Vision and Articulation | The Goldsmiths Graduate Festival 2014 | 6-16 May 2014
Call for Papers | Deadline for Abstracts: 24 February 2014
The Goldsmiths Graduate Festival is a celebration of postgraduate research in Goldsmiths and internationally. It is organised by and for postgraduate research students. The 2014 Festival will focus on ideas of vision and articulation:
- How do we conceive of innovative ideas?
- What methods do we use to articulate, embody or perform those ideas?
- What is the interface between criticism and analysis in the creation of new knowledge?
- How do the materials that we work with inform, or determine, how we think, or what we can know?
Proposals are invited for 15 minute papers, presentations, performances and exhibitions that articulate the vision that underpins your research. Use the theme of this year’s festival as a springboard to present your work in a supportive environment. Make links with other researchers across Universities. Gain experience as a presenter, organiser or chair of a panel.
The Festival is scheduled to take place over two weeks, and will consist of a broad range of activities including performances, exhibitions, film screenings, keynote speakers and master class discussions with prominent intellectual figures.
Students are encouraged to collaborate across the stages of their research, to suggest panels and thematic streams. The Festival will be open to all students to attend and to external audiences. We invite papers and presentations from postgraduate students, and particularly students from our partner organisations in CHASE and Design Star, our AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships; IGGI, or EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre; and Queen Mary, our ESRC Doctoral Training Centre partner. International participants are most welcome.
How you can be involved?
- Propose a paper: Submit an abstract of 300 words, outlining your name and departmental location, the title of your presentation and a description of its main arguments. Presentations will be 15 minutes and we would recommend that you address your paper to a broad academic audience. We will accept proposals from all MPhil/PhD students regardless of what stage they are at in their doctoral work.
- Propose a Performance, installation, event, or screening: We would also like to receive any ideas that students might have about ways to animate their work be it through performances, installations or related events that can be scheduled during the Festival.
- Propose a panel: We would also like to see proposals for panels of 4 papers, of 15 minutes each, on a shared theme which would last for no more than 1 hour 30 minutes. This means 30 minutes would be left for Q&A and discussion at the end of you panel. Panel proposals should include abstracts and we would like to encourage collaborations between academic disciplines and also between students at different stages in the academic work.
- Submit a Poster: Goldsmiths Library will be hosting a poster exhibition of current research. Articulate your vision in words and images: submit an A3 poster to the Festival.
- Chairing panels: You can also be involved in the organisation of the event as a chair of a panel and we will provide guidance with regard to how to do this.
Upload your abstract or proposal to the Graduate Festival area of the Virtual Graduate School at:
http://grad.gold.ac.uk/festival/.
Details of past festivals, including abstracts, can also be found
here
If you have any further queries, please contact the
Graduate School Office.
