Events
EACW Research Seminar Series
Marilynn Richtarik (Georgia State University), ‘Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland’
Heritage and Archival Correspondences: The attentive public and the ‘impact’ of discovery
This one-day workshop explores the direct engagement of an ‘attentive public’ with researchers and heritage institutions by means of personal and/or official ‘correspondence’ of all kinds: letters, emails, tweets, direct messages, and even Freedom of Information requests. Questions for discussion include: • how we can best understan..
Spring Chinese Calligraphy Course (EVERY THURSDAY)
Learn the art of Chinese calligraphy this Spring Whether you are new to writing Chinese characters or have already had some tuition, this course will be a great option. It will focus on learning how to use Chinese brushes and ink, mastering the basic strokes that underpin Chinese writing and understanding the structure of Chinese characters...
The Gospel of Mary: Received and Retold
We invite scholars, artists, and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to participate in this one-day symposium exploring the creative reception of the Gospel of Mary. This event will bring together research and practice from across disciplines including biblical studies, performance, storytelling, and art history, fostering dialogue..
Venetian Seminar - in Memoriam Brian Pullan 1935-2022
10.00 Coffee 10.30-12.00 Georg Christ (Manchester): Provincializing Venice? Consolidation of the Veneto-Mamluk alliance in the wake of the Cypriot Crusade (1365-1403) Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes): Institutions and identities: the case of Jacomo Coppa Stefania Silvestri (Liverpool): Virgins, widows, orpha..
Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object III
The third workshop of the Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Affective Archives and Activist Archiving'. Each of the three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims to develop thinking on the still little considered area of emotion-centred histories of the imperial archive, exploring how feeling, sense, and emotion are archived -..