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[BRIHC @theBRIHC]

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:👉🏼https://t.co/evBvcRJ2vM

[Uni of Birmingham @unibirmingham]

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 👉 https://t.co/QnlpjHxX2V

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

"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:👉🏼https://t.co/oEot7kDlZz

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

📢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.
🔗https://t.co/hdB5XJJ2uR

[Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC @beccbham]

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! https://t.co/iaCxhcnYuI

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

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:👉🏼https://t.co/2KgLWa3A4v 🧵1/2

[BRIHC @theBRIHC]

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👉🏼https://t.co/p9rInR3H4U

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

📢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:👉🏼https://t.co/xbpuwdhln5

[Africa Hub UoB @africahubuob]

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

[We Don't Settle @WeDontSettle]

"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:https://t.co/oAtC4d5XAu

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

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:👉🏼https://t.co/N2xKdXqshq

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

📢@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👉🏼https://t.co/tr8lVLRIwP

[BRIHC @theBRIHC]

📢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
🔗https://t.co/78Ka4qY4uL

[Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC @beccbham]

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!

[Uni of Birmingham @unibirmingham]

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)
https://t.co/A2G5ECwt5V

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

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👉🏼https://t.co/nPEx3ydLUS

[Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC @beccbham]

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

[Africa Hub UoB @africahubuob]

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

[BRIHC @theBRIHC]

📢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:👉🏼https://t.co/zjGT82YzBX