Through partnerships with the cultural and heritage sectors, and exciting developments in visual arts and creative writing, Creativity, Culture and Heritage researchers are spearheading innovative approaches to the study of ancient and modern artefacts and the relevance of the past for the present.
In this episode, Senior Librarian Katie Reddington gives an introduction to the British Film Institute's Reuben Library. The Talking Humanities podcast introduces projects and reflections from researchers across the Arts and Humanities Faculty at Durham University.
Goldschmidt, N. (2023). Fragmentary Modernism : The Classical Fragment in Literary and Visual Cultures, c.1896 - c.1936. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fragmentary Modernisms investigates how our idea of ‘the classical fragment’ has been shaped by the dialogues between classical scholars and modernist artists and writers in the first half of the twentieth century.
Learn more about Fragmentary Modernisms: The Classical Fragment in Literary and Visual Cultures, 1896-1950.
The Durham Music & Science Lab investigates a variety of questions related to music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs), in particular the prevalence, features, and retrieval of these memories, how MEAMs vary across the population, and whether music has any unique ability to evoke qualitatively different memories than other common memory triggers.
Dr Kelly Jakubowski, Associate Professor of Music Psychology, talks in this video about her research on comparing emotionally matched music, sounds, and words as retrieval cues.
Learn more about music-evoked autobiographical memories and publications of this research project.
Inspired by the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East, in Autumn 2022 Durham University collaborated with award-winning light art company The Projection Studio to create CODEX, an inspiring visual and sound installation, touring churches in the region. CODEX explores connections between Northumbria and the rest of the world, expressed through the art of manuscripts dating from between 600 and 800AD.
This is the second in a series of conversations with specialists from the BFI and is a discussion between the BFI Reuben Library’s Senior Librarian Katie Reddington and Professor Simon James. Simon James is Professor of Victorian Literature in the Department of English Studies.
The Durham Commission is a joint research collaboration between Durham University and Arts Council England, convened to look at the role creativity and creative thinking should play in the education of young people.
Join our team of food history experts, Daniel L Newman, Giles Gasper and Amanda Herbert as they recreate a delicious medieval sweet, Zulabiyya, and share insights from their own research on cooking historical recipes.
Heritage-360 is a new initiative for 2024, and is open exclusively to students living in the North East region. The programme is an initiative based on connecting collaborative practice between natural and cultural heritage in the region.
Discover some of Durham University's research centres, initiatives, and projects related to Creativity, Culture, and Heritage.
Explore the world of the visual arts and film from a global and historical perspective.
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Visit the Transformative Humanities page to find out more about current research projects of other themes.
Find out more about the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Durham University.
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