Programme (subject to change)
0930 – Welcome (CHASE Director)
0945 – Panel presentations (5 minute presentations)
Panel 1 – Breakout room 1
Britain, British history and the British Empire – chair: Niall Boyce (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Histories of Migration in Empire: Greeks in Southern Africa and the development of migration control – Luke Spyropoulos (Birkbeck, University of London)
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‘Back East of Suez?’ British Defence Policy in the Indian Ocean, 1970-1979 – Cecilia Varuzza (University of Essex)
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Environment, Economy and Empire in British Political Discourse on Fisheries, 1650-1800 – Timothy Pallot (University of Sussex)
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Intimate Geographies – Rambisayi Marufu (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Word, image, emblem? Questions of legibility and purpose in early-modern calligraphy manuals – Anna-Nadine Pike (University of Kent)
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Memory, Devotion and Jacob’s Genealogical Tree in A Tretyse of þe Stodye of Wysdome þat Men Clepen Beniamyn – Samantha McCarthy (University of Kent)
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Robert Burton and Sir Thomas Browne’s Reception of Classical Texts – Andrew Regan (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Writing Women Back In – Ellen Hardy (University of East Anglia)
Panel 2 – Breakout room 2
Art and art history – chair: Rob Witts (CHASE)
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Wall Paintings of Sin in Late Medieval England – Florence Eccleston (Courtauld Institute of Art)
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Subtleties of Style: the resonance between nasta’liq script and the miniaturised mode of Persian painting – Rachel Alban (Courtauld Institute of Art)
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Graffiti as aesthetic activism in the Red Power movement – Mark Parker (University of Kent)
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Theatricality and Interactivity in Installation Art. The Case of Alik Cavaliere, an Italian Precursor and Forgotten Artist – Marta Colombo (University of Kent)
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Paris: a city in clichés – Saskia Barnard (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Partire da sé’: Art and Feminism in Italy, 1963–1983 – Veronica Orlandi (Courtauld Institute of Art)
1045 – Break
1100 – Panel presentations (20 minute presentations)
Panel 1 – Breakout room 1
Sound and music – chair: Steven Colburn (CHASE)
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Developing the Creative Skillsets of UK Orchestral Musicians – Phil Meadows (University of Kent)
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Connecting and Preserving the National Musical Past: Narrative, Memory, Heritage – Fiamma Mozzetta (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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“Extreme Entertainment” Class and Modernity in the Indigenization of Metal in Kasenian Réak Working document – Luigi Monteanni (SOAS, University of London)
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The Sounding Line: a journey through the sounds of urban transformation – Debbie Kent (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Panel 2 – Breakout room 2
Historical texts – chair: Carmen Silvestri (University of Essex)
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The N-Town Four Marys: Are they speaking to a fifteenth-century community of lay women – Elaine Rushin (University of East Anglia)
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‘A curious case of misattribution: “Giotto’s Death of the Virgin” in nineteenth century Britain’ Katherine Ault (Open University)
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Have we lost sleep? A re-examination of the segmented sleep theory – Niall Boyce (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Circulation, fluidity, and adaptation: the case of the Mirror of Holy Church – Segolene Gence (University of Kent)
Panel 3 – Breakout room 3
Decolonising – chair: Rob Witts (CHASE)
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Black Seamen in a Welsh Port: The Seamen’s Boarding House, Settlement and Community in Cardiff – Joseph Radcliffe (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Decolonising Plant Knowledge – Anne Lewins (SOAS, University of London)
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Dialogue Between Collections and Nations : Reconnecting Material Culture and Colonial History of Vanuatu – Laëtitia Lopes (University of East Anglia)
Panel 4 – Breakout room 4
Political struggle – chair: Orly Orbach (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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The history of the concept of new antisemitism and the 1980s – Emilie Wiedemann (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Reasonable accommodation by any other name: how the European Court of Human Rights hides an accommodation duty for all grounds – Šárka Dušková (University of Essex)
1230 – Lunch break
1330 – Poster presentations – chair: Kate Lacey (CHASE)
View all of the posters here.
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Lydia Hiraide (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Chris Groenveld (University of Sussex)
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Carmen Silvestri (University of Essex)
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James Stockman (University of Sussex)
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Caroline Hawthorne (University of Essex)
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Rupert Knight (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Harry Salisbury (University of Sussex)
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Jilliene Sellner (Goldsmiths, University of London)
1415 – Panel presentations (5 minute presentations)
Panel 1 – Breakout room 1
Health and wellbeing – chair: Carmen Silverstri (University of Essex)
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Water Imaginaries and Water Crisis – Nayantara Nayar (University of East Anglia)
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Metabolism of the field – Naomi Hennig (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Re-visioning menopause through film practice – Ali Ramsey (University of Sussex)
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The proof is in the pudding – medical recipes and knowledge gatekeeping – Jane Davidson (University of Kent)
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Imaginaries, future-making, and digital health in India – Abhishek Mohanty (SOAS, University of London)
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Practices of instituting in neoliberal care settings – Rachel Wilson (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Playing the Game: Sport and Imperialism between the Wars in colonial Singapore – Joshua de Cruz (University of Essex)
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Delhi calling: Reflections on a virtual language training period – Amanda Taylor (SOAS, University of London)
Panel 2 – Breakout room 2
Spaces and places – chair: Steven Colburn (CHASE)
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Documenting 19th Century Carolinian Collections in Spain – Alba Ferrandiz Gaudens (University of East Anglia)
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Takemitsu and the Steel Pavilion: Spatial Timbre as a parameter of composition – Midori Komachi (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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North Korea’s Information Underground: Resistance within a Closed Society – (Callum Morrissey Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Reading Tides: Exploring alternative tidal readings within the Thames Estuary in a world at risk – Gerolamo Gnecchi (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Restriction of the right to freedom of movement in the Aegean border of the pandemic era: Proportionality, space-time, and the question of public interest – Panagiotis Mavroudis (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Movement towards the heavenly Jerusalem in John Lydgate’s translation of Guillaume Deguileville’s Pelerinage de la vie humaine (c.1426) – Katherine Turley (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Turntable Epistemology: Sound System Migration in the Queer Black Atlantic – (Lynnée Bonner Goldsmiths, University of London)
Panel 3 – Breakout room 3
Literature – chair: Clare Hunt (CHASE)
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Building The Magic City: Edith Nesbit and Socialist Childhood – Sophie Thompson (University of Kent)
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Generous Emulation of Friends’: Social Avenues for Female Education in the Eighteenth-Century – Hana Hill (University of East Anglia)
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Law’s Haemopolitics – Kanika Gauba (Birkbeck, University of London)
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The Language of Flowers Book in Britain and the Early Victorian Gothic Floriography of Women Writers – Jemma Stewart (Birkbeck, University of London)
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For the Love of Life: Nihilism and Transience in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thought – Henri Böschen (University of Essex)
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a modest plea for a holist starting point – Joseph Backhouse-Barber (University of Sussex)
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Can political correctness lead to epistemic injustice? – Maryam Aghdami (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Writing and Translating in Non-standard Language – Kotryna Garanasvili (University of East Anglia)
1515 – Break
1530 – Breakout sessions
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The AHRC New Generation Scheme – Sabina Dosani (University of East Anglia) Breakout room 1 [Sabina is a current BBC/AHRC new generation thinker. In this session, Sabina will reflect on her experience of the scheme so far and offer top tips on applying to the scheme.]
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Wasafiri – Sana Goyal and colleagues (Wasafiri) Breakout room 2
Meet the editors and CHASE intern at Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing, championing marginalised creative and academic writers since 1984. Find out more about their annual editorial placement, opening for applications next month.
[Wasafiri is a magazine that publishes international contemporary writing. In this session, Wasafiri staff will talk about placements with the magazine available to CHASE researchers and the writing prizes open to creative writers.]
1600 – Panel presentations (20 minute presentations)
Panel 1- Breakout room 1
Medical/radical futures – chair: Nayantara Nayar (University of East Anglia)
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Avant-Garde Forms of Illness: Enif Robert and L’Italia Futurista – Genevieve Smart (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Unpacking encoding/ decoding as moments of cultural influence – Liam Mullally (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Panel 2 – Breakout room 2
Dance & film – chair: Maisie Ridgeway (University of Sussex)
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The Modernist Dance, The Transgressive Nymph: Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Holly Adam’s Nymphomania (1994) – Benedict Welch (University of Sussex)
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Natural and Unnatural Rhythms: Light as a ‘Zeitgeber’ in Contemporary Culture – Lauren Collee (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Premodern Yoga and the Construction of Masculinity – Ruth Westoby (SOAS, University of London)
Panel 3 – Breakout room 3
Conflict & borders – chair: Clare Hunt (CHASE)
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NGOs and Strategic Resettlement during the Zimbabwean Liberation War (1972-1980) – Ryan Clarke (University of Essex)
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Proprietorship and elite power in post-Roman Britain and Gaul – Chris Hopkins (University of Kent)
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People who Come from the Sea: Sicily’s Mediterranean border as a meet-clash space – Giulia Morale (Courtauld Institute of Art)
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Rushes as evidence, editing as a form of forgetting: the conflict in Mostar – Lennaart van Oldenborgh (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Panel 4 – Breakout room 4
Latin is not an absolutely dead language: Using Latin in your doctoral research
Chair: Jack Wilcox
In this discursive roundtable, three CHASE students, who have attended and taught on the CHASE Latin for Medievalists and Early Modernists course, will talk about how they have developed their Latin skills over the course of their PhD, and the ways in which they have used Latin to expand the bounds of their research.
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Jessica Honey (University of East Anglia)
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John Raspin (University of East Anglia)
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Pietro Mocchi (University of Kent)
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Jack Wilcox (University of Kent)
1730 – Close
On demand content – pre-recorded talks available all day
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Whose Antony? – Lesley Carvello (University of Sussex) This will be a pre-recorded presentation, download from here (Powerpoint presentation – press ‘Slide Show’ and ‘From Beginning’ to play)
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Seeds and colonial memory in Maria Thereza Alves’ Seeds of Change – Jessica Saxby (Goldsmiths, University of London) This will be a pre-recorded presentation, view here
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Comics Perzines at the Wellcome – Lilith Cooper (University of Kent). This will be a pre-recorded presentation, view here – use password ESAHC22 to access.
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How to Jail a Revolution: Theorising the penal suppression of American political voices – Molly Carlin (University of Sussex)*
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Transmission, transformation – Raquel Morais (Birkbeck, University of London)*