Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Spring Festival 2026

OpenARC held the second Spring Festival of the Arts and Humanities on 18 March 2026. The festival celebrated the best in research, broadcast work, knowledge exchange and impact in the School of Arts and Humanities.  Below you can view recordings of the short presentations from colleagues and the Spring Festival, telling us about their OpenARC funded work. Watch the videos to learn more about what we are doing to support a vital and active research culture in the School of Arts and Humanities.

You can catch up with the video recordings of short presentations from individual research groups, centres and networks in the first OpenARC Festival of the Arts and Humanities which took place on 13 May 2025.

Icelandic archives
Samuel Sargeant (English & Creative Writing)

Bad Poetry volume and editing Spenser | Richard Danson Brown (English & Creative Writing)

Shakespeare and madness
Molly Ziegler (English & Creative Writing)

Lili Boulanger: psalm settings
Laura Hamer (Music)

Creativity and Neurodiversity conference, London
Lania Knight (English & Creative Writing)

Digital Humanities research group
Francesca Benatti (English & Creative Writing)

ACLA conference, Montreal
Fiona Doloughan (English & Creative Writing)

Manuscript to published novel
Emily Bullock (English & Creative Writing)

Open Arts Journal
Andrew Murray (Art History)

Wallpaper project (AHRC)
Clare Taylor (Art History)

ISHR conference, Denmark
Christine Plastow (Classical Studies)

Music research in Cameroon
Byron Dueck (Music)

Munich, Zentralinstitut Kunstgeschichte and Byzantine monumental painting
Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Art History)

Palm Sunday 1461: Battlefields, Community, and Heritage
David Grummitt (History)