"Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought." –Audre Lorde
Join us in a collective space to explore intersections and overlaps through the unconscious. Creating new meaning and making connections between dreams and our social context.
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Roundtable organized by the Doing IPS Transnational Hub.
When: Friday, March 5, 2021, 2-4 pm (London Time, GMT, UTC +0).
Where: Online event (Zoom). The event is free, but registration is needed: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PIe-ax5URTy0J6o0JbBmmA
Gathering scholars working in political science and international relations and whose work enact visual arts, performance, photography, sound, and narrative writing, this roundtable addresses the power of creative and visual methods when doing critical work in political science and international relations.
The aim of this roundtable is to discuss why it matters to include creative and visual methods when doing political analysis; how creative methods work in the interplay between research, theory, and communication strategies; what are their potentials, and what are their limits?
January 19, 2021 10.00 -17.00 (Amsterdam time, UTC +1), on zoom.
Workshop animated by Marie Beauchamps (Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellow, Queen Mary University of London).
This workshop makes space to explore a diverse and creative pallet of writing styles in academic writing practices.
The choices we make when we write have profound effects on the reality that we observe. Giving an account of our observations requires a multitude of styles of writing for achieving the greatest accuracy. Finding the most accurate style of writing for a particular purpose sometimes implies letting go of a seemingly neutral style of writing, instead embracing a plurality of voices, such as staging a dialogue or exploring a more poetic style. This workshop aims to explore what happens when we loosen up the frame of our habitual academic writing practice, inviting multi-layered stories to bubble up and become part of the conversation unfolding on the page.
In this one-day, interactive workshop, I will lead you through a series of hands on exercises to make you experience creative writing within your academic practice. You will practice writing scenes, working with sensory details, defining the main characters driving the story of your work, and staging conversations between them. There will be time for peer-review, and we will take time to reflect on what it takes to make space for creativity within our academic work.
Practicalities:
If you want to join but cannot attend the full day, please contact me (m.beauchamps@qmul.ac.uk) to discuss alternatives.