Articles about 'School of Arts and Humanities'

Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they are lost forever.

Treasured and venerated for thousands of years, jade holds a special place in the history and culture of the Chinese Empire.

A Sino-British project is examining the history of China’s first age of modern globalisation, enabling China and Britain to rediscover their interconnected past.

China’s rich history of scientific and technical contributions to human culture stretches back to antiquity, as Christopher Cullen has been discovering when it comes to numbers.

Two early-career academics in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages have been recognised by the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Two recently funded grants will build and strengthen research collaborations with Chinese academics.

As more people become city-dwellers, can we design cities to be more sustainable?

A research initiative in the Faculty of Divinity aims to train church leaders to convert the negatives of conflict into the positives of transformation.

A new study of the 14th-century narrative poem Libro de Buen Amor explores how its earthy tales of failed love are shaped by humour.

The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.