Eastern Europe
project: Beyond Legalism: Amnesties, Transition and Conflict Transformation
Grant Holder: Professor K McEvoy
Amnesty laws are an important but often contentious way for states to quell dissent, end conflict or shield state agents from prosecution. This project aims to move beyond legalistic debates to produce an analysis of the consequences of enacting amnesty laws during transitional periods, based on fieldwork in five jurisdictions worldwide. The website contains the Amnesty Law Database comprising materials relating to over 500 amnesty laws enacted since the end of World War Two. [read more]
project: World Oral Literature Project
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The World Oral Literature Project is an urgent global initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record.
Established at the University of Cambridge in 2009, the project aspires to become a permanent centre for the appreciation and preservation of oral literature and collaborate with local communities to document their own oral narratives. [read more]
project: Connecting Cornwall: Telecommunications, Locality and Work in West Britain 1870-1918
Grant Holder: Dr Richard Noakes
Cornwall has a number of significant historical communications sites starting with Porthcurno and ranging over early radio sites at Poldhu and the Lizard to Land’s End and Bodmin Radio and the Satellite station at Goonhilly. The ‘Connecting Cornwall’ project will be using the Cable and Wireless historic archive to develop new research into the communications industry in Cornwall with an emphasis on the Eastern Telegraph Company in the first instance. [read more]
project: The Listening Gallery: Integrating Music with Exhibitions and Gallery Displays, Medieval to Baroque
Grant Holder: Dr Aaron Williamon
The Listening Gallery was a knowledge transfer collaboration between the Royal College of Music (RCM) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Stemming from research in music, art, design, and technology, the project connected objects in the V&A's collections with music that shares their rich and distinctive pasts. [read more]
project: Staging Exile, Migration and Diaspora in Hispanic Theatre and Performance Cultures
Grant Holder: Dr Helena Buffery
The project focuses on Spanish Republican Exile (SRE) theatre and performance, aiming to recover, represent and help to preserve the full range of representation of the experience of exile in theatrical and performance texts and paratexts (histories, memoirs, reviews, criticism, photographs and audiovisual recordings), by contributing to the creation, updating and maintenance of the Centre for the Study of Hispanic Exile's bibliographical database and stand-alone web resource on SRE, and by bringing together key researchers on Spanish Exile Theatre and Performance in a series of panels within [read more]
project: In an arena including digital and traditional artists' publishing formats - what will be the canon for the artist's book in the 21st Century?
Grant Holder: Miss Sarah Bodman
This project investigated and discussed issues concerning the history and future of the artist’s book. Our aim was to extend and sustain critical debate of what constitutes an artist’s book in the 21st Century - in order to propose an inclusive structure for the academic study, artistic practice and historical appreciation of the artist’s book. All of the research outcomes, including the publication A Manifesto for the Book, audio and video files,interviews and case studies are downloadable from the project website.
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/canon.htm [read more]
project: Why me? Artist's use of self image
Grant Holder: Ms Anne Seagrave
The project created an alphabetically presented research database containing the names of over 340 artists worldwide who feature their own physical presence within the artworks they present. It is anticipated that this database will be of interest to artists, academics within the research community, the art media and art viewing public; specifically those interested in investigating and questioning cross cultural parallels between artist's use of self representation through diverse artistic practices. [read more]
project: The first farmers of Central Europe - diversity in LBK lifeways
Grant Holder: Professor Alasdair Whittle
The Linearbandkeramik culture (LBK), was the first Neolithic culture in many parts of central Europe. Dating to roughly 5600-4900 cal BC, it stretched from Hungary to the Paris Basin and from southern Germany into the northern Polish and German plains and Holland. Apart from introducing a farming way of life, the LBK is most notable for the construction of monumental wooden houses, which form the first permanent villages in the area. [read more]
project: The Music of Gustav Mahler: a Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Sources
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This catalogue will list and describe all surviving manuscript sources and will offer full bibliographic descriptions of the early printed sources of Mahler's music (i.e. all those that published during the composer’s lifetime, and first or other important editions that appeared after his death). [read more]
project: An exploration of the potential for new narrative experiences in first person perspective gaming.
Grant Holder: Mr Daniel Pinchbeck
First person perspective, or shooter, (FPS) games are mass-market virtual realities, whose cultural significance is increasingly clear, yet their content is tends to be problematic, often highly violent, with very limited emotional depth or semantic complexity, and utilising a tiny number of narratives and archetypes. [read more]