An extraordinary day. Logged onto email this morning and found a flood of congratulatory notes. The Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion, 1100-1800, based at the University of Western Australia, has been funded! The Australian Research Council has awarded us 93% of what we asked for; and together with the contributions of our partner institutions (Unis of Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland) we have a budget of $30 million over seven years.
It is an amazing coup for the humanities; as these centres are rarely awarded to our disciplines. All that running around and rehearsing for the interview was totally worth it.
I sat through various sessions today with an enormous grin on my face, and shall be opening a bottle of something with bubbles in it tonight: dinner is at l’Osteria le Logge, Siena. Drop by and raise a glass with me!
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I've kept this blog, on and off, since 2006. In 2015 I used it to chart daily encounters, images, thoughts and feelings about volcanic basalt/bluestone in Melbourne and Victoria, especially in the first part of the year. I plan to write a book provisionally titled Bluestone: An Emotional History, about human uses of and feelings for bluestone. But I am also working on quite a few other projects and a big grant application, especially now I am on research leave. I'm working mostly from home, then, for six months, and will need online sociability for company!
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15 comments:
That's wonderful! Congratulations - and well done!
Funding for the humanities granted rather than cut? Congratulations!
Congratulations, Stephanie - that is a truly amazing achievement - well done.
Congratulations! What an achievement. And I found your post about all your preparations not just amazing but inspiring too.
You're right, that is wonderful news not only for you and the team but also for the reputation of the humanities -- what a truly valuable thing you've done. It's been in the planning for a very long time, hasn't it -- how fantastic that all that work has paid off. Would certainly come to l'Osteria le Logge for a champers tonight if only they'd perfected the travel technology. Congratulations, love -- as though being in Siena were not enough, you now get to walk around it in a rosy haze.
WV is 'frocalo' which I interpret as the imperative mood of the Italian verb for 'get celebratorily frocked up'.
A fine achievement for you and the bid team -- congratulations!
Hurrah.
huzzah! What great news.
That's excellent! Congratulations!!
That is so exciting - and to be in Siena drinking to it is the icing on the cake, yeah? Congratulations!
Auguroni! Great news for you the, the field, the humanities - wonderful!
Hi Stephanie,
congratulations, how good does it feel to finally see the hard work pay off? especially when fighting what seems to be an up hill battle!
So excellent to hear this! I'm thrilled for you all - well done.
Hello Stephanie,
What an outstanding achievement, I could imagine it would have been hard to describe in words how you must have been feeling at the time of the announcement...
Tremendous news. Really looking forward to seeing the research!!
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