The Alpine Fellowship Associate Fellows Programme
Every year we run prizes for talented artists, writers, playwrights and academics, and every year we invite our prizewinners to join us at our symposium. This is an annual gathering of people from a range of disciplines that are invited to explore a single theme from a diverse variety of points-of-view.
In addition to inviting our prize winners to our symposium, we want to invite people who do fit into any of our prize categories, but who have insight or experience to offer our guests.
PREVIOUS ASSOCIATE FELLOWS
Our 2023 Associate Fellows were:
Jeffrey Champlin
Jeffrey Champlin is Academic Director of the Open Learning Initiative Academic Support Programs and Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College Berlin. His research emphasizes connections between literature and political theory. In terms of administrative and pedagogical development, he has a particular focus on students from areas of crisis and conflict. Specific areas of research include: European and post-colonial literature, literature and politics, academic writing and student-centered writing practices, trauma-informed pedagogy, post-Kantian philosophy, aesthetics, political theory, Hannah Arendt.
Jeffrey received his PhD from New York University and has previously taught at NYU, Middlebury College, The Barenboim-Said Akademie, and Bard's campuses in New York, Berlin, and Palestine.
Laurie Erlam
Laurie Erlam is the Founder and CEO of Erlam & Co, a strategic advisory firm specialising in helping breakout entrepreneurs and investors achieve their global ambitions.
Prior to this he worked as Head of Strategy at an international advisory firm, helping technology and business leaders enhance their credibility, reputation and profile. He also worked for the communications and strategy firm Blue Rubicon, and for a UK Cabinet Minister in the Houses of Parliament.
Laurie holds a master’s from LSE and a bachelor’s from the University of Sussex in Politics. In his role as Contributing Editor for The Talks, he conducts interviews with leading creative voices of our time across music, fashion and film.
Our 2022 Associate Fellows were:
Jade Cuttle
Jade Cuttle writes and commissions articles for The Times on music, literature, art and television. She is also a poet and songwriter with debut album Algal Bloom, and has composed soundscapes using the music of plants.
Yuliya Ostapchuk
Yuliya Ostapchuk was born in Lviv, Ukraine, and moved to England to study at the Purcell School of Music. She has since completed her undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music and is currently a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Music.