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Our recent LAHRI Visiting PDRF, Dr Adrienne Mortimer, recently published on Ali Smith's Like (1997) in the peer-reviewed journal Textual Practices. We'd like to congratulate Adrienne on her publication. We're always happy to hear of former PDRFs' successes.
LAHRI and Special Collections are delighted to announce our new Bedford Fellow, Dr Ruby Rutter. Ruby completed her PhD at the University of Manchester under the title of 'Elite Women, Emotions and the Lived Experience in the Eighteenth-Century Country House, 1700-1830' Her Bedford project is titled: Buying Happiness: Emotion and Design in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century...
LAHRI and the Library Special Collections teams are delighted to announce that our latest Brotherton Fellow is Dr Benjamin Skinner. You can read all about his project, 'Encounters with Flora' below. Further updates will follow over the coming months. Ben says: My research investigates how to use art and art-making to teach people about biodiversity and...
Dr Dibya Roy and Dr Liz Stainforth are looking for two research assistants to join them on their Sapling Project Affect, Algorithms, and Archives. Deadline for applications: Monday 26 Feb 2024 How to apply: Complete the application form linked below and submit via email to d.roy1@leeds.ac.uk Project Overview: Archives reclaim lost narratives, solidify uncharted connections,...
Arts and Ageing – Reimagine Ageing Network March 21 10:00-16:00, In person stage@leeds Call for Papers -Deadline 29th January 2024 The arts have been identified as an important driver in maintaining a healthy lifestyle as well as an important factor in ageing well (Baring Foundation Report, Creative Ageing – What Next?, 2023; Creative Health: The...
As part of her Sadler Seminar Series, Writing the Now, Dr Laura Swithenbank hosted a talk with writer Professor Kathleen Stewart, about her forthcoming book Worldings . If you missed it, you can watch it via YouTube
Our LAHRI postdoctoral fellow, Dr Shai Tubali, recently published his monograph with Springer, The Transformative Philosophical Dialogue. From Classical Dialogues to Jiddu Krishnamurti's Method. In this blog post he tells us more about it. Why do certain philosophical presentations and religious discourses take the form of dialogue? Are there certain goals which are attainable through dialogue but...
LAHRI and the Special Collections Team are delighted to launch the 2024 round of the John Bedford Fellowship. Please note that the deadline is 9am on Monday 12th February 2024. We welcome enquiries, so please feel free to contact Dr Hilary Potter on LAHRI@leeds.ac.uk Please do feel free to share this with any interested parties.
Our colleagues at the Reimagine Ageing Interdisciplinary Research Network invite you to join them on Wednesday 22nd November for a workshop on Ageing Well in a Digital World. For more details, please see below. Ageing Well in a Digital World Wednesday, 22 November | 1 – 3pm | Charles Thackrah Building Join the Reimagine Ageing...
Affect, Algorithms, and Archives: Reclaiming Emotions and Relationality in Digital Spaces Archives reclaim lost narratives, solidify uncharted connections, and discover (yet) unknown futures for archival objects. Scholarship in Archival Studies and Digital Humanities has actively acknowledged issues around equity, diversity, and inclusivity as well as the socio-cultural privileges, which enhance/limit access to archival objects. Digital...