The Absent Audience – Visual Culture Research Centre Kiev Presentation
A presentation by Vasyl Cherepanyn and members of the Kyiv Visual Culture Research Center, under the aegis of the CHASE doctoral training initiative “The Absent Audience”.
Date: 11 April 2022
Location: Online
Academic Journals and Special Issues: Editing and Publishing
The session consisted of a series of short talks and discussions that broached a range of practical editorial matters including different approaches to conceptualising special issues, how to approach academics to contribute to special issues, what the editing process looks like, how to invite peer reviewers, what the peer review process looks like, what to expect from editors, typical timeframes from submission to publication, and how to contend with difficult feedback.
Date: 10 June 2022
Location: Online
Auraldiversities: Space
A series of events exploring the multisensory and immersive nature of space throughout various musical disciplines. Events included workshops, concerts, and lectures, and were hosted both in person and virtually.
Date: 12 April – 13 May 2022
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Culture of Optimisation Cafe
Taking place at Turf Projects in the Whitgift Centre in Croydon and part of the Being Human Festival, we’ll be hosting an open roundtable discussion about the “culture of optimisation”. From a brief history of optimisation to the current forms of optimisation in digital technology and how it informs breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, we’ll examine optimisation and hustle culture through the lens of digital media.
Date: 19 November 2022
Location: Turf Projects in the Whitgift Centre in Croydon
Decolonising and Indigenous Research Methodologies – Workshop series
In this extended guided reading programme, students are offered the chance to discuss a range of readings in Indigenous and Decolonizing Research Methodologies with BIPoC scholars in the UK and at the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta.
Date: 10 January – 16 May 2022
Location: Online
Digital Genetic Editing Tools for Digital Collections: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd
The session will focus on the Melville Electronic Library edition of Billy Budd, his final work that was left unfinished and survives in a complicated manuscript that reveals several stages of revision
Date: 9 May 2022
Location: Online
Feminist Duration: Sleepless with Leah Clements and Jenn Ashworth
This session focuses on ‘That Other Place’ by Leah Clements and Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth, two texts from 2019 that approach insomnia as a result as well as a cause of physical and mental illness. Both authors also highlight the link between sleeplessness and creative output.
Date: 14 December 2022
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International Conference: Identity, State and Society in Modern Spain
After two successful years of online talks, the Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars team will be holding a conference at the University of Kent with the aim of continuing to foster connections and exchanges between doctoral researchers of modern Spain across the world.
Date: 11 September 2022
Location: University of Kent
Latin for Medievalists and Early Modernists: Residential
As the administrative and ecclesiastical language of much of the western world during the medieval and early modern periods, Latin is a key medium through which we can understand the social, political and cultural worlds of the past, and an essential tool for researchers wishing to contribute to the scholarship of these periods. Scholars of all aspects of these periods will benefit from the language training offered through the CHASE Latin for Medievalists and Early Modernists programme.
Date: 6-10 June 2022
Location: Online and Various
Material Evidence and Affective Responses
This series of workshops has two aims. The first is to investigate the opportunities as well as the problems with using non-traditional forms of evidence. The second and connected aspect of these events is centred around writing. We want to encourage more attention to the craft of writing and to the constitutive power of description.
Date: 22 November 2022 – 10 January 2023
Location: Various
Material Witness | Skills and Processes: A Practical Workshop at the Art Workers’ Guild
Following almost two academic years online, we invite research students across the CHASE consortium who work with material artefacts or who are interested in materiality to join us on Friday 11th February for an afternoon of dialogue about techniques and methods for examining the material world.
Date: 11 February 2022
Location: The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
Machine Learning and Authorship
Dr Jo Walton (Sussex Humanities Lab). This online workshop will explore tools and debates at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and authorship.
Date: 03 May 2022
Location: Online
Medical Humanities Network Events
This series of workshops and film screenings explores themes of identity, body image, disability and isolation, as well images and artistic practices in relation to issues in medical humanities.
Date: 29 September – 17 November 2022
Location: Various
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: 31 October 2022
Location: Online
Presenting with Confidence at Academic Conferences
Enhance your academic career with our free session offering guidance and advice on presenting your research at academic conferences. This session supports arts and humanities postgraduate students looking to build their confidence in presenting and engaging with other conference attendees.
Date: 10 November 2022
Location: Online
Queer, Feminist Archives and Digital Humanities
This session will introduce participants to queer, feminist digital archives and will explore the ways digital humanities can support community groups and initiatives build digital archives.
Date: 24 May 2022
Location: Sussex Humanities Lab