Material Benefits of the Immaterial: Academic Publishing in the Digisphere
Friday 10th September | 0900 – 1700 | Goldsmith’s – in person and remote
A study day will train doctoral students in the ways that the Digital Humanities have, and have not, altered academic publishing. Because art and music have led computational innovations in the Digital Humanities, their digital publications will serve as case studies; the intended audience is all arts and humanities researchers whose objects of study pose transmission challenges apposite to those in art and music. Four themes will be addressed:
- Output and its Transmission. How have digital and computational tools altered the creation, and the transmission, of the object of study?
- Remodelling Distribution. How have new formats changed distribution models?
- Sustainability: Are solutions to sustainability traded between digital publications?
- Open Access: How do emerging online publications, often staffed only by volunteers, compete with a university press publication in status, or financial resourcing?
After each speaker’s presentation, CHASE students will put questions to the speaker and their panel. For a final roundtable, CHASE students will be asked to chair and lead discussions.
During registration you will be asked whether you plan to attend remotely or in person.
CHASE Medical Humanities Network | ‘What the Book Told’: Artists’ Books and Lived Experience with Stella Bolaki
Thursday 16th September | 1700 – 1900 | Online
What is distinctive about the artist’s book as a form of creative self-exploration and communication? Since the 1960s, the artist’s book has been an innovative and versatile medium of expression, as well as a radical way of bringing art to a wider public. This talk and workshop will explore artists’ books from the ‘Prescriptions’ collection (University of Kent) that is dedicated to the topics of illness and wellbeing. We will reflect on how contemporary artists reimagine the book format to give voice to intimate experiences, craft multisensory stories about health and illness, and challenge medical hierarchies. Participants will also be guided to create a handmade book to capture aspects of their own lived experience.
About the session:
In advance of the session, you will need an A3 card paper (of any colour) and a pair of scissors. Please also gather materials that will help with crafting a handmade book (see below) or anything else that relates to the themes of health, illness and wellbeing.
If you wish, you can watch the short documentary film I Make Books by Martha A. Hall (18 min). This is a moving documentary on how American artist Martha Hall used the artist’s book format to document her illness experience and communicate with the medical community.
Indicative materials (for the making part of the workshop):
- If you enjoy drawing or painting etc, you can have with you colouring pencils, sketches you can incorporate, illustrations and any other relevant art supplies. If you have any basic tools for bookbinding (such as a bone folder, needles/thread, pricker etc) you can bring those, but they are not essential.
- A range of printed papers/materials with image and/or text which could be collaged or made into whole pages. E.g:
- Packaging, wrapping paper, fabric
- Photographs
- Digital prints/internet printouts
- Old books, newspapers, magazines
- Paper with a range of textures, transparencies, uses, and contexts
- Other materials, that could be collaged, used to produce marks/texts, or bound within, or act as pages in themselves. E.g:
- Ribbon, strings, embroidered material, fabric, threads, cords, buttons or other small objects to glue or sew into a book or to store your book in (such as a box).
- Stationary: staplers, rubberstamps, stickers etc.
The session will last two hours and will include a short break. Please feel free to drop in and out throughout this time – there will be no pressure to share your work or participate in discussion if you do not wish to.
Flow n Flux presents: Online Community Building – Create, Facilitate, Sustain
Thursday 23 September | 1000-1600 | Online
Have you got an idea for an online community, but you are not sure where to start?
We would like to help you bring that idea, and community, to life!
Flow n Flux presents: Online Community Building – Create, Facilitate, Sustain
Flow n Flux is an online feminist community that engages in monthly participatory workshops facilitated by Natasha Richards and Eleanor Kilroy.
In this student led training you will learn valuable techniques necessary for building an online community. No matter the area of interest you can apply these skills to create, facilitate and sustain a sense of community online.
Here is a little taster of what to expect on the day.
10.00-11.00: Introduction
To begin with we will welcome you all to the training and share the origins of Flow n Flux. We will also start to discuss your ideas for an online community. Do not worry if you do not have an idea before the workshop, as the session may spark some ideas.
11.00-12.00: How to build
Next we will discuss marketing and advertising, as well as the organisational development tasks necessary for getting your online community off the ground.
12.00-13.00: How to facilitate
Then we will explore the skills and knowledge necessary for planning and running the online community. We will also discuss how to respond to potential challenges
13.00-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.30: How to sustain
After lunch we will focus on how to increase and sustain your membership. We will develop strategies for addressing common pitfalls in sustaining an online community.
14.30-16.00: Your online community
In the final section of the day participants will have the chance to share their ideas for an online community and to receive feedback from other participants.
