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Global Sustainable Development launches new postgraduate programmes. From September 2021 onwards the new MASc will be available, offering a combination of an Arts (MA) and Sciences (MSc) award. Based in the School for Cross-faculty Studies, their academic home is a natural place to offer a combination of these awards, and they are one of the first Master鈥檚 courses in the UK to be doing so.

On Thursday, 12 November 2020 the University celebrated completing the final storey of the new Faculty of Arts Building with a 鈥渢opping out鈥� ceremony.

Explore with Professor Silvija Jestrovic (Theatre and Performance Studies) some ideas from her recent work about the presence and absence of the author, in 鈥楾he Author Dies Hard鈥�. Siilvija challenges us to think about the questions 鈥榃ho is the author?鈥� and 鈥榃here is the author?鈥�. Her wider work looks at how the author is constructed through cultural and political imaginaries and erasures, intertextual and intertheatrical references, re-performances and self-referentiality, and what the politics and ethics of these constructions are.

Hear from Dr Eris Williams Reed (Classics and Ancient History) about her work on the history of the Roman Near East and ancient communities鈥� interaction with the environment. Eris looks for expressions of environmental loss and ecological grief in the Safaitic inscriptions of Northern Arabia and uncovers the precarious, volatile and fragile relationship that some people in the ancient world had with their environment.

Hear from Dr Pietari Kaapa (Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies) about his work on the relationship between media and climate change. Pietari asks us to think here about the environmental impact of the production of our media and reports on the work of the Global Green Media Production Network.

Hear from Dr Jonathan Skinner (English and Comparative Literary Studies) about his critical and creative work in the field of ecopoetics. Jonathan illuminates for us the importance of the writing and study of poetry in environmental contexts, and highlights the important work that poetry can do in times of environmental crisis. He reads here his poem 鈥楶aragraphs on Forest Bathing鈥�, written for the HS2 protest encampment at Cubbington Woods, 糖心TVshire.

In the first of our Faculty of Arts at Home films focusing on environmental issues, hear from Dr Olga Smith (Institute for Advanced Studies, History of Art) about her research on 鈥榁isualising Climate Change鈥�. Olga explores the effect of images on our perception of global climate change and how this might impact upon public awareness of these issues, as well as on the formation of environmental policy. Her broader research looks at the relationship between humans and nature in contemporary landscape art.

In the final of our 鈥楬ealth, Wellbeing and the Arts鈥� Faculty of Arts at Home films, hear about the research journey of Dr Somak Biswas (Institute for Advanced Studies, Global History and Cultures) and Dr Sara Bamdad (Sociology, now at the University of Kent) on their fascinating project, 鈥楺ueer Immigrants of Colour, Coventry 1970 to Now鈥�. As well as discussing some of their findings, they talk about the challenges of doing this research in lockdown.

In the third of our 鈥楬ealth, Wellbeing and the Arts鈥� Faculty of Arts at Home films, explore with Dr Anna Harpin (Theatre and Performance Studies) the nature and politics of loneliness in her film 鈥極nly the Lonely鈥�. This brilliant, poignant meditation on the 鈥榓ge of loneliness鈥� makes some radical proposals about altering our thinking about loneliness as a problem of the individual to something we can collectively change as a society.

In the second of our 鈥楬ealth, Wellbeing and the Arts鈥� Faculty of Arts at Home films, explore with Dr Elizabeth Barry (English and Comparative Literary Studies) 鈥楤eckett and the Age of Covid鈥�. This film presents her fascinating research on the representation of aging in work of Samuel Beckett. Liz is interested in how Beckett鈥檚 work can be understood in relation to the experience of aging in lockdown and beyond, and how the current pandemic amplifies generational tensions.