If you are currently engaged on an MA, MRes or PhD in any subject that relates to the theme of HERITAGE or how we live with and understand the past today then you are invited to the Cornerstone Heritage postgraduate conference at Saltram House on Friday 8 December. Cornerstone Heritage is the University’s interdisciplinary heritage research group.… Continue reading 8th December 2018: Cornerstone Heritage Postgraduate Conference
Category: Histories, Memory & Memorialisation
One of the 3 key themes of The Arts Institute at Plymouth University.
Arts and Humanities Research Seminars in October
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 4th October 2017, 5pm – 6.30pm, Roland Levinsky, Room 307 Performance. Experience. Presence. Welcome and introductory session- “What person or idea is currently haunting your research?” 4th October 2017, 7.30pm – 8.30pm,… Continue reading Arts and Humanities Research Seminars in October
Twisted Brilliance: The 1909–1918 catalogue of Egon Schiele, as never seen before
Gemma Blackshaw, Professor of Art History at Plymouth University, is an internationally acknowledged expert on the Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918). Her work on the sexual provocateur who shocked Viennese audiences with his explicit images of the naked and contorted body has been described in The Burlington Magazine as ‘densely documented, rigorously argued and delightfully… Continue reading Twisted Brilliance: The 1909–1918 catalogue of Egon Schiele, as never seen before
David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
Congratulations to Dr David Sergeant who has recently been awarded a 2 year AHRC Research Leadership Grant. The award is a 2 year AHRC ECR Leadership Fellowship, titled Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel,1880-2015. The project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and… Continue reading David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
Feature: Union is strength: the language of union in British radicalism c.1815 – 1850
BY JAMES GREGORY The recent international conference, ‘Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century’ held at the University of Plymouth (22 – 23 June 2017) looked at union and disunion from the level of families separated by mental health or poverty, through the local history of Union Street and the union of the three towns… Continue reading Feature: Union is strength: the language of union in British radicalism c.1815 – 1850
Call for Applications: Research Showcase 2018
(Deadline 6 August) The Research Showcase 2018 is taking place from 22–26 January, and will see the University celebrate its research successes with a series of events for internal or external audiences. The Steering Group is now calling for event applications from staff and PhD students – and applicants are encouraged to propose either half… Continue reading Call for Applications: Research Showcase 2018
Arts and Humanities research events this week
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 29th June 2017, 10am, Roland Levinsky Building 703- Victoria Squire, James Brocklehurst, Claire Harper, Esther Dudley, Dean Owens, a Message seminar
14th September 2017: Research Leadership in the Arts and Humanities
14th September 2017 | Babbage 406 | 9am-3pm Research leadership is an increasingly important issue for humanities academics. Being a leader can mean actively shaping your field and your institution, growing grant income, developing new projects and research teams, and supporting the research aspirations of colleagues. This day-long workshop covers practical definitions of research leadership,… Continue reading 14th September 2017: Research Leadership in the Arts and Humanities
Arts and Humanities research events this week
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 14th June 2017, 1pm, CogNovo seminar room- Illusion, a Transtechnology seminar
Arts and Humanities research events this week
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 24th May 2017, All day, Ocean Studios- New Materialism and Film in the Anthropocene workshop, a RADIX/Artistic Research Cluster seminar