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Archives into the Future symposium

Archives into the Future symposium, British Library
Monday 5 January 2015

The event is free, but booking is essential via http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/category/news/.

The day features all three of the large grants recently funded under Care for the Future; it is co-hosted by ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’ and ‘The Antislavery Usable Past’, with contributions also from ‘Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage’.

The event will include contributions from key Care for the Future partners, including the British Library, The National Archives, and others. It will culminate with the official launch of the large grant project ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’, and a short performance.

For more details and to book a place, please visit the website of ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’, http://www.ptja.leeds.ac.uk/.

Launch event for ‘The Antislavery Usable Past’ at WISE, University of Hull

12th December Launch event for ‘The Antislavery Usable Past’ at WISE, University of HullAntislavery Usable past Hull announce

Celebrate the launch of Care for the Future large grant ‘The Antislavery Usable Past’, which will unearth the lessons of historic antislavery as a ‘usable past’ for the contemporary antislavery movement. With new digital resources, exhibitions, advisory documents, networks, partner seminars and publications, the project team will apply the successes and failures of past antislavery strategies to the movement to end the enslavement of more than 30 million people around the world today.

Come for wine, nibbles and a short introductory speech by Professor Kevin Bales, and meet the rest of the project team: Professor John Oldfield, Director of WISE, Professor Zoe Trodd of the University of Nottingham, and Professor Jean Allain of Queens University Belfast.

Venue: Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, HULL, HU1 1NE.
Date and time: 12th December, 4.30 – 6.30pm.
RSVP: Sarah Colley on S.Colley@hull.ac.uk

Post-Colonial Disasters project

‘Reframing Disaster’ – activities from the Post-Colonial Disasters project

2014 is a really significant one for global disaster commemoration – the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster in India; the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide;  the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Activities include an exhibition at The Tetley gallery (26 Nov – 7 Dec: http://thetetley.org/reframing-disaster/); a conference; film screenings in collaboration with the Leeds International Film Festival; various talks & public engagement events; fundraising; and schools workshops. There are more details about these events on the website: http://postcolonialdisaster.com/activities/.

Reframing Disaster Activities Poster

Culture, Conflict and Post-Conflict symposium

Marlene Steyn. Blended brothers, 2011; Oil and mixed media on canvas, 168 x 151, 5 cm. Image used with permission of the artist. ©Marlene Steyn

Art and culture is often given some prominence amongst the tools that are used to reconcile communities and to help deal with personal and collective trauma. Why is that the case, how effective is it and what complexities surround its use?

On 9th and 10th September 2014, AHRC Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past and the Cultural Value Project held a symposium on Culture, Conflict and Post-Conflict. The symposium brought together leading researchers and practitioners across disciplines to consider the role of arts and cultural practices and performances in the process of post-conflict resolution and transformation. Topics were explored with special reference to conflict and post-conflict situations within the boundaries of states, primarily South Africa, Northern Ireland and Bosnia. Continue reading →

Call for Papers

8_abbaye-de-royaumontCall for Papers

AHRC Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past and Labex Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory are pleased to announce a series of three joint workshops. The workshops seek to bring together researchers, ECRs and practicioners/professionals from project teams across the two programmes for two days of ideas exchange and discussion on shared themes.

Applications are now being accepted for the 1st workshop, to take place at the Royaumont Foundation near Paris on 16th and 17th January 2015. Please see the Care for the Future and Pasts in the Present 1st Franco-British workshop – Call for contributions for more information and the short application form. The deadline for applications in 17th November 2014.

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Education, Value, and the Art of Living event

Education, Value, and the Art of Living event

14 November 2014, St Michael’s Cornhill, City of London, 10pm to 5pm

This one-day event aims to prompt discussion about the meaning and purpose of education in the context of its perceived instrumentalization in the United Kingdom at present. Exploring the topic from a host of perspectives—contemporary and historical, political and cultural, personal and institutional, at home and away—the colloquium will open up a set of arguments about teaching, learning, value, and the ‘art of living’. In contradistinction to any conception of education as merely a service industry for advanced capitalism, the papers offer a bracing challenge to prevailing orthodoxies in the search for a more adequate understanding of what education can be for human flourishing.

Twenty-minute papers will include the following and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion (paper titles subject to confirmation).

The Joys and Dangers of Distinctiveness
The Revd Dr Matt Bullimore

Union and Division: Irish Education around 1801
Professor Claire Connolly

More value than many sparrows?
Marius Carney, English Martyrs Catholic School, Leicester

Education and the Common Good
Lord Glasman

On forgetfulness
Professor Francis O’Gorman

The liberal tradition and human flourishing
The Rt Revd Dr Stephen Platten

Teaching Contested Pasts: the Educative Value of the History of Empire
Professor Andrew S. Thompson

JOINING DETAILS: Waged: £17; unwaged £13: lunch (included) will be provided by the Drapers’ Company in Drapers’ Hall. To reserve a place at the colloquium, please send a cheque made out to ‘St Michael’s Cornhill P.C.C.’ to Kay Norman, St Michael’s Cornhill, St Michael’s Church Vestry, Cornhill, London, EC3V 9DS or email kay@st-michaels.org.uk by 1 November 2014.

Care for the Future Early Career Researcher Workshop

Care for the Future Early Career Researcher Workshop

18th and 19th February 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society, more information on the event page on the AHRC website

Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past organised an Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop on 18-19 February 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society. ECRs are defined as being within eight years of the award of their PhD or equivalent professional training or within six years of first academic appointment.

The aim of this facilitated workshop was to bring together early career researchers from a range of arts and humanities disciplines to identify key future research opportunities under the theme. Designed to give ECRs the opportunity to network outside of their own universities, sectors and disciplines, the workshop was quite successful in this respect. The workshop was highly participative, interactive and open to innovative ideas from participants about future research opportunities and priorities – and our 45 participants certainly delivered! We look forward to working with this cohort of ECRs interested in the Care for the Future theme further.

Care for the Future Early Career Researcher Workshop

Care for the Future Early Career Researcher Workshop

18th and 19th February 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society, more information on the event page on the AHRC website

Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past organised an Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop on 18-19 February 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society. ECRs are defined as being within eight years of the award of their PhD or equivalent professional training or within six years of first academic appointment.

The aim of this facilitated workshop was to bring together early career researchers from a range of arts and humanities disciplines to identify key future research opportunities under the theme. Designed to give ECRs the opportunity to network outside of their own universities, sectors and disciplines, the workshop was quite successful in this respect. The workshop was highly participative, interactive and open to innovative ideas from participants about future research opportunities and priorities – and our 45 participants certainly delivered! We look forward to working with this cohort of ECRs interested in the Care for the Future theme further.