Aural Pluralities Network
AuralPluralities is a research network led by academics and creative practitioners dedicated to addressing, and extending upon, the ‘auraldiverse turn’ in Arts and Humanities research and praxis.
Throughout 2024 we will run a series of events at each of the partner locations: Goldsmiths, University of Kent and University of Sussex, as well as a field trip.
Date: 22 March – 28 June 2024
Location: Various
Broadly Conceived Events 23/24
A series of events organised by the Reproductive Network and Reading Group Broadly Conceived, a supportive, interdisciplinary space for postgraduate and early career researchers interested in all things repro.
Date: 3 October 2023 – 13 June 24
Location: Online & Various
CHASE Feminist Network
Through a series of bodily exercises — involving breathing, resistance, vocal emission, and touch — we will explore the vocalic realm as a site of metamorphosis, a reinvention of language anchored in the unique and relational vibratory possibilities of the bodies within a speaking community.
Date: 9 February 2024
Location: University of Sussex
How does Digital Culture intersect with your PhD?
The Internet and digital media are increasingly shaping the way we learn, think, and interact; and they are changing many aspects of how society and culture are organised. Anthropologists argue that the digitalisation of everyday life is the single biggest cultural shift in the history of humanity since the advent of money (Horst & Miller, 2011).
Whatever your research topic or discipline, it almost certainly intersects with digital culture in some way. Broadly speaking, the internet is the principal tool of the researcher as its browsers and websites enable easy access to information, and its communication platforms will most likely mediate relationships with research participants. More specifically, whether you identify as an artist, historian, linguist or social scientist, your research object is already being recoded as a digital artefact and/or being hotly contested on social media right now.
How do we incorporate this breakneck digitalisation of the everyday into our research?
This essential 5-part crash course in digital culture studies provides an overview of the main theoretical debates around the impact of digital technology. We will get you thinking through a digital lens via five 2-hour lectures/seminars supported by high impact readings and low intensity assignments. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out. And if you can only join some of the sessions for some reason, let us know and we’ll try and figure something out.
Date: 24 November 2023 – 12 January 2024
Location: Online
How to Get Published in the Environmental Humanities: A Roundtable Discussion
Forming part of the University of Sussex’s Centre of American Studies interdisciplinary Subsurface Ecologies Symposium, CHASE will be supporting a roundtable discussion titled “How to Get Published in the Environmental Humanities.” Led by noted experts in the across a range of relevant fields. The panel will draw on their experience in order to demystify the publishing process for participants with the aim of aiding them in publishing their work. This will include insight into the processes of abstract and proposal preparation, editing the paper and the peer-review process and copy-editing following acceptance.
Date: 10 May 2024
Location: University of Sussex
InSound: Spatial Audio Workshops
The morning session will comprise of seminars in the Sonic Immersive Media Lab from artists and staff at Goldsmiths, University of Kent and Iklectik. There will be a lunchtime listening session. The afternoon will feature workshops on spatial audio technologies in the Electronic Music Studios. Participants will be given guidance and suggested tools to help them develop their material for the next session. The final session of the day will invite participants to discuss strategies for working with spatial audio in their own practice.
Date: 27 March and Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London
Latin for Medievalists and Early Modernists Residential Week 2024
Over the course of the programme, we will work to improve our essential grammatical and vocabulary knowledge, build the skills necessary to engage with primary sources in research and engage with the Latin language in fresh and creative ways.
Date: 3 – 7 June 2024
Location: University of East Anglia
Medieval French Language Training
This course, aimed at graduate students at CHASE-affiliated institutions, is intended to introduce participants to 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. The first half of the course will introduce participants to the grammar of the language and give them the tools to engage in reading, translation, and manuscript transcription exercises. This will also introduce some key texts. The latter half will cater to participants’ specific research needs and allow students to work through texts that will benefit their own projects.
Date: 17 January 2024
Location: Online
MEMSFest 2024
From discovering how people of colour were represented across medieval Europe, to exploring madness on the early modern stage, bewitched milk, burning beards and royal branding centuries before Instagram, scholars from across the globe shared their exciting new research at the University of Kent’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 10th anniversary MEMS Festival. The two-day conference, held 14-15 June, drew postgraduate and early-career researchers from a cross-section of UK universities as well as those from India, Australia, South America, the US and Europe.
Date: 14-15 June 2024
Location: University of Kent
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. Students will be introduced to the grammar of the language, while they will also be introduced to a range of key and exemplary literature within the surviving corpus.
Date: 28 September 2024
Location: Online
Working with Difficult Stories: Strategies to Care for Researchers and Their Subjects
As researchers we are often drawn to topics that are close to or hearts and that resonate for us. For example, we might be driven to research experiences of conflict, refugees, domestic abuse, illness or violence. Such research can sometimes stir up ‘difficult’ memories and feelings for researchers, impacting on them in different and unexpected ways.
In this two day workshop we want to explore ways of managing this ‘secondary trauma’ for researchers, drawing on our own experiences and practices and those of the experienced researchers who will lead the individual sessions. The session leads will reflect on their own practice and student participants are expected to come along ready to share their own ideas and experiences, and to work on ‘best practice’ with others. At the end of the workshop we will collectively produce a ‘toolkit’ for CHASE researchers who are working with ‘difficult stories’.
Date: 10 – 11 June 2024
Location: Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU