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8 years

Africa in Motion seminar - 25 November

by Gemma Robinson

**Please note the change of date and venue** 'Africa in Motion Film Festival' Tuesday 25 November, 5pm D1 Pathfoot Building Free and open to all With Lizelle Bisschoff (Director), Stefanie Van de Peer and Clare Rossouw The Director of the festival, along with film selectors will reflect on the achievements of the last three years, and the possible futures of African film and the AiM festival. Africa in Motion returned for the third time (October 23-November 2 2008) to the Edinburgh Filmhouse, with a more adventurous programme than ever before, including two of the continent's most celebrated filmmakers - Malian director Souleymane Cissé and Burkinabe director Gaston Kaboré. At the festival screenings were introduced by experts on African film and culture, and many followed by discussions and Q&As with directors. Expanding the primary film focus, 2008 introduced a book and DVD stall in the Filmhouse foyer, live African music in the Filmhouse café and an African club night at the Bongo Club. Africa in Motion is on tour at the Macrobert, Stirling, from 21 Nov - 26 November 2008 http://www.macrobert.stir.ac.uk/MACROBERT/Index.html Africa in Motion film festival http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/index.html For more information about postcolonial events organised by CCWS contact Gemma.Robinson(a)stir.ac.uk

16 years, 5 months

FW: Postcolonial events at Stirling

by Marta More

Dear all Postcolonial events at Stirling this Autumn concentrate on film. Please find information about a special event from the Global Gothic film festival - organised by the University of Stirling, macrobert theatre and the AHRC Global Gothic Network http://www.globalgothic.stir.ac.uk/ - and our roundtable on the Africa in Motion film festival - showing now at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. We hope to see you at these events. best wishes Gemma Postcolonial Events at Stirling Autumn 2008 Special Event: Kiwi Gothic Shorts Part of 'Hallowe'en Gothic' - a festival of International Gothic Horror films, October 31-November 2 - organised by the University of Stirling, macrobert theatre and the AHRC Global Gothic Network http://www.globalgothic.stir.ac.uk/ Sunday 2 November, 4pm Macrobert Arts Centre £3.95 (concessions £3.45) (booking office: 01786 466666) Introduced by Ian Conrich (Director of the Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London) There will be a discussion following the screening. Possum (1997, Brad McGann); The Singing Trophy (1993, Grant Lahood); Kitchen Sink (1989, Alison Maclean); The French Doors (2001, Steve Ayson); Nature's Way (2006, Jane Shearer); A Moment Passing (1996, Charlie de Salis); The Hole (1998, Brian Challis); Larger Than Life (1997, Ellory Elkayem) A dominant image of New Zealand is of a pastoral paradise, a country of harmony and tranquillity and of great natural beauty. Yet, if New Zealand can be regarded as an Eden, a principal and primordial landscape, then there can also be observed to exist within this overgrown garden, excess, disorder and darkness. Nature is beyond control, and there is a distinct sense of unease and unsettlement in many of these films where the home becomes a space of fear. You are also invited to join the Panel Discussion on the state of the contemporary horror film (start time: 6pm, followed by wine and cheese reception). These two further events are free and open to all. Roundtable discussion: Africa in Motion Film Festival Tuesday 2 December, 5pm B2 Pathfoot Building Free and open to all With Lizelle Bisschoff (Director), Stefanie Van de Peer, Clare Rossouw and Dan Hammett Africa in Motion returned for the third time (October 23-November 2 2008) to the Edinburgh Filmhouse, with a richer and more adventurous programme than ever before, including two of the continent's most celebrated filmmakers - Malian director Souleymane Cissé and Burkinabe director Gaston Kaboré. At the festival screenings are introduced by experts on African film and culture, and many are followed by discussions and Q&As with directors. Expanding the primary film focus, 2008 introduced a book and DVD stall in the Filmhouse foyer for the duration of the festival, live African music in the Filmhouse café on some evenings, an African club night at the Bongo Club, a wine tasting and book signings. The Director of the festival, along with film selectors will reflect on the achievements of the last three years, and the possible futures of African film. Africa in Motion film festival http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/index.html For more information about these events contact Gemma.Robinson(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:Gemma.Robinson@stir.ac.uk>

16 years, 6 months

Standing up for Science Media Workshop - application deadline 24th October

by Katharine Reibig

This email is for postgraduate students in science and mathematics, apologies if this is not relevant for you. Please note that the closing date is Oct 24th and there are only limited spaces. If you are interested, please email atuff(a)senseaboutscience.org<mailto:atuff@senseaboutscience.org> Best wishes, Katharine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Katharine M. Reibig Graduate Development Officer Research & Enterprise Office University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Tel: 01786 46 6698 hours of work: Tues, Wed & Thu only http://www.research.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate-information/sgrs/index.php ________________________________ From: Alice Tuff [mailto:atuff@senseaboutscience.org] Sent: 30 September 2008 10:22 To: Katharine Reibig Subject: Standing up for Science Media Workshop - application deadline 24th October Please find attached the advert for the Standing up for Science Media Workshop we are running in Edinburgh on Friday 21st November. This is a free workshop for PhD and postgraduate researchers in science, mathematics or engineering who want to get their voices heard in debates about science. Applicants need to apply with a CV and covering letter and the deadline for applications is 24th October. If you could please distribute the advert around your researchers I would be very grateful. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me. Kind regards Alice Alice Tuff Development Officer Sense About Science 25 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D7EG Registered Charity No. 1101114 Tel:+44 (0) 20 7478 4331 www.senseaboutscience.org<http://www.senseaboutscience.org/> Sense About Science is a small charity promoting evidence and good science for the public. We depend on donations, large and small, from people who support our work. You can donate, or find out more, at www.senseaboutscience.org/donate

16 years, 7 months

SGRS Seminars 2008-09

by Katharine Reibig

Apologies for cross posting. ______________________________________________ From: Katharine Reibig Sent: 30 September 2008 09:45 To: Katharine Reibig Subject: SGRS Seminars 2008-09 Dear All, The SGRS seminar programme 2008-09 is now available for booking via WebCT (SGRS section). If you have any problems booking, please contact me. There are also instructions on how to book on to a seminar, in the SGRS seminar programme folder. Best wishes, Katharine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Katharine M. Reibig Graduate Development Officer Research & Enterprise Office University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Tel: 01786 46 6698 hours of work: Tues, Wed & Thu only http://www.research.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate-information/sgrs/index.php

16 years, 7 months

Places on Glasgow Grad School Aug 26-29

by Katharine Reibig

Dear All, Please find below information on the forthcoming Glasgow Grad School. This is a non-residential 4-day course. SGRS will be able to fund a small number of places on this course, but you (or your department)will need to fund your own travel to and from the event each day. Please see the weblink below for further details. Any non-RC funded student who wishes to attend must also inform me if they are seeking funding for this event. Best wishes, Katharine Reibig ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2ND GLASGOW LOCAL GRAD SCHOOL TUESDAY 26 AUGUST TO FRIDAY 29 AUGUST, 9.00-4.30PM The Graduate Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University, in partnership with Vitae, is running the 2nd Glasgow Local GRAD School. This is a 4 day non-residential course aimed at PhD students in their final and penultimate years. The cost of the course is £400 to non-RCUK funded research students, but is free to Research Council funded students (who have not already attended a Grad School event). The Glasgow Local GRADschool is an experiential learning course, aiming to raise participants' awareness of their personal and professional transferable skills: the majority of skills addressed will be from those outlined in the Joint Skills Statement of the UK Research Councils, (i.e. personal effectiveness, communication skills, networking and team working and career management). The Glasgow Local GRADschool has been designed for doctoral researchers and will use small facilitated groups to enable individuals to review their experiences at intervals as the GRADschool progresses. For further information and to complete a booking form follow the link below: http://www.gcal.ac.uk/graduatecentre/gradschool/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Katharine M. Reibig Graduate Development Officer Research & Enterprise Office University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Tel: 01786 46 6698 hours of work: Tues, Wed & Thu only http://www.research.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate-information/sgrs/index.php

16 years, 9 months

FW: call for conference papers

by Graduate Research

> (apologies for cross posting) > > Dear postgraduate students, > > Please refer to the attachment regarding a call for papers on a free two day conference workshop based on the PhD experience. The conference will be held at University of Hull on the 17th and 18th of November 2008 and is being organised by current PhD students for PhD students. > > The conference will provide a stimulating context within which participants will be able to develop and hone general and specific PhD research skills. > Applications are welcome from postgraduates in all fields at any stage of their research degree. The themes of the conference include: > > Theme 1: Defining the Research Experience > Theme 2: The Data Gathering Experience > Theme 3: Writing up Your Thesis, Publishing and the Viva Voce Experience > Theme 4: Your PhD and Beyond > > Themes will be supplemented by workshops or question-and-answer sessions with invited speakers. We welcome abstracts for 15 minute presentations on the first three themes. These abstracts can be based on your experiences and ideas from any PhD subject. Abstracts will be evaluated and those selected will have their accommodation provided and travel expenses reimbursed (£ negotiable). Alternatively, there are 40 free places reserved for those who simply want to attend the conference. Please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. > > > Refer to the attached call for papers for specific details regarding the conference and use the attached conference registration form to apply (as a presenter or attendee). Return by email or hardcopy no later than October 1st, 2008 to: > > > c/o Andrew Kythreotis/Theresa Mercer > Department of Geography > University of Hull > Cottingham Road > HULL, HU6 7RX > > Email: Andrew Kythreotis (A.Kythreotis(a)hull.ac.uk <mailto:A.Kythreotis@hull.ac.uk> ) or Theresa Mercer (T.G.Mercer(a)2005.hull.ac.uk <mailto:T.G.Mercer@2005.hull.ac.uk> ) > > > Kind regards, > > Andrew Kythreotis and Theresa Mercer > > <<Call for papers.doc>> > > <<RegistrationForm.doc>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Katharine M. Reibig > Graduate Development Officer > Research & Enterprise Office > University of Stirling > Stirling, FK9 4LA > Tel: 01786 46 6698 > hours of work: Tues, Wed & Thu only > http://www.research.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate-information/sgrs/index.php >

16 years, 9 months

FW: Caribbean-Scottish Passages Conference, 24-25 June 2008

by Marta More

Dear all Please find below details of a conference at Stirling University on Tuesday 24 - Wednesday 25 June 2008: Caribbean-Scottish Passages: History, Language, Literature. This will be the first conference of its kind, bringing together research from Caribbean, Scottish and Postcolonial Studies. Full details are pasted into the bottom of this email. We hope that some of you will be able to join us for the conference. The full registration cost is £20 (£10 reduced fee for students, unwaged, over-60s), payable to 'University of Stirling'. For further information and to register please visit http://www.english.stir.ac.uk/research/conferences/passages.php <http://www.english.stir.ac.uk/research/conferences/passages.php> . Registration forms and payment should be emailed/sent to gemma.robinson(a)stir.ac.uk <mailto:gemma.robinson@stir.ac.uk> , Department of English Studies, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA by Monday 16 June at the latest. As part of the conference we are also holding an evening poetry reading. This event is free of charge and all are welcome. Tuesday 24 June 2008 B2 Pathfoot Building 18.00-19.30 Poetry Reading * Joan Anim-Addo * Kei Miller * Tom Leonard * Velma Pollard Free of charge - All Welcome Joan Anim-Addo is the founder-editor of Mango Season, the journal on Caribbean Women's writing. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Haunted by History (2004) and Janie Cricketing Lady (2006). Her libretto, Imoinda (2001), is available in a bilingual edition, English and Italian. Her other publications include Touching the Body: History, Language and African-Caribbean Women's Writing (2007). Kei Miller's first collection of short fiction, The Fear of Stones, was short-listed in 2007 for a Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize. He has written two poetry collections - Kingdom of Empty Bellies and There Is an Anger that Moves - and is also editor of Carcanet's New Caribbean Poetry Anthology. His first novel, The Same Earth, was published in 2008. Tom Leonard is the author of Intimate Voices (1984), access to the silence (Poems 1984-2004); Places of the Mind: The Life and Works of James Thomson (1993); Reports from the Present: Essays, Political Satires and Poems 1982-1994 (1995). He edited Radical Renfrew: Poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War (1990). His chronological selection of Thomson's work (including for the first time in one volume his poetry, prose and translations) is forthcoming. Velma Pollard is the author of Crown Point and Other Poems (1988), Shame Trees Don't Grow Here (1992). From Jamaican Creole to Standard English-a handbook for teachers (1994, 2003) and Dread Talk - the language of Rastafari (1994, 2000). Considering Woman, a collection of prose pieces was published by The Women's Press in 1989. Her novella Karl won the Casa de las Americas in 1992. Her most recent collection of poetry is Leaving Traces (2008). Caribbean-Scottish Passages: History, Language, Literature Tuesday 24 - Wednesday 25 June 2008 University of Stirling Participants include: * Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths, University of London) * Giovanna Covi (University of Trento) * Douglas Hamilton (University of Hull) * Kei Miller (University of Glasgow) * Velma Pollard (Mona, University of the West Indies) * Alan Riach (University of Glasgow) * Carla Sassi (University of Verona) This 2-day conference will provide a forum for debate on historical, literary and linguistic interconnections between the Caribbean and Scotland. Studies of imperialism have only recently begun to investigate Scotland's role in the making of the Atlantic world, and the Caribbean's role in Scottish life. To date, research has focused on remapping colonial history. A central aim of the conference is to assess past work, including a project funded by the University of Trento that resulted in Caribbean-Scottish Relations (2007), a co-authored book by four of our speakers: Anim-Addo, Covi, Pollard and Sassi. We believe that it is now necessary to reflect on past and current work that links the Caribbean and Scotland. This will be the first conference to present research in the combined fields of Scottish, Postcolonial and Caribbean Studies. The conference will focus on the complex cultural, social and political relationships between the Caribbean and Scotland, including discussions of Caribbean peoples/the Caribbean in Scotland; Scots/Scotland in the Caribbean; reparation and memorialisation across the Caribbean and Scotland; diasporic identities; Wilson Harris; Caribbean and Scottish literary traditions; the Caribbean, Scotland and the Enlightenment; slavery, the Caribbean, Scotland and visual culture; Scottish and Caribbean song traditions; aspects of language: Caribbean Creoles, Scots and Gaelic. Tuesday 24 June B2, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling 10.00 Welcome/introduction: Gemma Robinson/Carla Sassi 10.30-11.15 Encounters and Creolizations · Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths, University of London) 'A Scottish Legacy in Grenada' 11.15-12.15 · Karina Williamson (University of Edinburgh) 'Scots in the Caribbean 1764-1834: social identities and self-images' · Sheila Kidd (University of Glasgow) 'Turtles and Dictionaries: Cultural Exchanges between Gaels in the Caribbean and Scotland' 12.15-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.15 Re-Mapping Caribbean-Scottish Passages · Giovanna Covi (University of Trento) 'Caribbean-Scottish Relations as Chimerical Vision from the Discomfort Zone to the Contact Zone' 14.15-15.15 · David Howard (University of Edinburgh) 'Scaling recollections of cities, cane and class: Philo Scotus' views of Scottish and Jamaican living in the early nineteenth century' · Isobel Anderson (University of Stirling) 'Havana and Glasgow: twinned cities' 15.15-15.45 break 15.45-16.30 Colonial and Postcolonial Legacies · Velma Pollard (University of the West Indies) 'The Scots in Jamaica: Language and Culture' 16.30-17.30 · Tom Leonard (University of Glasgow) 'Claude McKay (1889-1948) and the Two Languages' · Geoff Palmer (Heriot Watt University) 'Enlightenment Abolished: slavery and race relations in Scotland' 17.30-18.00 drinks 18.00-19.30 Poets' evening reading: Joan Anim-Addo, Kei Miller, Tom Leonard and Velma Pollard 20.00 Dinner at Athena, Bridge of Allan Wednesday 25 June 2008 B2 Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling 9.30-10.15 Re-Thinking Caribbean and Scottish Literatures · Alan Riach (University of Glasgow) 'Other than Realism: Magic and Violence in Modern Scottish Fiction and the Recent Work of Wilson Harris' 10.15-11.15 · Kei Miller (University of Glasgow) 'But In Glasgow, There Are Plantains: a few first impressions from a Caribbean immigrant' · Michael Gardiner (University of Warwick) 'Surrealism as Late Modernist Aesthetic in the Caribbean and Scotland' 11.15-11.30 break 11.30-12.30 Representing the Irrecoverable: The Visual Arts and Slavery · Murdo MacDonald (University of Dundee) in conversation with Beth Forde (Artist), Graham Fagen (Artist) and Michael Visocchi (Artist). 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.15 Remembering the Caribbean: History and Mnemonic Fictions · Carla Sassi (University of Verona and Royal Society of Edinburgh Visiting Fellow at University of Stirling) 'Personal narratives and diary fictions: concealed selves, shifting meanings and memory gaps in Scotland's figurations of the Caribbean' 14.15-15.15 · Douglas Hamilton (University of Hull) '"It wisnae us"? Making and breaking Scottish-Caribbean connections' · Gary Cape (University of Stirling) 'Sovereignty, Subjectivity and the Question of Ownership: Bio-Politics in the Narratives of Joseph Knight' 15.15-15.45 break 15.45-17.00 Cultural Forms in Transition · Keely Fisher (Independent scholar) 'The Scottish Brute Abroad; or, The Poetry and Prose of Cyrus Francis Perkins' · Suzanne Gilbert (University of Stirling) 'Scottish ballads and the Caribbean' Followed by closing discussion This conference is funded by the British Academy, the Dipartimento di Anglistica of the University of Verona, Stirling University's Centre for Commonwealth Studies, Centre for Scottish Studies and Department of English Studies.

16 years, 11 months

New Postgraduate Awards for 2008 - 2009

by Kathryn Cook

Dear All The Schools Competition Act Settlement Trust is now open for applications for post graduate awards from October 2008-09: http://www.scast.org.uk/122.htm * Postgraduate Research Scholarship - one award of £15,000 per annum for up to three years * Postgraduate Bursaries - up to 50 awards of £2,500 * General Bursaries - up to 250 awards of £1,500 * Project Awards - one tranche of 100 awards of up to £500 There are three criteria for eligibility to make an application for an award: * you must have attended one of the schools listed below after 15 September 2001 (Sedbergh - 15 September 2002); and * you must have reached the age of 18, and be younger than 30, on the date that the Bursary or Grant would be due to be paid to you; and * six years must have elapsed from the date when you first attended the school. Ampleforth College Bedford School Benenden School Bradfield College Bromsgrove School Bryanston School Canford School Charterhouse School Cheltenham College Cheltenham Ladies College Clifton College Cranleigh School Dauntsey's School Downe House School Eastbourne College Epsom College Eton College Gresham's School Haileybury Harrow School King's School Canterbury Lancing College Malvern College Marlborough College Millfield School Mill Hill School Oakham School Oundle School Radley College Repton School Royal Hospital School Rugby School St Edward's School, Oxford St Leonards-Mayfield School Sedbergh School Sevenoaks School Sherborne School Shrewsbury School Stowe School Strathallan School Tonbridge School Truro School Uppingham School Wellington College Wells Cathedral School Westminster School Winchester College Woldingham School Worth School Wycombe Abbey Best regards Kathy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kathryn Cook Graduate School Administrator Research and Enterprise Office University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Tel: 01786 466698 Fax: 01786 466688 E-Mail: k.e.cook(a)stir.ac.uk "The University of Stirling is recognised as a Scottish Charity with registration number SC011159"

16 years, 12 months

FW: New website initiative

by Kathryn Cook

Dear All, A third year PhD student in Durham has recently launched a website which you may find interesting , www.graduatejunction.com <http://www.graduatejunction.com> designed to help graduate researchers make contact with other researchers interested in their work. The idea is to connect people who would otherwise not be aware of each other, perhaps in different groups, departments or institutions. Increasing communication can prevent duplication of effort and help the spread of new ideas. Best regards Kathy

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