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The Idea of Animation: Aesthetics, Locality and the Formation of Media Identity (IdeaofAnimation)
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,
This project examines how changing notions of animated film emerged during the period of its consolidation, from the introduction of animated films in cinema programmes in the mid-1910s to the surge in interest in animation and the global prominence of Walt Disney studios in the 1930s. The project investigates how a changing cultural and aesthetic identity of animated film was negotiated within fi ...
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Shaping text, Shaping melody, Shaping experience in and through the Old Hispanic office (OLD HISPANIC OFFICE)
Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,
Scholars have neglected Iberia’s early-medieval Christian liturgy, reflecting the insurmountable difficulties the non-pitch-readable music notation presents for conventional methodologies. This project’s trans-disciplinary methodology integrates the study of melody and text across the Old Hispanic liturgy for the first time. With theologians and musicologists, I will explore the potential the Old ...
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Darwinism and the Theory of Rational Choice (DARTCH)
Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
The aim of the research project is to explore the relationship between Darwinian evolution and the theory of rational choice, from an overarching philosophical perspective. There exist deep and interesting links, both conceptual and formal, between evolutionary theory and rational choice theory. These arise because a notion of optimization, or maximization, is central to both bodies of theory. Evo ...
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Epistemic Utility Theory: Foundations and Applications (EUT)
Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
"This project aims to develop a new and extremely promising approach that has recently been introduced in epistemology, where it is used to provide rigorous justifications of epistemic norms based on mathematical theorems. I will call it epistemic utility theory. The central claim of this approach is that epistemic norms can be justified using the apparatus and techniques of decision theory, whi ...
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Sermons and Drama in Medieval England: Evaluating the relationship between allied genres of performance (Sermons and Drama)
Start date: Jan 7, 2013, End date: Jul 28, 2016,
Sermons and drama were the two major performative genres in medieval England, and they both constituted authoritative, didactic modes of discourse. The questions concerning the relationship between the two genres are very urgent and the proposed research can offer an accurate insight into the problem of possible cross-fertilisation, into plays' and sermons' literary and performative qualities, and ...
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