Absent Audience
‘Absent Audience’ is a two-day virtual conference, organized by the Advanced Practices Laboratory at Goldsmiths College, University of London, presenting collaborative research on the Johannesburg Biennial 1997 as a reflection on a case study from the middle. During the two days we will be providing the opportunity to engage with questions of knowing, remembering, methods of navigation and multiplicity of knowledges.
Date: 10 – 11 June 2021
Location: Online
Care in the Climate Crisis
We are inviting activists, researchers in the humanities, artists, writers, community initiatives and other practitioners to share their works, projects, practices and speculations. In addition, we are organising a series of workshops from invited practitioners that will help us build our toolkit of responses as part of a strategy of resilience and care. Contributions will touch upon themes of empathy and kinships, landscapes in transformation, recording changing environments, questions of repair, renewal and maintenance and many others. The event emphasises sharing and being together above broadcasting, and will sustain a sense of play, of imagination, and of speculation.
Date: 22 – 23 April 2021
Location: Online (Gathertown)
Creativity and Community Writing
Participants of the retreat were supported in exploring their sense of identity as an academic writer – what helps and hinders them – and had the chance to share experiences, tips and reflections with their peers. Alongside this, there was opportunities for peer support, creative engagement, networking and socialising in order to build connections and community with other researchers following a particularly challenging few years.
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Digital Conferencing in (Post)Pandemic Times
Organised by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, this CHASE-funded programme of events invites theatre and performance artists and scholars skilled in using digital technologies to share their knowledge and strategies with doctoral students in the arts and humanities, with the goal of aiding them in presenting their research in online formats.
Date: 28 Oct. 11:00 – 14:00 | 18 Nov. 11:00 – 14:00 | 16 Dec. 11:00 – 14:00 | 20 Jan. 11:00 – 14:00 | 24 Feb. 14:00 – 17:00
Location: Online
Entangled Exchanges: Decolonising the Classroom
Over the course of two weeks we are going to be exploring how we can decolonise our teaching practices and spaces. We will look at questions such as: How can we as teachers create and hold spaces that celebrate difference? How can we respond to acts of violence in the classroom in a way that enables students to return to that space, and keep coming back to the university in the future? How can we make teaching spaces safer, and build in context and criticality for Eurocentric canons and curricula?
Date: 5 – 16 July 2021
Location: Online
Essay Film Festival
The Essay Film Festival returned 25 March to 3 April for its 2021 edition, which this year was held entirely online.
Date: 25 March – 3 April 2021
Location: Online
Ethics, Reflexivity, and Writing in the Medical Humanities
This three-day workshop offers an intensive training opportunity for doctoral researchers at all levels and across disciplines whose PhD work relates to the medical humanities, broadly conceived. By bringing together established scholars and doctoral researchers, it aims to open on-going interdisciplinary conversations around ethics, reflexivity, and writing in the medical humanities, with a view to equipping students to more sensitively engage with these often difficult aspects of their research which seldom are an explicit or sustained focus of doctoral training.
Date: 28 – 30 June 2021
Location: Online
Feminist Network Training
This series of training events includes the Feminist Duration series which explores under-known texts, ideas, and movements associated with earlier periods of feminist activity in the UK. Originally designed as part of a year-long residency at the South London Gallery, and rescheduled online in the wake of the COVID pandemic, the programme juxtaposes earlier moments of feminist with current urgencies and struggles.
Date: 23 September 2021 – 28 July 2022
Location: Online and various in-person locations
Future of Arts Research
These events are part of a broader project on notions, formats and practices of distribution and/as production, and aims to explore how modalities of distribution have registered the ongoing pandemic.
Date: 9 March – 29 June 2021
Location: Online
Material Benefits of the Immaterial: Publishing in the Digisphere
A study day will train doctoral students in the ways that the Digital Humanities have, and have not, altered academic publishing. Because art and music have led computational innovations in the Digital Humanities, their digital publications will serve as case studies; the intended audience is all arts and humanities researchers whose objects of study pose transmission challenges apposite to those in art and music.
Date: 10 September 2021
Location: Goldsmiths and Online
Medical Humanities Network
The Medical Humanities Network organised a range of training, including workshops and lectures on a wide variety of topics relating to medical humanities.
Date: 20 May 2021 – 25 August 2022
Location: Online
Medieval French Language Training
This training course will run over 6 weeks in the Autumn semester. It is aimed at graduate students at CHASE-affiliated institutions, is intended to introduce participants to working with medieval French materials, and give researchers the tools to read (in print and manuscript) and interpret medieval French texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries.
Date: 11 October 2021
Location: Online
Old English Language Training
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 Old English texts.
Date: 29 September 2021
Location: Online
Searching Digital: Methods, Tools, and Standards of Research in Digital Humanities
This series of trainings opens the ground for discussing some new specialised tools, resources and standards needed for an efficient and creative research in the highly sought fields of digital humanities. How to digitise, store and restore, manipulate, and interpret the knowledge of the past? What are the technical, ethical and interpretative challenges involved in this? How to best use your practical knowledge in digital cataloguing, archiving, mapping and analysing diverse types of historical primary sources?
Date: 9, 16, and 21 June 2021
Location: Online
Sensational Ecologies
The Sensational Ecologies summer programme will, in Donna Haraway’s phrase, ‘stay with the trouble’ by exploring how a sustained focus on sensation can help us to celebrate and delimit the sensory apparatus of the human-animal in its entanglement with the more-than-human world. We will do so by introducing examples of sensory powers (and their absence) from across the biotic spectrum, even challenging the distinction between the living (biotic) and the dead (abiotic), and by introducing technological tools by which we can sense that which is beyond the human-animal’s sensory perception.
Date: Location: Online
Virtually Teaching
A major outcome of the pandemic is that it has become clear that knowing how to create engaging online courses for adults will be a key skill moving forward, now that distance and online learning are used so widely. This short course is designed for anyone teaching in a University or higher education environment and will introduce participants to using virtual reality as an online teaching tool.
Date: 17 February, 17 – 31 March 2021
Location: Online
What Can a Garden Be?
In this series of talks and seminars funded by CHASE, we hear from artists, curators, activists and researchers whose work is grounded in practices of sustainability, decoloniality, permaculture, queering nature, nurturing place-based knowledge, building community and resilience in opposition to colonial imaginaries.
Date: 2 February, 15 & 21 June, 6 July 2021
Location: Online
What Career? Doing Practice-Research Beyond the PhD
This event brings together practice-based PhD researchers to share goals, concerns and practical advice for continuing as a practice-researcher beyond the PhD.
Date: 24 June 2021
Location: Online