TECHNE 2017 Call for Projects is Open!
Novelist Elif Şafak said recently
that, in order to understand what is going on in the world at the moment,
"we need to talk about emotions. Emotions in general have been
underestimated."
“Emotion, Engagement and
Experience” describe the researcher’s journey. Techne 2017 will explore these
through academic papers, performances and film. What is the researcher’s
emotional attachment to the work? How do passions and emotions frame scholarship? How does the researcher’s engagement with the
world of scholarship sit alongside the
responsibility to the wider world? Where does the researcher’s own wealth of
experience fit into the PhD? Where does the ECR 'fit'? How do we exchange and disseminate all of these ideas we've got?
The Conference Theme
“Engagement, Emotion, Experience” is the theme of this
year’s TECHNE conference. These three words describe the researcher’s position.
We are interested in the complex relationships between scholarship and academia
and the wider world, both as human experience and as professional practice. This
year’s Conference will be held at the London HQ of Amnesty International, the
global human rights organisation. It is a fitting venue for us to discuss and
present ideas about ways that scholarship engages with the wider world.
We want to explore how the process of research, and its
outputs, engage with the world and how this affects the researcher. We will
address questions of impact, public engagement, interdisciplinarity, innovative
ways of communicating and directing outputs, performance and publishing
methods. We are especially interested in discussing ways that “traditional”
disciplines are finding new or reinvigorated processes of dissemination and
reception.
CALL FOR PROJECTS
The field is wide open – we have a good space and we can
accommodate performances, films and papers. This year we will have a special
focus on new communication methods and will feature the Audio Visual Essay as a
tool of scholarship. If you have an idea for a specific panel we would
also like to hear from you and are open to suggestions.
This year we will publish the conference proceedings online,
in a special publication.
Please email proposals (consisting of a 300 word maximum abstract and a 50 word maximum biography) or queries. For performances please include details of space needs.
the CALL FOR PROPOSALS is open to any PhD candidate or Early Career researcher, not onlly for TECHNE researchers.
send proposals
Please email proposals (consisting of a 300 word maximum abstract and a 50 word maximum biography) or queries. For performances please include details of space needs.
the CALL FOR PROPOSALS is open to any PhD candidate or Early Career researcher, not onlly for TECHNE researchers.
send proposals
About the venue
The Amnesty International HQ is a large, bright space in the
heart of Shoreditch. It is fully equipped with AV and has a large theatre as
well as smaller rooms which can be used for performances.
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