Dear colleague,
I'd be grateful if you circulated the programme below in your department.
Many thanks,
Katia
IGRS Research Training 2012-2013
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Senate House and Stewart House
Course convenor: Dr Katia Pizzi, Senate House/Stewart House, Malet
Street, London WC1E 7HU, room ST 278, tel. n. 020 78628962
PORT <http://www2.sas.ac.uk/igrs/port/>
PORT <http://www2.sas.ac.uk/igrs/port/> (http://port.igrs.sas.ac.uk/)
stands for Postgraduate Online Research Training. This is a handy
on-line resource designed specifically for postgraduates in the Modern
Languages. Easily accessible and free of charge, it is frequently
updated with news, resources and feeds of interest to the Modern
Languages. It is recommended you consult it regularly since various
workshops and seminars listed below link to PORT. PORT is also a
unique source of specialized advice on Czech, French, German, Italian,
Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish / Hispanic archives, libraries
and research resources.
Wiener Library Seminar
In addition to the sessions detailed below, there will be an on-site
seminar at the Wiener Library on Friday 9 November 2012. Details to
follow.
The IGRS research training programme is free of charge. All are welcome.
20 October 2012 - room SH 34/Gordon Room (Senate House). Research
Projects in the Modern Languages
11.00
Introductory: Dr Katia Pizzi (IGRS)
11.15
Choosing, defining and structuring a research project in the Modern
Languages: Dr Katia Pizzi (IGRS)
12.30
Lunch
2.00
Writing and revising your drafts: Professor Edward Hughes (QMUL)
3.30
Break
4.00-5.00
Nuts and bolts of being a Modern Languages PGR student: Jana Buresova
(IGRS), Georgia Panteli (UCL) and Federica Signoriello (UCL)
24 November 2012 - room G 21A (Senate House) and British Library.
Modern Languages Archives and Libraries
11.00
Catalogue and database searching and other information literacy on
Germanic and Romance language based research: Andrea Meyer Ludowisy
(Senate House Library), for Western Languages + Richard Espley (Senate
House Library), for British Irish postcolonial
12.15-1.30
Meet a specialist British Library librarian: Katya Rogatchevskaia
(British Library)
1.30
*Show-and-tell visit to the British Library collections: please
register in advance as numbers are limited*
Lunch
2.30
Roundtable discussion panel: using specialist libraries and archives
in: France (Helen Abbott, Sheffield), Germany (Anne Simon, IGRS),
Latin America (Jordana Blejmar, IGRS), Italy (Katia Pizzi, IGRS),
Portugal and Russia (Maria-Jose Homem, IGRS), Spain (tbc).
4.00 -6.00
Using Modern Languages libraries and building a bibliography: Dr
Colette Wilson (IGRS)
8 December 2012 - room G 21A (Senate House). Digital Languages
11.00
PowerPoint, Prezi and Presentations*: Colin Homiski (Senate House
Library). Find out the latest software tools available to enhance your
Modern Language presentations whether they are for class, conference
or for YouTube
12.00
Digital Languages: Dr Lucia Rinaldi (UCL)
1.00
Lunch
3.00-5.00
Research 2.0*: Using Web 2.0 tools to have information come to you.
Colin Homiski (Senate House Library). Participants will learn and use
in real time RSS feeds, Google Alerts, Social bookmarking and how to
build (and manage) your own database using Zotero.
*Please bring your own laptop to fully engage the session*
19 January 2013 - room SH 34/Gordon Room (Senate House). Theories
11.00
Hermeneutics: Dr Johan Siebers (UCLAN and IGRS)
12.00
Postcolonial theory and its applications: Professor Bill Marshall (IGRS)
1.00
Lunch
2.30
Queer theory and its applications: Professor James Williams (RHUL)
3.30
4.00-5.00
Break
Film theory and its applications: Dr Michael Witt (Roehampton)
16 February 2013 - room SH 35/Bloomsbury Room (Senate House). Visual Languages
11.00
Working on painting: Dr Jim Harris (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
12.00
Working on photography: Dr Theresa Mikuria (Kent)
1.00
Lunch
2.30
Working on exhibitions: Dr Ben Thomas (Kent)
3.30-4.30
Design and materials at the V & A and Royal College of Art: Dr Sabrina
Rahman (SAS Leverhulme Fellow)
16 March 2013 - room SH 34/Gordon Room (Senate House). History and
Memory Methods
11.00
Historical methods and archives: Dr Carlos Galviz (IHR and RHUL)
12.00
Introduction to oral history and fieldwork: Dr Michael Kandiah (King's)
1.00
Lunch
2.30-5.00
Theories of Cultural Memory: Dr Jessica Rapson (Goldsmiths) and Dr
Lucy Bond (Cambridge)
11 May 2013 - Room SH 34/Gordon Room (Senate House). Before, During
and After the PhD
11.00
Publishing in the Modern Languages: Dr Laurel Plapp (Peter Lang Ltd)
12.00
The PhD viva, Before, During and After: a discussion: Professor Tim
Mathews (UCL)
1.00
Lunch
2.30
Organizing a conference and giving a conference paper: Dr Colette
Wilson (IGRS)
4.00
Applying for academic jobs, writing a CV and the job interview:
Professor Bill Marshall (IGRS)
5.00
Round table discussion and drinks
8 June 2013 - Room SH 34/Gordon Room (Senate House)
11. 00 -4.00: Study Day following the Modern Languages and Film Spring
School (March 2013) led by students. (Details to follow)
Refreshments. Tea and coffee are available during the afternoon break.
There are water coolers in Senate House and you are welcome to bring a
packed lunch and eat it in the seminar room. Alternatively, there are
plenty of cafes and sandwich shops close by.
Dr Katia Pizzi
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Stewart House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Tel. n. 02078628962
Fax. n. 02078628672
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