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The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving (2024)
Journal Article
Williamson, P., & Mears, N. (online). The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving. The English Historical Review, Article ceae205. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae205

Religious anniversaries ordered by the state—by the monarch, royal council or parliament—were observed in England and Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. These have been studied chiefly as occasions for special sermons and popul... Read More about The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving.

Past Caring: Archive, Affect, and Whiteness in Digital Colourisation (2024)
Journal Article
Riggs, C. (in press). Past Caring: Archive, Affect, and Whiteness in Digital Colourisation. Visual Studies,

The digital colourisation of historical photographs has received prominent and favourable media attention since the 2010s; several museums, heritage organisations, and publishers have adopted it. In the US and British contexts, both the selection of... Read More about Past Caring: Archive, Affect, and Whiteness in Digital Colourisation.

Nativism, the Avant-garde, and the Aesthetics of Decolonisation in Nikoloz Shengelaia’s Eliso (2024)
Journal Article
Radunović, D. (2024). Nativism, the Avant-garde, and the Aesthetics of Decolonisation in Nikoloz Shengelaia’s Eliso. Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, 18, https://doi.org/10.17892/app.2024.00018.352

The paper evaluates the reappraisal of nineteenth-century imperial discourses about Georgia and the Caucasus at large in the early Soviet context. The dual figuration of the national idea in the nineteenth century is laid out in view of the colonial... Read More about Nativism, the Avant-garde, and the Aesthetics of Decolonisation in Nikoloz Shengelaia’s Eliso.

From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories. Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers (2024)
Book
Draycott, C. M., Branting, S., Lehner, J. W., & Özarslan, Y. (Eds.). (2024). From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories. Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers. British Institute at Ankara

The period of Anatolian history between the death of the semi-legendary king Midas of Gordion ca 700 BC and the advent of the Achaemenid Persian Empire ca 550 BC is dominated by certain narratives: the rise of the Mermnad Lydian Kingdom, from Gyges t... Read More about From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories. Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers.

Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: the physical fabric of the fables (2023)
Book Chapter
Gameson, R. (2023). Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: the physical fabric of the fables. In G. Small (Ed.), Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: (Burgundy-Luxembourg-France, 1458 - c. 1550). Brepols Publishers

The present chapter offers an analytical account of the material fabric of Glasgow University Library, Hunter 252 (U.4.2), the only extant manuscript copy of Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. We shall examine in turn the parchment and preparation of the... Read More about Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: the physical fabric of the fables.

Tackling Data Bias in Painting Classification with Style Transfer (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vijendran, M., Li, F. W., & Shum, H. P. (2023, February). Tackling Data Bias in Painting Classification with Style Transfer. Presented at VISAPP '23: 2023 International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal

It is difficult to train classifiers on paintings collections due to model bias from domain gaps and data bias from the uneven distribution of artistic styles. Previous techniques like data distillation, traditional data augmentation and style transf... Read More about Tackling Data Bias in Painting Classification with Style Transfer.

The Holy Roman Empire (2023)
Book Chapter
Scales, L. (2023). The Holy Roman Empire. In C. Carmichael, M. D'Auria, & A. Roshwald (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism Volume 1: Patterns and Trajectories over the Longue Durée (54-75). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108655385.004

Since the nineteenth century, the Holy Roman Empire has occupied a central but often negative place in accounts of German nationhood. “In the beginning was the Reich,” declared Heinrich August Winkler in his monumental German history, which took as i... Read More about The Holy Roman Empire.

Estudios ibéricos online. El futuro de las iniciativas virtuales.Informe del encuentro en la sede del Instituto Cervantes (2023)
Journal Article
Fouz-Hernández, S., & Gimeno Ugalde, E. (2023). Estudios ibéricos online. El futuro de las iniciativas virtuales.Informe del encuentro en la sede del Instituto Cervantes. International Journal of Iberian Studies, 36(2), 165-176. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00100_7

In its third year of existence, Pleibéricos, an online platform focused on launching and promoting new books in the field of Iberian ṣtudies, held an event at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Madrid on 24 October 2022. The aim of this f... Read More about Estudios ibéricos online. El futuro de las iniciativas virtuales.Informe del encuentro en la sede del Instituto Cervantes.

How to Survive Totalitarianism. Lessons from Hannah Arendt (2023)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2023). How to Survive Totalitarianism. Lessons from Hannah Arendt. New Literary History, 54(2), 1059-1083

In the wake of the Trump election, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism garnered renewed attention. In it, she argues that totalitarian ideology "is severed from the world individuals perceive through the five senses "and insists on a 'truer' r... Read More about How to Survive Totalitarianism. Lessons from Hannah Arendt.

Less is More: Reducing Task and Model Complexity for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, L., Shum, H. P., & Breckon, T. P. (2023, June). Less is More: Reducing Task and Model Complexity for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation. Presented at 2023 IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Vancouver, BC

Whilst the availability of 3D LiDAR point cloud data has significantly grown in recent years, annotation remains expensive and time-consuming, leading to a demand for semisupervised semantic segmentation methods with application domains such as auton... Read More about Less is More: Reducing Task and Model Complexity for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation.

Region-based Appearance and Flow Characteristics for Anomaly Detection in Infrared Surveillance Imagery (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gaus, Y., Bhowmik, N., Issac-Medina, B., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Shum, H., & Breckon, T. (2023, June). Region-based Appearance and Flow Characteristics for Anomaly Detection in Infrared Surveillance Imagery. Presented at IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023, Vancouver, BC

Anomaly detection is a classical problem within automated visual surveillance, namely the determination of the normal from the abnormal when operational data availability is highly biased towards one class (normal) due to both insufficient sample siz... Read More about Region-based Appearance and Flow Characteristics for Anomaly Detection in Infrared Surveillance Imagery.

Dichotic-listening performance after complete callosotomy: No relief from left-ear extinction by selective attention (2023)
Journal Article
Westerhausen, R., Fabri, M., & Hausmann, M. (2023). Dichotic-listening performance after complete callosotomy: No relief from left-ear extinction by selective attention. Neuropsychologia, 188, Article 108627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108627

The surgical section of the corpus callosum (callosotomy) has been frequently demonstrated to result in a left-ear extinction in dichotic listening. That is, callosotomy patients report the left-ear stimulus below chance level, resulting in substanti... Read More about Dichotic-listening performance after complete callosotomy: No relief from left-ear extinction by selective attention.

Second Skins. A New Look at Male Bodies in Spanish Cinema (2008-2022). Talk with Alfredo Martinez-Expósito at the University of Queensland, Spanish and Latin American Studies Seminar Series, 31 May 2023. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fouz-Hernández, S., & Martinez-Expósito, A. (2023, May). Second Skins. A New Look at Male Bodies in Spanish Cinema (2008-2022). Talk with Alfredo Martinez-Expósito at the University of Queensland, Spanish and Latin American Studies Seminar Series, 31 May 2023. Paper presented at Spanish and Latin American Studies Seminar Series, University of Queensland