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Academic to question society's online ethics
Thursday 18 March
A University of Hertfordshire academic will claim that people are experiencing a fourth revolution as they make sense of their place in an information-filled world, in a lecture at the University next week.
Historian to question Britain's 'credible commitment'
Thursday 18 March
A lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire will question Britain’s commitment to sound public finance when she speaks at a conference at the University of Cambridge next week (20-23 March 2010).
Conference to discuss the search for the 'Happy productive worker'
Thursday 18 March
Guru of happiness

A paper at the conference on happiness at the University of Hertfordshire tomorrow (17 March) will explore the possibility of work providing a route to happiness.
New funding to explore ethics of Information Warfare
Wednesday 10 March
Information e-bomb

In a climate where society is more likely to be hit by an e-bomb than an atomic one, a philosopher has just received funding to provide an ethical analysis of information warfare.
Professor Luciano Floridi at the University of Hertfordshire’s Social, Sciences Arts and Humanities Research Institute, has received €170,000 from the Marie Curie Fellowship programme to embark on the two-year The Ethics of Information Warfare: Risks, Rights and Responsibilities project.

School of Humanities Open Day - 27 March 2010
Saturday 27 March
Open Day for those that have already applied to the School of Humanities, on the Humanities Programmes or Mass Communications Programme.
Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture
Friday 16 April
The aim of the conference is to relate the undead in literature, art, and other media to questions concerning gender, technology, consumption, and social change. It will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the development of innovative and creative research and examine these creatures in all their various manifestations and cultural meanings.

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School of Humanities Open Day - 24 April 2010
Saturday 24 April
Open Day for those that have already applied to the School of Humanities, on the Humanities Programmes or Mass Communications Programme.