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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
What is History on Film? The Case of Italian Cinema 1911-2010	Internally funded	1 January 2015	31 December 2099
Spectacular Subjects: Modernism, Gender and Visuality in Interwar Japan	Leverhulme (January – July 2019 only)	1st August 2018	31 December 2099
Bridging Worlds: Brazilian Cultural Thought in Global Perspective	Internal (LCS)	1 September 2025	30 August 2026

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Documentary Films and Buddhist Performing Arts : innovative ways of engaging with Buddhist teachings and rethinking gender roles in modern Thai Buddhism	Multiple funders	1 January 2013	31 December 2025
Moving Mountains: Memory, Identity, and the Geological Imaginary after Landslide Disasters	AHRC, British Council, Newton Fund	1 January 2018	1 December 2024
INDIGENIA: Generative AI for Indigenous Futures and ‘Digital Good Living’	Digital Good Network (ESRC funding, University of Sheffield)	1 September 2023	30 April 2024
Fate and Choice in Edgar Reitz's Heimat	Internally funded	1 October 2018	30 September 2022
Beyond Tomorrow. German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Century	Internally funded	1 January 2014	31 December 2020
Les Femmes s'entêtent: Feminism, writing, art and film 1975-2015	Internally funded	1 January 2015	31 December 2019
Parameters & Practice: A Year of Tasks for Creative Collaboration	Internally funded	1 October 2018	30 September 2019
Community Arts Against Antibiotic Resistance in Nepal (CARAN)	AHRC / MRC GCRF	1 September 2018	31 March 2019
The Hercules Project: A hero for all ages	AHRC-supported	1 September 2016	31 December 2018
Troubling the National Brand and Voicing Hidden Histories: Historical Drama as a tool for International Development and Community Empowerment	AHRC	1 November 2016	31 May 2018
Soft Power, Cinema and the BRICS	AHRC	1 December 2015	31 May 2018
Using Film to Examine Heritage, Identity and Global Citizenship: supporting the work of the Bautzen Memorial to Engage New Audiences	AHRC	1 September 2015	31 December 2015
Using digital tools in heritage	AHRC	1 March 2014	31 July 2016
Theatricality and Interrelations between Art, Film and Theatre	AHRC	1 January 2017	1 July 2018
Screening European Heritage: History on Film, the Heritage Industry and Cultural Policy	AHRC	1 February 2013	31 December 2013
Post-Work: Framing Labour in Post Industrial Europe	AHRC	2017	2018
ORIGEM: Queering Indigeneity in Northeastern Brazil	Internal funders	1 March 2019	Ongoing
Family Sagas in World Literatures and Audio-Visual Cultures: Reimagining Nations Across the Globe	UoL / BCLA	2017	2017
AIAI: Artificial Intelligence, Art and Indigeneity	Internal funders	1 January 2023	Ongoing