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  • Playing the academic game

    Originally posted on The Research Whisperer: Dr Dani Barrington is a Research Fellow in Water Engineering for Developing Countries at Cranfield University, and an Honorary Fellow at The University of Queensland. Her work focuses on water, s16anitation and hygiene (#WASH); check out a video of the cool “Reinvented Toilet” she’s working on nowadays. She tweets at @Dani_Barrington.…

  • NWEMS Manchester

    At the end of April, I gave a short paper to the North West Early Modern Seminar at the John Rylands Library in Manchester.  There were lots of other interesting speakers and it was lovely to catch up with some of my Manchester friends, (especially Ros Oates and Sasha Handley, who both, at different times,…

  • Lancaster Castle

    Lancaster Castle

    Back in February, as part of the Embodiment and New Materialism conference in Lancaster, I was part of a drama workshop which took place in Lancaster Castle.  It was somewhere that I’d been intending to visit for a long time, but had somehow never got around to it. So over the Easter break, we all…

  • Embodiment and New Materialism Part 2

    Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern  period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’.  Having already blogged about the first day of the conference, I thought it was time to share my recollections of the second.…

  • Embodiment and New Materialism Part 1

    Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern  period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’.  The first day of the conference was held in the lovely city of Lancaster itself, at Lancaster Castle and the Storey Institute.…