A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
The Centre of Excellence, which will be jointly based at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of York, will radically change the way in which medieval European literature is studied, allowing researchers to look at literature from a pan-European perspective, rather than one based on traditional national boundaries.
The Centre for Medieval Literature will be officially launched in early 2012. Funding is for six years, with extensions available for a further four years.
The project is led by Professor Lars Boje Mortensen and Dr Christian Høgel from the University of Southern Denmark and Dr Elizabeth Tyler from the University of York’s Department of English and Related Literature and Centre for Medieval Studies, one of the world’s leading centres for interdisciplinary graduate teaching and research into the Middle Ages.
Dr Tyler said: “The Centre for Medieval Literature will help shape the study of medieval European literature for the 21st Century, providing co-ordination of activities and intellectual leadership, enabling European stories to be told about the medieval past.
“Established accounts framed within 19th and 20th century nationalism have been discredited and we require new European approaches. Plans are afoot for new literary histories, translation programmes and digital resources all aiming at European study of medieval literature.
“The new centre will seek new answers to fundamental questions which need to be asked before such work can be carried out, including: What was medieval? What was Europe? What was literature? It will involve scholars working with all literatures of Europe, with expertise from Iceland to the Middle East.”
The centre will include workshops, conferences, publications, PhD students and postdoctoral posts. It will also organise outreach activities, such as working with museums and media, impacting on the public understanding of the European past.
Professor Mortensen said: “There is a growing hunger for genuinely inter-lingual and inter-regional study of medieval European literatures. We do not aim to write a new comprehensive history of medieval literature; rather we seek to provide new frameworks for studying European medieval texts.
“These frameworks will not only impact on the stakeholder disciplines within medieval studies and the teaching of medieval literature, but also redefine the significance of the medieval literary heritage within a modern and a global cultural context.”
Each year the Danish National Research Foundation awards money for research projects which are considered ground-breaking. Development stages for this project were supported by the Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies, the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, the Fondation des Treilles in France and the World Universities Network.
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Also, good news! Looking forward to hearing how this goes 
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