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2023 marks the 100th anniversary since the publication of the first novel by Margery Allingham, and this presents an opportunity to celebrate the life, career, and legacy of a writer with a strong Essex connection.
Jordan Welsh
19 September 2023
In July 2022, an unprecedented protest movement against corruption, immiseration, and impunity swept Sri Lanka and forced the President to flee the country. One year on, a new exhibition at the University of Essex and a parallel exhibition at Harrow Arts Centre commemorate and contextualize these different struggles at a time of renewed austerity and repression.
Dr Nilanjana Premaratna, Professor Lars Waldorf
04 July 2023
Tilly Hawkins curates 'Dispatches from the Culture War', examining the NVALA archive of Mary Whitehouse through a queer lens on the Floor 1 landing of the Albert Sloman Library.
Tilly Hawkins
20 June 2023
Santiago Valencia Parra, Rabia Perwaiz, Adhithi Ravikumar, Dongxian "Gin" Zhang, Konstantinos Sfikas, Jingyi Chen, Olatoye "Toye" Salawudeen, Cynthia Iruobe
18 April 2023
Dr Matthew Bowman takes a critical deep dive into Sam Durant's Iconoclasm exhibition at the University of Essex, February to April 2023.
Dr Matthew Bowman
03 March 2023
The idea for the show A University Art Collection in the Making emerged from Dr Sarah Demelo’s research on the founding of the University of Essex Art Collections.
Gisselle Giron, Dr Sarah Demelo
24 February 2023
We welcome Jonathan White as he steps into the role of Director of Library and Cultural Services and University Librarian on 1 February.
Library and Cultural Services
01 February 2023