Plan your #CHASEEncounters2025 journey: check out the programme and sign up for training sessions. Everything you need is on Linktree:

All your #CHASEEncounters2025 essentials in one place: registration, training, programme, Padlet, and more! Head to Linktree:

Make the most of #CHASEEncounters2025 & register for a training session today! Spaces are limited, so grab your spot early:

Registration is open for #CHASEEncounters2025! Join us 27–28 Nov for two days of creativity, collaboration, and connection. Secure your place now: tinyurl.com/bdesa75p

Final hours! Proposals close at midnight. Don’t miss your chance to present at #CHASEEncounters Find the call for contributions here: tinyurl.com/mvkuxmz5

Thinking about submitting but not sure it’s ready? Keep it concise, clear, and focused on what attendees will learn – then hit send! Test your work-in-progress in a supportive environment. #CHASEEncounters2025 Find the call for contributions here: tinyurl.com/mvkuxmz5

Alumni, we want to hear from you! Submit your proposal for #CHASEEncounters2025 by 27 Oct and be part of this year’s programme. Find the call for contributions here: tinyurl.com/mvkuxmz5

Sunday night check-in: have you sent your proposal yet? Just over one week left! Proposals for creative presentations are encouraged. Find the call for contributions here: tinyurl.com/mvkuxmz5 #CHASEEncounters2025

This year’s theme, Agency & Solidarity, explores how we can find freedom in constraint. What could you add to the conversation? All proposals and formats welcome! Find the call for contributions here: tinyurl.com/mvkuxmz5 #CHASEEncounters2025

We’ve been receiving such thought-provoking proposals from across CHASE institutions! Have something to share? We’d love to hear from you! #CHASEEncounters2025 Find the full call for contributions here: tinyurl.com/mvkuxmz5

Researchers, it's time to submit your proposals for this year's Autumn Encounters! All contributions welcome. For the complete call for contributions please see: tinyurl.com/mvkuxmz5 #CHASEEncounters2025

We are delighted to announce the full schedule for the MEMRN Winter Conference is here! Head over to our website to check out all the amazing speakers and exciting events we’ve got lined up! While you’re there, use the link to sign up for virtual attendance! memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...

🚨Internship Alert! An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement, providing invaluable experience within an academic and literary journal. DEADLINE: Midnight, Sunday, 2 November 2025

A Late Summer Secondment in the World of OLH Tech / @janewayolh.bsky.social: Read the blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern: www.openlibhums.org/news/856/

Wasafiri and Tagore's Salon are delighted to be co-hosting an event with writers Dur e Aziz Amna and @farah-ali.bsky.social, titled Writing Through Pain: On Labour and Literature. When: Wed, 15 October, 7pm Where: @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, London Tickets: £6 buff.ly/tfcYH33

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰 @ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Join us for a conversation with Khaled Esguerra, Juan Gonzales, and Carlos Páez González – contributors to Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue – with accompanying song & theatre performances, on Saturday, 13 September at Project Space, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Free tickets and full details: buff.ly/Qs27N8o

3 DAYS LEFT! Wasafiri is open for creative submissions on the theme SOLIDARITIES until 24 August. Please share with your networks. We can't wait to read your work ✊ Full details and how to submit: buff.ly/6nOSBon

We're hiring: Senior EDI Officer – CHASE (Part-Time, Fixed-Term) Are you passionate about shaping inclusive academic communities? Your main duties include coordinating and consolidating EDI best practice relating to Postgraduate Research and additional research where necessary. tinyurl.com/3vjf72zy

Our Autumn issue – Wasafiri 123 – is available to preorder now! Includes interviews with @abagoo.bsky.social and Christina Sharpe, our 2024 Essay Prize winners, and a Tibetan writers and artists showcase, alongside our usual mix of fiction, poetry, reviews, and more. buff.ly/Edj18wU

We're thrilled to unveil the cover of our upcoming issue, Wasafiri 123! This gorgeous work is from Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol's 'Biography of a Thought' (2024) – the subject of our autumn 2025 issue's Art piece. Subscribe to Wasafiri here: buff.ly/O1mPej0

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories. Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Brief Encounters, CHASE DTP researcher-led journal, is recruiting the Editorial Board for Issue 10 (publishing summer 2026). A fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in academic publishing, develop skills, & collaborate with fellow researchers across CHASE tinyurl.com/25h4mtdw

ICYMI yesterday - we've got an absolute belter of a session coming up for our July monthly meeting! Please share widely with all your Tudor and book-loving friends. MEMRN events are free and open to everyone! Proudly supported by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Opening up the Family Album: an experiential approach, Sun 3 Aug, London - A training workshop led by Rosy Martin. This workshop for CHASE PGRs explores family photographs as the catalyst for investigating forgotten & buried memories, using skills of therapy and co-counselling tinyurl.com/5n7jx3z2

New CHASE training listed: 'Medieval French' - this online course will introduce participants to medieval French materials, & offer the tools to read & interpret texts written in French between the 11th - 16th centuries. Beginners strand starts in the Autumn term & Improvers strand starts in Jan '26

Writing the Self, Writing Berlin is a new Wasafiri limited series led by our CHASE intern, @divyaghelani.bsky.social – stay tuned for writing, interviews, and meditations by various international writers who call this complex city home, at wasafiri.org

Two new 1) AuralPluralities added to the calendar and are open for registration: 'Listening Research and the PhD Journey' 16 July, 18.30-20.30, Hybrid - Goldsmiths UoL & online | Guests: Hardi Kurda . Chris Cook. Find out more and register here tinyurl.com/bdz8rrez (1/2)

Happening tomorrow evening, 7pm BST! Couple of spaces left so book quickly!

In a bittersweet finale to our sub(VERSE)ive series, we have the final bonus episode with poet, lecturer, and Wasafiri Associate Editor, @mayacaspari.bsky.social on her debut pamphlet, ALMOST, WITH TENDERNESS, published by @outspokenpress.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi_4...

There are still some spaces left for our online workshop 'Writing through Fugitivity' hosted by Lola Olufemi this Thursday! Four subsidised spaces remain specifically for Black writers. Other concession tickets are also available. Book your spot: buff.ly/JpqsX04

Sincere thanks to the organising team, speakers, panelists and attendees whose contributions made for an enriching day of research exchange and thoughtful dialogue

'Maroon Communities: Experiences of Problematizing' Apex Zero & Ekua McMorris Referencing Harney & Moten's description of the undercommons within universities, we hear about carving out space within the institution, forming communities within &beyond that space & how this blends with their practices

Keynote by T. J. Bacon, 'Towards a Trans Phenomenology' Tracing the emergence of a Trans Phenomenology, the next phase T.J.’s research is shaped by 15+ years of interdisciplinary practice grounded in phenomenology, performance art, queer theory, & trans+ lived experience #EncountersPluralWorlds

Welcome to CHASE Encounters 'Plural Worlds' - from Kate Lacey (CHASE), Joel McKim (Birkbeck) and the Encounters organising team: Rodrigo Arciniega Ponce, Elizabeth Fullerton & Kae Rose #CHASEPluralWorlds

Thank you to everyone who helped make the conference, ‘Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800’, organised by Antonio Pattori and I, a fascinating, rich and enjoyable two days! @ihr.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social @courtstudies.bsky.social Great papers and discussions!

Please join us in welcoming three new interns to the Wasafiri team — Malak Abdelkhalek, Esme Feurtado, and Kareena Gianani! Thanks to @chase-dtp.bsky.social‬ and LAHP for their continued support. We are delighted to see the Wasafiri team expanding! #creativecareers

this years mems fest is supported by @chase-dtp.bsky.social and in tandem with @memrn.bsky.social - registration is now open ! the event is free and hybrid so join us online or in person 13th-14th June registration: forms.gle/4aMLnLrgQcVB... provisional programme: www.instagram.com/share/BAwXaC...

Still places left! 👇

BIG NEWS! The meeting link for our Spring Showcase online day-conference on Friday has been emailed out today! Weren't on the list? Don't worry, it's not too late to get involved! Email us at [email protected] to join us on Friday for a day of brilliant global research @chase-dtp.bsky.social

TWO WEEKS LEFT! Please consider joining us for our Spring Showcase on the 30th of May. This excellent online day-conference is bringing together scholars from around the world to celebrate the diverse research being done in the MEMRN community. Register here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-spring...

Limited number of spaces to arts and hums PGRs that are not studying at a CHASE member institution - tinyurl.com/52r8ddpz

Oral History for Public Culture, 20 June, Uni of Sussex - Advanced doctoral training interested in oral history methods. Covering the cycle of preparation for interview, including ethical review tips; interviewing techniques & pleasures; post-interview processes & challenges. tinyurl.com/52r8ddpz

Me and the rest of the @memrn.bsky.social committee are super excited to reveal the lineup for our Spring Showcase later this month supported by @chase-dtp.bsky.social Registration is open, please come along!

Announcement! We are delighted to share the schedule for our Spring Showcase! Join us on the 30th May for this free, day-long, online event full of exciting MEMs research from across the globe! You can find all the details on our website and can register to attend here: forms.gle/7WgaVSnUZiM1...

CRIT(-ICAL/IQUE) INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICES Thur 29 May | UAL, London The secondly termly “CRIT-ical/que PRACTICE SESSION", for practice-based researchers (PBR). We will spend the day together exploring and offering feedback & engagement with each other’s practice tinyurl.com/5xste98p

Preparing for your Viva with Research Coach Wednesday 4 June | Online Have you submitted your thesis or are you tantalisingly close to completion? This interactive session takes you through the process of preparing for your viva & giving your best possible performance on the day tinyurl.com/8xr344cb

Registration for our Reading the Crisis online conversation series is now open. The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture? Registration is free - sign up now via our website: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/

Our friends at the Stuart Hall Foundation will be opening their 2025 programme In Search of Common Ground with the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation on Saturday 17 May. #SHF10 #InSearchOfCommonGround #SHF2025 #StuartHallFoundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2s4ucnrm

'Corruption & Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800' | 5-6 June, A two-day, hybrid conference. Institute of Historical Research (IHR), School of Advanced Study Scandals & instances of corruption shock & delight, are recurring themes in political & institutional spheres. tinyurl.com/vbmp7vw4