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WOMEN ON THE VERGE – 16th June 2017- Call for Papers
WOMEN ON THE VERGETransformations in Literature, Gender and SocietyThe University of Manchester, 16th June 2017We are proud to announce Women on the Verge: Transformations in Literature, Gender and Society, the first of a planned series of one-day conferences aimed at...
Be Two Inches Taller: Collaborations (By Pete Kalu)
Some immediately spring to mind: Beyonce & Jay Z, Tosh & Marley, Kahlo & Rivera, McFadden & Whitehead, Westwood and McClaren, Laurel & Hardy…I love hooking up with other artists to try things. The effort of mutual attunement. The challenge that...
Art Writing and New Media Outlets in the North – Registration now open
New NWCDTP Event - 18th May 2017Although the academic thesis or journal is seen as the main output of writing for PhD students, there is a wealth of opportunity in arts journalism to explore different modes of writing and feed academic research into the arts ecology....
PhD Survival: 7 Bullets To Dodge* (Pete Kalu)
The poet, Coleridge was famously interrupted as he was writing his brilliant work, Kubla Khan. He said he dreamt the entire poem (some reaearchers say possibly under the influence of opium!) then sat down to write it. He was halfway through when someone knocked on...
Applications now open
The NWCDTP Studentship Competition for 2017/18 is now open.The deadline for applications to be submitted is 5pm GMT on Friday 10 February 2017.To apply for an award, candidates must have applied for a place on a programme at one of the seven NWCDTP institutions by...
Confessions of A Secret Art Lover
I’m a writer but sometimes I get sick of writers. Then I hang out with visual artists. I like to listen to agonising about light, shade, colour, shape, framing etc. I feel they are indirectly talking to me about my own work. Recently, I found myself looking at the...
Grandma’s Big Eyes: Reflections on Getting Lost In Research (Pete Kalu)
When we sign up for this journey we know we’ll be going off-track: veering into the unknown to try bring back something new, something that adds a little (even if that little is infinitesimal small in the astronomical scale of things) to what is already there....
Bum notes: The poor language of arts professionals
Blog post by Frances Williams, PGR policy correspondent for the Art of Devolution Conference.Director of the Whitworth, Maria Balshaw, began her keynote speech at the conference, The Art of Devolution: Culture and the North, by quoting at length from an editorial in...
An Interview with Common Ground
We had a chat with Pauline Hadaway and Sarah Feinstein, organisers of a new research community, 'Common Ground'. Back in May 2016, Pauline and Sarah convened a one-day conference, partly funded by the NWCDTP, at the University of Manchester.In their own words, 'Common...
Interview with Jackie Haynes, artist and Kurt Schwitters PhD Studentship holder (Interviewer: Pete Kalu)
Q:What’s your PhD focused on?JH: The Kurt Schwitters Studentship, University of Cumbria, is focussed on an art practice-based exploration of selected aspects of Kurt Schwitters’ one-man art movement - Merz. It has an underlying theme of movement in both the research...