Peer Development Exchange Winners 2017
This year's Peer Development Exchange awardees are listed below. Join them to gain from their experience and broaden your skills.
Material culture as a meaningful primary source: An introduction to incorporating objects into your research. Tabitha Baker This workshop will provide the opportunity for students working in a range of disciplines to explore the concept of material culture. Addressing both the theoretical frameworks of material culture and the practicalities of using objects as a primary source, this workshop aims to provide PGT and PGR students with the requisite skills to begin incorporating objects into their academic research. Material culture as a discipline has developed at an accelerated pace over the course of the past two decades, with more and more scholars employing the use of museum collections in their academic research. In particular, the interdisciplinary collaboration between academics and museum curators has contributed to a greater understanding of history and the collections which have formed the basis of such research. Nevertheless, the use of objects as primary source material remains to be exploited to its full potential by academics, often due to a gap in curatorial skills and knowledge. This workshop aims to go some way to bridging that gap, and to encourage PGT and PGR students to utilise objects as a meaningful source as part of their research. By the end of this workshop participants will have engaged with the following principal topics:
*Rescheduled for Thursday 4th May 10am - 12pm, Room H450, Humanities Building* |
Reduced Shakespeare Ronan Hatful This workshop will allow students to explore and understand how and why Shakespeare’s texts are reduced, conflated and repurposed in modern adaptation and performance. This will involve the study and discussion of companies who use Shakespearean reductions as their principal dramatic practice in order to either parody or pay homage to his work and life. The two-hour workshop will follow this structure: a first half of practical engagement and discussion, followed by Q&A sessions with two of today’s most foremost Shakespearean practitioners.
*Rescheduled to 15th March, 4pm - 6pm, Wolfson Research Exchange, Rooms 1&2* |
More to be announced...watch this space! |