01/03/2022
📢 Summer Research Festival 2022 'CHANGES' - Call for Papers Now Open! ✨
The 2nd Summer Research Festival has the theme is Changes: Calibration, Rethinking and Adjustment. It follows on from last year’s theme, Futures, in order to allow for conversations on new, re-calibrated approaches to research and re-thinking themes and issues to unveil within the social, economic, cultural and historical background.
‘Changes’ could be a retrospective idea - looking back on differences between the present and the past - or it can be looking to the future with hopes, fears and expectations. When we think historically, we tend to perceive change as a slow and gradual process - however, change today is rapidly accelerating, and if the last few years have shown us anything, it is that tomorrow can look very different from today. Alongside the large-scale global and national changes, we have all made small, everyday, but vital changes to our own lives.
This interdisciplinary festival explores the various attitudes towards changes in terms of their adoption, adaption, effects and measurement. How do we as individuals and as a broader society navigate and perceive change? How might we learn and adapt, and how might past change inform our perspectives? How can we create change for a better future?
As researchers, we feel change is fundamental to everything we study - whether we are analysing changes of the past or looking to propose new changes for the future.
To examine these questions and more, we invite 15-20 minute conference papers, collaborative events, online exhibitions, panel discussion, round tables, workshops, performances, film or any other form of activity based on, but not limited to, the following themes:
>> The ways/circumstances under which communities/people change
>> The ways in which changes can be tracked
>> Attitudes to changes: denying, appreciating, desiring, fearing etc.
>> Adoption of, versus adaptation to changes
>> Temporality of changes
>> Future methods and research practices
>> Artistic representations of changes/transformations
>> Changes in research
>> Measurable and non-measurable changes
The first day of the festival (Thursday 16th) will be entirely online, while the second day (Friday 17th) will be hybrid - both online and in person at a venue in Exeter, as well as being open to the public with free admission.
Abstract submissions - Please submit abstracts or proposals (max. 250 words for a paper, or 350 words for any other type of event) via the Google form link below by Monday 25th April.
https://bit.ly/3svdR5Q
We look forward to reading your abstracts! Feel free to drop us an email with any additional questions: [email protected]
