We are very happy to announce we have added another keynote speaker to our conference! Dr Lucy Durneen will be presenting her paper 'Constellations of Old Light: A Brief History of (our) Fragmented Selves'.

This post is in honour of our sponsors, SWWDTP! We wouldn't have been able to accept so many amazing papers without them. We'll shortly be sharing our programme, including 60 papers, 3 keynotes, and activities which will fill the three day conference! Thank you again SWWDTP for your support!

Our friends in Exeter are hosting a conference in September! Please check it out!

We have made the decision to extend our call for papers until Friday next week! We have had many great submissions already and hope that we can offer back to back panels! Therefore we want to give you the extra time to submit your papers! To submit, please email us at [email protected] 😊

There is just one week to go to submit abstracts for our inaugural, hybrid conference Tensions and Fragmentation, 17-19 August 2026, University of Bristol. We have had some great submissions already and offers for some fun workshops and activities which we hope to share with you after the deadline!

Wishing everyone a happy easter weekend, whether you're celebrating or just enjoying the extended weekend off! Don't forget to submit your abstracts by the 20th of this month - just two weeks away!

Just three weeks to go until our call for papers deadline! We have already received some fantastic abstracts from a number of Arts and Humanities disciplines!

We are pleased to announce that Professor Francesco Goglia will be joining us as a keynote speaker. He is a Professor in Migration and Multilingualism at the University of Exeter.

We are happy to announce our second keynote speaker, Dr Freya Gowrley. She is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol, where she specialises in art and objects from the early modern period to the late nineteenth century.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Jason Peacey will be joining us as a keynote speaker. He is a Professor of British history in the early modern period at University College London (UCL).

With four weeks to go, we are excited to announce our keynote speakers and update our Call for Papers for our upcoming “Tension & Fragmentation” Conference. We will share more about them shortly.

HAPI will finally meet the world at our inaugural conference at University of Bristol from 17–19 August 2026. The themes are Tension & Fragmentation. Come and speak about your research, in person or online. The deadline for submission of papers is 20 April.

We’ve introduced the people who work together to run HAPI… but it is intended to be so much more than that. The idea behind HAPI is to create a vibrant and inclusive forum for all people working in the Arts and Humanities.

Who is Hapi? Ben Vince is a second year English Literature PhD student at the University of Bristol researching queer ecology and it's relationship to what he terms 'ecological loneliness,' in works from 1920-present day.

Who is Hapi? Sian Macfarlane is an artist whose work spans material photographic practice, performance, installation and film. Her interests include early photography and industrial and post-industrial contexts.

Who is Hapi? Estefanía Tamayo-Pineda is a PhD researcher in Cognitive Linguistics. Her work explores the intersection of language, cognition, and culture, with a particular focus on semantics and second language acquisition.

Who is Hapi? Ivana Širinić is a PhD candidate of Russian studies at the University of Bristol, where she is supervised by Dr Connor Doak (Bristol) and Prof Muireann Maguire (Exeter).

Who is Hapi? Dylan is a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol and the University of Exeter, exploring violence and masculine identity-building in seventeenth-century Britain.

Who is Hapi? HAPI was founded by Teoni Passereau. She is a second year, SWWDTP-funded PhD candidate researching the relationship between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France.

Who is Hapi?

We have been getting some queries about how to make current research interests fit the themes of the conference. We strongly welcome any questions regarding potential papers! If you wish to discuss your ideas with a member of the team please contact us directly or email us at [email protected]

Who are we? The Humanities and Arts Pluridisciplinary Initiative (HAPI) is a group of SWW DTP funded doctoral students who aim to create interconnected networks of knowledge to inform and augment the study of the Humanities and Arts.

We are excited to announce a Call for Papers for our upcoming 'Tension and Fragmentation' Conference in August at the University of Bristol, 17-19 August 2026. Please send your 250 word abstracts and bios to [email protected] by 20 April 2026! Panels welcome!