CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar Series

Easter 2012 Programme

If you would like to present at any point this academic year, please contact the convenor, Dr Ildiko Csengei (ic223[at]cam.ac.uk), with a suggested title and abstract.

We also welcome proposals for extended seminars (for example in a 'mini-workshop' type format with two papers and discussants over 3 hours).  If you are interested in discussing ideas for a mini-workshop, please get in touch with Ildiko Csengei. 

Aims:

These seminars provide a space for postdocs in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to find new audiences for their work and share ideas across disciplinary boundaries. The seminars aim to create a supportive environment in which postdocs can critique each others’ work in progress, rather than acting as another venue for polished papers.

We are keen to encourage papers on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary themes, and we hope that the series will be particularly suitable for researchers who are exploring new directions in their own work and would benefit from opportunities to discuss their ideas with colleagues from different disciplines.

However, the seminar series is open to all postdocs in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, whether or not they consider their work to be interdisciplinary.

Senior colleagues and PhD students are also very welcome to attend the seminars, and we will encourage presenters to invite a wide range of colleagues who can provide useful critical feedback on their work. We will also occasionally invite established colleagues to give presentations on research methods and practice.

Format:

• Short paper circulated by email (6 pages max)
• Short, informal presentation (30 mins)
• Discussion (1hr)

Venue:

Seminar room, CRASSH 

Past presentations:

Lent 2012 Programme

Lent Term 2011:

Thursday 20 January, 12.00 - 13.30
Status Anxiety, or Missing the Pictures: Film Performativity in the Museum Space
Dr Jenny Chamarette
Abstract

Thursday 3 February, 12.00 - 13.30
Masculinity in Graciliano Ramos
Dr Lucia Villares
Abstract

Thursday 17 February, 12.00 - 13.30
Reframing Ethnicity: Academic Tropes, Political Desires and Ritualized Action in Nepal and India
Dr Sara Shneiderman
Abstract

Thursday 3 March, 12.00 - 13.30
Ports and Power: Patterns of Trade at a South Indian Capital
Dr Robert Harding
Abstract

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