HRC York
@hrcyork.bsky.social
Humanities Research Centre, University of York. Supporting research in the Arts and Humanities.
Continuing to highlight the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events funded last summer by the HRC. 'Environmental Art and Activism: Imagining Anthropocene Futures' by Catherine Love-Smith (Arts and Creative Technologies) and Felicia Liu (Environment & Geography) www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Continuing to highlight the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events funded last summer by the HRC. 'Environmental Art and Activism: Imagining Anthropocene Futures' by Catherine Love-Smith (Arts and Creative Technologies) and Felicia Liu (Environment & Geography) www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...
Let's start with Jin Fan from Archaeology, who organised “Designing Futures: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Humanities and STEM”. You can read more about the event in Jin's blog post www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Let's start with Jin Fan from Archaeology, who organised “Designing Futures: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Humanities and STEM”. You can read more about the event in Jin's blog post www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...
With the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo described as "one of the most ambitious cultural projects in modern history", Jo Fletcher from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social was asked for interviews by various international news channels and Egypt's national TV channel Nile News and magazine Akher Sa’a.
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
With the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo described as "one of the most ambitious cultural projects in modern history", Jo Fletcher from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social was asked for interviews by various international news channels and Egypt's national TV channel Nile News and magazine Akher Sa’a.
HRC's Deputy Director @marianajlopez.bsky.social wrote a blog post about the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries hosted by @school-of-act.bsky.social as part of the #EnhancingAD project enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
HRC's Deputy Director @marianajlopez.bsky.social wrote a blog post about the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries hosted by @school-of-act.bsky.social as part of the #EnhancingAD project enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...
Welcome to Robin Pawlett-Howell from the Department of Philosophy, one of our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Robin's main research specialisations are in existential phenomenology and social/political philosophy.
October 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Welcome to Robin Pawlett-Howell from the Department of Philosophy, one of our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Robin's main research specialisations are in existential phenomenology and social/political philosophy.
Continuing to introduce our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! Today we are welcoming Sarah McKeagney 🎉 Sarah is a late-medieval social historian focusing on law and the courts in 15th century England. Sarah's thesis focused on breach of faith and perjury litigation in late medieval England.
September 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Continuing to introduce our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! Today we are welcoming Sarah McKeagney 🎉 Sarah is a late-medieval social historian focusing on law and the courts in 15th century England. Sarah's thesis focused on breach of faith and perjury litigation in late medieval England.
We are continuing to welcome our HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Today we are featuring Yorgos Paschos from Archaeology. Yorgos will be conducting research focusing on the role of euphoric value in heritage significance assessment.
September 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
We are continuing to welcome our HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Today we are featuring Yorgos Paschos from Archaeology. Yorgos will be conducting research focusing on the role of euphoric value in heritage significance assessment.
Welcome to Lore Lixenberg, one of this year's HRC Postdoctoral Fellows. Lore will explore how AI can reimagine the vocal and compositional techniques of the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, asking how new technologies might offer new ways of engaging with medieval music.
September 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Welcome to Lore Lixenberg, one of this year's HRC Postdoctoral Fellows. Lore will explore how AI can reimagine the vocal and compositional techniques of the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, asking how new technologies might offer new ways of engaging with medieval music.
Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are welcoming Ishita Krishna from @school-of-act.bsky.social Ishita's research engages with a study of objects in western modernist drama, looking at different representations of objects, objectification, and subject-object encounters.
September 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are welcoming Ishita Krishna from @school-of-act.bsky.social Ishita's research engages with a study of objects in western modernist drama, looking at different representations of objects, objectification, and subject-object encounters.
Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are delighted to be welcoming Bryony Aitchison, whose PhD explored queer gardens in the poetry and life writing of modernist women writers. She examined how the embodied act of gardening generates queer organic forms in modernist texts.
August 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are delighted to be welcoming Bryony Aitchison, whose PhD explored queer gardens in the poetry and life writing of modernist women writers. She examined how the embodied act of gardening generates queer organic forms in modernist texts.
Delighted to be welcoming Xinrui Zhang from History of Art as an HRC Postdoctoral Fellow 🎉 Xinrui's doctoral research examined how international artists have facilitated public discourse on China’s ecological issues in relation to the country’s environmental governance.
August 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Delighted to be welcoming Xinrui Zhang from History of Art as an HRC Postdoctoral Fellow 🎉 Xinrui's doctoral research examined how international artists have facilitated public discourse on China’s ecological issues in relation to the country’s environmental governance.
Introducing the 2025-2026 HRC Postdoctoral Fellows 🎉starting with @marisapmichaud.bsky.social whose PhD examined an illuminated manuscript of the hagiography of Colette of Corbie examining the early visual culture of the Colettine Poor Clares.
August 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Introducing the 2025-2026 HRC Postdoctoral Fellows 🎉starting with @marisapmichaud.bsky.social whose PhD examined an illuminated manuscript of the hagiography of Colette of Corbie examining the early visual culture of the Colettine Poor Clares.
Throwback to the Doctoral Competition back in May! We are really proud of our wonderful HRC Doctoral Fellows, selected by their academic units through a competitive process. In May we all got together to hear about their wonderful work and for an exciting prize giving event.
July 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Throwback to the Doctoral Competition back in May! We are really proud of our wonderful HRC Doctoral Fellows, selected by their academic units through a competitive process. In May we all got together to hear about their wonderful work and for an exciting prize giving event.
Aimee Little and Andy Needham, Department of Archaeology's @cama-york.bsky.social have just released some new research with colleagues from the University of Helsinki, identifying how Mesolithic people may have extracted animal teeth for personal ornaments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Aimee Little and Andy Needham, Department of Archaeology's @cama-york.bsky.social have just released some new research with colleagues from the University of Helsinki, identifying how Mesolithic people may have extracted animal teeth for personal ornaments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Congratulations to Lesley Schatzberger, who teaches clarinet at @school-of-act.bsky.social and was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 for services to children with life-limiting illnesses and communication difficulties jessiesfund.org.uk/founder-lesl...
July 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Congratulations to Lesley Schatzberger, who teaches clarinet at @school-of-act.bsky.social and was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 for services to children with life-limiting illnesses and communication difficulties jessiesfund.org.uk/founder-lesl...
Congratulations to the amazing Megan Russell for her YUSU Excellence Award for her work on Supporting Student Voice Activities and Partnerships 🏆 So well deserved, and we are delighted that the wonderful work she does is being recognised by our community 😊
June 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Congratulations to the amazing Megan Russell for her YUSU Excellence Award for her work on Supporting Student Voice Activities and Partnerships 🏆 So well deserved, and we are delighted that the wonderful work she does is being recognised by our community 😊
This September the @school-of-act.bsky.social is hosting the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries as part of the #EnhancingAD project. Early bird registration closes end of June 🐥 enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...
June 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This September the @school-of-act.bsky.social is hosting the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries as part of the #EnhancingAD project. Early bird registration closes end of June 🐥 enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...
'Point of View: Can you write from your own and someone else's?' by Peri Mirza. Peri invited families to consider, through creative writing, whether reading in 1st person makes us feel more emotional and whether reading in 3rd person makes us think differently about situations. A wonderful activity!
June 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
'Point of View: Can you write from your own and someone else's?' by Peri Mirza. Peri invited families to consider, through creative writing, whether reading in 1st person makes us feel more emotional and whether reading in 3rd person makes us think differently about situations. A wonderful activity!
Zuzanna Róg presented 'Colouring In Postcards of Holidays from the 1900s'. Exploring the changing holiday habits of British people, this activity invited participants to choose their holiday destination and create a postcard ✉️ Time to plan our next holiday!
June 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Zuzanna Róg presented 'Colouring In Postcards of Holidays from the 1900s'. Exploring the changing holiday habits of British people, this activity invited participants to choose their holiday destination and create a postcard ✉️ Time to plan our next holiday!
'Viking Runes' by Rosie Watters taught children (and adults!) how to write their name in Viking runes and display it proudly on their very own DIY Viking shield. It was so popular that we had to find an additional table 😊
June 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
'Viking Runes' by Rosie Watters taught children (and adults!) how to write their name in Viking runes and display it proudly on their very own DIY Viking shield. It was so popular that we had to find an additional table 😊
Everything is better with glitter! Families could not get enough of 'Hybrid Beasts: Margaret Cavendish's philosophical monsters' led by Sophie White from the Department of Philosophy ✨Great activity!
June 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Everything is better with glitter! Families could not get enough of 'Hybrid Beasts: Margaret Cavendish's philosophical monsters' led by Sophie White from the Department of Philosophy ✨Great activity!
Sylvia Zeng from @school-of-act.bsky.social presented 'Sound Scavenger: Listen, identify and express' an activity inviting participants to listen to different sounds, categorise them and reflect on how they made them feel 🎶 Lots of fun!
June 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sylvia Zeng from @school-of-act.bsky.social presented 'Sound Scavenger: Listen, identify and express' an activity inviting participants to listen to different sounds, categorise them and reflect on how they made them feel 🎶 Lots of fun!
'Who Made Your Clothes?' a thought-provoking activity by Susy Williams to help develop understanding of the journey our clothing takes before landing on our shelves.
June 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
'Who Made Your Clothes?' a thought-provoking activity by Susy Williams to help develop understanding of the journey our clothing takes before landing on our shelves.
'It Takes Two to Argue' a wonderful activity from a team at Language and Linguistics! Rosario Neyra, Levi Farrington, Lebo Moji and Constance Sun organised a wonderful puppet show exploring how arguments unfold and how to break them down using de-escalation strategies to resolve conflicts.
June 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
'It Takes Two to Argue' a wonderful activity from a team at Language and Linguistics! Rosario Neyra, Levi Farrington, Lebo Moji and Constance Sun organised a wonderful puppet show exploring how arguments unfold and how to break them down using de-escalation strategies to resolve conflicts.
Kola Ganikale joined us with a wonderful stand on African Sounds in Music Technology. It was so amazing we were tempted to turn families away and just spend the afternoon making some music ourselves 😜
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Kola Ganikale joined us with a wonderful stand on African Sounds in Music Technology. It was so amazing we were tempted to turn families away and just spend the afternoon making some music ourselves 😜