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Did you catch our Dr Marco Di Nunzio (@marcodinu) speaking to @BBCNewshour on the weekend? Covering the topics of #Gentrification of Urban centres & the demolition of the #Historical neighbourhood Piazza in Addis Ababa 🎧Listen from 23:30:👉🏼ow.ly/672G50RcXNg

Should we stop talking about The Crusades? Join Professor @WilliamPurkis for his Inaugural lecture 🗓️ Wed 1 May 🕕 6-7pm 📍Arts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120) Register 👉 birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor…

"Demolitions are undermining the existing economic fabric of the city" Dr Marco Di Nunzio (@marcodinu) spoke to @BBCNewshour on Saturday on the #Gentrification of urban centres & the demolition of Piazza in Addis Ababa 🎧Listen from 23:30:👉🏼ow.ly/672G50RcXNg

📢3 weeks to go until Professor William Purkis (@WilliamPurkis) Inaugural lecture on 'Should we stop talking about The Crusades?' 🗓️Wednesday 1 May (18:00-19:00) 📍Main Lecture Theatre (room 120), Arts Building, @unibirmingham Edgbaston campus. 🔗ow.ly/xF2j50R3rKp

Just a few days left to send in proposals for "Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds," our joint conference with @CREMS_bham and @theBRIHC taking place 24-25 June! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/wp-content…

Our Dr Marco Di Nunzio (@marcodinu) has studied the capital and largest city of Ethiopia Addis Ababa’s inner city for several years He recently spoke to the @guardian about the impact of the demolition in the historic district Read the full piece:👉🏼ow.ly/5WJ250RayQW 🧵1/2

Should we stop talking about The Crusades? Don't forget to join us for our Professor William Purkis (@WilliamPurkis) Inaugural lecture. 🗓️Wednesday 1 May 2024 (18:00-19:00) 📍Arts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120) 🔗Register here👉🏼ow.ly/xF2j50R3rKp

📢Our Professor Candida Moss's (@candidamoss) book #GodsGhostwriters was officially released in the UK today! Exploring how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament Discover the book here:👉🏼hachettebookgroup.com/titles/candida…

Explore the University of Birmingham's African Collection of art and artefects and challenge the colonial collector mindset through dance @theBRIHC @CAL_Postgrads

"Ukudansa: Exploring African Artifacts Through Dance!" Join us in this immersive workshop crafted to inspire imaginative and interactive interpretations of African objects and artefacts housed at @unibirmingham through the power of dance! more info:eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukudansa-exp…

Dr Imogen Peck will be exploring some of the surprising parallels between early modern and modern approaches to #Cultural memory and issues of #National reconciliation Register for tickets here:👉🏼hayfestival.com/p-21890-imogen…

📢@unibirmingham will once again partner with @hayfestival this year for 2024! 🥳 Our dynamic speakers will be Dr Christopher Haworth & Dr Imogen Peck plus Dr Katharina Karcher with Yordanka Dimcheva Read our press release👉🏼ow.ly/fVlX50QVEX9

📢Join us next week for our 'Bleu, Blanc, Rouge & Brown: French Histories, Colonial Spaces' event! Dr Roxanne Panchasi will explore her experiences as both a racialized scholar of modern France & #Empire 🗓️Wednesday 20 March 14:00-16:00 📍 Hybrid 🔗birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor…

We're excited to share the call for papers for "Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds," the conference we're organising this summer with @CREMS_bham (and with assistance from @theBRIHC). Please spread the word and send in your ideas!

How would you like an evening of dinosaurs & ABBA? Join @lapworthmuseum to be transported through time with ABBA Unearthed - listen to the Sekine Quartet as interstellar projections light up the night. 🗓️ March 12 🕕 6-7pm or 8-9pm 🎟️ £12 (student £8) birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/lap…

Professor John Holmes & Dr Dion Dobrzynski have been collaborating with @BIFoRUoB @HEFiDigitalCAL & @RuskinToday to produce virtual reading walks of the #Forest site Creating an immersive, interactive & educational resource from #Tolkien works Discover👉🏼ow.ly/8RiJ50QMxir

This is on Wednesday afternoon, 1-3pm, at @artsatbham. Come and hear about gifts, love, self-destruction, and the supernatural in eighteenth-century Britain!

Join DASA's Gerald Mazarire tomorrow for The Africa Lecture 23/24 at Queen's University Belfast @CAL_Postgrads @theBRIHC @artsatbham

📢1 week to go until our next Hybrid event! Join us for our 'Authorial Metadata and the #Global History Archive: trips, traps and tricks' 🗓️Wednesday 6 March (13:00-15:00) 📍Arts building room 250 (Fage seminar room) & zoom 🔗Register here:👉🏼ow.ly/Uen250QCSJY