OpenARC Spring Festival of the Arts and Humanities

Dates
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 14:00 to 16:30
Location
Library Seminar Room 4

We are delighted to announce that OpenARC will be hosting a Spring Festival of the Arts and Humanities. The Festival will celebrate the best in research, broadcast, knowledge exchange and impact in the School of Arts and Humanities. You will hear short presentations from colleagues, telling us about their OpenARC funded work, and learn more about what we are doing to support a vital and active research culture in the School.  

There will be cake and refreshments and will be free to attend.

For registration and questions, please email: [email protected].

Programme

TimeTitle and Speakers
2:00 - 2:20pm

Introductions and welcome 

Shafquat Towheed (Director, OpenARC), 
Donna Loftus (Head of School, Arts & Humanities), 
Adrienne Scullion (Executive Dean, FASS),
Paul Lawrence (Associate Dean for Research, FASS).

2:20 - 2:40pm

Cluster 1: Research trips and research groups 

Byron Dueck (Music): Music research in Cameroon,
Andrew Murray (Art History): Medieval and Early Modern research group,
Andrew Murray (Art History): Open Arts Journal,
Francesca Benatti (ECW): DH research group.

2:40 - 3:00pm

Cluster 2: Archives, manuscripts, libraries and sources

Samuel Sargeant (ECW): Icelandic archives,
Edmund King (ECW): Rochester archives,
Emily Bullock (ECW): manuscript to published novel, 
Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Art History): Munich, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and Byzantine monumental painting.

3:00 - 3:20pm

Break

tea, coffee and cake

3:20 - 3:40pm

Cluster 3: Conferences

Lania Knight (ECW): Creativity and Neurodiversity conference, London,
Christine Plastow (Classical Studies): ISHR conference, Denmark,
Fiona Doloughan (ECW): ACLA conference, Montreal.

3:40 - 4:10pm

Cluster 4: Publications and Projects

David Grummitt (History): Palm Sunday 1461: Battlefields, Community, and Heritage,
Clare Taylor (Art History): Wallpaper project (AHRC),
Richard Danson Brown (ECW): Bad Poetry volume and editing Spenser,
Laura Hamer (Music): Lili Boulanger: psalm settings,
Molly Ziegler (ECW): Shakespeare and madness.

4:10 - 4:15pm

Summing up 

final thoughts, future events

4:15 - 4:30pm

Networking 

more tea, coffee and cake

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