Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age
The CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age programme will engage you with the concepts and practices that form the field of Digital Humanities, preparing you for the challenges of doing research in an increasingly digital world.
Date: 14th January – 3rd May 2019
Location: The Open University in London, 1-11 Hawley Cres, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP
Art at the Frontier of Film Theory: Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
The programme comprises an exhibition at Birkbeck’s Peltz Gallery, a film season, a series of ‘In Conversation’ events and Gallery Workshops, a Curators’ Talk, and a student-led Symposium.
Date: 22 March – 24 May 2019
Location: Various London locations
Lead: Oliver Fuke and Nicolas Helm-Grovas
BAME Doctoral Researchers Event
This event hosted BAME doctoral researchers in the Arts and Humanities across the UK to present short, research-in-progress papers on any aspect of their research at an event to celebrate and showcase BAME doctoral research.
Date: 8th July 2019
Location: Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, Somers Town, London, NW1 2DB
Benjamin’s Baudelaire – Constellations of Modernity
This one-day workshop will offer early career researchers the chance to re-examine the conceptual and methodological implications of Walter Benjamin’s relationship to ‘The Writer of Modern Life’. The workshop will consist of several debates in relation to set reading as well as short presentations from all of the participants.
Date: 11th May 2019
Location: Room 255, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW
Born-Digital Archives: A Practical Introduction
This workshop offers a chance to explore some of the implications of born-digital archives with academics, staff from the British Library, and fellow AHRC PhD researchers from the CHASE, South West & Wales, and WRoCAH Doctoral Training Partnerships.
Date: 2nd September 2019
Location: The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, Somers Town, London, NW1 2DB
Brief Encounters Retreat
An intensive residential training weekend that is ideally suited to anyone interested in joining the Brief Encounters Editorial Board, publishing in the journal, or in the practicalities of open access publishing.
Date: 3rd and 4th August 2019
Location: Lane End Conference Centre, Church Rd, Lane End, High Wycombe HP14 3HH
Creative Writing Residency 2019
The Residency is a one-week program for creative writing PhD students from 10th to 17th June 2019 at Scarlet Hall in Cheshire. The week allows for plenty of writing time, daily two-hour student-led workshops and time as well for conversation, rest and relaxation.
Date: 10-17 June 2019
Location: Scarlet Hall, Malpas, Chester, Cheshire, UK
Critical Excursion
This Critical Excursion will offer a screening of ‘Innocent Sinners’ (Dir. Philip Leacock. 1958. UK. 95mins. Rating: U) at Deptford Cinema followed by an excursion at the modern London locations of key scenes from the film.
Date: 20th July 2019
Location: Deptford Cinema and different areas in Pimlico
Diverse Methodological Approaches to PhDs in Law
Legal research entails the evaluation of legal phenomena in their political, social, cultural, doctrinal or other contexts. Contemporary modes of inquiry into legal phenomena increasingly use more than one discipline in the production of interdisciplinary research and writing. Even subjects that were traditionally taught by way of the doctrinal method have opened up to socio-legal approaches. There is a much greater emphasis on the sociology of law, and the social and political forces that shape legal doctrine and institutions. Law as a social phenomenon can be understood empirically through a range of different methods. Thus, contemporary postgraduate researchers need to expand beyond the black letter law training of practitioners and be aware of major trends in the social sciences of relevance to their own research and future careers. The key idea behind the multidisciplinary workshop for law postgraduate research students is to introduce candidates to a broad range of theoretical and practical approaches to legal research.
Date: 2-4 May 2019
Location: University of Essex
Lead: Dr. Aoife Duffy, University of Essex
Early Modern Matters: Materiality and the Archive
The ‘Early Modern Matters: Materiality and the Archive’ conference will bring together scholars of all fields whose research engages with the material textual culture of the early modern period (c. 1500-1700). These disciplines include, but are not limited to: the history of the book, art history, literature, the history of medicine, the history of science, and the history of law. By drawing together these strands of early modern scholarship we hope to expand our understanding of how early modern people interacted with texts as physical objects.
Date: 11-12 May 2019
Location: University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ
Filmmaking Research Methods Workshop
Filmmaking Research Methods Workshop is an extended residential workshop led by Andy Lawrence from Filmmaking for Fieldwork, an organization that trains researcher in using film as a research method.
Date: 30th January-1st February 2019
Location: University of Sussex, Sussex House, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH
Lead: Andy Lawrence
Film Screening + Q&A: ‘Berlin Childhood around 1900’ – A Project in Progress
The event will consist of a screening of different film segments with commentary by Chantal Benjamin, followed by an informal Q&A with audience members. The screening will be a rare opportunity to view this unique collaborative project which has never been shown in the UK before, but will also showcase one of the many ways in which Walter Benjamin’s works have infiltrated a variety of disciplines.
Date: 10th May 2019
Location: Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG01, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Frames of Representation
Frames of Representation (FoR) in its fourth edition, continues to be a showcase for the cinema of the real, investigating the political and aesthetic approaches at its core.
Date: 27th November – 13th December 2019
Location: The ICA, the Mall, St. James’s, London SW1Y 5AH
The Future of Arts Research
This programme of innovative skills training is geared toward those involved in practice research, generally, and arts research, specifically.
Date: 14th November 2018 & 27th February 2019
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Lead: Professor Kristen Kreider (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Gender History in a Non-Binary World: A Workshop for Doctoral Students
This workshop offers training for students in ways of researching, teaching and engaging the public in histories of gender nonconformity, non-binary and transgender experiences. The workshop will be relevant to historians of all periods and students working on gender and/or sexuality in literature and art history.
Date: 17th May 2019
Location: Room GOR 124, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
Lead: Dr Daisy Payling (University of Essex), and Dr Justin Bengry (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Gender (In)Equality in the Historical Professions
This workshop aims to bring together historians from different stages of their careers: Masters Level students, PhD researchers, post doctoral researchers, Lecturers, Readers and Professors, together with historians who work outside of academia, to share and reflect upon experiences, develop collaborative strategies and build networks which will act to support historians facing gender bias and inequality in their chosen profession.
Date: 15th May 2019
Location: University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
The Historian’s I: Autobiography, Memory and Practice
This CHASE-funded conference will generate reflection on the personal past of the researcher, how it shapes historical pursuits and what happens when the personal past becomes the object of study.
Date: 14-15 June 2019
Location: University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
Lead: Dr Tracey Loughran and Georgie Randall (University of Essex)
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Second Biannual Postgraduate Conference
The conference is designed as a forum that brings together UK-based PhD students working on the MENA region from any perspective. MENA here is defined in the broadest possible terms and includes the countries of the Arab world, Israel, Turkey, Iran and the central Asian states.
Date: 1-2 May 2019
Location: SOAS, University of London,10 Thornhaugh St, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG
Making Progress in Your PhD: Strategies for Completion
Are you part-way through your PhD and wondering how to keep going? Do you need a push to progress to the final stages? If so, join us for this two-day workshop.
Date: 9-10th February 2019
Location: Werks Central, Brighton
MARs Session: LIQUID BODIES-WORLDS
The MARs Session LIQUID BODIES-WORLDS is a series of seminars, research and practice-led activity that explores artistic, poetic and philosophical approaches to the notion of “liquidity”.
Date: Various dates March 2019 – Summer 2019
Location: MARs Research Hub, Goldsmiths College, Seminar Space (Room 5), 43 Lewisham Way, London, SE14 6NW
The Methodologies and Contexts of “Recovery” Research in the C21
A 5-day, all-inclusive residency offering an intensive, advanced training opportunity for doctoral researchers at all levels whose PhD project and seeks to bring to light, restore and/or critically recuperate works/individuals/objects that have been lost, obscured, neglected or denied.
Date: 1-5 April 2019
Location: Beaulieu Hotel, Forest Retreat, Beaulieu, Hampshire, SO42 7YQ
Organic Systems: Science Fiction and Ecology Today
This series of four CHASE training events will explore the relation between science fiction (SF) and ecology as the nexus of an emergent set of interdisciplinary research interests.
Date: Various dates (May – December 2019)
Location: Birkbeck College and Goldsmiths, University of London
Performing Theory
This series of Master Classes aims to present a wide variety of approaches to the artistic production of ideas in audio-visual form. We are inviting performance artists and moving image makers whose work (written, performed, filmed) manifests theoretical innovation.
Date: 3rd May – 21st June 2019
Location: Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
Preparing for Your Viva: Successful Strategies for Planning & Performance
This one-day workshop is designed to guide you through the process of preparing for your viva and giving your best possible performance on the day.
Date: Thursday 28 March 2019
Location: Central London
Research and Publishing workshops with Josie Dixon – Lucian Consulting
This interactive series of workshops is hosted by Josie Dixon from Lucian Consulting, and is designed to develop the necessary skills for effectively communicating the significance and value of specialist research to those outside the discipline, as well as to offer skills in writing effective abstracts.
Date: Thursday 4 April and Friday 17 May 2019
Location: The Open University in London, 1-11 Hawley Cres, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP
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: Various dates (March – June)
Location: Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, Kings Cross, London WC1X 9EW
Rethinking the History of Nationalism: a Transnational Approach
Rethinking the History of Nationalism: a Transnational Approach will be a chance for junior scholars to exchange ideas with fellow postgraduates and senior Faculty. Postgraduate research students are invited to apply to give either original research-based papers or to reflect on the methodological and/or empirical challenges of writing about nationalism in Florence in May 2019.
Date: 16-17 May 2019
Location: Florence, Italy
Screen Studies Group
This is a one-day session presenting research methods for all new and returning doctoral students. We will address a variety of topics that now concern Screen and Film Studies such as online research, dating mining, social media; live television; installation work; music videos, gaming, AvPhDs, production cultures, media industries, creative practice, and live cinema.
Date: 19th October 2019
Location: Professor Stuart Hall Building (PSH) LG01, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Social Media Skills for Creative Writers
This two-hour session led by Sue Amaradivakara, a very experienced writing industry publicist, is aimed at creative writers who would like a better understanding of the digital marketing landscape, and the session will specifically address the following questions.
Date: 5th June 2019
Location: Central London venue
Lead: Sue Amaradivakara
Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond
This two-day praxical symposium is the culminating event of a wider research project, the main outcome of which will be a volume for Routledge Voice Studies Series. It is developed upon activities offered by the majority of the contributors to the project, a group of world-leading pioneers in teaching, researching and disseminating the significance of somatic or somatically-inspired practices towards new research methodologies in somatic and voice studies.
Date: 19 – 20 July 2019
Location: East 15, Loughton Campus, Hatfields, Rectory Lane, IG10 3RY
Lead: Christina Kapadocha
Sound Proofs
Sound Proofs is a one-day CHASE workshop that brings a diverse set of participants together to reflect upon the ways in which the sonic realm both engages in forms of contemporary truth production and is in turn conditioned by new forms of governance and corporate oversight; thus shifting the emphasis away from the visual as the means by which public claims might be expressed or overturned.
Date: 12th June 2019
Location: RHB 312 Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Summer School – Making Films of your Research with Smart / iPhones and Digital Cameras
In this six day summer school you will learn how to script and produce a short research film based on interviews, documents, art and objects. This is a practical, hands-on course, where you will spend time at an archive and local museum learning the specific skills needed to make your film.
Date: 22-28 July 2019
Location: Brighton, UK
Lead: Karen Boswall
The Uses of Musical Knowledge
This one-day symposium will explore the forms of expertise, the perceived senses of intimacy and ownership, and the power relations inherent in claims to ‘know’ music – claims that are routinely made by musicians, educators and listeners alike.
Date: 11th May 2019
Location: Room RHB 137, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
What can subjectivity tell political theory?
In this workshop, we aim to explore how the division between the abstract and the subjective can be rethought and overcome. We look at the ways in which subjectivity, the what-it’s-likeness of experience, as well as personal perspectives can be productive, and, possibly, a requirement for successful political theorising.
Date: 1st June 2019
Location: Birkbeck, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX
Writing for Pleasure, Writing for Publishing Workshop
In this two-part workshop, Professor Helen Sword and Dr Will Pooley make an evidence-based case for recuperating pleasure as a legitimate (and indeed crucial) academic emotion. Via practical exercises, they show how you can enjoy writing, and in this way become a more engaging communicator, skilful wordsmith and productive researcher.
Date: 29th May 2019
Location: University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
Lead: Professor Helen Sword (University of Auckland) and Dr Will Pooley (University of Bristol)