The Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) is running a series of seminars to discuss broad issues affecting a number of disciplines. I can imagine these being of real interest beyond the Humanities, and colleagues in both the Sciences and Social Sciences are very welcome to come along.
More details below. Do get in touch with Dr Tamar Jeffers McDonald or Prof Ray Laurence if you want to know more about the series.
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KIASH – Humanities 2015
Humanities 2015 is a new initiative from KIASH which seeks to investigate how research is done right across the Faculty of Humanities. We have assembled panels of academics to discuss what their research is currently investigating, why research is important to them, to the University, to their scholarly community and to the public. We will also discuss how academics balance time for all their research ideas, priorities such as the REF, and all the myriad things each academic does in a 21st century university.
The panels will be held over lunchtimes throughout this 50th anniversary year – see below for this term’s schedule. Appropriately, we begin the series with Practice as Research (PaR) – an area of research arguably not always understood and with perhaps different priorities to subject areas that are monograph-heavy. Panels will be arranged on the basis to provide varied discussion, providing an opportunity for all in Humanities to meet colleagues from other disciplines, engage in cross-disciplinary discussion and to come away with a better understanding of what research is in 2015. At the end of all the panels, a short film will be produced that will draw together the results of these discussions.
Autumn Term
11 Nov – Practice as Research
Timothy Brittain-Catlin (Architecture), Oliver Double (Arts), Shona Illingworth (SMFA)
12.00pm – 2.00pm Stacey LT1
26 Nov – International Scholars
Frances Guerin (Arts), Marialena Nikolopoulou (Architecture), Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (SECL)
12.00pm – 2.00pm Darwin LT1
8 December – Interdisciplinarity
Nichola Shaughnessy (Arts), Will Pettigrew (History), Jon Williamson (SECL)
12.00pm – 2.00pm Darwin LT1