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James Baker is Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton. James is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and holds degrees from the University of Southampton and latterly the University of Kent, where in 2010 he completed his doctoral research on the late-Georgian artist-engraver Isaac Cruikshank. James works at the intersection of history, cultural heritage, and digital technologies. He is currently working on a history of knowledge organisation in twentieth century Britain. In 2021, I begin a major new Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project 'Beyond Notability: Re-evaluating Women’s Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage, 1870 – 1950'. Previous externally funded research projects have focused on legacy descriptions of art objects ('Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship', Arts and Humanities Research Council), the preservation of intangible cultural heritage ('Coptic Culture Conservation Collective', British Council, and 'Heritage Repertoires for inclusive and sustainable development', British Academy), the born digital archival record ('Digital Forensics in the Historical Humanities', European Commission), and decolonial futures for museum collections ('Making African Connections: Decolonial Futures for Colonial Collections', Arts and Humanities Research Council). Prior to joining Southampton, James held positions of Senior Lecturer in Digital History and Archives at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Humanities Lab, Digital Curator at the British Library, and Postdoctoral Fellow with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College, a convenor of the Institute of Historical Research Digital History seminar, a member of The Programming Historian Editorial Board and a Director of ProgHist Ltd (Company Number 12192946), and an International Advisory Board Member of British Art Studies.

CRADLED IN CARICATURE : a multidisciplinary event

Friday 27 April 2012, COLT3, University of Kent, Canterbury

Paul Mellon travel bursaries

kapp — Edmond Xavier Kapp (1890-1978) Noël Coward (c) The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

The Cradled in Caricature organising committee are delighted to announce that travel bursaries have been awarded to four early career scholars attending #CiC12. These bursaries are generously funded by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Emalee Beddoes from the University of Birmingham has been awarded a travel bursary for her proposal ‘Imaging the Inside: Edmond Xavier Kapp, psychological portraiture and the assumption of the creative “type”‘. This paper promises to discuss “the works of the now little known caricature artist, Edmond Xavier Kapp, whose work depicts some of the greatest figures of the twentieth century: from Winston Churchill to Percy Wyndham Lewis and Albert Einstein. It will explore the overlap between caricature and psychological portraiture and discuss how both of these genres assume the possibility of a physical embodiment of personality, and how both facilitate the stereotype of the creative genius who possesses superior insight into the interior life of individuals.”

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Amy Milka, Graeme Callister, and John Richard Moores from The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York have been jointly awarded a travel bursary for their panel proposal ‘Cradled in Contrast: The application of national stereotypes in eighteenth century caricature‘. This panel will tease at the intersections between English comic art, nationalism, stereotyping, and travel literature.

The Cradled in Caricature organising committee are delighted to support the attendance of Emalee, Amy, Graeme, and John at #CiC12. We thank The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art once more for making this possible by awarding Cradled in Caricature an Educational Programme Grant.

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Attendance at Cradled in Caricature is free of charge though places are limited. To book a place at this event please email cradledincaricature@gmail.com.

For further announcements, please follow us on Twitter @CinCaricature and #CiC12

Cradled in Caricature is supported by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Kent, the Department of History of Art, University College London, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Graduate School, University of Kent.