Activities for students
Tired of watching Netflix all day? Tried out all recipes in your cookbook? Not in the mood to knit another scarf? Then join one of the many activities UM organises for students!
For an overview of activities, see here.
Poetry, picture and art contest continues
On 21 March, the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski passed away, having only a few days before taken part in the Scottish International Poetry Festival online.
Below you can find his poem ‘Transformation’ to inspire you. The poem simply begins ‘I haven’t written a single poem / in months’…..which explores what he has been doing instead. Perhaps you can use that same line as an opening and write your own poem in response. What have you been doing the last few weeks when you haven’t been writing a poem, or essay, or thesis?
In the meantime, have a look at this beautiful painting made by Sarah Anschütz on her iPad. You can still send in your your art, photos, poems and short fiction (both staff and students!) to Sally (sally.wyatt@maastrichtuniversity.nl).
Poetry, picture and art contest continues
This week’s poem by Lea Beiermann (History Department) reminded me of what Sir Philip Sydney (English poet, 1554-1586) said about the purpose of poetry, ‘to instruct and to delight’. Lea conjures up the power of language and words, and reminds us of the importance of learning, of embodiment and of nature.
Keep sending your art, photos, poems and short fiction (both staff and students!) to Sally (sally.wyatt@maastrichtuniversity.nl).
Send us your lockdown coffee picture and win a Bandito gift voucher!
We all miss Bandito, its great staff members, empowering coffee, delicious soups and heartwarming cookies. We hope we will be able to visit Bandito again soon.
In the meantime, send us your pictures of how you enjoy your coffee or tea at home during lockdown. We will be handing out a Bandito gift voucher to the most original picture we receive once every week in the month March. Send in your pictures to communications-fasos@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
See below for the pictures we received this week and the winning picture!
Send us your lockdown coffee picture and win a Bandito gift voucher!
We all miss Bandito, its great staff members, empowering coffee, delicious soups and heartwarming cookies. We hope we will be able to visit Bandito again soon.
In the meantime, send us your pictures of how you enjoy your coffee or tea at home during lockdown. We will be handing out a Bandito gift voucher to the most original picture we receive once every week in the month March. Send in your pictures to communications-fasos@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
See below for the pictures we received this week and the winning picture! And a special message from Bandito’s own Diënne.
Poetry, picture and art contest continues
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the first lockdown in the Netherlands, let’s remember some of the suggestions that were being made about how we could spend our time.
There were reminders that Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear’ and ‘MacBeth’ during an outbreak of the bubonic plague at the beginning of the 17th century. It was also suggested (wrongly) that Newton made some of his breakthroughs in calculus later that century during another outbreak of the plague.
Poetry, picture and art contest continues
We’ve all noticed – in the past year, colleagues are sometimes busy with other things. Often it is email, sometimes it is children, other people or pets.
Veerle Spronck and Denise Petzold were recently spotted knitting during a research presentation. Read further for the poem they wrote about how knitting supports listening, and for photographic evidence of this novel practice.
Keep sending your contributions to sally.wyatt@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Send us your lockdown coffee picture and win a Banditos gift voucher!
We all miss Banditos, its great staff members, empowering coffee, delicious soups and heartwarming cookies. We hope we will be able to visit Banditos again soon.
In the meantime, send us your pictures of how you enjoy your coffee or tea at home during lockdown. We will be handing out a Banditos gift voucher to the most original picture we receive once every week in the month March. Send in your pictures to communications-fasos@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
See below for the pictures we received last week and the winning picture!
Rector Rianne Letschert visits FASoS tutorial group
The CvB would like to hear from staff and students themselves how they are doing. UM’s Rector Rianne Letschert has therefore started a ‘faculty tour’.
This week she joined a tutorial group of FASoS. The focus: the psychological and social well-being of the students.
You can watch the video of her visit here.
Poetry, picture and art contest continues
Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Some people have spoken of how they have been dreaming more intensely the last few months, or else waking up during the night and not able to get back to sleep.
Earlier this week British poet Ruth Padel, great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist and biologist Charles Darwin, published a poem called ‘Night singing in a time of plague‘. It begins as follows:
