Professor Geraldine Brodie Vice-Dean (Advancement), Faculty of Arts & Humanities at UCL Professor of Translation Theory and Theatre Translation, Centre for Translation Studies, SELCS/CMII Following a career as a chartered accountant, Geraldine Brodie gained her PhD in theatre translation from UCL. Her publications on translation for performance include The Translator on Stage (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Adapting Translation for the Stage, co-edited with Emma Cole (Routledge, 2017). She is a member of the Clore Leader network, which draws its members from across arts, culture and the creative sector in the UK, and Chair of Actors Touring Company.

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4/16/2024

In March 2023, the Centre for Humanities Education supported a work-shop on problem-based learning. Problem-based learning is an approach to teaching that has long been used in the fields of law, medicine and STEM. At the outset of a module, students are presented with a real-world problem, case study or scenario from their discipline and work together to find a solution, usually culminating in a final product (report, presentation, exhibition etc.) Organised by Dr Selena Daly (UCL SELCS) in collaboration with Jesper Hansen (UCL Arena), this workshop showcased how problem-based learning techniques can be applied to the humanities classroom, and featured case studies of modules across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities led by Elettra Carbone (SELCS), Geraldine Horan (SELCS), and Ranjita Dhital (Arts and Sciences).

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6/12/2023

A recording of the online open event held on 25th January 2023.

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2/7/2023

Academic papers by Dr Louise Peacock, Associate professor in Drama at De Montfort University and Joana Jacob Ramalho, teaching Lecturer in Film Studies, Comparative Literature and Portuguese at UCL. Clowning for mind, body and soul (Louise Peacock) Sad, Scary and Sadistic Clowns in Films (Joana Jacob Ramalho) Political Clowns and the Buffons of Internationa Politics (Louise Peacock)

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7/21/2022

Grimaldi’s Last Act, performed reading Edmund Behn, directed by Anthony Shrubsball, with music by Zelida Gordon. Adapted from ‘Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi’ by Charles Dickens.

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7/21/2022

Synopsis An online streamed adaptation of ‘Natura morta in un fosso’ (Still Life in Ditch’) by the Italian playwright Stefano Paradivino translated in English by Ilaria Papini in 2013 and published by Hanging Loose Press (New York). “a riveting murder mystery constructed entirely of vivid monologues. As the plot unfolds through the intricate interplay of voices, we are not only swept towards a powerhouse climax but even more impressively taken deep into the minds of a half-dozen living, breathing unforgettable characters." Harold Schechter in www.bookshop.org. The play, produced by the SELCS Theatre projects, has been performed by students from SELCS and across UCL.

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8/12/2021

Synopsis An online streamed adaptation of ‘Natura morta in un fosso’ (Still Life in Ditch’) by the Italian playwright Stefano Paradivino translated in English by Ilaria Papini in 2013 and published by Hanging Loose Press (New York). “a riveting murder mystery constructed entirely of vivid monologues. As the plot unfolds through the intricate interplay of voices, we are not only swept towards a powerhouse climax but even more impressively taken deep into the minds of a half-dozen living, breathing unforgettable characters." Harold Schechter in www.bookshop.org. The play, produced by the SELCS Theatre projects, has been performed by students from SELCS and across UCL.

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8/11/2021

Synopsis This is an absurdist play written by Eugene Ionesco in 1959. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and scruffy lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play explores the themes of conformity, culture, fascism, responsibility, logic, mass movements, philosophy and morality. The Students have been faithful to the plot, presented in English with a modern cut.

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8/11/2021