AI and Film Masterclass with Rahul Puri 18 February 2025
“It’s important to find a balance between using AI and human creativity”, says India’s top film school director at Queen Mary University of London
Rahul Puri, Director of Academics at Whistling Woods International—India’s top film school and one of the world’s top 10 film schools—recently delivered a masterclass on AI and Film at Queen Mary’s School the of Arts. The session, chaired by Professor Anat Pick, Head of the Department of Film, was part of a growing academic partnership between the two institutions.
Provoked Narratives: Films about Palestine Tuesday 12 November, 3pm to 6pm, BLOC Cinema, Arts One 17 February 2025
New monograph on Linda Nochlin - book launch 13th February 11 February 2025
Publication of Prof Astrid Köhler's New Book 6 February 2025
Professor Astrid Köhler's latest monograph Health Resort in Modern European Literature: Transnational Trajectories, co-authored with Henrike Schmidt has been published Open Access with Bloomsbury.
Prof Jeremy Hicks gave a talk at British Library Holocaust Memorial Day Event 30 January 2025
Prof Jeremy Hicks gave a talk about representations of the Holocaust in Soviet film on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 at the British Library.
Dr Rey Conquer's novel shortlisted in The Novel Prize 16 January 2025
Study Travel (yan xue) 23 December 2024
This blogpost explores a catchphrase yanxue (study travel) and its intersections with education, policy, and consumer culture, from its roots in project-based learning to its commercialisation as a luxury study experience.
Visit from German Saturday School 18 December 2024
The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures recently hosted a school visit with German learners from the German Saturday School.
Dr Rebekah Vince Awarded Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize 16 December 2024
MLC colleague Rebekah Vince won Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for co-translation of A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean.
Kathleen McCarthy and her collaborators at UCL SHaPS and QMUL Engineering are awarded an ESRC grant to build a new recording device that helps track early language acquisition in multilingual infants and adults 25 November 2024