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Each year, the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute hosts an interdisciplinary seminar series which brings together groups of researchers from across academic fields. Our Sadler Seminar Series is the flagship programme of the Institute, and provides resources to develop and explore series of research questions which demand collaboration from multiple perspectives. Academics based in...
Selected Media pieces from December 2022 and January 2023 that include input from researchers in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures
The Triple Action Theatre Collection has recently been catalogued by placement students in Special Collections. Triple Action Theatre was a physical theatre company founded in 1969 by the director, Steven Rumbelow (1949-2016). Rumbelow thought of actors’ bodies as living sculptures. His work relied on dense metaphors rather than on the plot of a production, although...
This month in ‘On the Bookshelf’ we feature ‘Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration′ Co-edited by Professor Ingrid Sharpe and Dr Corinne Painter (both of School of Languages, Cultures and Societies) as well as Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University). This book was published in December 2022 with Bloomsbury.
The School of Performance and Cultural Industries ‘Place’ Research Group investigates the dynamic interactions between culture, people and places.
Would you believe it? I’m over the moon that the LAHRI team asked me to write a brand new column for their blog and newsletter. If you like your research updates with a witty digression here and a sprinkling of comical aphorisms there, then this is the place for you. There’s just so much that...
LAHRI is delighted to announce that the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Emma Stafford (School of Languages, Cultures and Societies) is now available to view on the LAHRI Professorial Inaugural Lectures page on our website.
Thanks to a generous bequest from the John Victor Bedford Will Trust the University of Leeds Special Collections have been able to refresh the Brotherton Research Centre and create a new teaching space, the John Bedford Room.
A new interdisciplinary EPSRC project involving Univerity of Leeds Academic, Alika Greasley aims to better define what music personalised for someone with a hearing loss should sound like and exploit the latest in machine learning to create improved music listening experiences.
This month in ‘On the Bookshelf’ we feature ‘Football and Nation Building in Colombia′ by Dr Peter Watson (School of Languages, Cultures and Societies). This book explores the pivotal role that football played as part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ national unity project centred on the peace process with the FARC.