Events Programme

Lecture: Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s

The Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of American and Canadian Studies are delighted to welcome Dr Stephen Robertson, University of Sydney, to the University of Nottingham in January 2013. As well as this lecture, Dr Robertson participated in the second workshop of the AHRC-funded Network Data – Asset – Method: Harnessing the Infinite Archive, presenting his paper, Joining the Crowd: Finding an Audience for Digital History.

Launch of the CAS Digital Humanities Seminar Series: The inaugural event was a lecture by Professor Andrew Prescott, Head of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, on “Digital Transformations: Some Historical Perspectives”. A digital recording of this lecture is available to download here, and the slides here.

Early Career Fellowships Event

Our annual event covering  research funding opportunities with a specific focus on early career fellowships, including AHRC, ESRC, BA and Leverhulme scheme opportunities.
The presentations/resources from this event are available on the CAS workspace, here.

Bookfest - a celebration of all books published in Arts and Social Sciences in 2011

The Centre for Advanced Studies invited all authors from within the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences who have published a book in 2011 to a celebratory event at the Staff Club.

The full list of publications for 2011 is available here.

Prof Paul Heywood, Prof Stephen Mumford, Prof Pat Thomson

Early Career Fellowships Event

Prof Pat Thomson (CAS Director, ESRC Reviewer)
Paula Gurteen (CAS, Social Sciences)
Lisa McCabe (CAS, Arts & Humanities)

Brompton Bicycles: the story so far

Andrew Ritchie’s lecture launched a programme of events to mark the 125^th anniversary of Raleigh Bicycles in Nottingham. The Jubilee campus of the University of Nottingham, where the lecture took place, was formerly the site of the Raleigh factory, and continues to be a hub for innovation in the city. A season of community focused events marked the anniversary.

A Gift Exchange Relationship? Ethical Dilemmas in Research with Vulnerable Migrants

This seminar reflected on key ethical concerns through an exploration of the dilemmas I encountered during qualitative research with Zimbabwean asylum seeking parents in the UK, who were forced apart from their children for a lengthy period of time by immigration law.

The Political Economy of 'Food Security': Beyond Neoliberal Globalism and the Loss of Sovereignty

This lecture explored Margaret Cavendish’s early publications (1653-56) and her natural philosophical ideas. When Margaret Lucas married William Cavendish, Marques of Newcastle, in 1645, she married into a uniquely supportive and fertile intellectual and aesthetic context. She had always been a writer, but from her marriage she developed a professional and public, authorial persona. She wrote poetry, letters, narratives, and plays, and saw them into print. She also developed her own natural philosophical system via a series of published scientific treatises.

This two-day bootcamp will hone skills in writing research grant applications for the ESRC, AHRC and Leverhulme Trust.  This is a practical workshop in which those attending will work on a ‘live’ research proposal for submission this academic year. Participants will have the opportunity for dedicated writing time and tailored input from a Panel of senior academics with a track record of successful applications and grant review experience. The panel will advise, assist and discuss the development of the proposals with their advice tailored to the requirements of the target funding body of each participant.

Critical Pedagogy and Utopianism: Imagining Utopian Spaces of Pedagogy

A seminar exploring the links between critical pedagogy and utopianism, and imagined utopian spaces of pedagogy. Rhiannon argues that utopianism is not about the specification of solutions or ideals, but rather about the opening up of the imagination to exploration and experimentation and the formation of autonomous subjectivity.  After positing utopianism as a methodological foundation for pedagogy, Rhiannon will consider some ways in which spaces might be opened for expanded awareness of desire and non-oppressive, non-prescriptive utopian thinking through pedagogical methods such as critical cartographies, open spaces for dialogue, theatre and auto-ethnography.

Enlightenment: Heritage Research and Regional Creativity

Exploring the role of the University in the region's creative economy, Professor Daniels will talk on the Enlightenment period, and explore how research strengths in Enlightenment Studies across the university might influence the region's understanding and appreciation of the wider context and significant of its famous artists and writers, such as Joseph Wright of Derby and Lord Byron.

A sound recording and the powerpoints from this lecture are available to UoN staff and students by contacting Allison Pearson.

A research seminar from Professor Lyman Tower Sargent, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA and CAS Highfield Fellow 2012.
Sponsored by CAS in co-operation with Nottingham's Political Theory Centre, CONCEPT and the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice

Cafe Philosophique presents 'Olympia' at the Broadway Cinema

Cafe Philosophique features a series of events bringing philosophical debate and cinema together. Philosophers from the University of Nottingham offer talks based around contemporary and classic films. This inaugural event featured a rare showing of Olympia, an aesthetic documentary of the 1936 Olympic Games.

Centre for Advanced Studies at Highfield House: Launch

Day 1: ‘What makes a good society? Insights from the arts, humanities and social sciences’ 

Day 2: ‘What makes a good society? The civic/public role of the engaged University’

Day 3: "Making a good society: research and knowledge partnerships in the arts and social sciences"

Centre for Advanced Studies at Highfield House: Launch Programme

Socially responsible science/science and morality (Chair: Prof. Stephen Joseph) 

• The cohesive city: the past, present and future of urban space (Chair : Dr. Stephen Legg) 
• Collective memory, identities and communities (Chair: Prof. Chris Woodard) 
• The Role of Art in the Good Society (Chairs: Dr. Robert Adlington and Dr. Nick Baron)  
• Intercultural interactions and translating cultures (Chair: Prof. Judith Still) 
• Cultures of work and labour (Chair: Prof. Marek Korcznsky) 

Keynote lecture: The Role of Arts and Social Sciences in a Good Society. Prof. Greg Currie and Prof. Alex Danchev join Prof. Svenja Adolphs and Prof. Pat Thomson to discuss the contribution of the Arts and Scoial Sciences to the making of a good society

• What makes a researcher community? Graduate School hosted session
• The civic v. public role of the engaged University. Panel session: external speakers: Prof. Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht), Prof. Susan Manning (Edinburgh), Prof. Robert Gibbs (Toronto) in conversation with Prof. Pat Thomson
• Workshop programme with UoN speakers showcasing public and civic engagement activities. Confirmed speakers include: Prof. Phil Cowley – The Politics Blog, Dr Jon Henderson and Dr Will Bowden (Archaeology) – Archaeology and the media
• Valuing the Contribution of the Arts and Social Sciences to a Good Society. Speakers Prof. Andrew Miles (Manchester) and Prof. Eleanora Belfiore (Warwick) in conversation with Prof. John Holmwood (UoN)

Tableau presentations of work of research networks, collaborative partnerships from UoN:

• Dr Paul Grainge and Dr Cathy Johnson and their work with creative industries giant Red Bee Media
• Dr Gary Priestnall - the PARM project
• Prof. Louise Mullany - Ten years of the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics
• Prof Paul Crawford/Dr Christina Lee - the Health Humanities Research Network tbc
• Dr Nikki Pitchford - Children & Childhood 
• Prof Julian Henderson - The Silk Road Research Network 
• Dr Katharina Lorenz and Prof. Roberta Pearson - The Digital Humanities Research Network
• Dr Gary Winship - The Clay Transformations Project (film)
• Dr Nick Baron  - Exhibition on Post-1945 Displaced Persons (from Nottingham Castle)
• Dr Jon Robson - Method in Philosophical Aesthetics: the Challenge from the Sciences

Performance: PhD Composition student Alex Kolassa (Music), performed a short new piece for performance at the CAS Launch.

Public Lecture: Prof. Laurie Taylor: 'More Research is Needed?' Introduced by the VC Prof. David Greenaway 

Reading from the Portland Collection by Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland and ‘David’ from the Archers 

Downloads of the above sessions are available to UoN staff and students by contacting Allison Pearson.

The Papplewick Annual Lecture:  Water- The Victorian Vision and Today's Reality

Festival of Languages, in partnership with the British Academy

The Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) and the School of Cultures, Areas Studies and Languages (CLAS) hosted part of the British Academy’s first Language Week. The Nottingham Festival of Languages included the following sessions:

• Regional schools workshop on innovations in language teaching and learning.
• A small exhibition of Dr Nicola McLelland’s AHRC-funded project German Through English Eyes, on display in the Cloister.
• Public Lecture by Prof. Jeremy Lawrance (Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, UoN): Languages and untranslatability. 
• German stand-up comedian Henning Wehn will offer a wry view of language learning and cultural differences
• Workshop with Helen Emmett, Section Head at Experian, aimed at current UG and PG students on the value of language skills to prospective employers.
• Public Lecture by Prof. Emeritus Elizabeth Boa: Languages: speeding towards the future and remembering the past

Downloads of the above sessions are available to UoN staff and students by contacting Allison Pearson.

Cafe Philosophique presents Vertigo (PG) at the Broadway Cinema

Recently declared the greatest film of all time in a poll of influential critics, Vertigo was unsuccessful with the critics and the public alike at the time of its release. Professor Currie, a philosopher who has written a book and many articles on film, talked about the film, its place in Hitchcock's work, and its status as a film of unparalleled psychological depth and dramatic invention.

Following on from last year's successful inaugural event, the Centre for Advanced Studies invites all authors from within the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences who have published a book in 2012 to our annual celebration. Refreshments will be available and we will have introductions from the Deans of Arts and Social Sciences and the CAS Director, Prof Pat Thomson.
Full list of books published in 2012 here.

European Consortium
for Humanities Institutes & Centres (ECHIC)

Sally Bowden
represented CAS at the Founding Conference, and can be contacted
for programme details.

Towards Pervasive Media Showcase Event

As this project moved towards successful completion, the EPSRC-funded Towards
Pervasive Media project team held a showcase event, highlighting the research supported within the project and exploring in greater detail some of the emerging ideas.
For project progress please visit:
http://towardspervasivemedia.ning.com/

This master class is for academics in the Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities intending to apply for research grants. 

This workshop will explore the outcomes of the cross disciplinary approach taken in the PMG project and consider the mechanisms used during the programme. Award holders will feed back on their experiences and a chaired discussion will conclude the event.

Popular Entertainment and the Limits of Realism: Howells and James in Barnum's America

Maximising the impact of your research: media engagement

Tim Utton, Deputy Director of Communications, University of Nottingham 

Repatriate the Unwanted: the EU's Political Conditionality and Minority Refugee Return to Western Balkans

A one-day symposium at the University of Nottingham. Keynote Speaker: Professor Susannah Radstone, University of East London

CAS Annual Lecture:
Media Futures, Media Pasts

This lecture will ask how recent social and technological changes, such as ever-faster network speeds and possibilities of aggregating participation, have helped to recontextualize established media forms, enabled the transformation of hierarchies of power and taste, and challenged existing analytic paradigms. How might the study of media, rooted in humanities, arts and social science traditions, respond to the pace of change in media technology and cultural practices? And in those responses, might we find the seeds of change for the humanities, contributing back to the traditions that gave our study form?

Priority Groups Launch Event: Integrating Global Society and Science, Technology and Society

To launch the University’s two priority groups with a focus in the social sciences, Vice-Chancellor Professor David Greenaway introduced a special lecture by Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator and Associate Editor, The Financial Times, ‘Does Globalisation Still Work?’

Further information on the IGS and STS priority groups can be downloaded here. 

Designing a production: the art and craft of Production Design

A workshop on the art and craft of production design with Tom Walsh, President of the Art Directors’ Guild of America. Following the presentation Tom will invite colleagues in the School to debate the challenges and opportunities facing production design.

Organised by the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham  in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Studies.

Sandpit: Research opportunities for the Film & TV industry and academia

A unique opportunity to faciliate the generation of research ideas and identify ways of building on existing research and partnerships with industry. 

Organised by the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham  in conjunction with the Centre for Advanced Studies.

A debate on the challenges and opportunities facing the cultural industries.

Organised by the University of Nottingham Institutes for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI) in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Film and Media and the Centre for Advanced Studies.

Best practice in writing AHRC grant applications: for mentors and reviewers

A session offering good practice advice from experienced AHRC panel members, in the development of external research applications.  The event will also include small “mock panel” discussion groups to consider prepared sample applications. 

A presentation from the Head of Research Awards at the British Academy, Dr Ken Emond, followed by one to one consultations for potential applicants who want to discuss their applications in more detail.
A copy of this presentation is available in our workspace events archive.

A welcome event for new academics and researchers within the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences. To include information on the remit of the Centre for Advanced Studies and the support offered in building and developing research activity, alongside discussion of the wider research landscape, interdisciplinary networks and funding opportunities.
Presentations are available via our workspace events archive.

Visiting the theme of the Museum 

Two sessions:
‘The Future of the Past: Museums and the Historical Claim’

‘What’s new about the new museology’

Prof Joy Kasson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Visiting Scholar, Institute of North American Studies, King’s College London

Digital Humanities Network Symposium Event

Joanna Robinson, 'Local mapping/distant reading: digital transformations of cultural heritage’
Dr Holger Schnädelbach discussing urban explorations 

Andrew White, Associate Professor of Creative Industries and Digital Media , Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UNNC ‘The development of the creative industries in China’

Left out – myths and perceptions of council estate life – Being St Ann’s

A visit to inform academics and research staff on impact requirements; academics who are potential applicants are encouraged to attend.

Powerpoints available here.

Guidance on the opportunities and support available to assist with applications to maximise success.
Marie Curie Actions are open to researchers of all ages and levels of experience, and in many cases regardless of nationality.
Powerpoints of the event are available here.

Speakers:
Matt Rackley,
BDE: Europe
Liz French, EU administrator
Martin Pickard, Grantcraft

Funded by Government organisations led by the Technology Strategy Board, the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Programme: http://www.ktponline.org.uk
is a UK-wide initiative to encourage business/ knowledge base collaborations. In addition to helping organisations to improve their competitiveness and/or productivity through the use of the knowledge that resides within academic institutions, KTPs also help to increase the business relevance of knowledge base research and teaching.
Download powerpoints here.

Mad from Text to Screen:
The Three Faces of Eve , The Snake Pit and Lizzie

"Main Street, Carolina": Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage, from Professor Robert Allen, James Logan Godfrey Professor of American Studies, History and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina

This seminar will primarily consider impact for ESRC grant applications, but the techniques for achieving impact are relevant to other funders too. Two academic colleagues will talk about the impact of their research, one whose research is fairly theoretical and the second whose research is more empirical.
We will consider the ERSC Strategic Plan 2009-2014 and the implications for research and how to tailor impact to meet ESRC criteria.  Then we’ll look at the techniques you can use to maximise impact for academic beneficiaries and society generally.
Presentations available here.

Grant applications and research methods

Many discussions and arguments about research methods assume that qualitative research is soft, unlike quantitative methods which are more scientific and would provide better chances of success for a research grant application.  Or would mixed methods be even better?
A seminar on improving research methods in academic research applications.

A workshop to discuss influence of the 2012 FP7 Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Indicative Strategic Research Roadmap 2011-2013 work programme. 

'Towards Reciprocal Exchanges with the Other(s)'

A public lecture by Professor Luce Irigaray, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Professor Irigaray is a distinguished professor of Linguistics, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, whose groundbreaking work in the field of gender has had an enormous global impact. Her publications have been translated into many languages. Followed by a booksigning session by Professor Irigaray.

A public lecture by Professor Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, USA. A podcast of this lecture is available to download here, and the accompanying presentations may be downloaded here.

Mental Health Services in Andalusia
A seminar from Dr Javier Saavedra, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville

Narratives, Identity Construction and Recovery in patients with serious mental disorders, a seminar from Dr Javier Saavedra, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville

Examining Posttraumatic Symptoms and Growth in Iraqi samples, and developing a self-help guide: a pathway to future studies in Iraq
A seminar presented by Professor Dr Abdulgaffar Al-Qaysi, Saad Jaber, Dr Nigel Hunt, Dr Rachel Sabin-Farrell and Professor Stephen Joseph.

Narrative analysis as methodology in mental health, a semianr from Dr Javier Saavedra, University of Sevilla, Spain

Highfields seminar, in conjunction with Department of American and Canadian Studies, Art History and Nottingham Contemporary

Resemblances and Relationships I: Art and Literature, Art History and Literary History - Research seminar from Professor Alexander Nemerov, History of Art and American Studies, Yale University.
Chaired by Mark Rawlinson.

Highfields lecture, in conjunction with the
Department of American and Canadian Studies, Art History and Nottingham Contemporary

Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov – A Resemblance, a public lecture at Nottingham Contemporary, from Professor Alexander Nemerov, History of Art and American Studies, Yale University.

Highfields seminar, in conjunction with the Department of American and Canadian Studies, Art History and Nottingham Contemporary

Resemblances and Relationships II: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov, Photography and Poetry, Word and Image - Research seminar from Professor Alexander Nemerov, History of Art and American Studies, Yale University.
Chaired by John Fagg.

Information and a Q&A session for academics interested in research funding opportunities focused on research-led knowledge transfer schemes. Ideal for academics considering developing a collaborative project and wanting to know what schemes are available and which scheme might best fit.
Presentations available here.

This event is aimed at helping academics formulate impact statements and plans as part of their research applications.  
Academics from the Schools of History and Modern Languages and Cultures  will talk on their experience of writing impact into their recent AHRC applications. The Arts and Humanities Team from CAS  will follow with an overview of different approaches that can be taken with specific reference to the AHRC funding competitions.

Thinking of a career in the Creative Industries? A question and answer session from Feargal Sharkey, Chief Executive Officer of UK Music (and former lead singer with The Undertones) . This event will explore routes into the Creative Industries and demonstrate the value they bring to our economy as a whole.

An Open Presentation on the Wellcome Trust's Strategic Funding Plan 2010-2020 and current funding opportunities in Biomedical Sciences (including New Investigator Awards and Fellowships). Also scheduled:
● Individual Biomedical Science Surgery sessions (a series of 10-minute slots) 
● Workshop on funding opportunities in the Medical Humanities and Biomedical Ethics.

This event will be helpful to all those interested in applying for fellowships and will cover funding types and eligibility, fitting in with funding bodies and UoN agendas and hints and tips from both senior academic staff and successful research fellows on applications and the interview process. 
Presentations available here.

A workshop session with Prof. Rick Rylance, Chief Executive of the AHRC, and Prof. Shearer West, Director of Research at the AHRC, which will focus on the new AHRC programme: Digital Transformation in the Arts and Humanities.