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In this first blog post relating to the HRC conference on 'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World', one of the co-organisers, Cheng He, a third year PhD student in History, explains how the theme of the conference links to her own doctoral research.

The Supernatural: Reflections on Research

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To accompany their The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering in the Pre-Modern World conference, HRC doctoral fellows and Imogen Knox will be blogging on their own research, the conference themes, and the process of putting together a one-day interdisciplinary conference. In the first blog, Francesca and Imogen reflect on their respective research interests and how they relate to the conference.

  is a research group that began a year and half ago to debate the ramifications of COVID-19 on ‘future history’.

There will be a fortnightly Seminar Series for Term One, with a view to continuing the series over the academic year to come. The series is entirely free to attend, open to the public, does not require prior reading, and is hosted online via Zoom.

You can register for any of these seminars by and you can contact the Pandemic Perspectives team at the following email address if you have any queries: pandemicperspectivesofficial@gmail.com

The HRC announces a competition for 3 internal Doctoral Fellows. Each Fellow will receive a research budget of £300 and a conference budget of £700 to organise a one-day interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Conference (to be held at ÌÇÐÄTV, UK) during the academic year 2022/23.

A further £200 grant may be available if you set up a blog and write 8 blogs during the year about the conference and your research.

Closing date: 11.00 am Wednesday 16th March 2022

A one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held on Saturday 12th February 2022, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

Keynote Speaker: , Professor of Early Modern History, University of York

Professor Tim Lockley, who was the Director of the HRC from 2013-2017, has been awarded a MBE in the Queen's birthday Honours list for services to the community in Harbury, ÌÇÐÄTVshire, particularly during Covid-19.