As an Applied Linguist, she is also interested in discourse analysis, intercultural communication, semiotics, and the role of language in complex technological, cultural and societal dynamics.
She combines theoretical development with experimental research to explore the relationship between linguistic structures and meaning.
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.
Her doctoral studies are funded by the South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP).
Her research focuses on the intersection of corporeality and mourning in contemporary Russian-speaking literature, specifically the prose of L. Ulitskaia, P. Barskova, M. Stepanova, and S. Alexievich.
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).
Outside of his doctoral research, Dylan is working on two papers on pirate violence and teaches early modern history at the University of Bristol. His research interests more widely include martial and maritime violence, social deviancy and crime, popular narratives, and gender and identity.
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.
She cannot wait to hear everyone's research ideas at the inaugural conference and share more about her work!
We cannot wait to share who else is HAPI with you!
Throughout her studies she has examined the interconnectedness of England and France through their diplomatic influences, using their correspondence to analyse past relationships in the Early Modern era.
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.
Everyone is welcome, irrespective of discipline, geographical location or stage of their career. If you work in the Arts or Humanities we would be ‘HAPI’ to meet you!
You may contact HAPI at hello.hapi@outlook.com, on here or via our Instagram profile
@hapi_conference
Through the organisation of conferences, workshops and publications, where common themes across all disciplines can be explored from multiple perspectives, our goal is to help enlighten and promote all those working in the Arts and Humanities.
By bringing together all disciplines from these two fields we aim to create a fertile environment of interconnected networks of knowledge to inform and augment our various studies and research.
The Humanities and Arts Pluridisciplinary Initiative, or HAPI for short, has been established by a group of SWWDTP-funded doctoral candidates to enrich the study of Arts and Humanities.
During the Nineteenth Dynasty Hapi was often depicted as a pair of figures, each holding and tying together the stems of these two plants to represent the binding of Upper and Lower Egypt, set against the backdrop of a hieroglyph meaning ‘union’.
He is usually given blue or green skin to represent water and is adorned with specific plants, dependent on where the depiction originates – papyrus in Lower Egypt or lotus in Upper Egypt.
Hapi was the ancient Egyptian god of the flooding of the Nile, an annual event that deposited rich silt on the river banks making the soil fertile for crop growing. Although male and sporting a false beard, Hapi is depicted with pendulous breasts and swollen pregnant belly to denote this fertility.
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 hello.hapi@outlook.com
Please submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio to hello.hapi@outlook.com by 20 April 2026. We welcome proposed panels. Please include individual abstracts and profiles for each speaker with your proposal. We are happy to discuss any necessary accommodations or questions.
For our inaugural conference, we invite scholars from every stage in their career to interrogate the place of tension and fragmentation throughout time in their academic work, whether as subject or as methodology.
We want to encourage the discussion of common themes across various disciplines from multiple perspectives to enlighten research and methodologies.
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 hello.hapi@outlook.com by 20 April 2026! Panels welcome!
