Addressing Access: Widening Participation and the Arts and Humanities
This doctoral training event seeks to promote the value of Widening Participation in the Arts and Humanities for PhD students.
Date took place: 11th April 2018
Location: Open University, Camden, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, London, NW1 8NP
Lead: Katie Danaher, Katherine Kruger, Nicole Mennell
Aesthetics in the Anthropocene
Aesthetics in the Anthropocene explores how the humanities engages with the concepts of aesthesis/aesthetics in the Anthropocene.
Date took place: 9-13 April 2018
Location: University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH
Lead: Matthew McConkey & Emilia Czątkowska
Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age Conference
The Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age conference provides an introduction to the main methods, practices and technologies of digital research in the arts and humanities since 2014.
Date took place: 28th April 2018
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX
BAME Creative Writing Masterclass Series
A series of 1 – 2 hour masterclasses for small groups on the craft of writing by established BAME writers, agents and publishers, with some of the classes to be held at UEA, Norwich and some at Chase institutions in London. Writers will include prose writers, script writers and poets. The classes will focus on craft and whether/how race informs the creative process for the writer giving the class.
Date took place: 14th November 2018 – 27th March 2019
Location: UEA, Norwich, and various London institutions
British Library – Meet the curators
British Library – Meet the curators is a chance for CHASE PhD students to discuss and explore British Library research collections and resources.
Date took place: 26th and 28th March 2018
Location: British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB
CHASE Creative Writing Retreat
A creative writing residency to provide an opportunity for creative writers across the CHASE network to build creative writing skills, further CHASE creative writing projects, develop pedagogical skills and build relationships across the network.
Date took place: 18-22 May 2018
Location: Great Barn Farm, Gayton Thorpe, Norfolk, PE32 1PN
Lead: Taymour Soomro (University of East Anglia)
CHASE writing summer school workshops and residential
These one-day workshops are for any student who wants to write more clearly and stylishly within their discipline. It strips down academic writing to its fundamentals
Date took place: 16th, 17th, 19th, 26th July 2018
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX
Lead: Katie Grant and Anne Wilson
City Maps
City Maps is a series of workshops encouraging doctoral students to explore, discuss and experiment with different ways of conceptualising and studying cities in the arts and humanities.
https://chase-city-maps.org/
Date took place: October 2018 – June 2019
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX
Corresponding with Beckett
Corresponding with Beckett focuses the issues and methodologies pertinent to research on literary correspondence.
Date took place: 1-2 June 2018
Location: Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU
Lead: Dr Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Creating (and) the Critical: The critical component of practice-based PhDs
Through this training event, we wish to stimulate a reflection on the role of scholarship and the critical component of practice-based PhDs.
Date took place: 14th June 2018
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Lead: Professor Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths, University London)
Diagrammatics Masterclass
This series aims to propose diagramming as a visual, haptic and kinaesthetic methodology.
Date took place: 16th May 2018
Location: Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Lead: Professor Sybille Kramer, Professor of Philosophy (Freie Universität Berlin)
Digital Approaches for Humanities Research
This half-day taster session provides a broad overview of digital approaches for humanities research.
Date took place: 16th October 2018
Location: Senate House (Montague Room), University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Lead: Nadine Zubair (UEA)
European Graduate School
For the first time, we are offering three CHASE funded doctoral researchers a unique opportunity to take part in a series of seminar groups that brings together renowned philosophers, critical theorists, artists, and practitioners; offering seminars for students seeking a unique intellectual experience.
Date: August – October 2018
Location: Saas-Fee, Switzerland and Valetta, Malta
Feminist Research Ethics in Practice
This one day-event provides an opportunity for researchers to discuss the process of building safe, productive spaces for both researchers and participants and asks what can institutions do to best support them.
Date took place: 12th July 2018
Location: University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ
Lead: Dr. Helen Warner (University of East Anglia), Dr. Tori Cann (University of East Anglia), Prof. Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia)
French for Academic Purposes
French for Academic Purposes allows students without much experience of French or who lack confidence and would like to refresh some basic academic French to get up to speed.
Date took place: 31st January – 6th March 2018
Location: Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
From Field to Page: Core Skills in the Medical Humanities
From Field to Page delivers two training days, which map the core skills required of medical humanities doctoral research and support doctoral researchers as they undertake their projects.
Date took place: 8th November 2018
Location: Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Historicising Selfhood
This workshop is designed for doctoral students who work with a wide range of ‘life documents’ including photographs, diaries, oral history, biographies and other forms of life writing.
Date took place: 16th May 2018
Location: Essex Business School, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
Lead: Professor Lucy Noakes (University of Essex), Professor Claire Langhamer (University of Sussex), Dr Juliette Pattinson (University of Kent)
How to Collaborate: An introduction to working with external partners
How to Collaborate: An introduction to working with external partners offers expert advice and practical tips on identifying, approaching and working with organisations, and on the opportunities available for collaborative work.
Date took place: 19th November 2018
Location: Barbican Centre, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS
Lead: Dr Keith M. Johnston, UEA Arts & Humanities Associate Dean for Innovation & Paul Roberts, University of Sussex Head of Business Engagement
Introduction to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
This event provides a valuable introduction to the ICA, with a particular focus upon the Institute’s film programme and documentary film festival, Frames of Representation (FoR.)
Date took place: 7th November 2018
Location: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Lead: Nico Marzano (film programmer and curator at the ICA)
Latin for Early Modernists
This two-part residential course will provide you with the tools required to read and understand the Latin texts relevant to your research at a deeper level and will allow you to explore the challenges of working with Classical, medieval and Renaissance Latin materials over the course of the academic year.
Date took place: Ongoing – 4-9 November 2018, 9-14 June 2019
Location: University of East Anglia
Lead: Eleanor Stewart-Pointing (UEA)
Network: The Matter of the Archive before 1700
This is a workshop for all medievalists and early modernists – historians, literary scholars, art historians and beyond – who are looking to understand the construction of a medieval cathedral.
Date took place: 27th march 2018
Location: Canterbury Cathedral, Cathedral House, 11 The Precincts, Canterbury CT1 2EH
Lead: Dr. Nikolaos Karydis (University of Kent)
Objects in Space, Subjects in Time: The Material Cultures of Postcolonial History
A series of six workshops across the year which explore global, transnational and postcolonial pasts by engaging with material collections and texts or objects in museums and exhibition spaces across London.
Date took place: 30th Novemeber 2018 – 6th June 2019
Location: Various museum and exhibition spaces across London
Lead: Kat Hill (Birkbeck)
Object Literacy: Research through Epigraphy and Inscriptions in Chinese Art History
The aim of this training is to build the capacity of participants to employ inscriptions on objects of art and material culture as historical evidence, through a rich introduction to epigraphy.
Date took place: December 2017 – May 2018
Location: SOAS, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG
Leads: Shane McCausland (SOAS), Wenny Teo (Courtauld Institute of Art) and Stacey Pierson (SOAS)
Possibilities: Media as process and actant
Possibilities: Media as process and actant is a series of advanced training workshops exploring media practices as a process-based means for extending research into new realms.
Date took place: 9th March 2018
Location: University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH
Lead: Emile Devereaux (University of Sussex), Helen Pritchard (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Researching Conflict in the Humanities: Challenges, Practices and Methods
This interdisciplinary student-led training is designed for PhD students and Early Career Researchers in the Arts and Humanities studying conflicts from the First World War to the present, regardless of geographical location. It seeks to question the positionality of the researcher, and explore the most current methodological approaches in the study of conflict in different disciplines.
Date took place: March-June 2018
Location: Birkbeck, Courtauld Institute of Art, and The Imperial War Museum, London
Researching Popular Music: Methods, Debates, Publics
Researching Popular Music brings together CHASE students to present and discuss their work, both with each other, and with invited speakers working at the forefront of music and sound studies.
Date took place: 2-3rd March 2018
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Lead: Tom Perchard (Goldsmiths, University of London), Byron Dueck (Open University)
Sensible Cinema
This two-day advanced training workshop brings key practitioners in film, video, and sound together with CHASE PhD students and staff to explore new research methods for creating moving-image works organised around an ecological sensibility; one that is attuned to both human and non-human modes of perception.
Date took place: 19-20th January 2018
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX & Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Lead: Dr. Susan Schuppli (Goldsmiths University of London), Daniel Mann (Goldsmiths, University of London), Dr. Joel McKim (Birkbeck University of London), Professor Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London)
Structure in Creative Writing
A series of eight seminars by leading academics, poets, prose writers, script writers and script doctors on structure, narrative and plot in creative work.
Date took place: 24th October 2018 – 22nd May 2019
Location: UAE and various London venues
Thought and Image: Processes of Reciprocity
Thought and Image: Processes of Reciprocity is the final Artist Master Class with end of term reception in extraordinary Waterlow Park.
Date took place: 29th June 2018
Location: LUX at Waterlow Park Dartmouth Park Hill, London N19 5JF
Transcribing Interviews and Focus Groups
Transcribing Interviews and Focus Groups will focus directly on transcription as an important stage in understanding, and designing, research methods, as part of a supportive group led by two researchers with longstanding experience of transcription in arts and social science contexts.
Date took place: 30 November 2018
Location: FutureLearn, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP
Lead: Professor Jo Drugan (University of East Anglia), Dr Liz McDonnell (University of Sussex) and Dr Matthew Sillence (University of East Anglia)
Uniting Two Perspectives on Mental Illness: Philosophy and Linguistics
Uniting Two Perspectives aims to demonstrate that a dialogue between philosophy and linguistics can help shed light on important issues relating to mental illness.
Date took place: 13-14th September 2018
Location: University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
The University and micro-dynamics of institutional life
We would like to welcome you to a conference at the University of Essex on The University and Micro-Dynamics of Institutional Life.
Date took place: 14th December 2018
Location: North Teaching Centre, Colchester Campus, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
What Future for Theory?
What Future for Theory? investigates how theory, both its canonical past and its emerging forms, help us to make sense of our current moment.
Date took place: 26th March & 23rd-24th May 2018
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW & University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ
Women of Colour Index (WOCI) Reading Group
The focus of WOCI is on responding to the legacy of women artists of colour to improve the visibility of these artists and also to create a self-reflexive space for researchers to acknowledge their own relationships to race, class, gender and sexuality.
Date took place: 9th May 2018
Location: SOAS, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG
Working with marginalized populations: What part can scholars play?
This training aims to provide an introduction to the issues, challenges and rewards involved in working with marginalized communities and the unique and valuable skills that CHASE graduates can bring to this work.
Date took place: 27-28th September 2018
Location: Bramber House, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH
Workshopping Words and Opening Dialogues: Postgraduate Forum in Linguistics
With public engagement becoming increasingly important as a required practice of academic researchers, this event will provide a space for ideas and experiences to be shared by early career linguists with a diverse range of interests and specialisms.
Date took place: 10-11th July 2018
Location: University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH
Lead: Sarah FitzGerald (University of Sussex)
Writing and Reading Landscapes of Utility
This series of in-situ training sessions seeks to direct critical and creative attention to a range of aesthetically under-imagined or neglected fringe environments such as landfills, industrial wastelands and utility plants, as sites of an emerging cultural sensibility.
Date took place: 9th, 23rd January 2018, 6th, 13th, 27th February 2018, 22nd March 2018
Location: Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts (43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD)
Lead: Prof. John Drever (Goldsmiths), Dr George Revill (Open University)