Auraldiversities series
Auraldiversities is a series of lectures, workshops and in-situ training sessions seeking to encourage creative and critical attention towards aural diversity within the arts and humanities, with particular focus on an ecology of the ear, designed for all those researching within the Arts and Humanities, especially those with an interest in the creative, social and political dimensions of sound and listening.
These sessions specifically address the need for further study and practice inspired by, and concerning, this specific turn in research and focus on a particular theme led by an academic/practitioner with invited guests selected to represent a range of approaches. A CHASE PhD candidate with associated research interests will also give a presentation.
Sessions are purposefully multifaceted, practical, intuitive and experimental in approach and encourage collaborative work and collective activities:
Session
One – Thursday 13 February | 1000-1800 | Goldsmiths, University of London
Session
Two: Thursday 27 February | 1000-1800 | Venue TBC
Session Three: Thursday 12 March | 100-1800 | Venue TBC
Plenary: Thursday 26 March | 1500-1800 | Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts
Ethnography and Film. Exploring Labour, Technology and Mediation in the Egyptian Film Industry
Wednesday 19 February | University of Kent
The workshop will offer participants advanced training in ethnography, applied to the context of the Egyptian Film industry. Dr El Khachab’s workshop will outline how researchers can successfully apply ethnographic methodologies, developed in Anthropology, to research issues about arts and media, especially film. Dr El Khachab will outline the strategies he developed during his PhD research to gather observations, interviews and documentary data from creatives and technicians working in the largest and most influential media industry in the Arab world. He will also provide participants an insight into how he adapted the presentation of his findings from his PhD thesis into his forthcoming monograph, The Egyptian Film Industry: Labor, Technology, Mediation.
This workshop is aimed at CHASE students from a variety of backgrounds and developed with an interdisciplinary audience in mind. Hence, attending the training does not require any specialised prior knowledge or skills, apart from an interest in the topic of the workshop.
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Translation x Creative Writing – Daniel Hahn
Monday 24 February | UEA | 2-4pm
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with over sixty books to his name. His work has won him the International Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among others. He is a past chair of the Society of Authors, and on the board of a number of organisations that work with literature and free speech.
Concept: Translation for Non-Translators
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Future Pathways in Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Academia and Beyond
Friday 6 & Friday 27 March | University of Kent
The intended audience for both workshops is first and foremost students currently undertaking PhDs in any aspect of medieval or early modern studies (including Archaeology, History, History of Art and Literary Studies). Students will be able to register for one or both of the workshops, both of which will be hosted at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus. The first workshop (‘Beyond Academia’) will take place on Friday 6 March 2020. The second workshop (‘Early Career Academia’) will take place on Friday 27 March 2020.
Beyond Academia | Fri 6 March | Find out more and register here
Early Career Academia | Friday 27 March | Find out more and register
Embodied Approaches to Performing Experimental Music
This training explores embodied approaches to performing experimental music, and methods of observing and reporting on research observations that arise as a result of such performance. It employs an approach to methodological training through practical, hands-on workshops.
Event 4: 16th March 2020 14.00-18.00 with Dr Sean Williams
Event 5: Event 5: 24th April 2020 14.00-17.00 with Dr Lauren Redhead
