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The Supernatural: Reflections on Research

Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/supernatural/

To accompany their The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering in the Pre-Modern World conference, HRC doctoral fellows Francesca Farnell 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.

 Pandemic Perspectives 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 following this Eventbrite link 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 Warwick, 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 Warwick

Keynote Speaker: Professor Helen Cowie, 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, Warwickshire, particularly during Covid-19.

In this final blog post of the At Home in Empire: Colonial Experiences of Intimacy and Mobility conference series, Hannah and Liz reflect on their experience as conference organisers and the impact of the conference on their own PhD research.