Challenges, Practices and Methods
Tuesday 11 June 2019 Room MAL G16Birkbeck Main BuildingMalet Street Researching Conflict’s fourth session focused on the relationship between activism and academia, especially when dealing with such highly partisan and politically charged topics as war and conflict, whose study and memory is both shaped by, and shapes, our current political climate. Transitioning from the first …
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Friday 31st May 2019 2pm - 5pm Research Forum Seminar roomCourtauld Institute of ArtVernon Square, Penton Rise, Kings Cross, London WC1X 9EW The third session in the “Researching Conflict in the Humanities” programme is centred on feminist methodology and how it may enable and affect the study of war and conflict. What have feminist approaches …
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Thursday 25 April 2019 10:30am - 4:30pm Park View room, The Imperial War Museum, London The second session focused on the interdisciplinary methodologies used when researching and presenting topics of war and conflicts. Transitioning from the first session which focused on the researcher, the next session will focus on the researcher’s relationship to the disciplines …
This piece is a response to the seminar on ‘Politics and reflexivity when studying conflict’ organised by doctoral students from the Courtauld Institute of Art that took place at Birkbeck University on the 19th March 2019. This issue is suggestive for my doctoral project because I am looking at the representation of the First and …
Tuesday 19 March 2019 9:30am -1:30pm Room MAL G16, Malet Street, Birkbeck University, London The first session focused on the notion of reflexivity, and on the impact that our own identity, biases and political partiality may have on our research. When researching twentieth and twenty-first-century conflicts, are we irremediably governed by partisan and ideological convictions? …
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Researching Conflict in the Humanities