SED Opportunity Digest – 8 October 2021

Welcome to our digest full of interesting events, opportunities and schemes that may help you meet collaborators, improve their career prospects or simply broaden your horizons.

Please let us know if you have any suggestions for next edition via sed-web@qmul.ac.uk

From QMUL, Partners & Friends

EXCLUSIVE THEATRE PREVIEW TONIGHT IN PINTER STUDIO, ARTSONE

Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/r/ZKGEDdWv4g or turn up at 7.30pm

The Death of King Arthur by Seth Kriebel explodes the legend we all think we know and asks:
What story do you want to believe?

The Death Of King Arthur is a new version of a very old story, an interactive twist on the enduringly popular tales of Arthur and his knights.

Choose which parts of the story you want to hear: The bit about the sword in the stone? Lancelot & Guinevere? How Arthur dies?

Or the other version of how Arthur dies? …or the other other version?

Sit back and enjoy or actively take part in the decisions that guide the story. Each show is unique, depending on the audience’s choices… bringing a lost Britain back to life and asking what the old tales can tell us in these complicated times.

Learn more about Seth here: http://www.sethkriebel.com/arthur

The Queen Mary Postgraduate Research committee is delighted to invite you to our schedule of seminars this autumn (see poster).

We have put together a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and America, who will be sharing their work with us, ranging from seventeenth-century skin colour to twenty-first century music videos.

This semester, we will be hosting seminars on Zoom on Thursdays, beginning 14th October. The seminar begins at 17:00 (UK time) and follows the format of a paper of up to 45 minutes and a question session of 15 minutes. All QMUL staff and students are warmly invited to attend, and to share with anyone else who might be interested at other universities or elsewhere.

We hope the seminars inspire you and spark new discussions, especially at a time when we are rediscovering the strength of our QM English community after a long time apart. It is our belief that the PGRS seminar exemplifies all that is best about QM English – innovative, supportive, and led by learning from each other. We are so looking forward to seeing you all there this autumn as we reconnect with our community here at SED. 

Zoom registration for our very first talk, ‘Citizenship in an Erotic Mode in the work of Beyonce Knowles and Warsan Shire in Lemonade (2016)’ on 14th October, is open now! Follow this link to sign up: 

https://queenmaryenglish.wordpress.com/autu/

Temporary Before Permanent is a contemporary art exhibition curated by Drama graduate Rebecca Sangs showcasing prints from Ann Chang which were collected and archived over the artists’ time here in the UK. These prints were primarily stencils used for the practice of           . Each of the stencil prints exhibited represents a person, an interaction and the connection between the artist and the person that was            .

Stencils are often used right before the start of a            session for the artist to find the best position for the design to permanently live on someone. It could often take multiple tries of applying and wiping to eventually find the best location. Stencils act as temporary guidelines and will be wiped off completely from the skin by the end of the session. As a sentimental act, the artist collected all the stencil prints used in every          session.

Originally from a small town based in Taiwan, Ann Chang takes inspiration from the origins of her parents’ home where rain and wet weather are a common phenomenon. Through connections from back home, as well as friendships built within East London, interactions of culture form many aspects of the artist’s work which are delicately showcased within the amalgamation of this exhibition.

Chang has an obsession with vases, where it took her a long time to figure out what it meant to her. She explains, “Vases are like people, they are in all shapes and colors and it’s up to you what you’d like to put inside of it. The vases I draw are often covered in a rain texture, which represents the melancholic rainy cities and small towns I live in now and  have lived in before”. 

As well as representing a collection of experiences found through human connection, Chang’s            practice aims to present a discovery of peace within all aspects of art-making. Seen as a form of therapeutic experience, there is power in the artwork not only for the            artist, but also the people who connect and participate with it, as well as the clients who get           . Framed as a non-aggressive approach to active creation, these prints represent the idea of continuously being able to find joy in a time of challenges and hardships.

Ann Chang is a            artist, printmaker, illustrator and painter.            makes up a large part of her original work. As the kind of art form that Chang practices is not only unsupported but also red taped by the government, she is applying for a visa as a printmaker and illustrator to continue living her life in London. The word            has to be erased and kept secret. By marking the word in the color of the stencils the artist believes that the art form is not completely disowned but highlighted with a distinctive shadow.

If you would like to know more about why certain words are removed from the texts above, please write to us at temporary.before.permanent@gmail.com and we will send you a personal letter written by the artist to tell you more about the story as the artist would still like to keep the focus of the exhibition on the artwork. You can also follow Ann on Instagram @she_shan_yu to see more of her fantastic work.

Location: Hackney Downs Studios, 17 Amhurst Terrace, E8 2BT

Exhibition period: 10am- 6pm, 11 – 17 of October 2021

Stepney Words 50 Years On

An event at the People’s Palace reflecting on the significance and legacy of the publication of Stepney Words & the Stepney Schools Strike with Chris Searle, historians, activists & poets.

Free

20 years since 9/11. Panel Discussion on Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism

On Wednesday 13th October at 14.00, Suzanne Schneider (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research) will launch her new book: 

The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism 

(Verso, 2021)  

Ahmed Dailami (Exeter), Martyn Frampton (QMUL) and Julie Norman (UCL) will offer comments before opening up to Q+A. 

This is a blended event which will take place both online and in person at Queen Mary University of London

To register please follow this link: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/ihss/whats-on/items/20-years-since-911-panel-discussion-on-modern-jihad-and-the-crisis-of-liberalism-.html

The book’s blurb is as follows: 

In this authoritative, accessible study, historian Suzanne Schneider examines the politics and ideology of the Islamic State (better known as ISIS). Schneider argues that today’s jihad is not the residue from a less enlightened time, nor does it have much in common with its classical or medieval form, but it does bear a striking resemblance to the reactionary political formations and acts of spectacular violence that are upending life in Western democracies. From authoritarian populism to mass shootings, xenophobic nationalism, and the allure of conspiratorial thinking, Schneider argues that modern jihad is not the antithesis to western neoliberalism, but rather a dark reflection of its inner logic.

About the speaker:

Dr Suzanne Schneider is Deputy Director and Core Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, working in the fields of history, religious studies, and political theory. She is the author of Mandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2018), and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Mother Jones, N+1, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other outlets.

*This event is a part of our “Aftermaths” series

Outside QMUL

Online Lecture: In Conversation: That Other British Asian Theatre: British East Asian and Southeast Asian Performance

British East Asian and Southeast Asian theatre and performance are perhaps less well-known than theatre and performance created by British South Asian companies and artists. How are British East Asia and Southeast Asia represented by theatre-makers? So, how has Asia been represented on the contemporary British stage? Increasingly more plays about Asians and on Asian themes have been produced at the National Theatre, the Arcola, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court and more. There are a wealth of stories, histories and voices that are yet to be explored and told. Theatre artists Kumiko Mendl and Kwong Loke join us in conversation.

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WEBINAR: Making Feminist Theatre (and Making Theatre Feminist) – Thursday 28th October, 8am PST | 11am EST

Digital Theatre+ and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education are delighted to invite you to our latest free webinar Making Feminist Theatre (and Making Theatre Feminist)

Join leading practitioners for a roundtable discussion about the practical strategies, approaches and exercises that enable them to practice feminism in their work. We’ll be asking them about the politics of their work, how they experience power in the theatre, and how they have navigated it in their careers.

Exploring both process and product, this unmissable event aims to inspire and to further understanding for those interested in both creativity and social justice.

Click here to sign up now

Click here to learn more about Digital Theatre+ webinars

Job: Student Recruitment Content Coordinator

University of the Arts London (UAL) is a vibrant world centre for innovation and top 2 in the world for Art and Design (QS World University Rankings 2021). UAL draws together six Colleges with international reputations in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts.

Student Marketing and Recruitment is a forward thinking department. We deliver market intelligence, marketing campaigns, prospective student communications and guidance. 

Registration for the free virtual ‘Books on Screen’ symposium is now open!

Join us for part or all of 3 November 2021 to explore how books are represented on screens. All welcome, please share widely.

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/books-on-screen-symposium-tickets-185791636787

Bestselling author Candice Carty-Williams will be in conversation with Jamelia at The Ritzy cinema next Monday 11 October at 4.30pm about her new book, Empress & Aniya – South London’s answer to ‘Freaky Friday’.

Tickets are only £5 + booking fee, and attendees will have the chance to ask Candice questions, buy a copy of the book and get it signed. Monday 11th October is also International Day of the Girl, so this event which will focus on female friendship should be particularly relevant and inspiring! The ticket purchase link is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/candice-carty-williams-introduces-empress-aniya-tickets-172357384577.

Further sources of interesting events, opportunities and jobs are…

Apples & Snakes Artists Newsletter | Arts Admin E-Digest | ArtsJobs | Creative Access (Jobs) | JournoResources | Lectures.London | MediaBeans (media jobs) | QMUL Careers | Presspad | Tower Hamlets Arts | Write at Home (freelance writing opps)

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