The Eastern Arc Conference 2021 is now open for registration. Taking place between 10-14 May, it will be a series of five daily 2-hour online sessions, based around the EARC thematic priorities. You can choose to join as many of the individual sessions as you like; the intention is for it to be flexible and fit with your interests and availability.

Entitled ‘Aftermath’, the conference will look at where we are now, after the tumultuous events of 2020. We will look at how agriculture may change following our departure from the EU, the challenges we face in researching the alt-right and other radical groups, whether the new way of managing health will impact research funding in the UK, and how cultural organisations have survived the challenges of lockdown.

We’ll also hear from the British Academy about how the events of the last 12 months have affected its work, and will look at how Eastern Arc itself has evolved in that period.

Click here to find out more about the conference and to register. There’s also time to submit an abstract to host one of our breakout sessions; the deadline for these is 31 March.

It is free and open to all, both within and beyond the three EARC universities of UEA, Essex and Kent.