Call for Papers: PG CWWN Women on Women Symposium Series 2012, Sister Earth: Global Relationships in Contemporary Women’s Writing

A half-day postgraduate symposium at Goldsmiths, University of London, Thurs 26 April 2012

Keynote Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo 

At the close of the twentieth century, feminists such as Audre Lorde, Susan Stanford Friedman and Sara Ahmed urged women to look beyond their local and national communities. Since 2000, contemporary women’s writing has sought inspiration from the idea of an increasingly global community. Women from a variety of locations have produced a number of works that engage with transnational and global relationships, including Aminatta Forna, Bernardine Evaristo, Kamila Shamsie, Andrea Levy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Tahmima Anam, amongst many others. This half-day symposium seeks to both address and celebrate the global outlook of contemporary women’s writing.

 

Topics may include (but are by no means limited to):

 

 

• Contemporary women’s writing in the diaspora
• Global influences on language, form and genre
• Engagement with theories of transnational feminism  and/or globalisation
• The contemporary  portrayal of women and religion
• Friendship, family, romance and sexual relationships in the global era
• The global legacies of slavery and colonialism
• Immigrant women and the cosmopolitan city

Please submit abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers via email to women@pgcwwn.org. Please state ‘Goldsmiths’ in the title of your email. The deadline for proposals is 13 April 2012. 
 
This symposium is one of a nationwide series. For more details of future events, locations and more information, please visit our website.

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Art As A Mode Of Enquiry: Graduate Sysposium Call For Abstracts

University of Oxford, June 16 - 17, 2012

DEADLINE: April 20th

Venues:    St. John's College, The University of Oxford (16th)
                 The Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology (17th)

"Art as a Mode of Enquiry" is a graduate symposium organised by doctoral students in art and art theory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, The University of Oxford. The two-day interdisciplinary conference will take place on the weekend of the 16th and 17th of June 2012 and will be accompanied by an exhibition of site-specific works at the Ashmolean Museum by current DPhil students.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Adrian Piper (APRA Berlin): "On the Very Idea of Artistic Research"
Professor Shearer West (University of Oxford): title TBA

Drawing on a spectrum of disciplinary approaches, the conference seeks to investigate the theoretical underpinnings of the advanced degrees in art that have recently become established in many universities in the UK and abroad. In what ways might art practice constitute a form of research? What kinds of knowledge can it produce and how can these be evaluated? How can artists learn from, critique, and productively contribute to other disciplines? What historical precedents might be used to explore this relationship?

We invite postgraduate presentations from all disciplines, including fine art, art history, philosophy, cultural studies and psychology. Themes covered may include but are not limited to:

-         the relation between the arts and other humanities disciplines
-         the relationship between science and art
-         the place of art within the evolving university framework
-         artists' writings and the notion of an "academic" practice
-         alternative forms of research presentation
-         psychological and philosophical accounts of the cognitive value of art

Papers will be 25 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for questions. We welcome proposals as abstracts of between 300 and 400 words, accompanied by a short CV. Submission deadline is the 1st of April and notification of acceptance will be provided shortly thereafter. Please submit the proposal and CV as attachments to

gradsymposium2012@ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk

 

FROM GRANITE TO RAINBOW: TRANSMUTING THE MATERIAL INTO TEXT

A one-day conference on post-1980 writing for postgraduates and early career researchers.

University of East Anglia, Saturday 12^th May 2012. 

Keynote speaker: Inga Bryden, Winchester 

Virginia Woolf wrote that the challenge of biography is to represent “that perpetual marriage of granite and rainbow”. In all writing the material world is transmuted into something other than itself, but what is the precise relation between written representation and material object? Does this interconnection allow for an opening of imaginative possibility, or constitute a limiting reification of the organic?

Object histories and material culture studies have recently introduced an emphasis on the material existence of their subjects, but the implications of materiality in a literary context invite further consideration. This conference seeks to explore the workings of this transformation from material to text in post-1980 writing, both fiction and creative non-fiction. 

We would like to encourage interactive papers, especially involving actual objects, and the conference will include a roundtable discussion using props.  Please email abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute papers to Carina Hart and Rebecca Harris at granitetorainbow@gmail.com by 12^th March 2012. 

Visit our website for more details at http://www.uea.ac.uk/lit/eventsnews/events/granite-to-rainbow

Deadline to present at the Research Poster Conference is 1 day away!

There’s not long left until the deadline of March 16th so apply now!  The application form won’t take long and the deadline for the poster isn’t until May 18^th.  We cannot stress enough how useful and worthwhile the Research Poster Conference is to all researchers here at UoB in every college and at every stage of research.  This is a major skills development exercise, there will be cash prizes (given for every college) and this is UoB’s researcher event of the year so get involved!  Even if you have never made a poster before and don’t know what an abstract is you are encouraged to apply as much as everyone else as we can provide the training and all of the information.  We even organise and print your posters at no cost to you and you get to keep the poster.  Get your name and your research out there!  Develop skills you can take anywhere!   

Please click here for the webpage and information and how to apply. 

 If you have any questions please contact the poster conference team on posterconference@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Public speaking workshop and Personal Branding Masterclass

*Please note that both of these workshops have a limited number of places and we recommend you book asap if you want to attend.

 

Personal Branding Masterclass

 

By the end of the masterclass delegates will be able to:

 

• Increase their attractiveness to prospective employers through their personal brand.

 

• Understand how to use their personal brand as part of their research careers.

 

• Appreciate why their values lie at the heart of their personal brand.

 

• Understand the rationale for connecting their values with their stakeholders’ values.

 

• Use communications, behaviour, design and multisensory cues to develop their personal brand.

 

• Reflect on their personal brand in a more meaningful way.

 

• Recognise the importance of delivering an authentic and consistent personal brand experience.

 

• Understand how to differentiate themselves from other personal brands.

 

• Feel more confident and comfortable with their personal brand.

 

• Utilise their personal branding knowledge and skills to refine ‘their brand’ as their careers develop.

 

To find out more and how to book your free place please go to the web page http://www.graduateschool.bham.ac.uk/training/personalbranding.shtml

 

Speakeasy!  Public speaking workshop for postgraduate researchers

 

Drawing on professional acting skills and techniques, the one-day course addresses the following issues:

 

• How to be an effective communicator in the lecture theatre, seminar room or in the conference hall.

 

• How to get your message across, keep your audience engaged and actually enjoy the experience.

 

• Voice projection, posture, body language and how to calm your nerves.

 

• Different modes of communication: how to lead seminars, chair conferences and conduct a Q&A.

 

• Techniques for presenting, how to deliver complex ideas and personalise your style of delivery.

 

• Methods of communication: how to use PowerPoint, present a poster and ‘how to think on your academic feet’.

 

To find out more information, read reviews or book your free place please go to the webpage http://www.graduateschool.bham.ac.uk/training/speakeasy.shtml

 

Call for Papers for the Graduate Conference “Musical Perspectives”, June 2012

The philosophy Society at Warwick University invites submissions of good quality work on music for a workshop which will take place on the 18^th and the 19^th of June 2012, in the Art Centre, Warwick University, UK.

 

We welcome submissions in all areas dealing with music (artistic, literary, historical, philosophical, psychological and performative). Submissions should be no longer than 3,000 words, and should be in Word or PDF format, containing an abstract of the paper and indicating the interest of the candidate to comment on another paper at the conference.

 

 

Conference Announcement

 

“Musical Perspectives”

 

The workshop aims to discuss the different possible approaches to music: it being an abstract art, music can be related to the different forms of expression of the human thought and, as consequence, it can be differently investigated according to the chosen mode: a phenomenological, artistic, aesthetical or epistemological one, and so on. By doing so, a new interest is hopefully raised in understanding our everyday (and often undervalued) dealing with music, not only under a theoretical light, but also in consideration of its technical applications. Students and staff will have the opportunity of acquiring a more complete and -by no means- panoramic vision of the musical sphere as the highest form of human artistic production, and to understand why the latter has in itself the power of deeply affecting the individuals, both rationally and irrationally.

 

The Guest Speaker is Maestro Prof. Mirko Guerrini (“P. Mascagni” Music Academy, Lvorno; Visiting Professor at the Monash University, Melbourne) who is also a composer, an arranger, a conductor and a performer.

 

The deadline for the abstract submissions is Friday, the 30^th March, 2012.

The deadline for the paper submissions is Friday, the 18^th of May, 2012.

 

Submissions and inquiries can be directed to: A.Bouzas@warwick.ac.uk or to D.Smith.11@warwick.ac.uk