Cross-discipline research seminar

School of Culture PhD student Malik Alkhawaldeh will be speaking at the next Cross-discipline research seminar in the series. His topic is ecocriticism in Assia Djebar's Children of the New World, Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Fadia Faqir's Pillars of Salt. It takes place on Thursday 22nd February at 2pm (there will also be two other talks from research students from Business and Pharmacy).

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