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The School for Cross-faculty Studies (SCFS) Work Placement Fair will be taking place on Tuesday 11 February 2020, 4:00pm-5:30pm, The Oculus, room .

Senior Teaching Fellow in the Liberal Arts Department Dr Bryan Brazeau looks back on the largely successful Venice and Sustainability project, hosted in Liberal Arts. Find out what staff and students discovered in this innovative problem-based module during their time in Coventry and Venice, and watch a media project looking at cultural sustainability in the city produced by Global Sustainable Development students.

On Wednesday 4 December 2019 in London, won the Women's Society of the Year and the Society of the Year at the 's Society of the Year Awards 2019. The Bright Network's Society of the Year Awards is an annual day of celebration and recognition for university societies around the country that have made a real difference on campus.

The current executive team has had a flying start in their new roles, winning multiple awards at the event in December last year. Matilda Oduntan and Olamide Ajisafe, second-year Liberal Arts students, are currently Welfare Officers at The Black Women's Project. We spoke to Matilda and Olamide about the organisation's recent achievements.

'Revolution! Art and change', a ten-week art history and theory course is taking place throughout this month. From the Reformation to the French and Russian revolution, this lecture series will explore the world's major political and cultural upheavals through the prism of art.

On this ten-week lecture series, join a roster of art world scholars and experts as they dissect some of the most significant revolutions in history and how artists have been shaped by them. The course will look at major events such as the print revolution that ushered in the , and subsequently the Reformation; the French and Russian revolutions that toppled established orders; and the work of the Impressionists, who changed our perceptions of what art should or could be.

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Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper, Deputy Head of the School for Cross-faculty Studies (Liberal Arts), will be giving the first lecture of the series. The lecture will help launch the course by presenting ways of thinking about revolutions transmedially: comparing a range of art objects and ideas from different revolutionary case studies. This method will then be used to look at representations of martyrdom in the woodcuts in John Foxe鈥檚 Book of Martyrs, a hugely influential ecclesiastical history published during the reign of Elizabeth I.

The course will take place at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. To find out more and to book onto the course, please see .

As part of The Hepworth Wakefield's , Senior Teaching Fellow in the Liberal Arts Department Dr Kirsten Harris will be exploring Walt Whitman's rich cultural legacy and influence on Alan Davie and David Hockney. Dr Kirsten Harris will be delivering a talk entitled 'Experimental Lines: Walt Whitman's Cultural Afterlife'.

The event itself, happening on Saturday 18 January 2020, will feature writers, poets, researchers, musicians and filmmakers, looking at the influence of 19th- and 20th-century experimental music and literature on the works of David Hockney and Alan Davie, and the creative circles they moved in. To book your place please see . Student tickets are available.

If you plan to attend the event, you might also be interested in visiting the 'Alan Davie & David Hockney: Early Works' exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield, with free entry until Sunday 19 January 2020. To find out more, please see .

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