Performance, Trauma and Victimhood Call for papers This interdisciplinary conference explores the role of performance and performativity in the mediation of traumatic effects. With a view to interrogating traditional conceptions of traumatic unrepresentability, it invites papers that explore the potential
New AHHE Special Issue: Representing Trauma; Honouring Broken Narratives
Special Medical Humanities Issue: Representing Trauma; Honouring Broken Narratives Editors: Deborah Bowman, Renata Kokanovic and Jan Parker Editorial: Stories, narratives, scenarios in Medicine Jan Parker This Medical Humanities Special Issue critiques and reflects on narrative practices around medical, psychiatric and
Conf. Programme English: Shared Futures Wed 5th-Fri 7th July Newcastle, UK
THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CREATIVE WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT AND DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE. We will celebrate the discipline’s intellectual strength, diversity and creativity and explore its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world. Wednesday
AHHE journal Special Issue: Tuning History
Reflections on ‘Reading Bodies, Writing Minds: Mental Health in the Medical Humanities’conference
‘Reading Bodies, Writing Minds: Mental Health in the Medical Humanities’ conference Reflections by Jan Parker, University of Cambridge Sincere thanks are due to the Organisers from the University of Nottingham, Michele McIntosh and Martin Brooks And to the AHRC Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
The Future of Aural Skills in Universities and Conservatoires
by Paul Fleet, AHHE Associate Editor for Music Hello again. My first blog highlighted particular upcoming music conferences, and in keeping with this I wanted to report to you my thoughts from a recent Aural Skills Pedagogy Symposium that was
Translating Theatre: an update by Margherita Laera and Flora Pitrolo
by Margherita Laera and Flora Pitrolo, University of Kent A few months ago Jan Parker wrote a blog [TRANSLATING THEATRE: ‘FOREIGNISATION’ ON STAGE] about our AHRC-sponsored project entitled ‘Translation, Adaptation, Otherness’, following her attendance of our symposium on theatre
English: Shared Futures conference programme 5th-7th July
English: Shared Futures Conference THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CREATIVE WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT AND DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE. ‘We will celebrate the discipline’s intellectual strength, diversity and creativity and explore its futures in the nations of the UK
Hail and Farewell from Jan Parker, AHHEjournal Editor-in-Chief 2001-2016
Hail and Farewell from Jan Parker, Editor-in-Chief 2001-2016; continuing Founding Chair of the international research group and network ARTS AND HUMANITIES AS HIGHER EDUCATION Dedicated to those who made the journal happen: Prof.s Lorna Hardwick and Elle Chambers, founders of
Teaching French History: An IHR Roundtable by Andrew WM Smith
Time is at the heart of what we do as historians, and how we teach our students. Daily, we’re confronted with a wide array of past presents and expired futures. Conceptually, our teaching is also committed to a belief