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The Guildhall of St George - a Baugeschichte Drama in 3 Acts

2/23/2023

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The mid-term review of this semester’s Masters Design Studio led by Maria- Elena Patru and Florina Pop took recently place at the Institute of Architectural History and Heritage Preservation (Institut für Baugeschichte und Denkmalpflege) of the University Innsbruck.

The participating students were offered the opportunity to gain insight and feedback from the world of practice, by inviting London-based architect Adrian Hill from ‘Hill Patru Architects’ to join as an external guest critic with experience in working with listed buildings in the UK. Architect Hill´s stay was funded by BritInn. The subject of the studio was the re-use of a Grade I listed building, that happens to be the oldest working theatre in the United Kingdom, St. George’s Guildhall in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. The Guildhall of St George in Kings Lynn is a Grade I listed building, dating from 1428. It has, remarkably, worked as a performance venue almost continuously ever since. It is also the only theatre that can claim with solid evidence that William Shakespeare has performed in it as an actor, back in 1593 when the London venues were closed by the plague. Its success as a playhouse peaked in the 1770’, but in the 19th century the Guidhall has suffered a decline, being used as warehouse and then as stage set wokshop with an Arts Centre being inaugurated on site in 1951 by the queen mother. With the closing of the Arts Centre in 2016 St’George’s guildhall now faces an uncertain future. The Shakespeare Guildhall Trust has formed and a creative director, Tim FitzHigham has been appointed in 2022, with a mission to draft a vision for the site of the back of its unique heritage and secure funding for redevelopment.
Students had the opportunity to gain insight from practice which benefited their understanding of the UK planning system as well as the listed building legislation. Adrian Hill was familiar with both the challenges raised by the studio brief and the particularities of the site which enabled him to quickly engage in the discussion and bring new perspectives that had previously been missed. Being an outsider to the studio has offered the students the chance of the exercise in producing a first impression and gauge the reactions of an expert. Students acknowledged and expressed their appreciation for Adrian Hill’s contribution to the design studio and their work.
The collaboration with Adrian Hill was very fruitful for students, lecturers and PhD students of the institute, who had the opportunity to exchange views with him, as an expert from practice, on topics related to preservation of the built heritage in Europe and the UK.

This collaboration is hopefully the first in a series of future collaborations between the University of Innsbruck’s Faculty of Architecture and experts from the field of architecture in the United Kingdom.
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"Medieval Travel Literature and the Classical Tradition" - Dr. Bauer-Zetzmann at Manchester Metropolitan University

11/3/2022

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Dr. Bauer-Zetzmann from the Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Innsbruck visited his research colleague Dr. Philip Booth at the Manchester Metropolitan University to discuss their shared research interest in the use of classical learning in Medieval travel accounts. Over and above this, the BritInn-Fellowship was intended to facilitate the planning of future collaborative enterprises which would serve to provide further opportunities for joint research outputs in the years to come.

Before the research visit, Dr. Bauer-Zetzmann and Dr. Booth had already independently collected data on classical references and classical learning in Medieval Latin pilgrimage accounts. Therefore, their first goal during the visit was to discuss the next steps for analysing the data. "This will become a joint publication, a journal article which will serve to investigate the use of classical texts and authors within Latin travel accounts of the late to high middle ages." says Dr. Bauer-Zetzmann.
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Moreover, discussions about setting up an interactive database to map the biographies of leading medieval thinkers, teachers, travellers, and pilgrims onto a world map in order to identify possible encounters more easily and systematically, were held during Dr. Bauer-Zetzmann's stay in Manchester. This may evolve into a bigger funding bid in the future. In addition, they explored the holdings of travel accounts in Manchester’s beautiful historical libraries.
The BritInn-Fellowship also served to enhance the academic environment of the department, through the discussions that were held at various moments during the week, but also through Dr. Bauer-Zetzmann’s guest talk on the public of historiography. The guest lecture was held in hybrid format and well-attended by staff and students not only from Manchester Metropolitan University, but also from the University of Manchester and an audience from around the world.

Read the full report here:
BritInn Fellow Report

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Dr. Bauer-Zetzmann and Dr. Booth
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Supported by “Förderkreis 1669”

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Research Visit to Durham University

10/31/2022

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"My stay at Durham University was a great experience. I applied for this fellowship with the aim of running high-resolution trace element analyses on speleothems using the facility lead by Prof. Baldini", says Dr. Gabriella Koltai about her research visit to Durham University in September 2022.
Dr. Koltai from the Department of Geology at the University of Innsbruck spent five days at the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, working on cave deposits in the laboratory.
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She and her research colleagues analysed a stalagmite from an Austrian cave that was deposited at during the last deglaciation, a very interesting period characterized by large climate swings. They were interested in whether this stalagmite retains a volcanic signal related to the Laacher See volcanic eruption. Furthermore, they performed high-resolution trace element analyses of cave deposits, cryogenic cave carbonates to gain further insight into their formation mechanisms.

Moreover, Dr. Koltai gave a public lecture about her ongoing research on cryogenic cave carbonates that was followed by inspiring discussions with other members of the faculty which may lead to future collaborations. They will present these results at a conference (EGU 2023) and continue this research collaboration.

Dr. Koltai summed up her research visit by saying: "Prof. Baldini was extremely helpful and supportive; I had a very inspiring time at the University of Durham. I appreciate the financial support provided by the BritInn, the Faculty of Geology and Atmospheric Sciences, and the Research Center Geodynamics and Geomaterials."

Read the full report here:
BritInn Fellow Report

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Supported by “Förderkreis 1669”

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Conference at the University of Innsbruck, September 2022

10/28/2022

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On 8 - 9 September 2022, the conference "Gender, Society, and Networks between 1750 and 1820: Maria Carolina of Naples-Sicily, a Prism of her Times?" took place at the University of Innsbruck.

"In this conference, we saw Queen Maria Carolina of Naples-Sicily as a prism, or more precisely as an intersection of overlapping crossovers that enables us to contextualise broadly defined social, economic, and political developments of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. This crossover was to be analysed both vertically – through social hierarchies – as well as horizontally across geographic regions throughout Europe in this period. In this context, Maria Carolina of Naples-Sicily served as a primary starting point and as a model for wider considerations of rulership, gender, societal change, familial status, and political participation as well as geopolitical shifts and dynastic integration and competition." says Dr. Ellinor Forster about the event.
Dr. Forster works at the Department of History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck and co-organized the conference. BritInn was pleased to contribute with a fund.

Read the full report by Dr. Forster here:
Conference „Gender, Society, and Networks between 1750 and 1820: Maria Carolina of Naples-Sicily, a Prism of her Times?“, 8th/9th September 2022

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International Conference - Global Approaches to Habsburg History: Perspectives, Potentials, Payoffs, and Pathways

8/24/2022

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"Austrian Habsburg history tends to be conceived within a European framework with events, people, and places of particular importance centred on the dynasty’s longstanding influence within central Europe." writes Dr. Jonathan Singerton, organizer of the international conference "Global Approaches to Habsburg History: Perspectives, Potentials, Payoffs, and Pathways" in his report.
On 2-3 June 2022, the two-day conference occurred at the University of Innsbruck to discuss the global potential for Habsburg history among a community of leading expert scholars. In total, eighteen papers were presented on themes ranging from transimperial encounters such as Austrian Jesuit imaginaries of Japan to Austria’s role in the definition of the Australian continent to orientalism in the Austrian expeditions to Turkestan or the materiality of museum collecting and royal gift exchanges to the emergence of economic ties from Ostend—once a part of the Austrian Netherlands—and the Atlantic slave trade.
Two keynote speakers, Dr. Alison Frank Johnson from Harvard and Prof. Walter Sauer from the University of Vienna, provided exemplary talks on the Austria’s role in Indian cocaine epidemics and in European colonials respectively. A former host partner of BritInn, Dr. William O’Reilly from the University of Cambridge was invited to present a paper on political economic ideas between Spain and Austria during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

"The aim as we go forward is to continue the dialogue on Habsburg Global history as we fashion a new, wider appreciation for the worldwide impact from and on the Habsburg lands in central Europe." summarises Dr. Jonathan Singerton.

BritInn supported this event with a fund and is happy to have helped making this important dialogue among scholars possible.

Read Dr. Singerton's report here: Report on the International Conference - Global Approaches to Habsburg History: Perspectives, Potentials, Payoffs, and Pathways


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5th Young European Law Scholars Conference in June 2022

8/24/2022

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In June 2022, the 5th Young European Law Scholars Conference (YELS Conference) took place at the University of Innsbruck. This conference aims to bring together young European law researchers from across the EU to share and develop their ideas and approaches.

After the 4th YELS Conference 2021 was held online due to COVID-19, young researchers and professors from various EU Member States as well as the United Kingdom and Switzerland met again in person in Innsbruck this year. For the first time, the conference was co-organized by two universities, namely the University of Innsbruck and King's College London.

"Against the background of Brexit, the continuous and active involvement of researchers from the UK in discussions about EU law constitutes an important sign. Intensive exchange was already promoted on the evening before the conference where all participants were invited to meet for drinks at the Paninothek Innsbruck." reported Mag. Mag. Dr. Clara Rauchegger, LLM, one of the organizers of the conference.

BritInn was happy to contribute with a fund.

Read the full report by Mag. Mag. Dr. Clara Rauchegger, LLM, here:
Young European Law Scholars Conference 2022
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Between Oxford and Innsbruck, the Middle Ages and modernity and signs and sounds - Prof. Leitmeir's visit to Innsbruck

8/9/2022

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After several postponements due to Covid-19, Prof. Christian Thomas Leitmeir from the University of Oxford was finally able to visit the University of Innsbruck. His host, Dr. Milijana Pavlović from the Department of Music Studies, was thrilled to welcome him in May 2022.

During the research visit, Prof. Leitmeir managed to intensify existing collaborations with Dr. Pavlović as well as the Brenner-Archiv and also foster new partnerships. He said he is particularly grateful to Dr. Pavlović for facilitating explorative conversations with Dr. Franz Gratl (Curator of the Music Department at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum) and Prof. Kurt Scharr from the Department of History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck.

​Prof. Leitmeir's public guest lecture was titled ‘Mittelalter und Moderne, Zeichen und Klang: Rudolf von Ficker als Pionier praxisorientierter Forschung’ and created forum for encounters with other colleagues from the Department of Music Studies.

Unfortuntaley, the coordinators of BritInn weren't able to personally meet Prof. Leitmeir that week, because of a business trip outside of Innsbruck. Nevertheless, they were happy to hear that his visit was a great success and hope to welcome him again soon for future collaborations!

Read the full report here:
BritInn Fellow Report

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​Supported by “Förderkreis 1669”

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Benjamin Cerfontaine as research guest at the Unit of Geotechnical Engineering

7/20/2022

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BildBenjamin Cerfontaine's guest lecture on 12 July 2022.
"After a year of collaborating virtually with Gertraud, it was nice and more productive to meet and
discuss in person. I therefore thank the BritInn Network for funding my stay in Innsbruck." says Dr. Benjamin Cerfontaine after his research visit to Innsbruck.
Dr. Cerfontaine was hosted by Dr. Gertraud Medicus from the Unit of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Innsbruck in July 2022. During his stay, the two researchers continued their ongoing collaboration that recently resulted in a published paper. They discussed the preparation of a poster for the ALERTGeomaterialsWorkshop, describing those results.

Dr. Cerfontaine, who is currently researchering and lecturing at the University of Southampton, gave a public guest lecture on "Centrifuge and DEM investigations into screw piles for offshore applications" on 12 July 2022. Due to Covid-19  restrictions or rather recommendations of the University of Innsbruck's rectorate, the lecture took place online. It attracted about 20 viewers, some of them from outside of Austria. The presentation was recorded and uploaded on Youtube with 56 views within a week.

If you are interested in watching the recording, you can find the link here:
Public Guest Lecture by Dr. Benjamin Cerfontaine: Centrifuge and DEM investigations into screw piles for offshore applications

BritInn was happy that the visit of Dr. Cerfontaine took place and is looking forward to hearing about new projects of the Unit of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Innsbruck in cooperation with their collegues at the University of Southampton!
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Read the full report here:
BritInn Fellow Report

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Dr. Cerfointaine and Dr. Medicus discussing the numerical results.
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​Supported by “Förderkreis 1669”

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Dr. Garloff meets colleagues from the Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Research Network

7/7/2022

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"The goal of this reserach project is to explore the cultural, economic and social topography of the book trade in the Habsburg Monarchy from 1680 until 1750. I will analyse the crucial role of foreign booksellers at these markets, with a focus on Vienna and Prague." explains Dr. Mona Garloff from the Department of History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck.
Dr. Garloff visited colleagues at the University of Cambridge, including colleagues from the Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Research Network, in May 2022. She gave a guest lecture at the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement and discussed her research project with leading experts of book history and members of the New Habsburg Studies Research Network, which enabled her to think about her second book project in new perspectives.
Moreover, Dr. Garloff was invited to publish her current research in an established series of book history. At the Cambridge University Library and various college libraries she studied a plethora of book catalogues of the Early Modern period. "These sources are important documents for my research, and it was possible for me to collect data for the application for a larger research project which I intent to conduct during a fellowship at the University of Cambridge in 2024." says Dr. Garloff.

Dr. Garloff wants to thank her hosts Dr. William O’Reilly from the Faculty of History and Dr. Jenny Mander from Newnham College, as they were extremely helpful and supportive. 

BritInn was happy to enable this research visit in Cambridge.

Read the full report here:
BritInn Fellow Report

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Supported by “Förderkreis 1669”

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Dr. Sarker at the University of West England - Research Collaboration and E-Scooter Survey

7/5/2022

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In June 2022, Dr. Rumana Sarker visited her colleagues at the University of West England (UWE) in Bristol. As a BritInn-Fellow she used this research visit to work with Dr. Kiron Chatterjee from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management and is an eminent researcher in travel
behaviour. During her stay at UWE, she also had several meetings with other colleagues at UWE to
discuss potential research collaborations. "Dr. Chatterjee was kind enough to organize a
workplace for me at the Centre for Transport and Society (CTS) and arranged a field visit to
observe an ongoing survey in Bristol about the use of e-scooter" said Dr. Sarker when she visited the BritInn office after her research trip. 
Her guest lecture at UWE about "Green is the new black: Motives and barriers of adopting electric cars and (e-)carsharingamong the young adults in Innsbruck, Austria." was held in a hybrid form and well-attended. She had the opportunity to meet participants from different disciplines and "the
active participation of the attendees and a stimulating discussion on my lecture facilitated ideas for several future projects" said Dr. Sarker.

Read the full report here:
BritInn Fellow Report
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​Supported by “Förderkreis 1669”

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