Vladimir Brljak

Vladimir Brljak is Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, having previously studied at the Universities of Zagreb and Warwick, and held the Thole Research Fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is visiting the Institute as a member of the Working Group on "Heavens in Your Hand" in the Department on Artifacts, Action, Knowledge. During his visit, he will be contributing to the VoH  database; co-authoring an article with Stamatina Mastorakou on the imagined color of the space beyond Earth, provisionally titled "Colouring the Heavens: Visualizing Outer Space from Antiquity to Modernity"; working on the premodern chapters of "When Did Space Turn Dark?," a monograph exploring the shift from a bright to a dark universe in the Western cosmological imagination; and co-editing—with Veronica della Dora, Stamatina Mastorakou, and John Trech—"Space in Time: From the Heavens to Outer Space," a collection emerging from a conference held at the Warburg Institute in 2023. He is also a participant in the COST Action "Futures-oriented Governance of Outer Space" (FOGOS), collaborating with a large international team led by Florian Rabitz and Xiao-Shan Yap.