 250,000 light years away.

  • Women in Economics, Finance and Accounting (WEFA)

    https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/about/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/edi-networks/women-in-economics-finance-and-accounting

    Women in Economics, Finance and Accounting (WEFA) is an outreach initiative aiming to encourage and inspire women to consider a career in Economics, Finance and Accounting (WEFA).

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