Can positive changes result from genocide? PhD student Caroline Williamson tells us about her research
11/03/2013
Research carried out in Nottingham University’s Department of French and Francophone Studies found inspiring positive changes among Rwandan women, as PhD student Caroline Williamson explains. Funded by an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, Caroline worked in Rwanda for a year with the Nottinghamshire-based NGO the Aegis Trust, which campaigns against genocide and crimes against humanity, and runs …
Research on contemporary slavery: events on campus
01/03/2013
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the US Emancipation Proclamation. Signed and issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War on January 1, 1863, the order proclaimed free all those enslaved in the Confederate States. Yet President Obama marked this anniversary not with celebratory remarks or a visit to the Lincoln Memorial …
Language and technology – a new research project
28/02/2013
For the CLAS blog’s inaugural post, Professor Christopher Johnson tells us about his new research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. I have recently been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to write a book on the French prehistorian and ethnologist André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-86). Unlike the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, my previous subject of research, Leroi-Gourhan …
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