November 2024

Featured Fellow: Dr Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell

November 28, 2024

Dr Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell is a Postdoctoral Fellow for 2024-25, and a researcher, writer and artist. Informed by their creative work, Evelyn’s research attempts to develop strategies of trans theorising and practice that challenge the foreclosure of gender transition as material reality. Their work has been shown, performed, read at TACO!, Kaunas Artists’ House, Auto Italia, Kupfer Project and Kingsgate Project Space. 

Call for Papers: "Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum"

November 21, 2024
Graffiti placed by a vandal on a pole stating that refugees are welcome in the city of Groningen.

Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum

Symposium
Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 June 2025
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, UCL

Dr Esa Aldegheri, University of Glasgow

Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina: "OperAI: Exploring science-fiction opera and human-AI interactions in immersive opera theatre"

Event date: 
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Time: 
13:00-14:00
Location: 
Seminar room, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina (Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-25)

OperAI: Exploring science-fiction opera and human-AI interactions in immersive opera theatre

This seminar introduces my initiative, OperAI, which investigates how generative AI enhances the ‘embodied’ aspects of human creativity in musical-theatrical performances. The practice-led project has two parts.