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Supernatural: A Global and Transhistorical Approach

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

To accompany their conference The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering in the Pre-Modern World, 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 this second blog, Francesca and Imogen discuss their desire to examine the conference themes across boundaries of geography and temporality.

In our last blog post, we discussed how our respective doctoral research projects intersect with the themes of our conference, The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering in the Pre-Modern World. This post will explore the conference parameters in greater detail, offering insight into our own understanding of the supernatural as a subject of study, alongside wider, sometimes contrasting, conceptions of it across the pre-modern world

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

In this second blog post relating to the HRC conference on 'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World', the other co-organiser, Camilo Uribe Botta, a third year PhD student in History, explains his own doctoral research and how it links to the theme of the conference.

A one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held 14th May 2022

Keynote Speaker: Professor Diane Purkiss

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

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

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