The postgraduate students following the M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Criticism are organising a conference entitled 'Desire, Literature, Culture'. The conference will be held between 29 and 30 March 2012.

Full details are available on the conference website.

The Department of Physics in collaboration with UNESCO will be hosting the 32nd International Workshop on Seismicity and Earthquake Engineering in the Extended Mediterranean Region between Monday 13  and Thursday 16 February 2012 at the Palace Hotel, Sliema.

For more information click here.

2-5 February - Chaplaincy goes to Rome/Assisi
16 February - DVD Night - Not without my Daughter - 2000hrs
17-20 February - Chaplaincy goes Monastic - Ireland - Mt Melleray Abbey
21 February - Pancake Day - 1000hrs onwards
22 February - Taize Prayers - 2000hrs
28 February - United Worship - 2000hrs

Daily Adoration and Rosary at 1500hrs.

An Evening of Usability, Malta's first Conference on Website Usability will be held on Tuesday 7 February at 1800hrs in the Erin Serracino Inglott Hall Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1) at the University of Malta, Msida Campus.

The Presentations
Practical Usability Guidelines for your Website - Justin Mifsud
Usability Tips for Complex Forms - Caroline Jarrett

The Speakers
Caroline Jarrett (UK)
Caroline is the co-author of the best selling books 'Forms That Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability' and 'User Interface Design and Evaluation'. She is currently working on a book on surveys which will be published by Rosenfeld Media. Caroline is also the owner of usability consulting firm Effortmark. Coupled with over 20 years experience in the field, it is no wonder that she is considered as one of the world's leading Usability and UX experts.

Justin Mifsud (Malta)
Justin is owner of UsabilityGeek.com - a website usability and user experience blog. Justin has also written in leading UX blogs such as Smashing Magazine and has developed the USEFul Framework about which he has also published a research paper.

Both speakers have spoken at a number of events worldwide.

There will also be time to address questions from attendees.

This is a unique opportunity for anyone who is into webdesign and development! The event is FREE. If you are interested in attending, please confirm your attendance via email.

For those of you who use Twitter, we have created a Lanyrd page so you can easily share it with your friends.

The event is sponsored by Holistic Group and the Department of Intelligent Computing Systems.

Special thanks to: Dr Alexiei Dingli, the staff at the Department of Intelligent Computing Systems and the University of Malta for coordinating the promotion of the event and providing the venue.

KSU will be holding a debate entitled 'ACTA Information Debate'. The debate will be held on Wednesday 8 February 2012 at the KSU Common Room at 1230hrs.

Following recent developments in both the local and international scene, KSU will be organising an Information Debate regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, also known as ACTA.

The speakers for this debate are:

• Dr Simon Busuttil - MEP (EPP Group)
• Prof. Edward Scicluna - MEP (S&D Group)
• Dr Antonio Ghio - IT Expert, Lawyer and Lecturer at the University of Malta

All University members of staff and students are cordially invited to attend the Seminars entitled:

''On the Semiharmonic Characterization of the Optimal Payoff Functions in Nonzero-Sum Games'' by Ms Natalie Attard

Date:  Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Time:  1030hrs
Venue: Room 606 Maths and Physics Building

Click here for Abstracts

Sustainable Energy Seminar, 21st February, 2012.

The Institute for Sustainable Energy is organising a one-day seminar on Tuesday 21 February 2012, entitled: 'Sustainable Energy 2012: The ISE Annual Conference', Dolmen Hotel, Bugibba, Malta.

To view the Programme and Application Form, please click here.

The drive to overcome the stigma associated with epilepsy will be the theme of this year’s national conference of the Caritas Malta Epilepsy Association. The conference is being held in conjunction with the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the University of Malta.

The conference will highlight the European Parliament’s recently approved Written Declaration on Epilepsy [PDF], which calls on the EU Commission to prioritise epilepsy as a major disease which imposes significant burden across Europe. There are over 3,000 persons who have been diagnosed with epilepsy in Malta and Gozo. Among the speakers at the national conference will be Commissioner John Dalli, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Affairs, Mgr. Victor Grech, Director of Caritas Malta, Prof. Mike Kerr, from the Department of Psychological Medicine & Neurology, University of Cardiff, UK, and Ms Hanneke de Boer, Co-ordinator, WHO/IBE/ILAE Global Campaign against Epilepsy, Sein Epilepsy Centre, Netherlands. 

The conference will be held on Saturday 25 February.

The conference programme and application form may be downloaded from here.

The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, Moscow State University
with the support of the
Department of International Relations, University of Malta

is pleased to announce the

XV International Conference on 'Russia and the West: Dialogue of Cultures',
which will be held in Malta between 21-27 April 2012. 


The questions to be discussed during the conference are the following:

•     Russian and European Educational System
•     Russia and the West: Mutual Perception Issues
•     Cultural Interaction in Historical Context
•     Intercultural Communication Issues
•     National Mentalities
•     Comparative Studies of National Literatures
•     Russian Language in the World
•     Actual Problems of Area Studies
•     Teaching a Foreign Language: Dialogue of Cultures

The 44th EUCEN Conference, entitled 'Border-crossing as a Viable Choice: Collaboration, Dialogue and Access to Higher Education'  will be held in Malta between 7-9 November, 2012. Hosted by the University of Malta, the conference will address four themes: border-crossing, collaboration, access and migration issues in Higher Education. Professor Carmel Borg is the academic coordinator of the conference.

EUCEN, the European Association for University Lifelong Learning, is the largest European multidisciplinary Association in University Lifelong Learning.

EUCEN was founded in 1991. It is registered in Belgium as an international non-governmental non-profit making organisation and has 222 members from 43 different countries.