Blog from QMUL's School of English and Drama (SED)
Author: All Things SED Editor
I am the Web and Marketing Administrator in the School of English and Drama. Amongst my various roles, I run the School's website (www.sed.qmul.ac.uk) and its Twitter feed (@QMULsed). I also manage the running of the School's Open Days and draft promotional materials.
We understand that money is a big issue and barrier to those coming to university and wanted to give a quick guide to ways we can help.
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Ways Queen Mary Can Support
Accommodation
Subsidised accommodation on our one-site main campus in Mile End from £141 pw (shared bathroom) / £171 (ensuite) guaranteed if you apply before 30 June. Accommodation guide Lots of students commute and live at home but we would recommend working
Food
10% off in our local Co-op supermarkets with student TOTUM card Cheap supermarkets nearby including ASDA, Big Sainsbury’s and LIDL. Shop local multiple Asian and world foods markets to buy cheap fresh food.
Money
QMUL Bursary £1,700 or £1,000 depending on income – automatically assessed if you use funding authority (e.g. Student Finance England) for UK students when you apply. Part-time jobs available with Queen Mary Student Union paying London Living Wage on campus that fit with your studies QTemps employment agency for work outside university with student friendly employers as well as opportunities within your career field
Travel
30% Off with Student Oyster Card – You can produce a student status letter online to prove your student status. Cycle to save money we are in Santander Cycle Hire Scheme Use the bus – There are regular buses from our doorstep that go all over London – slow travel gives you time to read too.
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Welcome to our latest round up of events, opportunities and schemes that may help you meet collaborators, improve your career prospects or simply broaden your horizons.
If you get to the end and apply for an opportunity please let us know and we’ll give you a freebie.
Please let us know if you have any suggestions for the next edition via sed-web@qmul.ac.uk
Don’t forget your careers service is open all semester and can help with finding jobs, applications and interviews. Book an appointment or email your careers consultant Fliss Bush.
Don’t forget to come to your BREATHING SPACE session this Wednesday!
Sign up and you could win some great prizes in our raffle incluing Rupi Kaur’s Healing Through Words book…
Queen Mary Library Services have organised a session around LGBTQA+ literature in all its forms, to celebrate LGBTQA+ History Month. The session will cover various initiatives, such as the LGBTQA+ collection and the LGBTQA+ online reading lists. There will also be short book talks about inspiring & entertaining resources available from the Queen Mary Library.
As part of LGBTQA+ History Month, the School of Mathematical Sciences are hosting a screening of the Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, this biopic tells the story of one of the most celebrated LGBTQA+ mathematicians in history.
Interesting events from the Mile End Institute (School of Politics and International Relations)
In Conversation with David Lammy MP
Thursday, 9 March 2023 at 18:30 Queen Mary University of London – Mile End Road – London E1 4NS – United Kingdom
100 more by 2030! How to create a more gender-balanced democracy
Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 18:00 Queen Mary University of London – 327 Mile End Road – London E1 4NS – United Kingdom
Chaired by Dr Javier Sajuria (QMUL), we will be joined by Frances Scott (the founder and director of 50:50 Parliament), Professor Rainbow Murray (QMUL) and two other respondents to evaluate how much progress has been made in recent years and formulate strategies to rectify the historic underrepresentation of women in public life.
Do you have any plans after graduation? Not yet? Then try graduate opportunities at Frontline!
Frontline is England’s largest social work charity. Everything we do aims to make life better for children who need a social worker.
Join us as a paid graduate intern
If you love what Frontline is all about and want your career to make a difference, our graduate internship is for you. The role pays a living wage, develops essential career skillsandmakes an impact. Join our charity for a six-month internship and help us recruit the next generation of children’s social workers.
Apply to the Frontline programme
The Frontline programme offers two years of intensive, paid training and a fully-funded Master’s degree with Lancaster University to develop the skills you’ll need to be a social worker.
You’ll help protect children living in the toughest circumstances and families struggling with a range of pressures, giving them the support and commitment, they deserve and changing the course of their lives. This is the work that makes a difference. This is social work.
With this opportunity you can:
Complete a funded master’s degree and earn while you study
Build essential career skills
Gain an insight into social work
Gain useful insights at our career events
Our career events will give you an opportunity to learn about benefits of joining the Frontline programme and get top tips for your application.
Join the debate, join the Night of Ideas! Free events including an opener with Zadie Smith
Hélène Duchêne, Ambassador of France to the UK and writer Zadie Smith will open the 7th edition of the Night of Ideas on Thursday 9 February, at the Institut français in London.
The BFI Future Film Festival is the UK’s largest festival for young, emerging filmmakers. The festival runs across four days with events and screenings taking place both online and in-venue at the BFI Southbank, all of which are focused on helping talented young filmmakers aged 16 to 25 to break into the film and screen industries.
The Times Final Year Student Survey – paid work interviewing for The Times
The Times Final Year Student Survey team are looking for students to work as Interviewers on our upcoming project. The role requires them to find 25 final year students at Queen Mary and carry out a short face to face survey about their graduate job hunting experience. The data from this research will directly inform The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2023.
Students are well paid for a few hours of their time and will gain a full CV reference. Applicants must be well-connected with final year students, organised, and confident in talking to fellow students. Places are expected to be filled quickly, so get in contact as soon as possible to avoid disappointment!
Camden People’s Theatre, SPRINT line-up has just been announced! London’s best established carnival of new and unusual theatre brings you 40+ shows from bold emerging artists over just 3 weeks
Since the 90s, this festival has been hurling out fireballs of theatrical brilliance in all directions, many of which have gone on to illuminate UK and world theatre. This year’s roster of new shows, works-in-progress and ideas tottering to their feet is as thrilling as ever – and we can’t wait to share it with you.
SPRINT: Tue 7 – Mon 27 Mar 2023 Tickets £12 (or catch 2 shows in one night for only £16) NW1 residents go for £10 – Students go for £8
We’re hiring!Could you be our next Deputy General Manager (Operations)? We’re looking for a highly driven self-starter who works well as part of a committed & collaborative team and who has the organisational ability to support and sustain the work of the 200 artists coming through our doors each year. You do not need to have done this job before.
Seed commissionsWe’re offering nine £1000 seed commissions (+ a whole bunch of support) to theatremakers from backgrounds currently underrepresented in contemporary theatre: specifically global majority artists, artists with disabilities, d/Deaf artists and/or artists from working-class backgrounds. Applications close Mon 30th Jan at 10am
We’re hiring!Could you be our next Deputy General Manager (Operations)? We’re looking for a highly driven self-starter who works well as part of a committed & collaborative team and who has the organisational ability to support and sustain the work of the 200 artists coming through our doors each year. You do not need to have done this job before. Applications close Thu 9th Feb at 10am
Seed commissionsWe’re offering nine £1000 seed commissions (+ a whole bunch of support) to theatremakers from backgrounds currently underrepresented in contemporary theatre: specifically global majority artists, artists with disabilities, d/Deaf artists and/or artists from working-class backgrounds. Applications close Mon 30th Jan at 10am
OFFER: exclusive 25% early bird discount available on all four original masterclasses. Use the code: EARLYBIRD23 at checkout. Offer ends at midnight on Friday 27th January. Limited places available.
Applications to volunteer with Wateraid at some of the UK’s top festivals are now open!
Last year was our biggest festivals season to date, and we’re looking forward to making 2023 just as memorable. From intimate events like foodie-favourite Smoked & Uncut, to epic experiences (yes, including Glastonbury!), there’s something for everyone – and we really hope you can apply to join us.
Applications will remain open until 5pm on Tuesday 21 February, and teams are not filled on a first-come-first-served basis. Please make sure you read all the information on our website and our festival volunteering FAQs first, then take your time with your application – we’ll be allocating roles based on your skills, experience, and previous support for WaterAid.
Festivals we’re planning to attend in 2023*
Glastonbury Festival Somerset, 20 – 26 June | Smoked & Uncut: Lime Wood Hampshire, 8 July (Saturday only) or 7 – 9 July (weekend) | Camp Bestival: Dorset Dorset, 27 – 31 July | Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza Somerset, 5 August | Boomtown Fair Hampshire, 9 – 14 August | Smoked & Uncut: The Pig at Bridge Place Kent, 12 August (Saturday only) or 11 – 13 August (weekend) | Green Man Brecon Beacons, 16 – 21 August | Camp Bestival: ShropshireShropshire, 16 – 21 August | Shambala Northamptonshire, 23 – 28 August | Pilton PartySomerset, September (date TBC)*Dates indicated are dates volunteers will need to be onsite, and are all subject to change and cancellation.
The Harper’s Bazaar short-story competition is open for entries! Following their history of supporting original fiction, you are invited to submit your story on the theme of ‘notes’. You could have your work published in the magazine, and win a two-night stay in the Peak District! Here’s the topline…Deadline: 26 February
Introduction to Community Organising with Citizens UK: Intensive One Day Training
Citizens UK are bringing their intensive one day introductory course in community organising to Queen Mary’s Mile End Campus on Wednesday 8th February, 9:15am-5pm.
Community organising training will give you the tools to make change as part of your school, college, university, charity, faith group or community group. Topics covered include: leadership, negotiation, power, storytelling, building public relationships, listening and action!
Rich Mix London, 2 – 27 February 2023 Certain Blacks, the East London arts development organisation founded with the aim of nurturing diverse artists, returns for their 9th festival this February having been awarded Arts Council England Notional Portfolio funding specifically to support diverse-led organisations. Heroes presents performances from artists that inspire, entertain and educate including a night supporting female musicians and an evening curated by the legendary Ruff Sqwad. The festival includes a rare visit from LT Beauchamp (AKA Chicago Beau), an esteemed Chicago blues and jazz innovator who played on the 1970 album Certain Blacks by the Art Ensemble of Chicago from which the London organisation takes its name. Four very different shows at Bethnal Green’s Rich Mix from 2-17 February incorporate adventures in sound and performance, stand-up, theatre, hip hop, spoken word and grime.
Each week is a different workshop and different artist perspective to discover! No prior experience or expertise needed, just enthusiasm & good queer vibes!
Kakilang: HOME X Barbican Pit Theatre / Online. 21—25 Feb 2023
Combining theatre, music, gaming and VR technology, discover the virtual world of HOME X live in the Barbican’s Pit theatre or online.
The show connects performers in Hong Kong and London in real-time using depth-sensing cameras that capture 3D video. It explores themes of roots and belonging, destruction and renewal, featuring moving real-life experiences of home and migration. Kakilang (formerly Chinese Arts Now) are an award-winning organisation who produce work platforming East and Southeast Asian artists.BOOK KAKILANG NOW
Female Leadership in Publishing
The FLIP is a non-profit platform to inspire people in publishing with insight and honesty from brilliant women. We want to help build transparency, representation and equality across the industry by shining a light on great examples of success, providing a space to debate challenges and giving a voice to those finding their way in their careers.
We’re delighted to announce the incredible line-up of panels for #OpenBooks, your first chapter into the book industry. A series of free, accessible online events for young people who are exploring the first steps in their career, OpenBooks launches 22 and 23 February!
KICKSTART YOUR CAREER WITH HOMEGROWN advertising careers scheme
Looking to work in advertising but don’t know where to start? ‘Need experience to apply’ but don’t yet have any experience?London Living Wage not cutting it? Worried about fitting in?
If you’ve ever been made to feel like a ‘Black Sheep’, then BBH wants to hear from you.
Homegrown is BBH’s early careers programme with a difference: a paid 4-month placement in the production, strategy and/or account management departments. We offer a competitive starting salary above the London Living Wage that factors in the higher rental and living costs in London. Plus, you will become part of our exclusive Homegrown alumni network which offers ongoing mentoring.
Calling aspiring bloggers, event planners, oral history interviewers, storytellers, fundraisers, researchers, social media campaigners, film and audio editors. Volunteer to help with the 10th anniversary event.
How to Become an Actor Session – £10 – Online – 23 Feb
Learn all the secrets of becoming a successful actor in this jam-packed session!
We’ll cover everything you need to know, from mastering the skills to nailing the audition. Expect to leave feeling inspired and armed with the knowledge to kickstart your acting career. See you there!
Melanie Bigold (Cardiff University) ‘Books of her own: Women’s Libraries and Book Ownership in the Long Eighteenth Century’
What role did women play in the expansion and consumption of print culture between 1660-1820? Drawing on evidence of over 300 women’s libraries, including detailed records from fifty women’s book and library lists comprising some 30,000 titles, this paper will offer some preliminary details about what we have been missing in relation to women and their books in the long eighteenth century.
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, Tuesday 7 February, in person, 5.30-7pm. Registration required.
Royal Society of Literature Free Online Event – Careers in Literature – 14 March
Hear from a renowned literary agent; a freelance literature programmer and producer; an acclaimed poet who balances a career in marketing with a career in writing; and an editor and academic who works with numerous literary magazines. We hope their journeys will inspire you as you embark on your own career in literature.
This programme is an opportunity for young people to get hands on experience in media, production and podcasting. Trainees will be officially trained on the logistics of recording; such as sound quality and handling audio equipment. Editing and production, including learning how to seamlessly edit in Audacity and post production. And marketing and distribution, learn how to identify your audience, create an online presence and monetisation!
Our podcast training programme will train a maximum of 15 young people throughout the duration of March.
If this sounds like something for you, click apply and start your journey into podcasting and media production.
Amaliah Book Club: Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
We’re bringing together the Amaliah sisterhood to dissect the themes raised in Audre Lorde’s work, including navigating intersectional identities, Black feminism, how to build coalitions, self-love, imperialism, and much more. Yassmin will take us through the night with prompts and questions to guide us through these topics and to understand how embracing our differences can be a vehicle for personal and societal change.
Join our incredible 2023 Careers Fair, this year featuring 55+ employers wanting to talk to YOU! Not only that, but we have our Charity & Community Marketplace, with 25 wonderful organisations offering support across mental health, sexual health, activism plus gorgeous independent LGBTQ+ retail stalls.Check out all our confirmed exhibitors here
2.8 Million Minds: Network building events for art, young people and mental health, in London.
What different ways are young people, artists, health professionals and everyone else using art for mental health?
The Residency is an artist-led programme equipping emerging Black and Black mixed heritage creatives with the skills to develop creative careers in photography, film-making and music
Take your career to the next level with this programme for emerging creatives, supported by Apple.
In this three-act performance by Global Generation Fellows of Story Garden, a thriving community garden behind the British Library, performers will share personal water-based memories, reveal the heritage of the river Fleet, and explore its mythology.
Global Perspectives: Nation and Migration in (Im)Mobile Times
Tue 7 Feb 2023, 18:30 – 19:45
Online and in-person (The Royal Society)
For the next event in the Global Perspectives series, Professor Brenda Yeoh FBA joins Professor Simon Goldhill FBA in conversation to discuss the relationship between nation and migration and the implications of the migrant-led diversification of populations and societies. Free
A reminder that the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry 2023 is currently OPEN for entries, until 28 February. With three categories – page, performance and film – a long-list is announced on social media a few weeks after the closing date followed by a short-list in late March. The category winners and overall winner will be announced at the Out-Spoken Awards show at Southbank Centre, central London, on Thursday 6th April 2023. The overall winner will receive £700.
Visit Treason: People, Power & Plot – a free exhibition
The National Archives, Kew, until 6 April
From the cook who poisoned the porridge and the young girl tried as a witch, the exhibition showcases moments which have helped shape modern Britain and demonstrates the changing nature of justice through the ages. View a unique selection of history-defining documents, and see the stories of traitors, including Guy Fawkes and Anne Boleyn, brought to life.
The Study Room is our core resource, and it is housed at the LADA space in Bethnal Green. Containing over 8,000 items that include out-of-print books and rare documentation, it is the world’s largest collection of research materials on Live Art.
As of Thursday the 2nd of February 2023, the Study Room is open to visitors on Thursdays and Fridays, offering two 3-hour sessions (11am – 2pm and 2pm – 5pm) which must be booked in advance.
Please make sure to read our Covid protocol before arriving at LADA.
You can find more information about the Study Room and book a visit here.
Mousetrap Theatre Project’s annual Youth Leadership in the Arts Conference is back!
Mousetrap Theatre Project’s annual Youth Leadership in the Arts Conference is back, and it’s coming to the London Coliseum this half term – Wednesday 15 February 10.30am-5pm. Open to anyone aged 15-24. YLAC2023 will be hosted by members of Mousetrap’s Youth Forum. The programme will be focused on Empowerment & Resilience, and will include sessions on wellbeing in the arts, inclusivity, freelancing, overcoming imposter syndrome and much more!
This year’s line-up will include talks, panel discussions, workshops and an opening and closing speech from a VIP guest TBA! Over the course of the day, you will have the chance to listen to lively, inspiring conversations between industry experts, and gain lots of valuable tips and knowledge to help boost your career. Your £5 ticket will grant you access to events in this year’s programme and lunch will be provided. We will email you before the conference to allow you to select which sessions you would like to attend. Click below to find out more and book your place!
CDMT Careers Conference and Showcase Performance 2023
The CDMT Careers Conference and Showcase Performance is the UK’s premier event for young people who wish to pursue a career in professional dance, drama and musical theatre!
The Mixed Museum We are a digital museum and archive that contributes to widening knowledge about Black and ethnic minority British history through sharing and preserving the social history of racial mixing in Britain for future generations. Visit the museum online
Where to find All-You-Can-Eat Buffets in London The best all-you-can-eat buffets in London… Bring an appetite! Read the post
What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Josh Cohen delves deep into the most memorable and vivid characters in literature, showing us ways to be wiser, more open and more self-aware.
We have started to collate a fixed resource hub on our website with details of organisations, networks, funding opportunities, and more, to support our members, practitioners, and any organisations working across the Capital. This living resource is just at the start, for the sector and will be regularly updated, however please sign up for our fortnightly newsletter to receive further information on one-off training and funding opportunities.
Book a private campus tour or 1-2-1 Talk to a human about your course interests. Register here
Offer Holder Days & Free Tasters: Got an offer to study with us and want to visit our applicant days or want to come to a free taster. Get in touch
Discover our Postgraduate Taught courses in Literature, Performance or Creative Writing. Read our new blog post
Save the dates: Mad Hearts – The Arts and Mental Health – 9-10 June / Peopling the Palace(s) Festival – 5-11 June 2023. Contact Ru to get involved in this year’s events.
“My writing has changed astronomically […] The support of many fabulous lecturers is a testament to the writer and person I am now.”
Subtexts presents…CLASS, CHORUS and ACCESS Tue 7 Feb, 6-8pm Rachael Allen reading from her forthcoming poetry collection God Complex which thinks through class and what class divides perpetuate and the ways we devote ourselves to things (landscape / peoples).
Ella Berny presenting from her PhD project, The Limits and Possibilities of Abortion Storytelling in Contesting an Abortion Regime, a creative engagement with the social sciences.
Join us for readings, chat, snacks and drinks ARTS TWO, Senior Common Floor (top floor)
Breaking Bread: Non-Linear Time: Writing Work Sun 5 Feb, 1pm – Candid Arts The programme for Breaking Bread 2023 hosted by Bread Theatre and Film Company, London is here, and it involves four creative workshops with four distinct artists. It grows out of creative collaborations with Bread London based on Ananya Mishra (English) current research on Indigenous ideas on non-linear time, intersecting with Cavendish physicist Prof Suchitra Sebastian’s explorations of novel emergent quantum matter.
The first workshop of Breaking Bread 2023 is on 5th February (Sunday). It will be hosted by the brilliant Tatenda Matsvai (aka 2tender) at the Basement Gallery, Candid Arts Trust.
This workshop is for anyone who writes or is interested in writing spoken word poetry; for anyone interested in exploring potentially decolonial forms of creating art; for anyone who wants to connect and share ideas with our growing community of London-based artists.
Join Bread London and Tatenda at 1pm for a meet, greet and eat inside the Candid Arts Cafe, then head down with us to the Basement Gallery at 2pm for a 2-hour workshop.
Tickets are free, but we ask that you reserve in advance via the Eventbrite link so that we know what numbers to expect.
Working for yourself – Wed 8 Feb 2-3pmIf you are interested in freelancing, in being in journalism or theatre practitioner, or have a great idea for a business, this session is for you!
Presenting yourself– Wed 15 Feb 2-3pmIf you would like to learn more about how to show yourself in the best light to potential employers and clients, come along to this workshop.
Mathelinda Nabugodi (Cambridge): ‘A Chamæleonic Race’: Shelley and the Discourses of Slavery – Wed 8 Feb, 5.15pm
In this talk, Nabugodi approaches Shelley’s poetic chameleonism from a somewhat different angle. Nabugodi will examine how Shelley’s poetry is coloured by contemporary practices of racial enslavement and adjacent discourses—anti-Black prejudices propagated by the pro-slavery West India Interest as well as by abolitionists and liberal thinkers.
Isabel Waidner in Conversation with Maxe Crandall (pictured above) – Wed 8 Feb 2023City Lights in conjunction with Graywolf Press celebrate the publication of “Sterling Karat Gold” By Isabel Waidner.
Conference: Contesting Authenticity in Literature, 1200-1700
30-31 March 2023 | Senate House Library, Bloomsbury Registration is now open for this 2-day conference on medieval and early modern literature dealing with various aspects of (in)authenticity. Our keynotes will be Professor Emeritus Alastair Minnis (Yale) and Professor Leah Whittington (Harvard).
The event will take place on 30-31 March 2023. The physical element of the conference is based at Senate House, University of London, with online participation possible. All forms of attendance are free, and bursaries are available to assist those wishing to attend in person.
Please see authenticity2023.wordpress.com for more conference details, including booking information, the conference programme, and bursary details.
Caitlin O’Donnell (English Studies: Writing and Society 1700-1820 MA, 2012), who is currently working at Northeastern University as a Manager for Strategic Initiatives and Executive Projects in External Affairs.“The courses I took at Queen Mary all focused on the relationship between society and literature. I found my studies to be much more interdisciplinary than what I had experienced in the US which gave me a more comprehensive view. Plus, I was specifically researching and writing about the city in which I was living. There are some absolute rock stars on the staff—one of my favourite memories was when Markman Ellis hosted tea as we were studying coffeehouse culture.”Read Caitlin’s story
Brazil’s small utopias
People’s Palace Projects BBC World Service with our Indigenous partner, Piratá Waurá. It’s about our VR project that is taking off again. We have developed the first prototype and just secured some extra funding to start the new prototype for non-Indigenous audiences/museums. Listen to the podcast
News Digest
WORMS: Isabel Waidner is featured in Worms Issue 6 with a fiction piece from their latest novel.
HISTORY OF ART SEMINAR AT EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART: Martin O’Brien gave a lecture entitled ‘Deathly Durations: Performance and the Temporalities of Decay’.
We can’t wait to receive your application for our innovative, inclusive and supportive degree programmes. If you have a relevant degree in a relevant subject at a 2:1 level we would love to receive an application from you.
Want to work in education, journalism, law, film and TV, teaching or marketing? English gives you the critical confidence to write well and get ahead in so many careers.
Want to become a writer? Our creative writing courses expose you to new work and challenge your own writing to become a confident creative writer across prose, poetry, non-fiction and many more experimental styles.
Want to work in performance, culture, social justice or build your own business? These Drama courses are a great way to start your bespoke career path.
Charity: £2 will go to Young Women’s Trust on behalf of each School of English and Drama student completing the survey and £1 from QMUL as a whole going to YWT too.
£5 Food Voucher: You’ll get a voucher for SU outlets. To claim the voucher, students need to forward the confirmation email received on completion of the survey, along with their name and student ID number, to nss-survey@qmul.ac.uk. The voucher will be emailed to them within two weeks. Your answers and comments to the survey will remain anonymous at all times.
Your feedback matters: Good or bad, your feedback is essential to the university for future improvement and to know any areas of concern.
Ipsos MORI will email you with a link to complete the survey. Later during the survey period, you may be contacted by SMS or phone unless you have opted out of this communication.
A charity donation of £2 will be made to the Young Women’s Trust on behalf of each School of English and Drama student completing the survey
You will be entered into a prize draw if you complete the survey by 10 February
The NSS provides you with the opportunity to provide anonymous feedback on your whole learning experience and make your voice heard on a national platform
Feedback from the NSS will be used to improve the experience for future students, just as you have benefitted from previous students’ feedback
Anonymised results are made publicly available through Discover Uni to help prospective students make informed decisions of where and what to study
For every NSS survey completed, Queen Mary will make a £1 charity donation.
Students’ Union Faculty Vice Presidents and Course Reps were asked to help pick a charity on behalf of their Faculty – for HSS the chosen charity was Young Women’s Trust in addition, the School of English and Drama will match Queen Mary’s donation for every SED student who completes the survey.
SED have the chance to win £500 – complete your survey by 10 February 2023
Between 23 January–10 February the School or Institute with the highest percentage of responses during this time will win £500 and, if we win, you can help us decide what to do with it! Make sure you complete the survey before Friday 10 February to help SED win £500.
You can be entered into the SED prize draw – complete your survey by 10 February
If you complete the survey by Friday 10 February you can enter the SED prize draw, with the following prizes up for grabs:
1 x £300 Hotel Gift Voucher
2 x £100 High Street Vouchers
10 x £25 High Street Vouchers
All you’ll need to do is upload evidence of your completed NSS survey to this form by 5pm on Friday 10 February. You can either upload the confirmation email, or a screenshot of the final page saying you have completed the survey. This prize draw is open to SED students only.
Welcome to our latest round up of events, opportunities and schemes that may help you meet collaborators, improve your career prospects or simply broaden your horizons.
Please let us know if you have any suggestions for the next edition via sed-web@qmul.ac.uk
Don’t forget your careers service is open all semester and can help with finding jobs, applications and interviews. Book an appointment or email your careers consultant Fliss Bush.
If you aren’t sure what you would like to do, this is great place to start! You’ll be encouraged to consider the shape you want your future to take, and given the tools you need to build an action plan with manageable next steps.
If you would like to learn more about how to show yourself in the best light to potential employers and clients, come along to this workshop.
Micro Internships now open
We hope you are well. Are you interested in completing a short internship with a business, charity or social enterprise? Micro Internships are a great way to gain experience in a real-life, professional setting with support and training from Queen Mary careers and internships staff.
Why should you apply? Gain real-life work experience and build your CV Increase your employer network Use micro-internship employer as a reference in future applications List the Micro Internship programme on your digital transcript, the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR)
Apply now! Applications for our Micro Internships are now open, with the deadline for applications being Sunday 29th January 2023. You can apply for more than one Micro Internship at a time.
In a society or have an idea to work with the community? Submit your idea to QMUL’s Festival of Communities
Get involved in the Festival of Communities The Festival of Communities is returning this summer, between 10 and 11 June, and there are lots of opportunities for staff and students to take part. Exploring living and learning together in Tower Hamlets, the Festival is a collaboration between Queen Mary and community organisations, with over 8,000 local residents joining us in 2022. Visit the Festival of Communities website for details on how you can be involved.
Online workshops: Autofiction with Wasafiri writer-in-residence Durre Shahwar
Join Wasafiri 2022/23 writer-in-residence Durre Shahwar for this online workshop series focusing on autofiction, self-representation, and prose-writing across and beyond genres. The next workshop will take place on 21 February, from 7-9pm, on Zoom. Read more and book tickets on the Wasafiri website.
Job at Wasafiri Magazine (based at Queen Mary): Digital Coordinator
Wasafiri is seeking to recruit a dynamic new Digital Co-Ordinator to manage our online profile. A lover of literature, committed to diversifying the voices heard in UK and global publishing, the ideal candidate is a creative, highly-organised individual equipped with the skills and track record to confidently lead the expansion of our online presence and reach new audiences, as well as the marketing and social media expertise to grow sales and event attendance.
“LOUDER!” FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT & PITCH NIGHT ———————————— Introducing “LOUDER!: A festival for the underrepresented”! “LOUDER!” (previously named “BAME Fest”) is a festival to celebrate and shine a light on the beautiful talent that exists from artists within the global majority! A festival to give a platform to those whose work and voices may be overshadowed; “LOUDER!” is intended to give these voices the spotlight and the space to be LOUDER!
Our pitch night for this festival is coming up on Monday 30th January! If you have a show you would like to pitch, feel free to submit through the form on our Linktree! Check out the post for more info!!
In Loving Memory at Bermondsey Project Space- 10 Feb
Live performance and film screening exploring, the courageous, hilarious, and deliciously naive transition from childhood to adulthood. A collaboration between artists and pals Bridget Russon (QMUL alumna) and Kate Ireland.
Cheer up January with free light festivals in Canary Wharf and City of London
WINTER LIGHTS: Brighten up these dark evenings with a trip to Canary Wharf to see Winter Lights, a free trail featuring more than 20 glowing artworks. Some will be familiar if you’ve been in previous years, while others are new for 2023. You’ll find them dotted around the area, both inside and outside. FREE, until 28 January
ILLUMINOCITY: We’re into the final week of IlluminoCity, a free light festival featuring two installations in the City of London. It’s your last chance to see glowing, geometric sculptures outside the CityPoint building near Moorgate, and Principal Place near Liverpool Street. FREE, until 27 January
BATTERSEA LIGHT FESTIVAL: Yep, another light festival. This one’s also free (hurrah!) and takes place in and around Battersea Power Station, with eight glowing installations illuminated every evening, and a selection of food trucks popping up to keep you fed and watered while you explore. FREE, until 5 March
#BFIFutureFilmFestival returns 16-19 Feb 2023, both in-person at BFI Southbank and online!
Jump in to playwriting with this 28-day challenge! Every day in February you’ll receive a writing brief, then you’ll have 36 hours to write a play in response. Plays can be of any length, genre and language. Register now to develop your skills and build your confidence!
Thursday 26 January 6.30pm – 9.30pm FREE, booking required
Hear some of the best emerging poets on the scene! This will be an evening focused on mindfulness and wellbeing, expect some chill vibes and a chance to take part in some mindful activities. Open mic slots available on the door.
Skilled Summers are looking for passionate and talented drama and acting students to travel to America this summer and get paid to teach their skills to children at a top summer camp.
The Horror Show! X Upgrade Yourself Takeover – Free entry to Somerset House exhibition
For one night only, get free entry to The Horror Show!, examining how ideas rooted in horror have informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion. We’ll also connect you with like-minded emerging creatives and give access to industry experts, exhibition contributors and Somerset House residents.
Our takeover gives 18-30 year olds:
Afterhours access to the exhibition
An Upgrade Yourself Live session with Jenkin Van Zyl who offers up advice on how to carve a creative space of your own
Plus a DJ set from LO-LOW, networking and bar in the Great Arch Hall.
Future Producer School, created by Sheffield DocFest and Bungalow Town Productions, has returned!
The scheme aims to develop industry partnerships and provide industry knowledge and experience to up-and-coming producers that have the ambition to become international feature documentary producers. The programme consists of: A residential lab 1-1 mentoring, Matchmade meetings and networking Full Industry Pass for Sheffield DocFest 2023 (standard pass price is £330 + VAT) Deadline to apply: 8 February, 17:00 GMT.
A weekend of complementary performance and film which completes The Sarah Siddon’s Fan Club Theatre collaboration with The United Voices of Africa Association.
Saturday 25th March & Sunday 26th March at 2pm & 4pm
A Theatrical Perambulation, beginning in St Michael’s Square, Bugle Street, Southampton
Bought: A street theatre production about the black history of Georgian Southampton. As well as being a fashionable spa and watering place, the home of the author Jane Austen, painted by John Constable and endorsed by Royalty, the wealth of the residents was based on spoils from West Indian Plantations and East India Company merchandise. This Hidden History tell the story of slaves and deserters, but also of writers, actors and survivors.
On the Wire: Putting Yourself in the Picture on Thursday 23rd February 7-8pm on Zoom with Andy Kempe, Emeritus Professor of Drama Education at the University of Reading and long standing member of National Drama and Patron of London Drama.
About this session: You will learn how to use the 5Ws of drama to create characters who may have been involved in a real event and be guided towards generating dynamic pieces of dramatic writing by using tightly constrained formats. Why this session is good to come to: The techniques introduced in this session are easily adapted to different age groups and both real and fictional events. This is a fun session that exemplifies the credo of playwright Noel Greig that ‘Limitation is stimulation’. Session Fee This session is £10 but discounted to London Drama and National Drama Members to £5. The promo code is available by emailing London Drama at londondrama1@gmail.com
Future Leaders in the Arts – Free course with Dance Consortium
Deadline 10 Feb
Future Leaders is ideal for people keen to know more about producing, venue and festival programming, artistic management, learning and engagement, tour management, technical management, festival scheduling, public events, tour co-ordination, marketing, digital communications, press and PR, fundraising and more.
Melanie Bigold (Cardiff University) ‘Books of her own: Women’s Libraries and Book Ownership in the Long Eighteenth Century’
What role did women play in the expansion and consumption of print culture between 1660-1820? Drawing on evidence of over 300 women’s libraries, including detailed records from fifty women’s book and library lists comprising some 30,000 titles, this paper will offer some preliminary details about what we have been missing in relation to women and their books in the long eighteenth century.
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, Tuesday 7 February, in person, 5.30-7pm. Registration required.
By popular demand, East End History Club is back! As the closing event for our Feeding the Hamlets exhibition, spend a Saturday with us immersing yourself in the history of food production in the East End.
This is the last chance to see the exhibition before it closes. The day will feature….
tours of the exhibition at 11am & 2pm
a wide range of additional collections about food history available for informal browsing – including newspapers, photos and pamphlets
possibly a film screening
free tea, coffee and biscuits
Please book in advance so we have an idea of numbers, but feel free to drop in at any point during the event.
Where is Anne Frank
Film screening | Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
To mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives in partnership with UK Jewish Film is screening WHERE IS ANNE FRANK.
Branding 101 – Free mini class
Branding and design expert Hadrien Chatelet is going to give you a 30-minute whistle stop tour on branding basics for beginners.
ZU-UK will hold a series of 3 ‘This Is How I Do It, Baby’ workshops: each is led by a different guest artist/practitioner established as an innovator in their field, introducing participants to their practice, and including a practical exploration of how they make their work. Join one, two, or all three sessions:
These workshops are FREE and open to the public but require you to register, as capacity is limited. All workshops take place at BATHWAY THEATRE, Woolwich, London. It is possible to attend just one, some, or all of the workshops.
Call for Contributions: Art for the Sake of care
The Special Issue Art for the Sake of Care for Humanities explores the space between Art Practice Research and Care Ethics/Studies, highlighting how artistic and creative practice researchers contribute to a caring society. By cutting between care ethics, care theory, and art practice research, this special issue emphasizes care through aesthetic, performative and participatory spaces. Our special issue proposes the encounter of care and the arts as inquiry, as critical, dialogic, performative, and healing. Ultimately, we explore how the arts aim to foster solidarity, trust, and equity as pillars of a caring society.
Contributions are invitation-based for contributors to the Art and Care Platform Series (www.art-and-care.com). The editors are open to considering relevant abstracts (250 words, 4–6 keywords and a short bio by February 1, 2023 to: Merel Visse, mvisse@drew.edu and Dr. Elena Cologni, elena.cologni@aru.ac.uk.)
£5 Freelancer Skills Workshops at the Bush Theatre
In this series of 90-minute workshops designed for theatre freelancers, Bush Theatre staff team will share their knowledge in various areas of the business side of creative life. Each of the workshops will be informative and interactive and aimed at freelancers.
The Bush’s Library Bar and Café will also be open, and freelancers are encouraged to network.
There are limited free bursary places available for freelancers who need them. Contact bushgreen@bushtheatre.co.uk for more information on how to apply for a bursary place.
Tuesday 7th February:
11 am Producing Workshop – Led by Oscar Owen
1.30 pm Writers Pitching Skills Workshop –Led by Deirdre O’Halloran
3.30 pm Directors Toolkit Workshop– Led by Daniel Bailey and Lynette Linton
Wednesday 8th February:
11 am Finance WorkshopLed by Neil Harris
1.30 pm Fundraising Workshop – Led by Ruth Davey and Eleanor Tindall
3.30 pm Marketing Workshop – Led by Shannon Clarke and Ed Theakston
Tickets: £5 (£3 concessions) can be booked at bushtheatre.co.uk or at the Box Office on 020 8743 5050.
The Journo Resources Yearbook 2023
Inside the magazine you’ll find:
• 12 in-depth features from our inaugural 2021/22 fellows, looking at everything from life after Twitter and travel journalism, to Islamophobic reporting and creating accessible stories.
• Brand new and updated personal development exercises to help you set achievable goals for your next 12 months in journalism, as well as plan out the stories you really want to cover. • Useful directories of rates, salaries, and other journalism resources you can use to find the support you need over the next 12 months.
• A paper aeroplane to throw social media owners who are throwing their outlet down a pan and other fun surprises…
Next week, join us to explore the role that community engagement can play in addressing housing inequalities, and ask how communities can be better included in shaping and creating their own housing culture and heritage. In the first session of 2023, our expert panel of guests will explore the role that architecture, planning and public engagement can play in addressing racial inequalities and differences in housing and living arrangements across ethnic communities.
DATE Wednesday 25 January 2023 TIME 1:00-2:00pm GMT LOCATION Zoom
Auntie Sewing Squad: Mask Sewing, Racial Justice and Radical Care
January 24th 19:00 Rose Bruford College, Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup, DA15 9DF
Studio (C015)
Kristina Wong is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama. She’s a performance artist, comedian, writer and elected representative who has been presented internationally across North America, the UK, Hong Kong and Africa. She’s been a guest on late night shows on NBC, Comedy Central and FX. She’s been awarded artist residencies from MacDowell, San Diego Airport and Ojai Playwrights Festival.
Poetry LGBT Open Mic Night started in January 2015
Come and enjoy poetry and spoken word from new and established poets/writers/creatives for this 8th year anniversary special. Date: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Time: 7-10pm Venue: The Two Brewers 114 Clapham High Street London SW4 7UJ
Up to 20 poets/writers/creatives will each share their poems/spoken word/song.
The open mic sign up is now done inside the venue at 6:45pm on a first come first served basis.
Each person who arrives before 7:30pm will be given 2 free raffle tickets for a chance to win fantastic prizes at 9:30pm
As a SED student, there are many different career options open to you. You may know exactly what you want to do; you may feel overwhelmed and unsure where to start.
Wherever you are on your career journey, the Careers & Enterprise service is here to help and we are holding a series of online workshops in February exclusively for SED students:
If you aren’t sure what you would like to do, this is great place to start! You’ll be encouraged to consider the shape you want your future to take, and given the tools you need to build an action plan with manageable next steps.
Welcome to our latest round up of events, opportunities and schemes that may help you meet collaborators, improve your career prospects or simply broaden your horizons.
Please let us know if you have any suggestions for the next edition via sed-web@qmul.ac.uk
Don’t forget your careers service is open all semester and can help with finding jobs, applications and interviews. Book an appointment or email your careers consultant Fliss Bush.
How to Design a Magazine Colours, 2-4 Hoxton Square – Wednesday 18th January, 6pm. Tickets are free for students – please email info@stackmagazines.com using your university or college email address to request the 100% discount code.
Please join us for the launch of our short open access book, ‘Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data: Lessons from an interdisciplinary project’ (soon to be available open access by Cambridge University Press as part of the Elements Series). The event will be an online roundtable discussion, led by hosts Professor Jane Winters and Professor James Smithies, with the authors, Ruth Ahnert, Emma Griffin, Mia Ridge and Giorgia Tolfo.
Living with Machines is one of the largest digital humanities projects ever funded in the United Kingdom. The project brought together a large interdisciplinary team (39 members over its lifetime to) to leverage more than twenty-years’ worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding of the impact of mechanisation on nineteenth-century Britain. In contrast to many previous digital humanities projects which have sought to create resources, the project was concerned to work with what was already there, which whilst straightforward in theory is complex in practice. This Element describes the efforts to do so. It outlines the challenges of establishing and managing a truly multidisciplinary digital humanities project in the complex landscape of cultural data in the United Kingdom and shares what other projects seeking to undertake digital history projects can learn from the experience.
WasafiriWhat is autofiction and what is its definition? Is it a hybrid genre, a thinly veiled autobiography, or something else entirely? This workshop will consider various definitions and approaches to provide a general understanding of what autofiction is, its nuances, and why you might write in it.
LINES: making friends; crossing borders presents the findings of this research in visual form. A unique collaboration between Dr Ryan and Minute Works Studios, the exhibition features eight monochrome posters as well as a visual fieldwork diary from the project. Tue, 31 Jan, 5.00pm – The Bloc Arts One Building, Mile End Campus.
Religion, Nakedness and the Human Form Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
This lecture explores how Christianity in particular has understood, monitored and sought to control nakedness, demonstrating the remarkable tenacity of these fears over a long period and in a variety of locations. Tue, 31 Jan, 5.00pm – Graduate Centre Mile End Road GC601 Montagu Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London London, Mile End Campus.
Learning The Ropes is a 3-day bootcamp followed by industry-led mentoring for anyone interested in a career in TV and production.
Important facts
Applications close at 17:00 pm on Sunday 15 January 2023
We will be in touch with next steps by Friday 20th January 2023
The bootcamp commences on Wednesday 25 and concludes on Friday 27th January 2023
Mentoring sessions take place on the evenings of the 1 February, 15 March, 26 April, 7 June & 5 July.
For your application to be considered you must be able to commit to all of the dates listed.
Eligibility: To be eligible for the programme you must meet the programme’s eligibility requirements, including your age (18-24) and that you are not in training, education or employment
Workshop with #LondonWritersAwards alum @magpiecassidy is an imaginative collaging and free writing session to support you to explore new ideas & create fresh approaches for your writing.
Release yourself from the shackles of writer’s block with this mindful art and writing workshop. Based on spontaneous creativity, Project Collage looks to explore your ideas without rules or restrictions. Maybe you’re a writer who wants to do something different?
28TH JANUARY 12PM – 2PM | VIRTUAL Are you a musician who could do with some guidance on how best to utilise your social media?
Katherine Cantwell is an online coordinator at Heavenly Recordings, managing the labels social media channels and promoting artists.
On 28th January, she is hosting a free, virtual workshop covering; different social media platforms and how to use them, various social media practices, and what works effectively. This is also your chance to receive expert advice on anything you’re struggling with in the world of social media. Limited spaces available
The Ivan Juritz Prize invites postgraduate students throughout Europe to submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image work and proposals for installation and performance. Winners in three categories (Text, Sound, Visual Arts) will be awarded £1,000 each. Moreover, they will be invited to a joint two-week artist residency at Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy, which offers a unique environment for developing new ideas and artistic collaborations.
All shortlisted works will be showcased at the prize-giving ceremony at King’s College London and written up in the journal Textual Practice.
Entrants are encouraged to play with form to make us think, feel and question. The winners will be both of their time and aware of debts to the past. Ezra Pound, calling on the modern artist to ‘make it new’, was, after all, creatively translating the ancient Chinese King Cheng Tang.
All entries must be accompanied by a 150-word artist’s statement, in which you should analyse the role of experiment in your work and, if appropriate, relate your work, whether sympathetically or antagonistically, to the creative experimentation of the modernist era.
Workshop: AI and born-digital archives: Challenges and opportunities
organised by the AHRC-funded project Unlocking our Digital Past with Artificial Intelligence (LUSTRE) led by Dr Lise Jaillant (Loughborough University).
LUSTRE seeks to better understand how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help improve the preservation, access to and usability of government archives produced in digital form. The Cabinet Office is a collaborative partner in LUSTRE, along with The National Archives and other organisations.
Through a series of talks and a roundtable, this day long workshop will delve into the challenges and opportunities that AI offers to the management and use of digital born archives.
The workshop will be a hybrid event (in London and online) on Thursday 26 January.
To attend in person from 10 am to 4 pm GMT, please register using this link:
Poems Beyond Metaphor with Will Harris (Sat. 21 January 2023, 1–4pm UK)
A generative workshop looking at how we read poems and what we expect from them. We’ll explore metaphor and metonym, the limits of sense and non-sense, and experiment with making poems without realising!
Max: 30 ppl Price £20 Duration 3 hours
Will Harris is a London-based writer. His debut poetry book RENDANG (2020) was a Poetry Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He co-edited the Spring 2020 issue of The Poetry Reviewwith Mary Jean Chan. He has collaborated with the artist Aisha Farr, and helps facilitate the Southbank New Poets Collective with Vanessa Kisuule. He co-translated Habib Tengour’s Consolatio with Delaina Haslam in 2022. His second book of poems, Brother Poem, will be published by Granta in the UK and by Wesleyan in the US in March 2023.
Weds 18th Jan Poetry Launch: Wind, Trees by John Freeman with Gboyega Odubanjo, Rachael Allen, Jack Underwood and Jason Allen-Paisant
Free winter evening of poetry from writer-editors John Freeman, Gboyega Odubanjo, Rachael Allen, Jack Underwood and Jason Allen-Paisant to break up the long January. Come warm yourselves up with poems, books and conversation.
Today, award-nominated dance magazine dance art journal announces an open call for writers to take part in its Guest Writers programme which will run every Thursday from February 2023 – April 2023. This 8-week programme is designed to provide emerging writers aged 18-30 with the opportunities to develop their writing skills and gain experience in arts journalism.
Through a series of 8 workshops with leading industry journalists and dance practitioners, participants will learn about different approaches to writing about art, focusing mainly on the field of dance. Participants will expand their definition of the reviewer or the art critic and delve into different ways of textually capturing movement. The programme culminates in a paid writing commission of £100 for each participant and a networking event at the Roundhouse in London.
If you experience trouble accessing this application please contact us.
Hi Community,
As we cast positive visions for our futurity in 2023 and beyond, join our proactive input to support the African & Caribbean heritage narrative within the British context and to explore, with the aid of embodied memory, archive and performance, how a community may nurture resilience.
Decolonising the Archive, welcomes you to participate and witness our Theatre production of POCOMANIA by Una Marson, showing for the first time in Britain after being revived through publication in 201, from a forgotten archive. Hailed as a cultural masterpiece on its Caribbean debut in Jamaica at the Ward Theatre in 1938, due to its insightful discourse around the relationship between African-origin religious ritual forms and cosmopolitan, creolised middle-class identities forging themselves outside and within colonial frameworks.
Pocomania shows for a limited time at Theatre Peckham, 31 January – 5th February in addition to creative workshops held separately (January 14th and February 6th 2023) that will explore in detail the themes, archives and content in the play.
Kindly see posters attached, spread the word to your students, colleagues, families and friends. Get tickets early to avoid disappointment.
YA & children’s fiction scholarship for writers of colour
If you have the desire to write, a great idea and a compelling voice – and if you’re a writer of colour without the financial means to attend a Curtis Brown Creative course, this scholarship opportunity is for you.
Twitter is changing – what could that mean for arts and culture?
Twitter is changing and – in recent months – many are expressing concern about the way the platform is being managed. What impact might this have for arts organisations and artists?
Applications open for 6th Stuart Hall Library Artist Residency
Deadline: Sunday 12 February 2023, 11.59pm
We are pleased to announce the sixth Stuart Hall Library Artist Residency commencing in May 2023, in collaboration with iniva.
Reflecting on Stuart Hall’s paper ‘Constituting an Archive’, we are inviting an artist to respond to the concept of “the living archive” and consider the multiple ways in which an archive as a site may hold multiple narratives that are contested.
The residency is a funded opportunity for a UK-based artist to pursue research at iniva’s Stuart Hall Library for three months this summer, with the selected artist receiving support amounting to £4,750.
Applications are open now. Head to our website to learn more.
Want to write a play? Get your work shown here! 37 Plays, led by the Royal Shakespeare Company, is looking for the stories of our times: the comedies, the tragedies and the untold histories. Tell your story and submit your work! The chosen 37 plays will be performed script-in-hand across the UK and online in autumn 2023.
Here’s the topline…Eligibility: AnyLocation: RemoteDeadline: 31 January
Join us THIS THURSDAY 6 – 8 PM for the opening of our new show, A to Zine
From cities as far as Mumbai, Berlin, Ontario, Rotterdam and Limassol, A to Zine brings together over one hundred Zines submitted via our open call. These DIY publications on display offer you an opportunity to delve into the latest expressions of queer culture on topics as varied as: how to look after your mental health online; recover from your first break-up; understand the sociology of bad sex or bake bread with very unusual ingredients. Throughout the month of January, we’ve transformed our gallery to a warm space for you to visit at any time and flick through joyful celebrations of body hair, explore the colours of mushrooms, or chart the dysfunctions of the gender clinic. We’ve also equipped the space with magazines and materials for you to craft your own zines to add to our collection or take home.
Get a different perspective on our current exhibition, In Plain Sight, with these free tours led by experts from different fields.
Perspective Tour with Neil Harbisson Tue 17 January, 15:00–16:00Hear contemporary artist and cyborg activist Neil Harbisson’s unique perspective on the objects and themes explored in the gallery.Book now
Perspective Tour with Laurie Britton Newell Thu 2 February, 18:00 – 19:00Co curator Laurie Britton Newell outlines how the exhibition came together and discusses objects and themes from the gallery.Book now
Perspective Tour with MaMoMi Thu 9 February, 16:00 – 17:00Join Social Enterprise MaMoMi for this tactile tour of the exhibition where they will share their views and insights on the objects and themes from a visually diverse perspective. Book now
Here’s 7 reasons why Queen Mary University of London should be your first choice.
#1 Diversity: Not just a marketing buzzword but a genuine multicultural hub of students from diverse backgrounds:
92 per cent from state schools;
75 per cent BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic);
49 per cent first into higher education;
35 per cent from households where the annual taxable income is less than £20k, qualifying them automatically for the most generous Queen Mary University of London Bursary.
#2 Inclusion: We are committed to supporting students to achieve their potential. We support students from various backgrounds including LGBTQI+ people, people with disabilities and learning differences, neurodiverse people, Muslim students and those from the incredibly diverse community we are a part of in central London.
#3Russell Group Standard Teaching: We are a top quality institution but with a down to earth feel. We pride ourselves on quality of teaching and how our incredible research feeds into inspiring classes and support for your own development.
#4Make Lifelong Friends: Our friendly community has societies, opportunities to meet your fellow students out of class, peer-support for study, activities for residents, wellness programmes and much more.
#5 Campus vibe in the middle of the world’s most exciting city: We have an off street campus by the Regent’s Canal. We are close to the city centre with all its attractions but with enough breathing space to relax and study in peace. We have coffee shops, corner stores and so much space to study all over our main Mile End Site. The campus is welcoming and is accessible via public transport from all over London. We have 4 tube lines, the DLR and buses galore including the new Elizabeth Line being a short walk away.
#6 Your Career: We are focussed on helping you succeed in any career you want to do. From industry workshops, bespoke placements and 1-2-1 advice we are here to support your dreams. English has a 92% employment rate.
#7Money Support & Uni Jobs: We support students from low-income background with a bursary, offer part-time jobs in our Student Union and all over campus as well as guaranteeing affordable first year accommodation.
#8 FOOD: We have over 4,000 Deliveroo options who deliver here. We are nearby to foodie heaven Brick Lane and one stop from Westfield: Stratford City for food and shopping.
#9 COUNSELLING & MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID: We have hundreds of mental health first aiders to help students and staff as well as free courses of counselling and liaison with mental health professionals.
#10 FACILITIES: We have a 24 hour library at Mile End, access to the beautiful Senate House Library, BLOC cinema, 2 performance studios and hundreds of student study spaces on campus which you can book online.
Welcome to our latest round up of events, opportunities and schemes that may help you meet collaborators, improve your career prospects or simply broaden your horizons.
Free OCN course available for students – Peer Mentoring and Facilitation
The three day course – running 30th, 31st January and 1st February 10am-5pm – will be facilitated by ‘Tender’ – it offers a unique training programme for young people who wish to learn about domestic abuse and sexual violence and develop the skills to support other young people.
There’s an application process which closes on 11th Jan 2023 – hence needing to advertise now – completed applications should be emailed to: jessica@tender.org.uk
Freelance Sound Artist, QMUL & LBTH Local History Library & Archives
Nadia Valman’s AHRC project is seeking a sound artist to work with oral history material the project has collected. Information is here. The deadline for applications is 9 January 2023.
£3 Thursdays at Genesis Cinema our local incredible indie movie theater
Deadline 5 January: Introductory Writers’ Group – ‘Ignites your journey to become a writer.’
Talawa returns with the local Introductory Writers’ Group for Black writers who are predominantly from Croydon, or who live, work or study there now. Best of all – it’s free to take part.
If you like to write and want to learn how to develop your ideas we want to meet you!
10 fortnightly sessions starting February 2023 led by Michelle Matherson.
Application deadline Tuesday 17 January 2023at 10.00.
Our Creative Industry Placements offer five, one-year placements (six months at two organisations) that give you the opportunity to really get inside how a creative business is run, from operations through to programming. All participants are paid the London Living Wage, with on the job learning that nurtures, mentors and develops participants, whilst being supported through in depth wrap around training and development. All placements work across Somerset House and are hosted by on-site organisations within our resident creative community.
Roles include:
Artillite – Sales Assistant
Bread & Butter – Junior Press Assistant
Hofesh Shechter – Project Administrator
ONTHEBEAT – Studio Talent Assistant
Royal Society of Literature – Marketing & Administration Assistant
Writenow Programme for new writers, Penguin Random House
Aspiring writer? Need a little guidance? Join this award-winning programme with Penguin Random House! You’ll get the tools, information, and access needed to navigate the publishing industry and launch your career as a successful author. You will be supported on your path, and get insights into the TV Industry too!
Here’s what you’ll get…
An invite to a free workshop in early 2023 on demystifying the publishing and TV industries.
Shortlisted writers will receive one-to-one feedback on their writing from a Penguin editor, and the chance to get their work in front of BBC Studios.
Successful applicants will join a year-long editorial programme, where you’ll partner with a Penguin editor to work on your manuscript and build your understanding of the publishing industry.
The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalist’s Award 2023 open for entries
Are you a young journalist, full-time resident in the UK, studying for a journalism qualification or starting out on your journalism career and who would like to win a valuable and prestigious award?
If so, enter The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalist’s Award 2023, which offers a prize of £1,500 each for each winner of the two categories stipulated below. In addition, the student winners will each receive an NUJ membership. The runners-up in each category will receive a prize of £500 and winners and runners-up will also receive a three-year free membership of The Orwell Society.
Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poets Development Scheme – Deadline 22 February
Out-Spoken Press, together with our partners Spread the Word and New Writing North, are delighted to introduce the second year of our Emerging Poets Development Scheme, offering targeted, integrated support and resources to four emerging poets over the course of a year — including regular one-to-one feedback, together with craft and practical resources — aiming to ready you for publication.
Content Marketing team at Headout. We are looking to onboard talented writers and West End Theatre enthusiasts for our West End Reviews & News team. Your institution is reputed for imparting world-class education to its students and preparing them for the demands of professional work in the theatre industry. We would love to have your students work with us on our London Theatre Reviews team as writing interns.
How will this work?
We will pass on a short assignment to you for the students based upon which we will select a few students to intern with us.
We will sponsor tickets for the selected students to watch West End shows (access to opening nights for some shows as well!) and in return, they would be required to pen reviews for Headout’s London Theatre property – London Theatre Tickets.
If you love theatre, we have the perfect opportunity for you! Complete a short assignment for us and if you get selected, you get to watch some of the best West End theatre shows for free! All you have to do is pen a review of the show for us in return.
About Headout Headout is home to the world’s best real-life experiences – from expert-led tours to incredible landmarks, activities, events, and everything in between. Its mission is to inspire people to get close to the world we live in by building the most seamless and affordable booking platform. So far, Headout has served more than 12 million guests from 195 countries across 81 destinations and is available in 6 languages. It has raised $60M+ from top-tier investors and is headquartered in New York with 9 global offices.
Open Call! Bush Theatre Script Submissions
Have a story to tell? Bush Theatre are looking for scripts! If you are a writer currently unrepresented by an agent, this could be your opportunity to have your voice heard.
Experience: No Experience Required. You should be unrepresented by an agent and your work should be unproduced.
What You Could Get: A meeting with Bush Theatre to discuss your work. Written feedback. Become a new member of the Emerging Writer’s Group.
Following its launch at Guru Live, BAFTA have joined forces with the BFI and British Council to produce a Short Film Toolkit for aspiring filmmakers. Whether you’re just starting out or already making waves in the industry, the Short Film Toolkit is there to demystify the extensive world of shorts and provide a comprehensive digital guide to the short filmmaking process. The first of its kind, the Short Film Toolkit includes insights from over 40 filmmakers, distributors, funders and festival programmers with advice ranging from film festival strategies to funding and marketing recommendations, as well as feature case studies in documentary, animation, fiction, experimental & artist moving image, XR and immersive. VIEW TOOLKIT
APPLICATIONS FOR BFI FLARE ARE OPEN
Since 2015, BFI Flare X BAFTA have partnered with BFI Network to produce a professional development programme, which showcases and supports six LGBTQIA+ filmmakers each year working in film and television. Offering a variety of mentoring, wellbeing and career coaching, festival access and membership to BAFTA’s year-round programme of events, this is a unique and phenomenal opportunity for LGBTQIA+ filmmakers to build on their work and elevate their career. Applications are now open for BFI Flare x BAFTA and you can find more information below. APPLY FOR FLARE
In this event, the editors of ‘Queer Spaces’ will explore the past and present life of LGBTQIA+ spaces from around the word – and their worthy place in history.
DATE Wednesday 22 February 2023 / TIME 1:00-2:00pm GMT / LOCATION Zoom
This event will explore trans people’s experiences of in/visibility in urban spaces and city life, and the contradictions that can make them simultaneously hyper-visible and hyper-vulnerable. DATE Wednesday 15 March 2023 / TIME 1:00-2:00pm GTM / LOCATION Zoom
Book a session today, in-person or online, to speak to a member of the team and get some valuable information, advice and guidance to support you in building a career in the creative, cultural and digital technology industries. Including CV, application or interview prep! To use Creative Connect you need to be aged 18 to 24 and living in London.
Callout: Critics on Criticism – Decentering criticism
Critics on Criticism is a section of the Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques Journal that explores the intersections between cultures of critique and those of performance. The Critics on Criticism section of Critical Stages/Scènes critiques is peer-reviewed and published online. We welcome engagements with the digital format and invite contributors to think about access in their submissions, in light of the varied, international readership of the journal. We also welcome formal engagements with the digital platform.
For June 2023 issue ideas, inquiries, abstracts and submissions are to be sent to Diana Damian Martin on diana.damian@cssd.ac.uk
Our first study day of the year is here to bring some love to December.
Love is at the heart of literature and drama. This TED talk style event will help A-level students understand the importance of love in poems, plays, and prose from Shakespeare’s day to our own time. Based on Love Through the Ages, a unit within AQA’s A-level syllabus, these short talks will also include helpful resources for all year 12 students studying English and/or Drama. We are a Russell Group university who aims to be the most inclusive of our kind. We aim to support you with your A-level studies and help you succeed in English and Drama.
Perceptions – First Ever MA Creative Writing Event Monday 10 December – 1800-2000 – Queens’ Building SCR | FREE‘
As the inaugural cohort of the MA Creative Writing we are extremely proud to present our work and we hope you can join us! We’ve collaborated on an excellent night on the theme of Perceptions. Explore your senses through our writing and artworks.’
Be sure to check out our Instagram / TikTok / Blog for an MA Creative Writing takeover.
News Digest XINGU RESISTANCE: Yula Rocha from People’s Palace Projects (based at QMUL) has written a piece for Where the Leaves Fall magazine. Read it here
ECO-NVERSATION PODCAST LIVE: Eco-nversation is a podcast that brings together activists, artists and academics to discuss our roles and responsibilities in the climate emergency. Listen here
AUGMENTED REALITY TEXTBOOK MADE BY DRAMA STUDENT: Emma Howes, a fourth-year film studies and drama student at Queen Mary University of London, was one of the co-founders of SmartBooks who also studied abroad at UCLA with Simone Jensen. Read more
KATE BUSH BOOK IN THE WORKS FROM BRIAN DILLON (CREATIVE WRITING): Brian Dillon on the 40th anniversary of the singer’s lesser-known record, The Dreaming writes for FRIEZE. Read the article
Lost and Foundling: The art of creative giving: As the cost-of-living crisis crunches, how can we all be artistic philanthropists? A dialogue between care-experienced young people and eighteenth-century philanthropists explores the arts and giving Read the full blog post about the project
Third year Queen Mary University of London English Literature student stops re-reading ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ to become speed-cubing champion and claim new Guinness World Record Read more
How to write a review: Brendan Macdonald drafts some instructions for writing about Split Britches’ latest performance. Read the review (or is it?)
2022 Paris Symposium of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar and the theme is ‘Oaths, Odes and Orations 1789-1830’ Three of our English team are giving papers:David Duff, ‘Blake’s Public Addresses’Will Bowers, ‘The Ode Disinterred’Paul Hamilton, ‘Odes et al.’ Read more about the symposium
**Content warning: mentions mental health and suicide**
Phakama present: We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall, a collaborative artwork aiming to lower the number of suicides through the use of the Cultural and Creative sectors.It’s a project supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, along with Phakama, ONCA and Cass Art. Someone somewhere or maybe even yourself needs a quiet acknowledgement that struggles with emotional and mental health too many times come from the complexities of how society is structured. On a 30 x 30 cm canvas board, using only White and Prussian Blue oil paint, create a painting of your face in any style and submit to arrive by the 16th of December to be included in a collective exhibition at ONCA gallery on International Human Solidarity Day, 20th December, or before the 1st of February, 2023, to be included in the photographic series for 2022.There’s no submission fee or benchmark of artistic experience you need to climb over to have your self-portrait accepted, your collaboration and involvement is the precious bit. Find out more
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Welcome to our latest round up of events, opportunities and schemes that may help you meet collaborators, improve your career prospects or simply broaden your horizons.
A workshop to which participants bring their poetry to illustrate, format, and print.
11 Dec | Rabbits Road Press 835 Romford Road London E12 5JY | Free
Bring along your poetry to this workshop where you can illustrate, format, and print it on Riso printers at Rabbits Road Press. This is your opportunity to create a DIY publication from start to finish in a lively community hub. You can also make posters and zines based on conversations around the social power of publishing and dispersal for all.
As the inaugural cohort of the MA Creative Writing we are extremely proud to present our work and we hope you can join us! We’ve collaborated on an excellent night on the theme of Perceptions. Explore your senses through our writing and artworks.
Mayor of London Culture Team – Thriving through Culture: 2.8 Million Minds – Consultant/Manager
We are looking for a freelance consultant/manager for our Thriving Through Culture: 2.8 Million Minds project to support young Londoners with their mental health.
This London Rare Books School online short course offers an introduction to the history of Black British magazines over a fifty-year period. Although magazines are often referred to as ephemera, their materiality, production, and content provide a social and cultural history. The course will consider how the dynamics of magazines show the changes that occurred in Black British life in the period after the Second World War.
Claire de Rouen Books presents Haunted Houses with Lynne Tillman and Emily LaBarge
I am pleased to invite you to our online event with author and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, whose 1987 novel Haunted Houses has just been republished by Peninsula Press. Lynne will be in conversation with writer Emily LaBarge (Royal College of Art) about the book and her work at large. Thursday December 15, 7 PM. RSVP at lilly@clairederouenbooks.com for the zoom details.
NOW ONLINE: Watch Arundhati Roy’s Keynote
Things That Can and Cannot Be Said: The dismantling of the world as we knew it
Spiel Allein: London Contemporary Art Exhibition – Until 14 December 2022 Curated by Wuchao Feng & Yue Yin – Gallery NAT at Gallery 46 in Whitechapel
Featuring 25 artists from around the world and their recent works, the exhibition reflects their experiments and explorations under the theme of personal perspective through contemporary art.
Women of Bethnal Green at work is a photography exhibition inspired by the working lives of women past and present in Bethnal Green, exhibited at Oxford House until April 2023.
Penguin are partnering with BBC Studios to give new and under-represented writers the tools, information and access needed to navigate the book and TV industries.
Apply with just 1,000 words for your chance to get published.
Develop your TikTok script writing skills and learn how you can enter this emerging field by joining our interactive masterclass.
Who will be teaching? Surya Varatharajan, founder of Yosanie, the premier web platform enabling creatives to share and discover skit scripts for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
ARTS & CULTURE – Open Call! Curatorial Research Fellowship
Asymmetry are excited to announce their Curatorial Research Fellowship at Chisenhale Gallery, London! Develop practical and critical skills in this early career role.
Here’s the topline…
Experience: Some experience required, with a strong motivation and interest in contemporary art.
Location: London
Fellowship length: 18 Months from 17 April 2023 – 31 October 2024
You will develop and contribute to various editorial, communications and social media outputs, thinking critically about the connections between the gallery, commissioned artists and audiences.
The chosen curator will have the opportunity to develop their curatorial practice supporting the gallery’s internationally renowned commissions programme.
ADVERTISING, MARKETING & PR – Internship at Take-Two Games
Undergrad student looking for more experience? Take-Two Interactive Software offers an exciting opportunity to experience what it is like to work for a leading player in the interactive entertainment industry!
Placements are typically offered across Take-Two and 2K in Marketing, PR, Sales, Digital Sales, Business Planning, ERP, HR, Finance, Internal Audit and IT.
Placement year 2023 – 2024. 54 weeks.
Perks: Gym reimbursement up to £50 per month, an onsite Gym, an Office bar, employee discount programs, free games & events, stocked pantries, a dog friendly workplace and the ability to earn £350+ per year for taking care of yourself and more!
A small number of bursaries are available for each school from our generous donors, designed to help those who could not otherwise afford to attend. To apply for a bursary, please complete the form upon booking.
If you have any questions about the summer schools, booking or the bursary process, please email iesevents@sas.ac.uk.
The T. S. Eliot International Summer School is also running a one-day workshop on ‘Digital Editions: The Case of T. S. Eliot‘ on 17 January 2023. Places are extremely limited, so book now to avoid disappointment!
ADVERTISING, MARKETING & PR – Brixton Finishing School FREE Programme
Land your first role in the marketing, advertising, and communications industries with this FREE, award winning programme! Work with industry experts, have access top placements, and enjoy one-to-one mentoring with Brixton Finishing School.
Location: London
Course length: 10 weeks
Eligibility: For ages 18-24
Assessment evenings for selection run from January – April 2023
Course takes place July to September 2023
You’ll meet the biggest companies in the industry and equip yourself with the knowledge and skills needed to kick start your career.
Deadline: Rolling
Want to land your first role in the creative industries? Apply here!
PUBLISHING – Work Experience at Penguin Random House UK!
Applications are now open for work experience placements at Penguin Random House! Whether you’ve always known you want to work with books, or simply want to dip your toe in the water, enjoy a two-week virtual placement getting experience in your chosen department.
Here’s the topline…
Experience: No Experience Required
Age: 18+
Salary: National Living Wage
Location: Online
Internship length: Two Weeks
Deadline: 12th December
Would you love to experience working in a top UK Publisher? Click here
In 2023, the NHS turns 75. The Arts and Humanities Council, in partnership with the BFI , are funding emerging filmmakers to create new films in response to the BFI National Archive’s NHS on Film collection on BFI Player. Deadline: Thursday 15 December
I’d like to say thanks, first of all, to all of you who’ve already been hard at work reading PhD enquiries and proposals, offering your assessments, and working with potential PhD applicants. I’m aware it’s a lot of work, and it is hugely appreciated.
With that in mind, I’m writing with some important details about PhD funding applications in advance of the upcoming deadlines, which fall in January.
Applications for PhD funding
The deadlines this year are 25 January 2023 for Queen Mary Principal’s Studentships (QMPS) and 27 January 2023 for London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP) studentships.
Please note that, for the LAHP scheme, primary supervisors need to submit their Supervisor Statement by that same date, 27 January 2023. Candidates cannot finalise their applications until this statement has been submitted via the online portal.
Both funding schemes are open to international as well as UK applicants, and both have ring-fenced awards for UK students who identify as coming from a Black, Asian or Ethnic minority background. Do please alert any applicants you’re working with who may be eligible for these.
In addition, the Faculty offers a Stuart Hall Foundation studentship open to applicants who meet one or more eligibility criteria (which include but aren’t limited to: being first generation in family to attend HE; eligibility for free school meals; caring responsibilities for an ill or disabled family member). Applicants who wish to be considered for this will also be considered for the general QMPS awards.
Detailed information on all PhD funding schemes for English can be found here:
QMPS awards are made on the basis of the application to QMUL, if a candidate indicates that they wish to be considered. There is no separate application form for funding. Existing PhD students in their first year are also eligible to apply; they need to apply separately, via the School’s Research Student Administrator, Kat Henley (sed-research@qmul.ac.uk).
It is vital therefore that the Research Proposal and Statement of Purpose on the admissions application are as strong as possible, to give candidates the best chance in the funding competition. Detailed guidelines on these can be found on the webpages by following the link above.
Where possible, prospective supervisors should advise candidates on their applications and give feedback on drafts.
Do also impress upon candidates that the Statement of Purpose is an important part of the application, particularly when it comes to assessing the preparedness of the applicant and the ‘fit’ of the project to the supervisors’ expertise and to the institution.
The closing date for applications is 25 January 2022 at 5pm. Once all applications have been received, a selection panel will choose which candidates to nominate to the Faculty.
Across the School as a whole we are allowed to make up to 6 nominations, plus 2 for the BAME awards and 1 for the Stuart Hall Foundation award. This is still only a small fraction of the applications we are likely to receive.
Supervisors of nominated candidates will be asked to submit a short supporting statement which will be used for the next round of the competition, when the Faculty makes the final selection of awards.
LAHP Studentships
These have a separate application route and candidates need to apply directly to LAHP via its online portal. All the relevant information, including the application form and details of the Black and Global Majority studentships, can be found here:
The guidelines and assessment criteria are roughly similar to those for QMPS but the application form is subdivided differently. It will require some additional work for applicants to revise their proposals to the LAHP format.
The closing date for applications is 27 January 2023 at 5pm.
All applicants need to give the names of two supervisors. The lead supervisor (or one of the co-supervisors) must submit a Supervisor Statement by the same date. The candidate cannot finalise and submit their application until this has been received.
The Supervisor Statement should be submitted via the online portal at the link above. The supervisor is asked to comment separately on the quality of the proposal (200 words), the preparedness of the applicant (150 words) and the feasibility of the research (150 words).
The website explains the assessment process and the criteria used.
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As you’ll be aware, many candidates apply for both QMPS and LAHP awards (in some cases, for a different institution). Needless to add, some of the best applicants may be offered funding elsewhere and choose not to come to QMUL, which can be frustrating if you have invested time in the application. But we have a good record in supporting and retaining really good applicants and in winning QMPS and LAHP awards, as is evident in our PhD cohort this year. So — thanks again for all the work you put into this important process.
Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Rachael
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Rachael Gilmour (she/her)
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Postcolonial Studies
School of English and Drama | Queen Mary University of London | Mile End Road | London E1 4NS
Welcome to our latest round up of events, opportunities and schemes that may help you meet collaborators, improve your career prospects or simply broaden your horizons.
(B)ORDERS CENTRE PRESENTS: (B)OrderS Inaugural Lecture: Protecting Refugees without Borders Date: Thursday, 1 December 2022, 10:00 – 12:00 GMT (including light lunch) Venue: Hybrid event: online or in room 313, Third Floor, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
The Lincoln Area Regeneration Group (LARG) is run by local residents, for local residents with aims to bring cultural, social, and environmental prosperity to communities living and working within Tower Hamlets. LARG’s charitable objectives are focussed on supporting local people to create opportunities and utilise these initiatives to build strong relationships and cohesive communities. You will be working directly with LARG’s Executive Director to build Poplar Union’s Fundraising portfolio, by researching and writing small grant applications and letters to corporation’s and individual’s seeking donation.
I have a voice (IHAV) is a Community Interest Company that empowers people, particularly young people from under-represented groups, to engage with politics through education. The intern will support our youth-led campaign groups to help them develop their plans. Help increase our social media engagement, monitor parliamentary events to help us stay up to date with opportunities to promote our policy positions. Media monitoring and organising events to help promote our policy work.
Do you want to make a short film as part of your academic research?
Dr Jessica Jacob, School of Geography, is inviting applicants to a training opportunity in filmmaking and film practice in an academic research-based context, to take place on January 17, 18, 19 2023.
Your help in circulating this offer through your schools would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Applicants will need to be available for all three days to participate. The workshop will be held on campus in Mile End but there is some scope to attend remotely. This workshop is open to all staff and students but spaces are limited so if interested please fill in this form by December 16.
For any further questions please contact Dr Jessica Jacobs j.jacobs@qmul.ac.uk
Jessica’s research methods and outputs use filmmaking, creative mapping and other community focused strategies that aim to engage a wider audience within the scope of academic research and knowledge production. She is the founder of AAG Shorts, an annual film festival promoting films by geographers and films about geography. All films are now available online www.filmgeographies.com
The Journeys of Saleh bin Osman: An African Traveller in the Imperial Archive
In some of the most widely circulated images of Henry Morton Stanley, the Welsh-American explorer and travel writer poses in opposition to a subordinate black body. Audiences at Stanley’s popular lectures in Britain, Ireland, and North America were treated to a similar spectacle (in press accounts, these individuals are usually described as ‘African servants’ or simply ‘black boys’). Yet some of Stanley’s African ‘valets’ had completed feats of travel to rival the great ‘explorer’ himself. This paper will consider Stanley’s heroic self-fashioning from the perspective of one of these unheralded African travellers. A native of Zanzibar, Saleh bin Osman travelled extensively in India, Africa, Europe and North America. In his short career as a porter, servant, and translator, he navigated competing spheres of Arab, British, German and Portuguese imperial influence in East Africa. Unusually for an African recruit on European expeditions, several documents (published and unpublished) record Saleh’s experiences in his own words (albeit mediated by the racialised conventions of the imperial archive). Yet by concentrating on the traces of Saleh bin Osman’s story, we begin to discern an alternative history of the European encounter with Africa. When the subaltern figure of the ‘African servant’ asserted his limited agency to disruptive ends, both the authority of the white explorer and the racial hierarchies of Euro-American society were briefly unsettled.
And here’s a link to our Eventbrite page. As usual, if you’re unable to make it in person, just send us an email (qmenglishpgrs@qmul.ac.uk), and we’ll arrange a Zoom feed for you.
Outside QMUL
Tower Hamlets Arts, Parks & Events Team are hiring
Casual Events Assistants and Casual Events Supervisors for The Pavilions, Mile End Park, The Brady Arts Centre, Kobi Nazrul Centre and parks. Also a Level 4 customer service apprentice
Performance Lates at uber cool new library bar: Reference Point – Thursday 24th
Join us on Thursday for an alchemical journey through fire, water and regeneration. This is the first iteration in what will be an ongoing series with Diasporas Now, showcasing artists from the cutting edge of performance, sound and movement, as well as a line-up of DJs and musicians that will transcend our earthly plane. Not one to miss, free for members but button below for everyone else.
It’s Wednesday and that means issue 60 is here! 60 whole issues of The Publishing Post! Follow the link to read, or click here to read articles via our website! Check out a sneak peek of the content included in this issue below!
(freelance contract) at Film London as follows:
Job role: Disability Consultant
Closing date: 10am, Tuesday 20th December 2022
I would be grateful if you could circulate in your networks as per usual, any jobs boards, newsletters and socials. The link to share (with full details for application) are as follows:
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