PODIUM ISSUE 1 • April 2005

A RESEARCH COUNCIL The Face: Exploring Can we make A showcase the interface more of our of research AT LAST FOR THE ARTS between the arts, Museums, funded by the AND HUMANITIES technology, and Libraries and AHRC medicine Archives? Front cover Sicilian terracotta antefi x of a Gorgon. About 500 BC ©The Shefton Museum of Greek Art and Archaeology. who receive funding through the AHRC’s Core Funding Scheme for Higher Education Museums and Galleries

Editor’s Column Contents

WELCOME TO THE fi rst issue of the AHRC magazine, Podium. In the following pages, guest writers explore some of the issues facing the arts and Page 1 humanities community, as well as News and Events the wider world. Lord Dearing, who A look at what’s been happening at the AHRC. recommended in 1997 that a research council should be created for the arts and humanities, looks at what the future might hold for the AHRC. Our other guest writer, Professor Sandra A Research Council…at last Page 2 Kemp, of the , Lord Dearing, the man who proposed a research council for the explores the interface between the arts and humanities, refl ects on the achievements of the AHRB arts, technology, and medicine in the and looks at what the future might hold for the AHRC. context of her research on the face. Podium also showcases the range of high-quality research that we funded Facing the Future Page 4 as the AHRB and will continue to Professor Sandra Kemp explores the contribution research in the support as a research council. From arts can make to our understanding of medicine. an assessment of the public use of our museums and libraries, to the production of a new, experimental biopic of surrealist photographer Showcase Page 6 Claude Cahun, the case studies From an online catalogue of the Scots language to a study of the featured here reveal how the research work of novelist JG Ballard, and a report on how we can make supported by the AHRC enriches our more of our Museums, Libraries and Archives, we take a tour of lives and improves the depth of our the range of research supported by the AHRC. knowledge and understanding of human culture. Round-up Page 9 For those readers interested in Dates for your diary and information about the AHRC and the applying for funding from the AHRC, activities we support. Podium also includes information on our schemes, and gives details of forthcoming events organised both by The views expressed in articles in Podium are those of the authors, and do not the AHRC, and the researchers we fund. necessarily represent the views of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Kathryn Willey, Editor, Podium

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All eyes on The Centre for Irish Open doors and Scottish Studies at the AHRC ART LOVERS NOW have the opportunity to view some little known IT’S BEEN A busy few months for the AHRC’s The Ambassador isn’t the only high-profi le works of modern art. A collection Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies. January person who has recently supported the Centre. of paintings by artists such as David saw the visit from the Irish Ambassador to Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Scottish First Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Bernard the UK. His Excellency Dáithi Ó Ceallaigh Minister Jack McConnell both offered their Cohen are on display at the AHRC delivered a talk on the signifi cant economic congratulations at the announcement that offi ces in Bristol. The collection is on and political changes in Ireland in recent the Centre has secured an extra £1.25 million loan to the AHRC from the trustees of years. The event was a major coup for the in the second phase of funding of the AHRC’s the CNAA, which previously held the centre which aims to promote high-quality Research Centres scheme. It was one of two collection. The works are available to research and postgraduate training in order successful centres in this round. The other view by appointment. to provide an informed understanding of was the AHRC’s Centre for the Evolutionary the historical and cultural infl uences, which Analysis of Cultural Behaviour, hosted by To arrange to view the collection, have shaped relationships between Scotland, University College, , and led by telephone 0117 987 6500. Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Professor James Steele.

AHRC launches Prize nomination for Fitzwilliam Museum Strategic Programme THE AHRC’S FIRST fi ve-year multi- THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM at the University disciplinary strategic programme, Diasporas, Plate caption goes here of Cambridge has been shortlisted for this year’s Migration and Identities, was offi cially credit goes here for Museum of the Year. The launched on 21st April, at Europe’s fi rst Fitzwilliam, which receives funding through Museum of Immigration in Spitalfi elds. the AHRC’s core funding scheme for university The programme will use the distinct museums and galleries, has been nominated perspective of arts and humanities subjects for its £12 million Courtyard Development. The to explore issues relating to diasporas and Development has added 3,000 square metres migration and their impact on identities of new and improved accommodation, to and cultures, bringing fresh insights to our ensure the collections are made as accessible as understanding of these critical themes. The possible to the museum’s visitors. programme director is Professor of Religious Studies, Kim Knott, of the University More information on the Gulbenkian Prize can be of Leeds. More information about the found at www.thegulbenkianprize.org.uk. Museum of Immigration can be found at www.19princeletstreet.org.uk. It is a good year for arts and humanities researchers in more ways than one. Honours for Centre Directors

2005 IS A good year for arts and humanities hosted by Queen Mary’s University of London, researchers in more ways than one. The New received a CBE for services to Education, Year’s honours list contained accolades whilst Professor Tom Devine, who runs for two of the Directors the AHRC’s Centre for Irish of the AHRC’s Research and Scottish Studies, Centres. Professor Lisa hosted by the University Jardine, Director of of Aberdeen, was awarded the AHRC Centre for the OBE for services to Editing Lives and Letters, Scottish History. Joel Pike/19 Princelet Street PODIUM ISSUE 1 • 4/05 FEATURE 2/3 A Research Council… At last In 1997, Lord Dearing chaired a review of Higher Education. In it, he recommended that the Government should set up a research council for the arts and humanities to sit alongside those in the sciences. Almost a decade on, that recommendation has become a reality. Here he ponders what the future may hold, and why it was such a long time coming…

Mysteries are always intriguing. The creation of the Council is a It’s a mystery to me why it took so long for the potential watershed in the fortune Government to give effect to the recommendation by the Higher Education Review Committee I chaired of the arts and humanities and for the back in 1997, to set up a research council for the long term wellbeing of us all in terms of arts and humanities. Maybe it was because we also our quality of life and economy. recommended a doubling of the then current level of funding! I say stronger now in part because it is through the arts But the arguments for both recommendations were and humanities that we express and cherish our cultural so strong, as anyone who read the case put to us by heritage, and have the confi dence to embrace the Professor John Laver, then Chairman of the British increasing diversity of our society. Cultural identity and Academy’s Humanities Research Board, will know. If cultural roots give form and confi dence to a nation as they were strong then, they are even stronger now and it faces up to the challenges of accelerating change and I am delighted that it is now happening. sees this as an opportunity rather than as an unwonted

Maori Knife ©Pitt Rivers Museum who receive funding through the AHRC’s Core Funding Scheme for Higher Education Museums and Galleries It is through the arts and humanities that we express and cherish our cultural heritage, and have the confi dence to embrace the increasing diversity of our society.

17th century ‘Dish of disturbance to what has gone with the other councils, and another Enamelled Porcelain’ before. That is my fi rst reason. to succeed in the competition for containing Triad fi gures of resources. With the Department But I am ever more conscious the Daoist religion. for Trade and Industry being the of the centrality of our research Image courtesy of the Percival David sponsor of the Councils and their Foundation of Chinese Art who receive base to our economic, as well advocate with the Treasury, I funding through the AHRC’s Core as our social wellbeing, and of Funding Scheme for Higher Education suspect that rightly or wrongly, the need to recognize that the Museums and Galleries. the potential return to the arts and humanities are just as Green faience fi gure of economy will weigh heavily in the relevant to that as the sciences crouching cat scales of judgement. In the long run and engineering. We have long Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian it has to, for our ability to fund the ceased to be a primarily industrial Archaeology, University College increasing share of national income that London (UC. 36123) who receive manufacturing economy and our funding through the AHRC’s Core research needs will hinge on our ability investment in research needs to recognize Funding Scheme for Higher Education to turn some of that investment into income Museums and Galleries that some of the fastest growing parts of our earning goods and services. economy are in the so-called service sector: computer games, information technology, the performing arts, I suggest that the arts and humanities need have nothing design and tourism, not to mention education itself. to fear from that, providing the potential of each council To prosper economically we must consciously strive to is looked at as a whole, rather than item by item. I say become an ever more creative society, and creativity this because it has very high potential in some of its parts fl ourishes when there is a ferment of interaction between and because in the main the arts and humanities are not diverse disciplines and diverse people. involved in big ticket research. By creating an AHRC we have for the fi rst time an I would advise the Council in playing its hand to be institution taking its place alongside the seven other constantly mindful of the aspirations of all parts of the research councils, with the same access to government United Kingdom and to relate closely to the national and and able to play its part in developing an holistic approach regional institutions who can be infl uential allies and to research, its applications, and allocation of resources. sources of funding in their own right. I see the creation of the Council as a potential watershed In conclusion, the creation of the AHRB as the fi rst major in the fortune of the arts and humanities and for the long step towards our 1997 recommendation has delivered term wellbeing of us all in terms of our quality for the arts and humanities on the scale my committee of life and economy. recommended. It has done the business. I wish the new It is one thing Council much success, for the good health of our society, however, to have and for those who work in the arts and humanities: at last won a students, researchers and performers. Sometimes things place at the table taste all the better for the waiting. PODIUM ISSUE 1 • 4/05 FEATURE 4/5

Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher, Dystopia, Maria; Franz Xavier Messerschmidt, The Yawner

Facing the Future Our faces form a fundamental part of our identity. Recent cultural and technological developments, however, have led to rapid changes in our understanding of ‘the face’. Here, Professor Sandra Kemp, Director of Research at the Royal College of Art, reveals how these changes inspired a project that sits on the interface between the arts, technology, and medicine. Research for Future Face involved work in the archives and collections of national and international galleries, museums, archives, scientifi c laboratories and hospitals, over a fi ve-year period. It also required the commissioning of artworks and scientifi c installations.

THERE ARE SIX billion faces in the world. Every one is divided into fi ve sections, framed as questions: What is unique. Indeed, it is estimated that the human face can a face? How do we interpret and identify faces? Why do make thousands of discrete, subtly differing expressions. we mask or conceal faces? What are the limits of the face The fascination the human face holds for us, its and the possibilities for facial reconstruction? What is the deceptively complex structure, and the face as a unique future of the face? The two hundred mirrors on the wall at three-dimensional hallmark of our identity, were the the entrance of the exhibition symbolise this last question: starting points for the Future Face research project fi ve face as mirror, mask or refl ection? years ago. Refl ection too is a theme that underpins the entire The outputs from this project included a book, an exhibition. The intellectual framework questions, on the exhibition in the Wellcome Trust gallery of the London one hand, the extent to which modern technological Science Museum, and touring and from July, medicine has infl uenced cultural constructions of the face, a CD Rom interactive catalogue, and a special edition of such as normality, beauty, and aging; and, on the other, New Scientist dedicated to the face. how cultural infl uences upon the face may themselves have affected the directions taken by medical technology We have been adding to our knowledge of faces for and pharmaceutics. centuries. However, recent advances in understanding the physiology and psychology of the face, coupled with a In the fi nal section of the exhibition, visitors are asked technological revolution that provides a digital palette for to consider whether the face will continue to be shaped fi lm and animation, surgery and forensic science as well as by natural forms of evolution, or whether we ourselves the arts, have led to rapid developments in understanding will determine its features, contours and future shapes. the face. In these new architectures of perception, our It may be that the destiny of the face lies in the virtual relationships with our own faces are changing and new face and in the ways in which it now subtly infl uences our forms of faces are becoming acceptable. In both the book facial appearances. As we continue to manipulate, create and exhibition, I wanted to ask, ‘How?’ and conceal, the new artistic, scientifi c and technological means available to us may now supersede nature and Research for Future Face involved work in the archives nurture. In the 21st century, new technologies of facial and collections of national and international galleries, repair and reconstruction are crucially impacting upon museums, archives, scientifi c laboratories and facial appearance and perceptions of individual and hospitals, over a fi ve-year period. It also required the national identity. John Updike once memorably remarked commissioning of artworks and scientifi c installations. that ‘celebrity is a mask that eats into the face’, but today The exhibition alone contains more than 200 historical there are plenty of other things that do so as well: botox, The entrance of the Future and contemporary photographs, paintings, multi-media isologen, implants or digital manipulation. Cosmetic Face exhibition in the London installations and objects on loan from the Metropolitan surgery, once a toy of the rich, the celebrity, is now within Science Museum, showing Peter Museum in New , the Smithsonian Museum in the reach of all. After aons of slow evolutionary change, Menzel, Second Generation Washington, the Hollywood Museum, the Imperial War the face faces an uncertain future. Face Robot, Michael Najjar, Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Dana_2.0, National Heritage, Portrait Gallery, the Natural History Museum, the Royal Future Face was a research project that constantly White Man, Black Mask. College of Surgeons, both in London and , the changed, developed and evolved over a period of years. Wellcome Trust and the Science Museum. The timescale was in part due to the scope of project but it was also due to the fact that research funding for In view of the highly interdisciplinary nature such multi-disciplinary work remains rare. Research for of the work, a number of research models Future Face was partly funded by The Wellcome Trust, drawn from the arts and the sciences needed the EPSRC, the British Psychological Society and the RCA. to be deployed. The rethinking of traditional And I was delighted to be co-organiser, with Jonathan forms of exhibition exegesis and display was Sandy, Professor of Orthodontics at the University of a key component of the research. Exhibition Bristol, of one of a series of AHRC Workshops in their Arts, design was crucial: I wanted to give equal Humanities and Medicine series, on the Face. status to each object, to demonstrate that Presentations from artists, historians, curators, forensic the art does not merely illustrate, ‘sex up’ or scientists, bioengineers, psychologists, orthodontists, market the science. general practitioners, surgeons, geneticists, and medical By juxtaposing works from the arts, sciences lawyers considered a number of inter-related themes and technology I wanted to see if bringing concerning the relationships between face, identity and together different forms of knowledge society; the face, crime and surveillance; modifi cation and knowledge bases would enhance or reconstruction of the face, and the development and our understanding of the face. I also paid impact of technology on the face. The fi nal workshop particular attention to the ways in which report outlines the potential for future strategic cross- artists, scientists and technologists have disciplinary research initiatives in this area. used new technologies to probe the form and function of the face. The exhibition is The report is available from the AHRC website, www.ahrc.ac.uk. PODIUM ISSUE 1 • 4/05 SHOWCASE 6

A question of trust

IN THE TWENTY-FIRST century, we are said to be living One of the many fi ndings of the project is that museums, in an ‘information age’. It is easier to fi nd things out than libraries and archives are seen as being more trustworthy ever before. We just have to switch on the television, than other sources of information, even though we use pick up a newspaper, or click on ‘Google’. This has led them less. “With the growth of technology, it is becoming to questions about the future of more traditional, but increasingly easy for people to obtain information less accessible, information sources, such as museums, without leaving their homes or offi ces,” explains Professor libraries and archives. Usherwood. “But the research has shown that in spite of this, people still need and value access to archives, Professor Bob Usherwood, of the University of museums and libraries, when it comes to obtaining reliable , has been exploring our perceptions of these information, and a deeper understanding of the world traditional ‘repositories of public knowledge.’ He and around them. The results of this study demonstrate how his team have been looking in particular at how we use those working in the museums, libraries and archives these sources to find out more about important issues. sector now have the opportunity to build upon the In a nutshell, the research suggests that museums, trust so clearly placed in them and reassert their role as libraries and archives are still relevant, if not necessarily contemporary information providers.” to all of us, all of the time, and most of us want to preserve and maintain them, whether we use them To fi nd out more about this research, contact Professor Bob personally or not. Usherwood, r.usherwood@sheffi eld.ac.uk, 0114 222 2635. British Library Newspapers Building Courtesy of the British Library Choreography and cognition

ATAXIA IS A medical condition which disrupts the nervous The new discourse for dance is system, causing its sufferers to lose control of balance and co-ordination. This loss of interaction between the based in collaboration, but it body and the brain was the inspiration for a pioneering is a collaboration outside the usual project involving choreographers, dancers and scientists. Choreographer Wayne McGregor joined forces with Dr frameworks for creative debate. Rosaleen McCarthy and other collaborating scientists, hosted by the University of Cambridge. Their research, Wayne McGregor, to create the work AtaXia, in which 10 which also investigates the connections between dancers from the Random Dance Company resident at creativity, choreography and the scientifi c study of Sadler’s Wells, explore issues of dislocation and loss of movement and the mind was supported by an Arts and control. Science Research Fellowship, funded jointly by Arts Along with arts researcher Scott deLahunta, McGregor Council England and the AHRC. Work on the project led invited scientists into his rehearsal studio to watch him at work with the Random Dance company, as they generated new movement material. These observations led to discussions, experiments and interactions between the scientists and dancers, allowing an exchange of ideas and developing innovative thinking across both domains. “The Research Fellowship has facilitated a change in my choreographic process,” explains McGregor. “It has stimulated new and challenging questions related to the generation of languages both from a choreographic and aesthetic basis. The new discourse for dance is based in collaboration, but it is a collaboration outside the usual frameworks for creative debate.”

AtaXia is touring the UK until the end of November 2005. Photograph from ‘AtaXia’ Further information about this project can be found on the Photographer Ravi Deepres website: http://www.choreocog.net/. PODIUM ISSUE 1 • 4/05 SHOWCASE 7

Empire of J.G. Ballard

MENTION THE NAME J.G. Ballard, and with perhaps Dr Gasiorek has set only a little prompting, most would recognise the name; out to provide an be it for his autobiographical account of childhood war understanding of experiences in Empire of the Sun or his controversial Crash. Ballard’s position within post- Both these novels reached a mass audience thanks to the modern literature, which will be critically groundbreaking silver screen, yet there has been relatively little critical as well as being accessible to the wider public. He analysis of Ballard’s work. emphasises not only the social infl uences within Ballard’s Dr Andrzej Gasiorek of the University of , work but also how his fi ction allows us to understand received a Research Leave award, which allowed him to developments in today’s post-modern society. take time out from his teaching commitments to fi nish a “It is diffi cult to slot Ballard into a comfortable heading”, book exploring Ballard’s major works. Published in June explains Dr Gasiorek. “My book therefore asks how Ballard it is one of the fi rst in a series on contemporary British should be placed in relation to the various literary genres novelists produced by University Press. he has used, explores the major literary, cultural, and political infl uences on his writing, analyses the major Dr Gasiorek has set out to themes explored by his hybrid fi ctions, and stresses the provide an understanding of general relevance of Ballard’s work to contemporary literary culture.” Ballard’s position within post-modern literature, which will be critically For more information on this research, please contact Dr Gasiorek, email: [email protected]; tel: groundbreaking as well as being 0121 414 5693. J.G. Ballard, (ISBN 0-7190-7013-8) accessible to the wider public. is available from June, priced £14.99. The hunting debate: A new perspective

Photo from ‘The Hounds of cultural and historical geographies of otter hunting in Spring - a history of the Eastern Britain between 1850 and 1978. Counties Otterhounds’ by Graham Downing The project draws on work in cultural geography, social anthropology and history, and focuses on cultures of hunting, rural and social structures, and the cultural symbolism of animals. Allen is combining a range of archival work, oral history and textual analysis, and building on previous undergraduate and master’s study on the issues surrounding hunting. “I am examining the detailed interactions between hunters, dogs, the landscape and the otter,” explains Allen. “Otter hunting was not just about killing. It was a cultural event in terms of spectacle, display, ritual procedure HUNTING HAS BEEN a hotly debated subject since the and social structure. If on the one hand, the activity was early nineteenth century. The recent decision to ban presented as a cruel and barbaric act, on the other, it hunting with hounds came after years of demonstrations was styled as a leisurely pastime, an arduous sport and and arguments on both sides.These debates continue to a complicated technical practice. Added to this, it was a rage. Arguments are made on the grounds of ecology, subject of interest for parliamentary debates, the national morality, rural economy and urban-rural relations. When media, and campaigning and monitoring groups.” the otter became a protected species in 1978, the same arguments were used; as Daniel Allen, of the University For more information about this research, please contact of , is revealing in his PhD research on the Daniel Allen, [email protected] ; 0115 951 5452. PODIUM ISSUE 1 • 4/05 SHOWCASE 8

‘Here begynnys the May(i)ng or Disport of Chaucer’ al recto (p.109 Bringing Beattie). The logo or ‘device’ of Walter Chapman as it appears in the earliest dated language to books, produced in or about 1508 on Scotland’s fi rst printing press. life - online © Trustees of the National Library of Scotland

THE INTERNET MAY not be able to bring people back are therefore amongst those being urged to come to life – yet – but AHRC - funded researchers from the forward and add their voices to the archive, which will University of are hoping they’ll be able to receive funding until 2007. breathe new life into the Scottish language thanks to the “We lack information on how extensively and in what powers of modern technology. contexts Broad Scots is still used, and on the range Dr John Corbett and his team have a Resource of features characterising Scottish English, questions Enhancement Award to create the largest online which the SCOTS corpus will help to answer,” explains catalogue of diverse texts in the Scots language. Ranging Dr Corbett. “Its relevance extends far beyond the from Broad Scots to Scottish English, the Scottish Corpus boundaries of Scotland. There is an interest in Scots of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) will contain more than 800 language and culture in many parts of the world, with written and spoken texts, and at least 4 million words by research being done in places as far apart as North the time it is fi nished. Carolina, Finland and Japan. We expect SCOTS to be used by researchers, teachers and members of the Similar projects have been undertaken for other regional public worldwide.” dialects and languages, but as yet, there is no corpus of the Scots language. The project aims to include the full To log on to SCOTS, go to www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk. range of Scottish varieties, from the standard used in To fi nd out more about this research, contact Dr John writing to the spoken regional dialects. Scots speakers Corbett, [email protected]. Playing a part

IN THE 21ST century, the self-portraits of Van Gogh of gender performance. Her ground-breaking work was Cahun was are well known and widely acclaimed. But he was not neglected until the early 1990s but Elizabeth Thynne, one of the always appreciated during his own lifetime. The same of the University of Sussex is hoping to put this right by can be said for Claude Cahun, Jewish lesbian artist and producing the fi rst biographical fi lm on Cahun, with the fi rst modern resistance activist, who questioned the conventions support of an AHRC Research Grant. photographers of self-portraiture. Cahun was one of the fi rst modern “My fi lm, which refl ects on the biographical genre, is a record photographers to develop the self-portrait as a form to develop the of the life of a woman artist who, although long forgotten, self-portrait as a in many ways symbolises twentieth century modernity”, form of gender explains Thynne. “The fi lm not only reveals the artist’s signifi cance but also evokes her place as a woman artist and performance. lesbian in the history of art. In doing so, her individual history is opened up to the wider context of gender relations in cultural production”. The documentary features the words of Claude Cahun herself, and contemporary dance composed by internationally-acclaimed choreographer Lea Anderson. In a bid to increase awareness of Cahun’s work, the fi lm has been shown in international exhibitions in the UK and America.

For further information about this project, please contact Claude Cahun’s self portrait. Elizabeth Thynne, email: [email protected], telephone: Courtesy of the Heritage Trust 01273 872627. PODIUM ISSUE 1 • 4/05 ROUND–UP 9

Changes for Beyond the PhD Diary Dates applications for 17th May THE AHRC SUPPORTS a number of schemes to The Annual Parkes Lecture will be held at research funding encourage postgraduate students to develop 5.30 pm at the Parkes Building/Avenue skills in personal effectiveness, networking and Campus, at the University of Southampton. communications. Through a range of courses, Professor Tudor Parfi tt, of the School Dual Support Reform regional hubs and events, the UK Grad scheme of Oriental and African Studies, will be From 1 September 2005, all applications aims to embed personal and professional skills speaking on ‘The Construction of Jews and submitted to the research councils must into the life of a PhD student. By spending Zionism in Islamist Groups in Afghanistan, identify the full economic costs (fEC) of the time in schools, Researchers in Residence gives Pakistan and India’. Professor Parfi tt received proposed research. In common with the other researchers the opportunity to experience ways a Research Grant from the AHRC for his research councils, the AHRC will contribute in which arts and humanities research has made work in this area. an impact on their lives and the lives of others, 80% of these costs if the application is Further information is available from and to encourage the next generation of arts successful. We intend to publish detailed www.parkes.soton.ac.uk, or and humanities researchers. guidance on the operation of our schemes email: [email protected]. under fEC in late June. For more information about Researchers in 18th–20th May Further information and links to information Residence, please contact Lemady Rochard, The AHRC Research Centre for Asian and issued jointly by the Research Councils can be [email protected]. If you would like to know African Literatures is hosting a workshop on found on our website, http://www.ahrc.ac.uk. more about UK Grad, please contact Robert Keegan, [email protected]. Information about The Global Literary Economy. The workshop Electronic application submission both these schemes can also be found on our seeks to examine how literary production Also from 1 September, applicants will be able website, www.ahrc.ac.uk. and consumption are affected by the to use the cross-council Je-S system to submit workings of the international market. research proposals to the AHRC. Universities For more information, please contact will receive information about registering Dr Anna Guttman, our subject communities to use Je-S over the email: [email protected]. coming months and application forms will be available in the system from late June. 30th June-3rd July Julia Kristeva is visiting the AHRC’s Research Although the use of the Je-S system will be Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and compulsory for applicants to other Research History. The feminist thinker will be taking Councils by the time that we join, the AHRC part in Congress CATH, the Centre’s annual will continue to accept paper applications for at conference. This year’s theme is The Ethics least a year. and Politics of Virtuality and Indexality. Any queries about our implementation of For further information, visit Je-S should be directed to Catherine Nixon, www.leeds.ac.uk/cath, [email protected]. or contact Josine Opmeer, email: [email protected], tel: 0113 343 1629.

A pair of costume 2nd–4th September dolls, one male, The AHRC’s Research Centre for the one female, Domestic Interior is supporting a in traditional conference on Women, Art and Culture: Peruvian dress Historical Perspectives in conjunction with made from strips of traditional weaving. the Women’s History Network at the Late 20th century Southampton Institute. Themes include: Image courtesy of the Women and the Visual Arts, Women as Constance Howard Art Objects, and Women as Collectors and Resource and Research Benefactors. Abstracts should be sent to Centre in Textiles who received funding through [email protected] by June 30th. the AHRC’s Resource Enhancement Scheme. For further information, visit www.womenshistorynetwork.org, or email: [email protected].

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