Virtual Encounters - University of Essex

24 & 25 November 2021

There is a Chat Room open throughout the day from 9:30 to 5:30.
https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/97801842733
Meeting ID: 978 0184 2733

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Wednesday 24 Nov

0930 - Welcome

  • Dr. Lisa Smith (CHASE Lead and Arts & Humanities Faculty Dean Postgraduate, Essex)

  • Professor Kate Lacey (Director of CHASE; Sussex)

  • Professor Gregor McLennan (Chair, Education Committee, Stuart Hall Foundation; Bristol)

  • Professor Sanja Bahun (Dean Postgraduate Research Education, Essex)


0950-1050- Roundtable

“Noise in times of trouble”: Senyawa, the Alkisah network and the decentralization of underground music communities

Chair
Luigi Monteanni (SOAS)

Speakers:

Rully Shabara (Lead Singer, Senyawa)

Woto Wibowo (Founder, Yes No Wave; first label to release Senyawa) 

Marianna Lis (Theatre Studies Independent Researcher, Ph.D.)

Morgan Sully (Part of artivist collective Soydivision and LkW label; Alkisah artist)

Download roundtable handout here

1050-1100 - Break

1100-1210 Parallel sessions

Identities

Chair
Kerry Preston (Essex)

Speakers
Vanessa Long (Sussex)
Elitism in the legal profession: A historical perspective

Baljit Kaur (Sussex)
Misogyny, Sexism and the Commercialisation of Young Men’s Music at an East London Youth Club

Language & Power

Chair
Carmen Silvestri (Essex)

Speakers
Chloe Cheetham (Goldsmiths)
‘Who’s most likely to get proposed to and turn it down? Who’s most likely to become a pilot and get drunk while driving the plane?’: A Sociolinguistic Study of Leadership in Girls’ Games in a North London Primary School Setting

Becky Winstanley (SOAS)
Walking interviews and visual diagramming: Participatory ethnography in sociolinguistics

1210-1220 - Break

1220-1320 - Networks (parallel sessions)

(b) Practice as Research Network

(12:20-12:40)

Chair
Lisa Lapidge (Essex)

(a)   Mindfulness Network

(12:40-13:20)

Chair
Stephen Morris (Kent

Education Network
Collaboration and Community

Dr Franziska Fay (Institute for Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University)

Please download the presentation here

Ethnographic research at Zanzibar schools, international interventions on child protection, and ethics

 Professor Amy Stambach (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Interview on her research on children’s education, international development frameworks, and ethics. Please view the recorded interview here, ahead of the session.

1320-1430 - Lunch

1430-1545 - Parallel sessions

Contested Memory

Chair
Olivia Arigho-Stiles (Essex)

Speakers:
Jane Davidson (Kent)
Wolves in sheeps clothing? Commemorating the 'original' veterinary network of 1844

Jane will not be present for this session, please view the presentation here

Alba Ferrandiz Gaudens (East Anglia)
Coleccionando el Pacífico: A Study of 18th and 19th Century Oceania Collections in Spanish Museums

Raquel Morais (Birkbeck)
Document, catalogue, commentary

Shelley Angelie Saggar (Kent)
‘Join me in the ruins’: Heritage beyond the museum in Native North American literature

Materiality

Chair
Elizabeth Austin (Essex)

Speakers:
Edward Shepherd (Birkbeck)
Evidence for the consumption of red fox at Stonehenge, Wiltshire and Duggleby Howe, East Yorkshire: A Late Neolithic food taboo?

Eleanor Stinson (East Anglia)
Coinage in the lands of Henry II (1150-1189)

John Campbell (Birkbeck)
The Thames on the eve of Londinium: exploring a late Iron Age landscape

Rupert Knight (Birkbeck)
Neanderthal Fire Distribution across Europe: The Missing Record

1545-1600 - Break

1600-1730 - Keynote - Dr. Kathryn Labelle (Saskatchewan)

Chair
Dr Lisa Smith (Essex)

Monumental Moments: History, Biography, and Indigenous Voices in Canada (or Turtle Island?)

1800-1900 - Social event The Shame of Life! https://app.toucan.events/EssexSU

Poster with details here. There will be a prize.


Thursday 25 November

0930-1045 - Workshop (parallel)

Please note this sessions has been cancelled

“Working with observational data creatively”

Open Access – what’s in it for me?

This session provides an overview of OA and why it is important, including how we got here, why you should engage with it, and how to do it. There will be a short presentation, interactive elements, and Q&A.

Workshop Leader
Katrin Sundsbø (Essex)

1045-1100 - Break

1100-1215- Parallel sessions

Distant Connections

Chair
Niclas Rautenberg (Essex)

Speakers
Genevieve Smart (Birkbeck)
Distant Connections: Freud’s Telephone in the Time of COVID-19

 Li Li (East Anglia)
Developing a Comprehensive Understanding of Video-Mediated Interpreting (VMI) in Maternity Settings: A Comparative Mixed Methods Case Study Design

Deborah Dainese (East Anglia)
Researching During the Pandemic: the Digital Approach and Ethical Considerations

Moments in History

Chair
Michael Sewell (Essex)

Speakers
Joshua de Cruz (Essex)
1919 and all that: the Eurasians of British Malaya and World History

Tim Galsworthy (Sussex)
Black Republicans, Civil War memory, and the battle for the Party of Lincoln

1215-1300 - Break

1230-1330

The Brilliant Club

Chair
Dr Andy Fleming (The Brilliant Club)

The Brilliant Club works across the UK supporting less advantaged students to access the most competitive universities, and to succeed when they get there. Training with The Brilliant Club and working as a PhD tutor enables researchers to communicate their research to a non-specialist audience, gain valuable teaching and public engagement experience, and deepen their knowledge of the UK education system. This session will explore the university access and success agenda, and how CHASE researchers can get involved in supporting students who are less advantaged to succeed.’

Creative Writer’s Network

Chair
Martin Munroe (UEA)



1330-1430 - Lunch

1430-1530 - Keynote

Chair
Susannah Alyce (Essex)

Speaker:
Dr. Winifred Eboh (Essex)
Need for funded research into the impact of anti-racism initiatives in Higher Education  

1530-1545 - Break

1545-1645 Thinking about Writing

Chair
Josh De Cruz (Essex)

Speakers
Caroline Hawthorn (Essex)
Perceptions of the reader in academic writing

 Thomas Elliott (Sussex) and

Jemma Stewart (Birkbeck)

Writing Retreat Organisational Workshop

1645-1700 Conclusions

Dr. Lisa Smith

Professor Sanja Bahun

Professor Kate Lacey

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