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OLH publication on the history of Becket’s name features in The Times
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2023-04-05
We are very pleased to say that an article published in the Open Library of Humanities journal has been recently featured in The Times. The article in question, “Who Put the ‘a’ in ‘Thomas a Becket’? The History of a Name from the Angevins to the Victorians” by John Jenkins, examines the history of Becket’s name since the 12th century.In The Times piece Jack Blackburn says:"Thomas Becket was [...]
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Open Insights: Choosing the Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ) as the Publisher for your Special Collection
Posted by Katherine Ruth Parker-Hay on 2022-09-14
Choosing OLHJ as the Publisher for your Special Collection An Open Insights blog post by Katherine Parker-HayKatherine Parker-Hay is an Editorial Officer for the Open Library of Humanities where she oversees editorial processes and production. She has a PhD from the University of Sussex and has been involved with various research projects seeking to make universities more equitable and [...]
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Online event: The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-09-06
Live Discussion / Online eventThe Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period PovertyWant to know more about menstrual rights & history in Scotland? Join the editors and contributors of the OLH journal Special Collection “The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty” for a moderated [...]
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Article in the OLH flagship journal wins the SFRA Innovative Research Award
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-07-20
We are delighted to announce that Dr Amy Butt has won the 2022 SFRA Innovative Research Award for her article published in the Open Library of Humanities journal. Amy’s article ‘The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum’ was published in 2021 and explores the role and possibilities of science fiction texts in museum settings.The SFRA Innovative Research Award (formerly the Pioneer [...]
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Open Insights: An interview with Bettina Bildhauer, Camilla Røstvik and Sharra Vostral
Posted by Katherine Ruth Parker-Hay on 2022-07-12
The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty An Open Insights Interview with Bettina Bildhauer, Camilla Røstvik and Sharra VostralFeatured image: Matriline by Bibo Keeley, digital image, 2016Bettina Bildhauer (BB) is Professor of German at University of St Andrews, Camilla Mørk Røstvik (CMR) is Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Art [...]
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Call for Special Collections!
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-05-23
The Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ) is currently seeking new Special Collections to join our wide array of published research in the Humanities. OLHJ has published quality, peer-reviewed research across 40 Special Collections since 2016, with subjects ranging from ‘The Working-Class Avant-Garde’, to ‘Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century’, and more recently [...]
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Open Insights: An interview with Adrian Curtin and Adam Whittaker
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-02-03
Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First CenturyAn Open Insights interview with Adrian Curtin and Adam Whittaker Dr Adam Whittaker is Head of Pedagogy and a Lecturer in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is an internationally recognised scholar in musicology and music education. Dr Adrian Curtin is a senior lecturer in the [...]
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CFP: The Working-Class Avant-Garde / Deadline: 29 April, 2022.
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-12-17
Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for ProposalsThe Working-Class Avant-Garde The idea of a working-class avant-garde may seem a contradiction to some. The avant-garde, so often an elite realm of the arts, has proved to favour those with the requisite social, cultural and economic capitals to succeed in this competitive arena. Indeed, studies such as John Carey’s [...]
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CFP: Production Archives 03 – Archival Practices
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-06-16
Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for PapersProduction Archives 03 – Archival PracticesThe open-access special collection Production Archives invites article submissions to a critical forum dedicated to the theme of "Archival Practices". Published by the Open Library of Humanities journal, this forum focuses on the analysis of institutions and practices of curation and [...]
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CFP: Production Archives 02 – Production Contexts
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-06-16
Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for PapersProduction Archives 02 – Production ContextsThe open-access special collection Production Archives invites article submissions to a critical forum dedicated to the theme of "Production Contexts". Published by the Open Library of Humanities journal, this forum aims to widen the cultural studies lens by refocussing from isolated [...]
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CFP: Production Archives 01 – Puppets for Action
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-06-16
Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for PapersProduction Archives 01 – Puppets for ActionThe open-access special collection Production Archives invites article submissions to a critical forum dedicated to the theme of "Puppets for Action". Published by the Open Library of Humanities journal, this forum aims to overturn the critical relegation of puppetry to a [...]
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CFP: Scholarly Communications and Higher Education
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-05-21
Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for ArticlesScholarly Communications and Higher EducationThe meta-reflexive study of scholarly communications and higher education in the digital age has long been of vital importance. This special collection gathers articles at the OLH journal on this topic.The special collection welcomes both empirical and theoretical contributions in [...]
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CFP: The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine / Deadline: 15 September, 2021
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-05-11
Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for ArticlesThe Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern MedicineSince the birth of modern medicine in nineteenth-century Europe, its authority and influence has profoundly shaped society. Medical institutions in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin identified new forms of pathology, with ‘illnesses’ such [...]
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CFP: Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age / Deadline: 14 March, 2021
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-01-26
Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for ArticlesBinary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital AgeBinary Modernisms addresses the convergence of modernism and digital technologies in their disruption of traditional methods of art creation. Drawing on existing discussions of early 20th-century modernism’s disturbance of traditional cultural forms and [...]
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Live Chat: Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2020-06-22
Live Chat | Webinar: Postcolonial Perspectives in Game StudiesDate: Monday 29th June 2020Time: 3-4pm BST. Check your timezone here Registration: Please register hereTo join the webinar: Please install the Zoom meetings application from the Zoom Download Centre before the webinar. The Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies OLH Special Collection is a freely accessible curated [...]
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