4IR: The Arts and Humanities in the Era of Social Distancing
This series of workshops considers the role that the arts and humanities play in a world transformed by the fourth industrial revolution, and what effects social distancing has had on arts and humanities research.
Date: 19 May – 23 June 2020
Location: Online
Anglo Norman French
This training course, available for graduate students at CHASE-affiliated institutions, aims to develop students’ ability to read (in print and manuscript) and to interpret medieval French texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries.
Dates: 28 Sept. to 14 Dec 2020
Location: Online
Animating Archives
This workshop series will explore digital material in relation to the archive, and asks: How can we creatively engage with archive material during times of physical closure?
Date: 20 November 2020 – 25 June 2022
Location: Online
Auraldiversities
A year-long programme addressing the ‘auraldiverse turn’ in Arts and Humanities research and theory, questioning how and what we hear, what we listen to and why, as situated within our contemporary milieu: that of ecological, existential, social, economic and epidemiological crises. Entwined with sonically sensile organisms, sessions extend well beyond human worlds into speculative acoustic realms of future listening.
Date: 10 December 2020 – 10 June 2021
Location: Online
Building Humanitarian Networks and Community Resilience in the Era of Social Distancing
This series of events considers how individuals can act as nodes of resilience in broader community and humanitarian networks, and how access to ‘self-care’ is a deeply unequal experience. We will explore how pre-existing discourses of marginalisation and exclusion are replicated in this crisis.
Date: 27 May – 8 July 2020
Location: Online
Feminist Duration
By restoring material texture to overlooked political and cultural movements, this programme seeks to resist versions of the past that reduce feminist struggle to one-dimensional stereotypes. Looking to activate the past’s nascent potential, participants identify tools that can inspire and enrich further collective action, promoting the intergenerational exchange of knowledge and experience. While honouring earlier feminisms, the series also highlights how collaboration, difference, and dissent have characterised previous feminist activity, and how feminists have both negotiated, and failed to significantly attend to, differences between themselves.
Date: 26 November 2020 – 11 February 2021
Location: Online
The Liquidity Cohort
The Liquidity Cohort is a growing group of researchers who work with various notions of liquidity from the body (in the broadest sense, human and otherwise) to material infrastructures. We are interested in “liquidity” as an immersive experience of being-in-the-world and its implications for practice; questions of how to write from states of immersion, how to work from the body immersed in experience. We are also interested in hydrological and technological infrastructures and their impacts on the body and its worlds. The Liquidity Cohort was initiated by Dr. Bridget Crone (Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths) in 2018, and is open to researchers from CHASE institutions. Please get in touch if you’d like to join us. Supported by CHASE Consortium Development Grant.
Date: 25 November – 20 December 2020
Location: Online
Material Witness
This series of talks and workshops will explore how the objects history leaves behind can be used to explore the world they existed in.
Date: 27 November 2020 – 25 June 2021
Location: Online/Various
The Pandemics Series
Participants in this series will consider the following questions: How have we understood ourselves in relation to these pandemics, not only as health emergencies, but as cultural and historical phenomena? How have different pandemics challenged or solidified pre-existing social stratification and inequalities? How have pre-existing or new discourses of sickness, disability, religion, and morality been mobilised during different pandemics and in the years that followed them? To what extent have historical discourses on pandemics and infectious disease in general survived into our own time and to what effect? In what ways do different societies ‘remember’ great pandemics?
Date: 10-11 December 2020
Location: Online
Screen Studies Research in a Pandemic
One of the main aims of the annual SSG PhD Training Workshop is to enable Screen Studies PhD students across London to meet each other and get familiar with each other’s research. This 3 day virtual event offered networking opportunities, along with presentations and panel discussions from prominent academics in the field of Screen Studies.
Date: 23 October – November 2020
Location: Online
Teaching Creative Writing
Creative writers teach in schools, universities and the community, on retreats, in theatres and in workshops. Teaching is often a key part of a writer’s career, and there are rich possibilities creative arts education across a huge range of contexts. But how do you teach creative writing? Can you? This series offers anyone considering teaching creative writing as part of their career development the opportunity to look in detail at the theory and practice of creative writing pedagogy in a variety of institutional and community settings.
Date: 13 October 2020 – 6 May 2021
Location: Online
Writing for Practice Forum @ MARs
The Writing for Practice Forum is based in the Mountain of Art Research (MARs) at Goldsmiths College, and is organised by artists and researchers Kate Pickering and Rowena Harris. The forum is a peer led discursive space to gain valuable feedback on imaginative or experimental approaches with text-based material.
Date: 13 July 2020- 19 April 2021
Location: Online