Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170101251
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$352,374.00
Summary
The spatial dynamics of myth in Pausanias’ Periegesis. This project aims to use Pausanias' Periegesis (2nd c. AD) to reveal the spatial dynamics of Greek myth when it was still a living tradition. This text shows how myths inhabited the landscapes of ancient Greece and how stories shaped travellers' experiences. The resulting monograph expects to enhance our understanding of the experience of Greek myth and contribute to debates over the interplay between the local and the universal (panhellenic ....The spatial dynamics of myth in Pausanias’ Periegesis. This project aims to use Pausanias' Periegesis (2nd c. AD) to reveal the spatial dynamics of Greek myth when it was still a living tradition. This text shows how myths inhabited the landscapes of ancient Greece and how stories shaped travellers' experiences. The resulting monograph expects to enhance our understanding of the experience of Greek myth and contribute to debates over the interplay between the local and the universal (panhellenic) in antiquity. This study will form the basis for a collaborative symposium and edited collection bringing together scholars working on spatial dynamics of myth in other cultures.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100242
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$345,000.00
Summary
The Anxiety of Authority: Authorship Practices in the Age of Enlightenment. This project aims to provide a comprehensive examination of 18th-century authorship practices through a combination of computational analysis, traditional critical methods, and existing digital resources. Using techniques developed in the digital humanities for large-scale text analysis, the project intends to explore the interrelated concepts of authorship and authority as they were conceived and contested during the En ....The Anxiety of Authority: Authorship Practices in the Age of Enlightenment. This project aims to provide a comprehensive examination of 18th-century authorship practices through a combination of computational analysis, traditional critical methods, and existing digital resources. Using techniques developed in the digital humanities for large-scale text analysis, the project intends to explore the interrelated concepts of authorship and authority as they were conceived and contested during the Enlightenment period. In so doing, the project plans to offer new insights into the long history of authorship as well as provide a working model for how these kinds of cutting-edge data-intensive approaches can engage meaningfully with the growing cultural record while transforming our knowledge of the past.Read moreRead less
Nineteenth-Century climate change: atmosphere, culture and romanticism. To understand and adapt to climate change, we need to understand its cultural history. Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a crucial episode in this history, when air became central to art and science, and culture was reconceived as climatic. This new link between culture and climate allowed social changes to be seen as having climatic effects.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190100578
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$413,745.00
Summary
Art and cultural diplomacy. This project aims to investigate questions about cross-cultural communication through the circulation of art objects across the globe. Focusing on early modern diplomatic gifts that are now housed in museums around the world, this project examines the preservation and display of material culture in contemporary museology. Expected outcomes of this project include a better understanding of the role of art in cultural diplomacy, new digital methods for the analysis of c ....Art and cultural diplomacy. This project aims to investigate questions about cross-cultural communication through the circulation of art objects across the globe. Focusing on early modern diplomatic gifts that are now housed in museums around the world, this project examines the preservation and display of material culture in contemporary museology. Expected outcomes of this project include a better understanding of the role of art in cultural diplomacy, new digital methods for the analysis of cultural networks, and advanced theories for understanding cultural identity in an increasingly connected world.Read moreRead less
Mapping Print, Charting Enlightenment. This project aims to reconstruct popular reading trends to revise understanding of European enlightenment and the transformational impact of print. Through an innovative, industry-wide digital survey of unprecedented scope and sophistication, tracking millions of copies of thousands of titles and all sectors of the book trade – legal, pirate and contraband – it asks: What books were widely read? Where were they produced and consumed? What was the relative s ....Mapping Print, Charting Enlightenment. This project aims to reconstruct popular reading trends to revise understanding of European enlightenment and the transformational impact of print. Through an innovative, industry-wide digital survey of unprecedented scope and sophistication, tracking millions of copies of thousands of titles and all sectors of the book trade – legal, pirate and contraband – it asks: What books were widely read? Where were they produced and consumed? What was the relative scale and nature of key parts of the trade – notably religious and illegal publishing? How cosmopolitan was popular reading? The project also aims to reflect on its digital methods and develop transferable technologies for studying print’s impact across time and space.Read moreRead less