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CAMC Curates is the newsletter for the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities with updates, news and events from our expert and engaged researchers.
News
Prof Louise Moody is editing a special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Dr Niall Curry was awarded UKRI funding for a bid submitted to a joint ESRC/AHRC call.
Call for journal articles
Advances in Digital Health and the Implications for Health and Wellbeing in the Time of COVID-19
In collaboration with Dr Hayley Wright, Prof Louise Moody is editing a special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Digital health has played a role in the management of the challenges presented by COVID-19, minimizing the risk of transmission through direct physical contact with healthcare professionals, and providing continuous care in the community. In this Special Issue, we consider the progress of digital health through the pandemic, and implications for the future. Submissions might relate to advanced technical developments, trials of novel solutions, meta-analyses, digital interventions, and innovative technologies. Papers may also consider the application of digital health technologies for particular groups (including populations with long-term conditions, deprived communities, children, and older people), or the design, delivery and ethical challenges of research and practical implementation within this context.
The deadline for submissions is 30 January 2023. More information about the journal and special issue can be found here.
This is an open access journal, please get in touch with Louise if you would like to learn more about article processing charges
Niall Curry UKRI Funding
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Dr Niall Curry was awarded UKRI funding for a bid submitted to the joint ESRC/AHRC call: UK and South Korea social science, arts and humanities connections. The project is conducted in collaboration between Coventry University, Lancaster University, and Konkuk University. Dr Curry will act as Co-Investigator alongside Prof. Tony McEnery (PI) and Dr Isobelle Clarke (Co-I) at Lancaster University, and Prof. Hyoshin Lee (Co-I) and Prof. Jongbai Hwang at Konkuk University, and the project will engage with a range of industry and professional bodies, including Cambridge University Press and Assessment, Trinity College London, British Council Korea, and the Korean Association of Teachers of English.
The aim of the project is to investigate how a corpus-informed approach to materials and assessment development can support English language teaching (ELT) within the uniqueness of the Korean English language curriculum and culture. In so doing, the project aims to develop a wider research network spanning the UK and South Korea with a view to expanding ongoing work in applied corpus linguistics and addressing existing and emerging challenges in the Korean ELT context.
Events
Victoria Leonard's international conference, 'Orosius Through the Ages', will take place in May.
Juliet Simpson will present new research at the University of Strasbourg for the international conference New Perspectives on Artists’ Visual Cultures and Processes of Creation from the Middle Ages to the Present in March. This July, she will moderate the panel on ‘New Perspectives on Convent Cultures in the 15th and 16th Centuries: Word, Image and Music’ at the Medieval Congress in Leeds.
Finally, #WCCWiki, the initiative that aims to improve the representation of women and non-binary classicists on Wikipedia, will meet online again this month.
Orosius Through the Ages
Paulus Orosius (ca. 417 CE), as imagined scribing his History in an eleventh-century manuscript. Image in the public domain
Victoria Leonard (CAMC Research Fellow) has organised an international conference, 'Orosius Through the Ages', 25-27 May 2022. The event will take place online and at the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. It features two keynote speakers, Prof. Elizabeth Tyler (University of York) and Prof. Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent University), as well as twenty-one presenters. The conference is framed by a Wikipedia editathon, supported by MedievalWiki. This event aims to improve the visibility of those who identify as women and non-binary in Orosian studies on Wikipedia. The Call for Papers for the conference closed on 8 December 2021, and registration will open in due course.
For further information, please see the conference website here, or get in touch with Victoria: victoria.leonard@coventry.ac.uk.
New Perspectives on Artists' Visual Cultures
JMW Turner, A Romanesque Church near Lyons, 1802. From the France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook. Image credit, Tate, Open Access
Prof. Juliet Simpson will present new research at the University of Strasbourg for the forthcoming international conference (23-25 March) on New Perspectives on Artists’ Visual Cultures and Processes of Creation from the Middle Ages to the Present. Juliet’s paper on ‘Maria Callcott’s Paper Memory-Making: Recreating the Past through the Mobile Gaze’ features in a global line up of scholars. Exploring the importance of artists’ notebooks, sketches, travel books, paper, photographic and digital memory: ‘paper museums’, conference and follow-up publication will shed light on the importance of neglected actors and processes as central to practices of artistic conception and creation.
#WCCWiki
Votive figurines from the Temple of Hera at Vibo Valentia, Calabria. Image available under a Creative Commons licence
#WCCWiki, the initiative that aims to improve the representation of women and non-binary classicsists (very broadly conceived) on Wikipedia, will meet online on 22 February. We're focusing on pages for LGBT+ scholars as part of LGBTQIA+ history month, so come along and help us make sure Wikipedia is more representative! #WCCWiki is co-organised by Victoria Leonard (CAMC Research Fellow) for the Women's Classical Committee UK.
Email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for details on how to join the Zoom session. No previous experience in editing Wikipedia necessary. All welcome!
New Perspectives on Convent Cultures in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Stained glass window depicting five Benedictine female saints, Saints Hildegard, Walburga, Scholastica, Mechtild and Gertrude, St Benedict Monastery (photo Bristow/Shutterstock, public domain).
Juliet Simpson will be Moderator for the panel on ‘New Perspectives on Convent Cultures in the 15th and 16th Centuries: Word, Image and Music’ at the forthcoming Medieval Congress in Leeds this July.
The largest such Medieval Studies event globally, this year’s Congress includes 600 accepted sessions and 2,000 active participants. Juliet’s invitation to Chair develops exciting interdisciplinary research and new trans-historical medieval word-image-performance networks from her ‘Salve Regina’ paper at Ca’ Foscari, Venice (September 2020), published in the forthcoming volume, Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages: Image and Performance, eds A. Znorovszky-G. Jaritz (Routledge, 2022: published April).
Publications
Hilary Nesi has a new publication in the International Journal of Lexicography.
Sarah Turner (ASPIRE fellow) now has a paper in the BMJ Open.
International Journal of Lexicography
Hilary Nesi has a new publication in the International Journal of Lexicography. This was co-authored with two academics from MEF University in Turkey – Şükrü Nural and Tuna Çakar. Şükrü came to Coventry to work with Hilary as a visiting scholar in February 2019 - just before lockdown. He only intended to come for a short visit, but he couldn’t get a flight home for several months, enough time for him to develop and execute a full research plan. Tuna Çakar at MEF is named as third author of the publication because he provided advice on statistics.
Temporary free-access link here.
Sarah Turner BMJ Open
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Dr Sarah Turner (ASPIRE fellow) now has a paper in the BMJ Open, co-authored with the other members of the research team – Prof. Jeannette Littlemore, Eloise Parr, Prof. Julie Taylor and Prof. Annie Topping, all at the University of Birmingham. The paper reports on findings from a recent project exploring experiences of child loss, using linguistic analysis to reach a deeper understanding of these experiences and to promote strategies for bereavement care that are grounded in this understanding.
The project was funded by the True Colours Trust and the paper is available here.
Image: Yellow House, by John Devane
