CHASE Bulletin | May 2020 #2

All of the opportunities and resources below are open to all arts and humanities doctoral researchers across the consortium. Please to feel free to share with anyone that you think will be interested.

CHASE Essentials Webinars

Becoming a Note-Taking Ninja
** Limited spaces left **
Thursday 28 May | 1100-1230
Are your notes in a mess? Do you lack an effective system for storing and organising your reading material? In this interactive webinar, we’ll explore three methods for imposing order on the chaos.

Book here

New! CHASE Webinar Series:
Building Humanitarian Networks & Community Resilience in the Era of Social Distancing
27 May - 8 July 2020 | Online

As the world adjusts to an unprecedented new era of social distancing in response to covid-19, NGOs and community activists are forced to consider new ways of securing their networks and defending the most vulnerable.

Participants will consider themselves as nodes of resilience in broader community and humanitarian networks and how access to ‘self-care’ is a deeply unequal experience. We will explore how pre-existing discourses of marginalisation and exclusion are replicated in this crisis.

From teachers and NGO workers in Greece, the US and the USA, participants will hear of the quotidian challenges of this reconfigured world and how partnership with communities is becoming increasingly essential

The series will be an interdisciplinary look at the international challenges of this ‘new normal’ and what part can humanities and arts scholars play in this reconfiguration.

Session 1 | Wednesday 27 May | 1400-1600
Online Connection: Introductory Talk, Workshop & Networking
Presenter: Jade Lee (CHASE associate doctoral researcher at SOAS)

Session 2 | Wednesday 3 June | 1400-1600
Unequal access to' Self-Care' and what this mean for community resilience
Presenters: Jade Lee, CHASE associate doctoral researcher at SOAS, Baljit Bains, CHASE funded doctoral researcher.

Session 3 | Wednesday 10 June | 1400-1600
Othering Through Isolation and Exclusion: The Psychology of Space, the 'Hostile Environment', & Social Healthcare Movements in the UK
Presenter: Dr Harriet Barratt, who is currently undertaking a research postdoc with the ART/DATA/HEALTH project at the University of Brighton (artdatahealth.org) and is a CHASE and University of Sussex alumna.

Session 4 | Wednesday 17 June | 1400-1600
Vulnerable Communities and the Cost of Isolation
Presenter: Bethany Dill, European Projects Advisor at the School Bus Project.

Session 5 | Wednesday 24 June | 1400-1600
The Aegean Islands: A Case Study
Presenter: Jacob Warn, Director of Action for Education in Greece.

Session 6 | Wednesday 31 June | 1400-1600

Building Humanitarian Networks Across Borders: A Case Study of ‘Action for Education’ and the Aegean Islands.

Presenter: Jacob Warn, Director of Action for Education in Greece.

Session 7 | Wednesday 8 July | 1400—1600
Universities as Sites of Community Resilience and International Solidarity: The Case of ‘UNIfied’ 
Presenter: Jon O’Connor, Director of the Cooperative Schools Network and Programme Lead of The School Bus Project

CHASE Webinar Series:
4IR: The Arts and Humanities in the Era of Social Distancing
19 May - 23 June 2020 | Online

In 2016, Klaus Schwab, the chairman of the World Economic Forum wrote that “we stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. The nature of this transformation, and the way that it will unfold has occupied the minds of a number of scholars including Choi, Lee, Gleason, Xing, Marwala and Chapman. If we take inspiration from the work of these scholars and others, we can start to formulate some questions that will help us to explore how the arts and humanities will play a role in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. How can the arts and humanities be used to reduce inequality?

Session 1 | 19th May 2020 | 1400-1600
Distant Times: A Future History of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(The first session is designed as an introduction)
Session Leader: Dr Christopher Timms, Managing Director and Creative Director, EKCCHO and CHASE and University of Essex alumnus

Session 2 | 26th May 2020 | 1400-1600
Creativity and Technology: Art, Education and Expression Beyond the Technological Singularity
Seminar leader: Chris Wilson, Lecturer in Learning Innovation and Professional Practice, Aston University

Session 3 | 2nd June 2020 | 1400-1600
The Internationalization of the Performing Arts: The Need to Reframe the Concept and Rewire its Networks
Seminar leader: Pilar Santelices, Creative Producer and Co-Founder, Arkcollectiv’

Session 4 | 16th June 2020 | 1400-1600
Post-Truth and Social Distancing in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Session Leader: Dr Maria-Irina Popescu, Writer, CHASE and University of Essex alumna.

Session 5 | 23rd June | 1400-1600
(De)constructing Risk: Poetic Testimony and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Session Leader: Dr Helene Kazan, Lecturer in Fine Art and Critical Theory, Oxford Brookes University; Visiting Lecturer in Media Studies, Royal College of Art; Vera List Center Fellow in Art and Politics, The New School, New York, CHASE and Goldsmiths, University of London alumna.

Writing for Practice Forum @ MARs
Forum #14 - Sophie Sleigh-Johnson with Sharon Kivland *via zoom*
Wednesday 20 May | 1900-2100

Forum #14 will be held via video conferencing platform zoom. The texts will be an intersection between prose/ site writing/ chorological investigation. Artist and PhD researcher (Goldsmiths) Sophie Sleigh Johnson will present an excerpt of new work on writer and artist Antonin Artaud's 'heretical pilgrimage' to Ireland in 1937, which we will read alongside an excerpt by Tim Robinson, also concerning the same site in Ireland.

If you would like to participate, please email Kate Pickering at kpick050@gold.ac.uk and you will be supplied with a link to enable access to the conference call. Links to texts available soon at http://m-a-r-s.online/gatherings/writing-for-practice-forum

CHASE Feminist Committee Update

Hope you are coping in these difficult times. We have a couple of things to tell you about, first our CHASE Feminist Network Everyday Lockdown Blog is up and running, with loads of personal and creative content. We view lockdown as a feminist issue, and sharing stories is a feminist practice. We have an ongoing calling for contributions; creative, political, and personal reflections, please see view the blog for further details on submissions, or email us at ChaseFeminist@gmail.com with your ideas! 🌈💜🦋 🏳️‍⚧️ Our weekly Zoom catch-ups have been switched to every two weeks, rather than weekly. These will still be from 1.30-2.30 on Wednesday afternoons, every fortnight from the 20th May. Each session will have a theme, which will be circulated via EventBrite with the login details in advance full details here.

CHASE Training Hub is looking to develop an extensive list of subject-specific software, (both commonly found and hidden gems!) for incoming PhD researchers, along with guides on how best to use them. This will hopefully become a comprehensive tool for incoming researchers, as well as a source of potentially useful software for established PhD students.

If there is a specific software that you use frequently in your own research, one that is common to your subject area, or one that you have discovered in the process of your own project, please send an email with details of the software, along with any tips or online guides you’re aware of, to Joe Jones at jaj25@kent.ac.uk.

Joe Jones
CHASE funded student (University of Kent) and CHASE Training Hub Administrator