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Reports and College Activities NEWS FROM THE FELLOWSHIP Catharine Abell (Philosophy) Since arriving at Queen’s in September 2019, most of my research time has been spent completing a book, Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis (OUP 2020). In it, I argue that fiction is an institutional social practice, and that construing it as such enables one to provide accounts of various aspects of fiction, including the determinants of fictive content and what it is to understand and to interpret a work of fiction. On the account I develop, although authors’ intentions play some role in determining the contents of works of fiction, this role is much more limited than many philosophers have taken it to be. Understanding a work of fiction deploys one’s knowledge of the content determining rules of fiction institutions, while interpreting it involves drawing inferences to the best explanation of why its author produced a work to which the rules assign those contents. Other research has concerned the evaluative role of realism in film, theatre and television productions. Realism is an artistic merit. We often consider such productions good because they are realistic. However, the view that works are better artistically the more realistic they are has controversial implications. Because non-traditional casting is often pursued at the expense of realism, it suggests that non-traditional casting is artistically unmotivated. I have written a paper arguing that the artistic norms of realism are sensitive to productions’ contents and media. Consequently, considerations of realism proscribe non-traditional casting far less often than is sometimes assumed and, in certain contexts, provide artistic motivation for it. Marta Arnaldi (Modern Languages) The first year of my Laming Research Fellowship at Queen’s started with a visit to the University of Jyväskylä, in the western part of Finland, where I took up the position of writer in residence. During this period, I delivered a course in creative writing in a foreign language (English) and gave a paper at the University’s yearly symposium on wellbeing and the arts. This visit marked the beginning of Translating Illness, the interdisciplinary research project that forms the core of my Fellowship. This two-year project consists of a programme of international collaborations (Columbia, Yale, Florence, Oslo), invited lectures (Columbia, Princeton, Central Florida), and a 12 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
seminar series held in College. Soon after my appointment, I was awarded a double research grant from the Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) and the John Fell Fund, Oxford, in order to undertake this multi-layered research with public engagement programme. From April 2020, when in-person activities were suspended, I launched Translating COVID-19, a series of video conversations activated as an emergency response to the pandemic. Available on the College’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/ queenscollegeox), the videos have proved to be very popular. I have also had the honour to be invited as a keynote speaker at several institutions (Princeton, The Open University, American Translators Association, to name a few) and/or as part of cuttingedge international projects, such as the British Academy-funded The Languages of COVID, Belfast. In addition, I was invited to judge the prestigious Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2020. Reports and College Activities This range of activities led to a number of publications: an article accepted by Literature and Medicine, John Hopkins; a chapter to be included in the volume Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders, edited by Maria-José Blanco and Claire Williams (Routledge, 2020); and a COVID-related article written in collaboration with colleagues in Liverpool and Oslo. Finally, I am thrilled to announce that Alibi, the first anthology of contemporary Italian poets in the UK, which was edited by Luca Paci and myself, will be published by Ensemble, Rome, in September 2020. John Baines (Egyptology – emeritus) For the 2019-20 academic year I have held a visiting professorship in the ancient world grouping in the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. This position is specifically for older scholars, which is a delightful idea for those who are invited. I have led interdisciplinary seminars and presented a set of four public lectures on ancient Egyptian biography that are to be worked up into a book for publication. The experience has been a double one, on site and meeting many people in the first semester in Munich, but in the second semester lecturing remotely along with almost everyone else, in my case from Oxford. During the year there appeared a book, Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World, that I co-edited with Tim Rood, a former Junior Research Fellow in Queen’s, and two other colleagues. Its chapters range from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the biblical world, through China and classical antiquity, to the Classic Maya. College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 13
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PUBLICATIONS Bettison, Norman (1983
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