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Explore and experience Portuguese food cultures

17/02/2017

Foodways of Knowing: Culture and Identity in the Portuguese Diaspora Join us on Monday 6th March at 5pm in Avenue 65/1163 for an evening of exploring and experiencing Portuguese food cultures, with Dr Rhian Atkin, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at Cardiff University and Principal Investigator of Calouste Gulbenkian-funded research project ‘Pão e […]

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Wine and Tea Study Day 11th March 2017

15/02/2017

We are what we drink: Understanding drinking cultures from the perspective of French Wine and Chinese Tea 11 March 2017, 10:00 – 16:15, Avenue Campus We are what we drink! What does tea tell us about the Chinese or Burgundy about the French? What does drinking means to the people who consume or, equally tellingly, refuse to […]

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New research story available: Mapping knowledge in culture and science by Mary Orr

12/02/2014

Mapping knowledge in culture and science Research story by Mary Orr Mapping – cartographical, cultural, linguistic, scientific – has been central to development of European networks of knowledge and exchanges with other cultures, but saw a period of particularly important development in the early nineteenth century. Bitter military rivalries such as the Napoleonic Wars are […]

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