#Exeter University

[madame-helen]

Moses was Hulk Hogan CONFIRMED

#meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting #humor #funny #lol #satire #funny memes #funny humor #funny meme #history #history memes #moses #exeter university #3d model #sarcasm #hulk hogan #twitter #tweet #irony #joke

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-66981924.amp?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16963221914273&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

If I saw this on another site I would have thought it was satirical, but I don't think BBC News does Satire!

By: BBC News

Published: Oct 3, 2023

A degree in magic being offered in 2024 will be one of the first in the UK, the University of Exeter has said.

The "innovative" MA in Magic and Occult Science has been created following a "recent surge in interest in magic", the course leader said.

It would offering an opportunity to study the history and impact of witchcraft and magic around the world on society and science, bosses said.

The one-year programme starts in September 2024.

Academics with expertise in history, literature, philosophy, archaeology, sociology, psychology, drama, and religion will show the role of magic on the West and the East.

The university said it was one of the only postgraduate courses of its kind in the UK to combine the study of the history of magic with such a wide range of other subjects.

'Place of magic'

Prof Emily Selove, course leader, said: "A recent surge in interest in magic and the occult inside and outside of academia lies at the heart of the most urgent questions of our society.

"Decolonisation, the exploration of alternative epistemologies, feminism and anti-racism are at the core of this programme."

The course will be offered in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.

Prof Selove said: "This MA will allow people to re-examine the assumption that the West is the place of rationalism and science, while the rest of the world is a place of magic and superstition."

The university said the course could prepare students for careers in teaching, counselling, mentoring, heritage and museum work, work in libraries, tourism, arts organisations or the publishing industry, among other areas of work.

A choice of modules includes dragons in western literature and art, the legend of King Arthur, palaeography, Islamic thought, archaeological theory and practice and the depiction of women in the Middle Ages.

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I mean, it could have been quite good, the history of magic; the effect on human imagination and storytelling; magic in literature and art; magic as metaphor for what we don't know, a stand-in for science; the evolution of societal perceptions of magic through the growth of the scientific method; the role of magic and revelation in early epistemological (truth claims) processes... this could have been a fascinating course.

Then they had to ruin it by stuffing it full of intersectional Gender Studies horseshit and making it ideologically corrupt and completely academically worthless. Except to piss off daddy, who's paying the bill.

This is the exact kind of luxury course that only bored, privileged, upper-middle class people with no real problems or ambition would take. If you take it, you have nothing better to do, and no ambition to better your future prospects. It's low-effort, academically shallow, fosters undeserved moral elitism, but still takes in tuition fees, so it's unsurprising that it exists.

You'd be getting loan forgiveness for it over my dead body, though.

#ask #Degree in Magic #Exeter University #gender studies #intersectionality #intersectional feminism #intersectional religion #religion is a mental illness

[sleepybookdragon]

Magic and Occult Science MA | Postgraduate Taught | University of Exeter

Who else wants to study this?!

#Magic #Magic MA #Exeter University #exeter #UK #University #universities

[newsfromtherooftop]

Gold standard guidelines on exercise and physical activity to help people living with Cystic Fibrosis

World leading experts have joined forces to create a gold standard document to help people living with Cystic Fibrosis | Researchers from University of Portsmouth and Exeter University contributed to plan #health #cysticfibrosis #healthresearch

World leading experts have joined forces to create a gold standard document to help people living with Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited condition caused by a faulty gene that affects the entry and exit of salt and water in cells. It results in the accumulation of sticky mucus in the lungs and digestive system, leading to a range of challenging symptoms. While there is no cure for…

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#Charity #Cystic Fibrosis #Exeter University #health research #Portsmouth University #Research

[modalities-of-care]

(22 June 22)

"New Thinking: Waiting

Arts & Ideas

Waiting is an inevitable part of life, whether it’s in the waiting room of a GP surgery or waiting for lockdown to end.

As part of the Waiting Times project, Dr Michael Flexer, a publicly engaged research fellow at the University of Exeter, explores different concepts of waiting and suggests that some forms of waiting – for seeds to grow, for the curtain to rise in a theatre – can be positive. https://WhatAreYouWaitingFor.org.uk

Professor Victoria Tischler is from the European Centre for Environment & Human Health at the University of Exeter and co-investigator of the Pandemic and Beyond project. During lockdown her project Culture Box sent out packages to care home residents filled with activities: watercolour paints, seeds, guides to birdsong. She shares her thoughts on how these activities changed the recipients’ relationship to time. https://pandemicandbeyond.exeter.ac.uk/

This episode was made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI. You can find a collection of episodes focused on New Research on the Free Thinking programme website on BBC Radio 3.

Producer: Tim Bano"

#waiting #liminal #victorial tischler #dr michael flexer #public engagement #AHRC #UKRI #waiting times #exeter university #lisa bariaster

[eretzyisrael]

by Michael Starr

Jewish students of the United Kingdom's University of Exeter had to flee fearing for their safety after their Israeli flag was splashed with red juice and their flyers ripped up by a crowd of dozens while they sat at an information stall on Wednesday, one of the students told The Jerusalem Post.

Third-year International Relations student Rojin-Sena Cantay was at a table on behalf of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) UK with six other students when a large crowd began to gather just after noon. Cantay said that the booth had been approved by the university.

“It was a very violent and abusive environment; we weren’t protected at all," said Cantay.

A heated debate ensued among the students about Palestinian rights, the legitimacy of the IDF's operations in the Israel-Hamas War, and the right of Jews to have a state in the Levant.

'Jewish students are Israeli agents'

Cantay alleged that members of the crowd had said that the students were Israeli agents because of the CAMERA on Campus pamphlets. They also reportedly said that “Jews are the reason the Middle East is messed up” and “Jews don’t belong to Israel, they belong to Europe.”

"The students were questioning and picking apart our families, demanding to know where their parents and grandparents were from," said Cantay, “to delegitimize us as being Jews and our connection to Israel.”

One woman grew irate over remarks about the treatment of LGBTQ+ in the Muslim world and that the crowd was being intimidating. She accused the Jewish students of growing close to making Islamophobic comments.

"Do you know how violent it is for you guys to sit here with that flag?" said one student.

Cantay said that red juice was thrown over their Israeli flag, which she assumed was to paint it to look like blood, but the liquid splashed on the Jewish students as well.

University security "watched it, so it was criminal activity that the security watched. They refused to call the police. They told us that there was nothing illegal being done, even though things were being thrown at us. They ripped up our leaflets,” said Cantay.

CAMERA UK said in a statement that the students had to flee the campus in taxis provided by the university out of concern for their physical safety.

#university of exeter #jewish students #camera uk #israeli agents

[01libra]

Exeter college, Oxford

#feel the need to disclaim that I am NOT a member of Exeter college god bless #mine #oxford university #academia aesthetic #exteriors #light academia #architecture #dark academia

[blackswaneuroparedux]

It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

- J.R.R. Tolkien on his discovery of the Finnish language, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

JRR Tolkien matriculated (formally entered Exeter College, Oxford) on 17 October 1911, aged 19, as an exhibitioner in Classics. He changed course to English Language and Literature graduating in 1915 with first class Honours. In 1914 Tolkien was awarded the college’s Skeat prize for English.

Loans from the college library included an annotated Finnish grammar, now in the Library special collections.

He participated in the College’s 600th anniversary celebrations in 1914, and was a prominent member of the college’s debating society, the Stapeldon Society, and Essay Club.

Photo: JRR Tolkien (pictured back row, leaning forward) during his time at Exeter College, Oxford.

#tolkien #jrr tolkien #quote #literature #finnish #scandinavia #lord of the rings #oxford #university #exeter college #student #english #icon #culture #arts

[pointless-letters]

…wait, what?

#Daily Telegraph #University #Cancel culture #Odious #Enoch Powell #Students #Rivers of blood #Exeter #So we protested #And fought #And made it impossible for him to speak #And it was called off #But that wasn’t cancel culture #Oh no #That was different #Not like today #Bloody students #Not letting people speak #Bastards

[alicemccombs]

#university of exeter #Master’s Degree in the Occult #climateactionnow #healearth

[derkabobhall]

Colleges. (Oxford 2024)

#travel #oxford #england #no filter #university #college #academia #radcliffe camera #examination schools #exeter college #hertford college #hertford bridge #bridge of sighs #sheldonian theatre #bodleian library #university church of st. mary the virgin #st. mary's #magdalen college #christ church college #tom tower #christopher wren

[snimbusjavy]

Duke Exeter is the leader of the Sentinel faction and Grand Commander of the soldiers of the Nexus Force.

A noble man driven by principle and duty, he will stop at nothing until his mission is complete... But in the fight against the Maelstrom? The whole universe is at stake, failure isn't an option for him.

And when innocents die, after he sees he's unable to save them all? What will he sacrifice to achieve victory?

After all, he can't afford to fail. No matter what it takes.

#LEGO Universe #Our Universe #Duke Exeter

[theperfectquestion]

"There's a lot of power in a community recognising how shame is being used to position them as inferior or marginalized and coming together around that shame and trying to convert it into a positive affect.

But what often happens is that people feel shame on their own and go, 'well there's something wrong with me, I'm this terrible, flawed person' and don't recognise the structural, systematic shame by a whole government - being shamed for being overweight or living in ethnic communities or so on.

When you recognise that pattern of shaming, that can be profoundly liberating."

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6uZeKHks3JzGHJ6MH0SqW4?si=IglMGDHlR26npmY8IJEE9w

#shame #covid #shaming #pandemic #university of exeter #luna dolezal

[lu-blogging]

Meet The Plastic-Eating Worms | Planet Fix | BBC Earth Science

#youtube #phoenix #macao #phoenixtranslationsmacau #save the planet #our planet #earth #plastic #bacteria #environment #university of exeter #bbc

[bookmyuniroom]

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#Student Accommodation Exeter #exeter #student room #student homes #university #studying

[luvmoonie]

this may be far fetched because it’s tumblr but i’m sooo indecisive on my uni choices and i’m having a breakdown,

bristol vs exeter vs birmingham vs rhul

yall where should i firm??? and which do i visit 😔

#don’t ask why i picked them #i regret it now #but im too scared to do clearing or take a gap year #fuck my life #please someone give me some good news #bristol #university #university of exeter #exeter #university of bristol #university of birmingham #royal holloway #PLS HELP ME 😭 #i can’t visit both exeter and bristol so idk which to choose