Valuing the Visual
Some highlights and reflections from the Valuing the Visual Conference at Sheffield School of Education on 4 and 5 July 2017. At the beginning of July I was fortunate to be able to go to the International Literacies Conference in Sheffield. The conference explored the intersections between written and spoken language and the visual. I was one of the only…
Livestreaming Cambridge’s stinkiest plant
Titus is the Botanic Garden’s titan arum plant, sometimes known as the corpse flower. It flowers only once a decade, and the resulting smell has been described as ‘dead badger’; ‘cheesy death’; ‘residue from microwaved kipper’ and ‘the time the freezer died at the Museum of Zoology’. Naturally, Team UCM was there to stream last month’s flowering experience live from…
Front of House Q&A: Alina Kozlovski
Alina Kozlovski is a member of the team of graduate student invigilators who help staff the front desk at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. When she’s not in the Museum, Alina is working on a PhD in Roman archaeology. She answered this Q&A from an archaeological dig in Marzuolo, Italy (“Who knew wattle and daub was so interesting?!”). How long…
