BIRTHA invites applications for funding to cover major one-off lectures in Bristol by distinguished external scholars. Lectures funded under this scheme should be interdisciplinary in nature and should be likely to appeal to a wide audience both within and beyond the university, thus contributing to our public engagement mission.
Applications for events that link up with and enrich existing research projects or themes within the faculty are welcomed, as are applications for lectures in 2011-12. Funding to cover travel, accommodation and other costs. In certain cases, it may be possible to co-fund distinguished visits with the Institute for Advanced Studies.
Applications, of a maximum of one side of A4 paper, should be submitted to the BIRTHA office by Wednesday 2nd May 2012 via email to Sam Barlow (sam.barlow@bristol.ac.uk). Please include the following details:
In the event of fewer than three awards being made in the first round, a further call for applications will be issued later in the session.
Professor Will Fowler, University of St Andrews
30th April 2012
Rethinking Nineteenth-century Mexico. Following in the steps of Professor Michael P. Costeloe.
For more information, visit the event details on the HiPLA website.
Professor Kathryn Grossman, IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania State University
10 May 2012
"Les Mis" takes the States: the first 60 years of Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" (1862-1922)
For more information, visit the event details on the IAS website.
Diane Setterfield, author and Bristol alumna
21 February 2011
'Out of Bounds' Authorial Self-reading in Translation
Organised by Adrienne Mason
Professor Bernard McGinn, past President, Medieval Academy of America; Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago
1 March 2010
'The Iconography of the Trinity'
Professor McGinn is a Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, courtesy of the Institute for Advanced Studies
Organised by Anke Holdenried and Carolyn Muessig
Professor Mary Carruthers, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature, New York University, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
27 May 2009
'Beauty is Skin Deep and Highly Coloured'
Organised by Beth Williamson (also supported by the Centre for Medieval Studies)
Lawrence Goldman, Oxford
21 October 2009
'The True Ends of Education: Lessons in Reception from the Early Adult Education Movement'
To be followed by a reception.
Organised by Tom Sperlinger
Professor Peter France, University of Edinburgh, co-editor of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
8 December 2009
'Why we translate'
Organised by Adrienne Mason