In the early modern period, the meanings of scandal and corruption extended beyond our modern understanding of these terms. Concentrating on 1500-1800 - a time of religious, political, and social development and upheaval - this interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore various instances, responses to, and perceptions of scandal and corruption across Europe and the wider world.
You are invited to join Ellis at the Gulbenkian cafe area, University of Kent, for an insightful evening discussing the experiences of Holocaust survivors in postwar Britain.
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train Doctoral Researchers and Graduates to support disadvantaged school students access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get ther
In-person workshop followed by four online sessions on different aspects of building a career in the health and medical humanities, to be held in January and February 2025.
This course, aimed at postgraduate researchers, will introduce participants to medieval French materials, and offer the tools to read and interpret texts written in French between the 11th and 16th centuries.
Books may be chained or locked in cases but they are by their nature hypermobile. Both their contents and their histories bear witness to the interactions of cultures. This is the theme of the next Bookscapes event, to be held on 14th September 2024 at the University of Kent
CHASE Dialogues is a discussion series foregrounding the significant roles the arts and humanities have played in big discussions today. By providing thought-provoking dialogues on current challenges faced by society, the series showcases the value of the arts and humanities working shoulder to shoulder with other disciplines, fosters collaboration and promotes multidisciplinary approaches to research.
Brief Encounters is the student led journal for CHASE DTP and features short academic and creative works and reviews. The journal is open access and peer reviewed and features contributions from across the CHASE researcher community.
The British Centre for Literary Translation, on behalf of the Consortium for Humanities and the Arts – South-East England (CHASE), is pleased to announce two sponsored places at the annual Institute for World Literature (IWL), to be held in person at the University of Cyprus in summer 2024.
The CHASE Network’s Student Podcast Challenge invites students from across CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England) research universities to create a podcast and compete for a chance to win a scholarship, receive mentoring, and other benefits.
Got an idea for an article humming in the back of your mind but no time to write the typical full 10,000 words? Or perhaps an old uni essay or chapter you keep dwelling on and want to update? Has a new book been published that you can’t wait to review? CHASE Brief Encounters Issue Eight is coming and we can’t wait to hear from you!
Nominations are open for representatives to the CHASE Doctoral Researcher Committee. Doctoral researchers from all member institutions of the CHASE Consortium, in receipt of CHASE funding are eligible to apply.
An afternoon of talks by artists and Christopher Smith (AHRC) to launch the findings of the Artist Citizens Jury 2022.
The Essay Film Festival returns in March with a wide-ranging selection of formally ambitious and politically engaged films of past and present.
The British Centre for Literary Translation, on behalf of the Consortium for Humanities and the Arts – South-East England (CHASE), is pleased to announce two sponsored places at the annual Institute for World Literature (IWL), to be held in person at Harvard University in summer 2023.
Brief Encounters is a postgraduate interdisciplinary journal, run by PhD students and open for submission by research students, staff and alumni of the CHASE member institutions.
The editorial team of Issue 7 are currently looking for additional peer reviewers with expertise in a number of fields.
CHASE Climate Justice Network Small Grants Project Fund is open to but not limited to creative projects (audio, visual, film, creative writing, small exhibitions, zines and other publications), small events (reading or discussion groups, workshops, panels with invited speakers, well-being initiatives) and the creation of practical toolkits or shared resources. We invite project proposals with a budget of up to £600, from which five will be selected.
Brief Encounters is an open-access, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, postgraduate journal organised by CHASE. All postgraduate research students at CHASE-affiliated institutions, regardless of their funding status, are welcome to submit to the journal – as are all affiliated staff and CHASE alumni.
To provide key administrative assistance in the development and execution of the CHASE cohort development programme: Material Evidence and Affective Responses: Archival Encounters and the Craft of Writing.
The Editors of Brief Encounters are pleased to open a call for papers for the journal’s seventh issue and warmly invite research students and staff at CHASE-affiliated institutions to submit a short article, review, or creative piece of work for publication.
We very much hope you are looking forward to joining us at the CHASE summer social on Friday 1 July. In addition, we are planning to complement this event with an online research in progress conference on Wednesday 22 June.
The Essay Film Festival returns in March and April for its eighth edition, with a focus on politically engaged and collectively authored essayistic film practices.
The festival will take place between 19 March and 23 April across several London venues – the ICA, Birkbeck Cinema, Bertha DocHouse and the Goethe Institute – as well as online via our dedicated Screening Room.