Claudia Sternberg joins the Centre for Hidden Histories
Claudia Sternberg joins the Centre for Hidden Histories
Dr Claudia Sternberg, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, has recently joined the Centre for Hidden Histories as a Co-Investigator for 2017.
The Centre for Hidden Histories (CHH) is one of five World War One Engagement Centres which aims to engage with and support communities as they seek to commemorate and reflect upon the century-long legacy of the First World War.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Centre is staffed by a consortium of academics from the universities of Nottingham, Derby, Nottingham Trent, Manchester Metropolitan, Oxford Brooks, UCL, Goldsmiths and (from 2017) the University of Leeds.
The Centre has a particular interest in the themes of migration and displacement, the experience of ‘others’ from countries and regions within Europe, Asia and the Commonwealth, the impact and subsequent legacies of the war on diverse communities within Britain, remembrance and commemoration, and identity and faith.
Across 2017, the Centre for Hidden Histories will continue to engage with community groups through a programme of outreach and support activities. The ‘hidden’ themes which have been developed in the course of the project so far are the impact of the war on countries around the British Empire; the treatment of enemy aliens in the UK and Germany and the different cultural responses to war and its memory.
Claudia Sternberg joined the Centre for Hidden Histories as a Co-Investigator in January 2017. Claudia has had a longstanding involvement with the Centre through her project In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time and through links to the Legacies of War project (hosted by academics in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at the University of Leeds).
