The latest news and updates from LAHRI and arts and humanities researchers at the University of Leeds
Recently, Lucy Cheseldine, one of our LAHRI PDRF's published an article in the journal Essays in Criticism, under the title, Talking Modernism: Donald Hall’s Paris Review Interviews. In this article Lucy explores how modernists established their radical political agendas whilst simultaneously using new technologies and brand identity to establish their own hierarchies of influence. Want to...
‘Yorkshire Modernisms’ is not a finished concept ascribed to a local literary identity but a loose term that opens up conversations on associations between the place and the global movement. This seminar brings together a wide range of papers to explore, examine and interrogate such associations and point to the direction for future studies. The...
Arts and humanities research and researchers can make a key contribution to better understanding the causes, impacts, and perceptions of climate change. At the University of Leeds we have expertise in environmental humanities across the full range of arts and humanities disciplines, from performance and music to history and literature. Environmental humanities is also changing...
The British Academy has awarded funding to the University of Leeds to support African early-career researchers working on the timely and critical topic of “African Ecologies”. Building on a collaboration between LAHRI and the Centre for African Studies at the University of Leeds (LUCAS), the funding will support an intensive three-day workshop at the British Institute of...
Selected Media pieces from March 2023 that include input from researchers in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures
Archivist Olivia Weekes introduces the newly catalogued papers of George Devine CBE, a prominent member of the British Theatre industry from the early 1930s until his death in 1966, the catalogue is now live and ready for consultation in the Research Centre.
This extensive archive held here at the University of Leeds, Brotherton Special Collections, reveals Maurice de Sausmarez to be a crucial figure, embedded in an important network of artists, thinkers and groups who reshaped the cultural life of postwar Britain and beyond.
LAHRI is delighted to announce that the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Cat Davies (School of Languages, Cultures and Societies) is now available to view on the LAHRI Professorial Inaugural Lectures page on our website.
The University of Leeds is partnering with institutions in the United States, Singapore, Mexico, New Zealand on a new research collaboration to explore the role of design approaches to climate justice. Supported by a Research Development Award from the World Universities Network the project - Climate Justice by Design - will bring together researchers from...
This month in ‘On the Bookshelf’ we feature ‘Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction′ by Dr Caitlin Stobie (School of English) This book was published in February 2023 in hardback by Bloomsbury Academic