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Divine Intoxication? Jesuit Georgic Poetry on Exotic Beverages
Dr Yasmin Haskell held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship between 1999 and 2002. Her book on Jesuit Latin didactic poetry is published by the British Academy in summer 2003. In the early modern period, the subjects of poems in the didactic genre were as multifarious as they were topical, including …
Popular Recreation and the Significance of Space
Dr Emma Griffin held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 2001 to 2004, during which she studied the history of popular sports and recreations in the long eighteenth century. Here, she illustrates one aspect of her research.
Music among the Sibe of Xinjiang
Ethnomusicologist and former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Rachel Harris spent long periods of fieldwork in Xinjiang, in the remote desert region of Chinese Central Asia, listening and learning about the music of the Sibe, descendants of Qing dynasty military garrisons. In this edited extract from her book, ‘Singing the …
Endangered whales, endangered humans: Wildlife management in the Canadian Arctic
Dr Martina Tyrrell reveals the tensions that exist when conservation policies conflict with traditional ways of life on Hudson Bay. Dr Tyrrell was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2005–2008. She gave a presentation on her research at the 2008 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium.
A newly identified Scottish Boethius manuscript
Dr Kylie Murray is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research project is on ‘Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy in Scotland, c.1120-c.1570’. This article in the British Academy Review is on ‘A newly identified Scottish Boethius manuscript: Rethinking Scotland’s intellectual and literary culture in the Middle …
The origin of Arabs: Middle Eastern ethnicity and myth-making
Dr Peter Webb is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He is author of "Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam" (2016).
Human nature in society
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington argues that lessons from evolution can support academic critique of how society is run.
A passion for war poetry
Philip Lancaster tells how his study of the War Poets has inspired him to compose a new musical work.
Who watches the watchmen?
How does news coverage of local crime affect policing in the United States? British Academy-funded researchers Dr Arianna Ornaghi and Dr Nicola Mastrorocco investigate
‘Big Society’, ‘good culture’, and aspiration
Dr Matthew Johnson is Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow from 2011 to 2014. He currently holds a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award. His project explores social and political concepts through an innovative form of community-oriented participatory research.
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