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Connecting Cultures GRP funding for 2022/2023

Connecting Cultures Global Research Priority provides support and resources for those working in and with culture. Our work is loosely structured around three themes:

• Culture and Community: Research that explores the role of culture in establishing and negotiating relationships between people and places across times and spaces, particularly in relation to migration, human rights, and social justice. Work in this theme explores the concepts of identity, belonging, inclusion/exclusion, justice, and citizenship and seeks to foster cultural exchange that promotes social change.
• Creativity and Connection: Exploring the value and potential of the arts and culture as vehicles for the interpretation and generation of complex ideas. Work in this theme highlights the development of a wide range of cultural practices and their impact as a means of accessing improved wellbeing. The theme supports work that involves minority communities and people normally remote from academic research and explores the role of performativity, broadly conceived, in stimulating and communicating transformative thinking. Work on cultural value and the value of culture is also central to this theme.
• Transnational and Global Humanities: Focusing on translation and exchange between or among cultures, from the local to the global. This theme supports innovative projects that seek to understand and address the challenges of a globally connected world, along with the complexities of the past from which it emerged.

We welcome proposals for up to £1,500 (and smaller bids are encouraged) on a rolling basis. We aim to assess your proposal and respond within 2 weeks of submission.

What we fund

Activities that relate to the remit of the themes above and might include:

• Pump-priming activities that will lead to external grant applications
• Impact and engagement activities
• Workshop/conference organisation
• Visiting Fellows - we co-fund Visiting Fellowships with the Humanities Research Centre, the Institute for Advanced Study or with departments or research centres.
• Cultural and community-focused events
• Digital outputs

We welcome applications from all disciplinary areas, especially for activities that involve several people at ÌÇÐÄTV. Cross-disciplinary exchange is encouraged, as are activities that involve collaboration or coproduction with external partners. We especially welcome applications from, or that seek to include, underrepresented groups.

For further details or to apply online visit:

Saturday 13th May 2023

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Maria Balaska, University of Hertfordshire

Dr Thomas Gould, University of East Anglia

Applications now open for fully-funded PhD Studentship (fees and maintenance) with the Lord Leycester Hospital

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship (fees and maintenance) to be held at the Department of History, University of ÌÇÐÄTV and the Lord Leycester Hospital, ÌÇÐÄTV. The studentship is funded through the and will start in October 2023. The Department of History has partnered with the Lord Leycester Hospital to offer a project on ‘Almshouse, Guild and Town Community: The Lord Leycester Hospital in its Urban Setting’. In addition to the PhD research the successful candidate will also gain experience and training in contributing to outreach and public engagement activities, including developing an exhibition.

In 2020, the Hospital secured a 3.8 million National Lottery Grant for restoration of the Grade I and II listed buildings, along with other improvements and engagement activities. This will include the creation of four new museum and exhibition spaces exploring and showcasing the Hospital’s 700-year history.

The project will be supervised jointly by Dr Naomi Pullin (ÌÇÐÄTV), Professor Beat Kümin (ÌÇÐÄTV), and Dr Heidi Meyer (Master of the Lord Leycester Hospital).

For more information about the project please contact Naomi Pullin (naomi.pullin@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) or Beat Kümin (b.kumin@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Applications need to reach the University of ÌÇÐÄTV by 11 January 2023: .

ECLS Halloween Special

The English and Comparative Literary Studies department warmly invite staff and students from across the

Faculty of Arts to join us for an afternoon of events celebrating our Gothic/Horror research and interests on:

Monday 31^st October, 12-5pm in FAB 5.49 (ECLS Hub)

A draft outline is below and a more detailed schedule will be updated in coming days here: /fac/arts/english/events/ecls_halloween_special/Link opens in a new window

12 -1pm – Gothic Projects

Two PhD students will introduce us to their projects on the UK as gothic ideology and Victorian Spiritualism.

1-2pm – Gothic Transformations

The English department student-led Transformations team will introduce the gothic reader and the witches reader produced each year in conjunction with local schools and will delight use with a dramatisation of a gothic scene related to their work.

1.30-2pm Minor Hauntings: An Introduction and Reading

Dr Jen Baker introduces and gives a short reading from her edited collection Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth which was published as part of the in 2021.

2-2.30pm Fireside Readings

Student-led mini-critical introduction and reading from Gothic texts.

2.30-3pm Fireside Readings

Student-led mini-critical introduction and reading from Gothic texts.

3-3.30pm Fireside Readings

Student-led mini-critical introduction and reading from Gothic texts.

3.30-4pm Fireside Dramatic Read-a-long:

A student-hosted dramatic read-a-long where you, the audience, will take on roles of in a Gothic reading.

4 - 5pm Gothic pop-up books: A mini-workshop

Come and learn about and play with a host of Gothic pop-up books and some of the ways in which we can use them to challenge ideas of what is a book and what is literary!

5-7pm Secret Cinema (FAB 0.03) (booking required)

Screening of a Literary Adaptation of a Gothic text

Writing about web page /fac/arts/hrc/confs/homecoming/

In his first blog Niels Boender discusses the Vision for the Conference: Mediations of the theme of ‘homecoming’