CHASE Encounters: Through a Global Lens
CFP 1. My Research in One Slide
SOAS is pleased to host CHASE Encounters: Through a Global Lens on 6th June 2023. As with all the previous Encounters, it is going to be a space for connecting with fellow researchers and inspiring one another.
All CHASE scholars and alumni, particularly those of the 2022/23 cohort, are cordially invited to share their ongoing PhD projects and/or placement projects. This time, we have added one extra challenge: you will be given 5 minutes to present and can only use a single slide, be it text-based or image-based. You might have come across similar formats such as Three-Minute Thesis and #TweetYourThesis. Could the depth and complexity of a PhD project be contained within one slide? That is the challenge!
If you are up for the challenge, please sign up using this form. We will keep the form open until 22nd May, although we may have to close it earlier if all slots are taken.
We look forward to welcoming you in Bloomsbury and to learning more about your research.
CFP 2. Worldwide Acoustemologies: Audio-Posters
Since the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s with scholars and artists such as Pauline Oliveros and Steven Feld, we have been exploring the full potentials and possibilities of ‘listening’. Although this sense is still often equated with simple enjoyment or unpleasantness—a passive vehicle of entertainment, disturbance, or at best, functional communication—researchers and practitioners of various stripes have progressively demonstrated how it is used by humans as a powerful tool and medium through which particular experiences, ideologies and epistemologies about the self and the other, politics and power relationships, differences and similarities between humans and non-humans, and our interaction in space and time alongside ways to understand and operate in the world are played out.
For the upcoming CHASE Encounters conference at SOAS, we invite PhD candidates from across the consortium to submit 10 minutes max. of audio, along with a 300-word explanation. Selected audio will be played during an hour-long listening session on the day. This can be an original audio production or field recording done by the researcher, music of any kind—even copyrighted audio may be streamed for educational purposes—or a micro mixtape (short compilation). If you wish to be considered for inclusion, please send your audio and text files to the session leader Luigi Monteanni (694282@soas.ac.uk) as soon as you can.
The objective of this listening session will be to highlight how sound can be used to understand and/or know more about us and the world we inhabit, fostering the idea of alternative sensory epistemologies sustained by music, sound, and noise. Given on the central theme of the conference, projects focusing on circulation, local–global contexts, and regional music will be given priority.