Dr Beth Williamson of the Department of Historical Studies (History of Art) has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship worth £74,099 to work on a project entitled ‘The Embodiment of Devotion: Art, Music and Affect in Late Medieval England’.
Four prestigious collaborative doctoral awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, worth £200,000, have been awarded to Bristol University’s Faculty of Arts. These awards are given for research that involves active collaboration with outside partners and are designed to encourage researchers to use their expertise to work on projects that benefit the wider community.
New research on British involvement in the Cuban Revolution and the challenges presented by the Bolivarian Revolution led by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela are just two subjects expected to prompt lively debate at the forthcoming conference of the Society for Latin American Studies.
A Hayward Touring exhibition, Alphabet, by Sir Peter Blake comes to The Bristol Gallery this week as part of an extensive UK tour. To coincide with the opening on Saturday 24 April, the gallery will be holding a day of accompanying events beginning with an introduction to Pop Art led by Peter Stilton, a student in Bristol University’s Department of History of Art.
An installation by Terry Flaxton, AHRC Creative Senior Research Fellow in the University of Bristol’s Department of Drama, opens to the public at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City – the largest cathedral in the world – this month.
Artwork from Age of Bronze, Eric Shanower’s graphic novel series about the Trojan War, goes on display at The Bristol Gallery this week to coincide with an international conference on antiquity in the visual and performing arts at the University of Bristol.
An archaeologist from the University of Bristol who had an unconventional route into a career as an academic, has been chosen as one of eleven case studies from around the country showcasing the benefits of Access to Higher Education courses which this year celebrate their 20th anniversary.
Bones excavated in Magdeburg Cathedral in 2008 are those of Saxon Princess Eadgyth who died in AD 946, scientists from the Department of Archaeology confirmed today. The crucial scientific evidence came from the teeth preserved in the upper jaw. The bones are the oldest surviving remains of an English royal burial.
The historic gardens of Somerset are the subject of a new book by Professor Tim Mowl and Marion Mako, from the University of Bristol’s Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Among the victims of Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud are a group of Bristol archaeologists, stranded on the outer banks of North Carolina in the United States.
