From ‘Where Fear Hides, Hope Shines’ by Dana Hamdan Combining reportage & reflection, Dana sheds light on the impact of the occupation upon children in Gaza. Read now in the Special Issue: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Gaza #Resilience #صمود #AlAqsa_University #فلسطين #Childhood

From ‘Reflections on Displacement, in Three Parts’ by Menna Saber Abo Salem In three dispatches, Menna recounts her experiences of ongoing displacement. Read now in the Special Issue: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Gaza #Resilience #صمود #AlAqsa_University #فلسطين #Displacement

From ‘Life as a Student in Gaza Under Siege’ by Maryam Sharif Abed Maryam's piece is written in dedication to her brother, Abdulrahman, and her close friend, Dima. Read now in the Special Issue: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Gaza #Resilience #صمود #AlAqsa_University #فلسطين

From ‘Burning Footsteps’ by Alaa Ashraf El-Qarra A powerful account of an attack on the Bani Suheila neighbourhood of Khan Younis on 22 July 2024. Read now in the Special Issue: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Gaza #Resilience #صمود #AlAqsa_University #فلسطين #Displacement

From ‘A Saturday with No Sunday: The Struggle for Existence’ by Shams Mazen Rajab In reflective prose, Shams describes the realities of living under siege. Read now in the Special Issue: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Gaza #Resilience #صمود #AlAqsa_University #فلسطين #Hope

From ‘A White Stain in Endless Dark’ by Maha Muhammad Al-Farra In a poem written from within the reality of war, Maha calls for justice & sends a message of resilience. Read now in the Special Issue: doi.org/10.24134/BE.... #EducationMatters #Gaza #Resilience #صمود #AlAqsa_University #فلسطين

The first pieces for our issue on Pedagogical Resilience, Challenges and Adaptive Strategies, created by students & faculty of the English Department at Al-Aqsa University, are now live! www.briefencounters-journal.co.uk/BE/issue/12/... #EducationMatters #Gaza #Resilience #صمود #Palestine #فلسطين

“It is high time; I need to dance to the rhythm of the Dhol”. From “‘Off Leisurely Confrontations’ – a Dhol Reconnaissance by Sehr Jalil and Roberto Prestia. Watch the full piece now in Issue 9! briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Kathak #ImperialWarMuseum #WWII #India #Dance

From “Reading Borges in Edinburgh” by Eiji Yasuhara Read the full piece now in Issue 9! briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #WorldLiterature #LatinAmerican #Japanese #Borges #Edinburgh

“‘Don’t you find human imagination fabulous?’ he asked her, gently jumping off the book in her hand”. From “Lilliput” by Zizhu Wang Read the full piece now in Issue 9! briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Fiction #War #InternationalRelations #Realism

From “Integrating Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers Through Theatre: A Case Study of Compass Collective” by Ellen Frances Wagstaff Read the full piece now in Issue 9! briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #YouthTheatre #Refugee #Drama #Wellbeing #Solidarity

Thank you for being part of #CHASEEncounters2025! Stay tuned for post-conference resources and reflections soon. linktr.ee/AutumnEncoun...

From “The spiritual-artistic practice of Hilma’s Ghost: towards a theory of material solidarity” by Alex Bispham Read the full piece now in Issue 9! briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Spirituality #Materiality #ContemporaryPainting

From “Solidarity and the Group Ego: a Psychosocial Exploration of Solidarity in Times of Crisis” by Daphne Kalogeropoulou Read the full piece now in Issue 9! briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Solidarity #Freud #Einstein #Psychology #Correspondence

From “‘Never Has There Been a Greater Need for Pooled Intelligence’: Maintaining International Solidarity in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1939-1946” by Emily Chambers Read the full piece in Issue 9! briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Pacifism #WWII #Archive

From “Solidarity and ecological balance: global perspectives on revaluing eco-human kinship” by Marta Simonetti. Read the full piece now in Issue 9: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #EnvironmentalJustice #Sustainability #DeGrowth #Ubuntu #BuenVivir #Swaraj

From “Poet, friend and activist: Stanley Richardson and the Arden Society for Artists and Writers Exiled in England, 1938–40” by Harriet Truscott. Read the full piece now in Issue 9! briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Exile #SpanishCivilWar #LGBTQIA+ #Fascism #Resistance

An extract from “Jennifer C. Nash, How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory” by Foluke Taylor. Read the full piece now in Issue 9! briefencounters-journal.co.uk/article/id/2... #Feminism #BlackFeminism #BlackStudies #Loss #Writing

We are delighted to announce that Issue 9 of Brief Encounters is live! Visit the link to read the full issue: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/issue/9/info/ Image: A women's handicraft workshop supervisor in Sayeda Ayesha, Cairo. Photograph by Dr Maha Gaad, 2022. #Solidarity #Published #Phd

We are proud to share Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina’s article, ‘Displaced but not replaced: challenges, adaptations, and resilience of higher education in Gaza in the context of war and scholasticide’, published in ‘Globalisation, Societies and Education’ (July 2025): doi.org/10.1080/1476....

On 12 April 2025, CHASE-affiliated members of the editorial team, George Clutterbuck and Millie Riddell, were kindly invited to convene with Dr Junina, and current and former members of Al-Aqsa University’s English faculty and student body, to formally announce the call for contributions.

To amplify the voices of students & academics in Gaza, Brief Encounters is collaborating with the English department at Al-Aqsa University to produce a special issue centred on Pedagogical Resilience, Challenges and Adaptive Strategies. #DecolonizeAcademia

George Clutterbuck, Submissions Editor, is a PhD student at @sussexresearcher.bsky.social. Her research is about feminist approaches to the study of marginalised women’s artistry and focuses upon the work of Laura (Riding) Jackson, Eva Frankfurther and Anna Mendelssohn.

Keiran Wilson, Articles Section Editor, is a PhD student, and lecturer @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. He explores how carceral power dynamics manifest in UK mental health law, the space of the psychiatric ward, & queer narratives of detention under the Mental Health Act. keiranwilson.owlstown.net

Introducing Anna Titov, Articles Section Editor! For her PhD at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, Anna's research looks at Nietzsche’s middle writings and the development of his notion of ‘overcoming’ as stemming from his depictions of our experiences of nature, particularly our embodied experiences.

Continuing our introductions to issue 9's team...! Chris Bates, Review Section Editor, is PhD candidate at the University of Sussex. His research considers how the political economies of wood reveal, and are revealed in, the affective, aesthetic and formal investments of the early American novel.

Continuing our introductions to the editorial team of issue 9...! Emily Gresham-Beamer, Creative Encounters Section Editor, is a PhD candidate at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. Her research investigates Lidar and photogrammetry image-modelings around contested forest spaces of the Global South.

While the publication of issue 9 is underway, we wanted to introduce you to this year’s editorial team! Millie Riddell, Senior Editor, is a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her research is about radical art practices in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1970s.

The cover competition now OPEN! Any artwork submitted should align with the theme of Solidarity & we welcome entires in multiple mediums including painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography & digital media. Please send your entries to [email protected] by midnight on May 2nd 2025.

We continue to look for a Web & Layout Officer for issue 9! If you are a current CHASE scholar, please get in touch to express your interest via [email protected] by February 14th. This voluntary role lasts throughout the publication of issue 9 (until Sept 2025 approximately).

Tomorrow, from 5pm-6pm GMT, Fobzu will host an event about higher education in Palestine, Survival through Education: Stories of Resilience from Palestinian Universities. Co-organised with @ucu.org.uk. To register please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-of... #solidarity #palestine

Event for scholars at CHASE institutions on 20.02.25! 📢 The Procrastinator’s Guide to Writing a Journal Article will show you how to overcome procrastination & streamline your writing process. It will take place online from 10am-1pm GMT. To register visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/chasedtp/t-l...

Event for scholars at CHASE institutions on February 27th! 📢 Peer Review in the Arts and Humanities is a workshop designed to demystify peer review, and will take place at Birkbeck, Bloomsbury in London from 10.30am until 4.00pm. To register, visit the URL: www.ticketsource.co.uk/chasedtp/pee...

Submissions for Issue 9 are now closed! Thank you to everyone who put forward a contribution 🎉 🙏 – we have been so delighted with the ideas we have received and will now turn to reviewing all the submissions. We expect to complete this process before the month is out, so watch this space! 👀

Only 2 DAYS to go! We seek submissions that relate to this year's theme of Encounters in Solidarity. For full details of the Call for Papers, check out the following URL: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/news/11/ Send your Abstract + Bio to [email protected] by midnight on January 6th!

We are looking for a Web & Layout Officer for issue 9! If you are a current CHASE scholar, please get in touch to express your interest via [email protected] by January 24th. This voluntary role lasts throughout the publication of issue 9 (until Aug/Sept 2025 approximately).

Take a look! 👀 Put together by Alliances of Understanding, this series of films ‘speaks to a reality of Palestine that frames Palestinian identity as bigger, richer and more human than the current devastation can admit’. alliancesofunderstanding.com/before-and-s...

In the spirit of our theme for issue 9, today we celebrate International Human Solidarity Day. We invite proposals from all disciplines & institutions across the consortium and its affiliates, & across all forms of solidarity. Submission guidelines URL: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/submissions/

Online & in-person event today at 5.30pm GMT! Hosted by Alliances of Understanding, this panel explores the parallel struggles of Palestinians and Tamils, showing how each community has faced systemic violence & erasure. Contact Syed Haider at [email protected] to register.

To practise & promote #solidarity, we invite submissions co-authored with individuals/groups not affiliated with CHASE. Are you interested in collaborating with current/former students or staff members at a CHASE institution to produce a contribution for this year’s issue?

A reminder that submissions are OPEN! We seek proposals across all forms of solidarity: solidarity in environmental crises; LGBTQIA+ alliances; against scholasticide; within Indigenous and anticolonial struggles, and more. See the link below for our full CfP: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/news/11/

We are seeking peer reviewers! If you are a current doctoral researcher at a CHASE-affiliated institution, and would like to support the publication of issue 9, please email us by Monday 6 January 2025 with a summary of your research area and expertise. [email protected] #phdlife

What does a politics which is ethically grounded and anti-gender violence look like? On December 11th between 4:00-5:30pm (GMT), the Institute of Development Studies will host an online event on gender-based violence with Professor Rema Hammami. Book your place here: ids.ac.uk?p=105974

Submissions for Issue 9 of Brief Encounters are NOW OPEN until January 6th! Submit your Abstracts (300 words) and Bios (200 words) to us at [email protected] Take a look at the link below for our full Call for Papers: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/news/11/ #submissionswelcome