Student Led Events

A series of events to foster a virtual community of scholars from all disciplines engaged with the study of music and sound in audio-visual media.

See the full details about British Audio-Visual Research Network – Virtual Colloquia

Awarded

£ 76

Lead Student

Toby Huelin, School of Music, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

Elsa Marsall, University of Sheffield Organisers outside of the White Rose Network: Georgia Brown, Queen Mary University of London; David Cotter, University of  Cambridge; Melissa Morton, University of Edinburgh

  Modernity has witnessed an accelerating proliferation of sound instruments—devices that allow humans to purposefully produce, capture, observe, manipulate, broadcast or otherwise interact with sound. Sound instruments include all musical instruments, acoustic and electronic, as well as scientific, medical, and military instruments that operate sonically, from the tuning forks and resonators, to Geiger-Muller counters and…

See the full details about Sound Instruments, Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Awarded

£ 735

Lead Student

Jean-Baptiste Masson

Other student organisers

Marta Donati (Sheffield) Rachel Garratt (Leeds) Edward Wilson-Stephens (Leeds)

External link

https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/sound-instruments-and-sonic-cultures-interdisciplinary-conference#:~:text=Support%20the%20museum-,Sound%20Instruments%20and%20Sonic%20Cultures%3A%20An%20Interdisciplinary%20Conference,Mara%20Mills%20(NYU%20Steinhardt)

The purpose of this conference, entitled ‘Out of the Blue’, is to address the question: what is the role of literature in an era where the manifestations of human-induced climate crisis are a common occurrence?

See the full details about Conference – Out of the Blue

Awarded

£ 1185

Lead Student

Daniel Bowman, School of English, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Veronica Fibisan, University of Sheffield Rosamund Portus, University of York Katerina Liontau, University of Leeds Ashley Bullen-Cutting, University of Sheffield

This free, interdisciplinary symposium will celebrate 100 years since the theremin, the world’s first electronic musical instrument and the first instrument to be played without touching, was first made commercially available. The symposium is part of the International Concert Series at the University of Leeds and the Leeds Digital Festival 2020. Named after its inventor,…

See the full details about Event Out of Touch? The Theremin in the Twenty-First Century

Awarded

£ 908

Lead Student

Edward Wilson-Stephens, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

• Rachel Garrett, University of Leeds
• Mark Hanslip, University of York
• Sion Parkinson, University of Leeds

Imagination is a topic which pertains to many areas in philosophy, such as philosophy of fiction, philosophy of science, epistemology and cognitive science. Questions include (but are not limited to): how can we learn through fiction and scientific thought experiments; what is the relationship between memory and imagination; how can we solve puzzles in philosophy…

See the full details about Northern Imagination Forum 2

Awarded

£ 650

Lead Student

Andrea Blomqvist, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Jacopo Frascaroli (University of York)
• Alice Murphy (University of Leeds)

External link

https://northernimaginationforum.weebly.com/

This regional conference aims to bring together postgraduates and staff working in early modern studies across Yorkshire. We will aim towards fostering research links across the White Rose institutions between staff and PGRs by offering a space for researchers to share and develop their work. The themes of the conference can engage in a dialogue…

See the full details about White Rose Early Modern Conference: Performance, Social Identity, and Cross-Cultural Influence in Early Modern England

Awarded

£ 728

Lead Student

Samuel Jermy, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

• Andrea Paquin, University of York
• Claire Turner, University of Leeds
• Elena Johnson, University of Sheffield
• Hannah Slack, University of Sheffield
• Leonie Price, University of Sheffield

This conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to examine the policies, projects, and power relations that have shaped the development of mass affordable housing across the globe since the nineteenth century. We anticipate involvement from PGRs across the Arts and Humanities, academics, and local organisations with connections to…

See the full details about Housing and Power in the Modern World

Awarded

£ 1300

Lead Student

Isabelle Carter (University of Sheffield)

Other student organisers

• Joel Baker, University of Sheffield
• Callum Reilly, University of York
• Joanne Harrison, University of York

Endurance and Change will be a two-day conference exploring the changing landscapes, spaces, and identities in northern England/southern Scotland from the Roman period to the present day. Borders, boundaries and frontiers operating at numerous scales and complexities, from local to national, were (and are) particularly significant in this region. Despite acknowledgement of these unique characteristics,…

See the full details about Endurance and Change: Exploring the Effects of Boundaries, Borders and Frontiers in Northern Britain

Awarded

£ 1785

Lead Student

Ian Hardwick (University of York)

Other student organisers

• Kirstin Barnard, History, University of York (WRoCAH)
• Samuel Bromage, Archaeology, University of Sheffield (WRoCAH)
• Caitlin Kitchener, Archaeology, University of York
• Aubrey Steingraber, Archaeology, University of York

17-18 July 2020 This conference seeks to use the radio as a novel point of entry for re-thinking the history and aesthetics of musical modernism, drawing musicological research into conversation with other disciplines, such as Radio Studies and Sound Studies. Having once been considered a ‘forgotten medium’, as Edward Pease and Everette Dennis put it…

See the full details about Radio and the Sound of Modernism

Awarded

£ 683

Lead Student

Jean-Baptiste Masson (University of York)

Other student organisers

• Samuel Ridout (University of Leeds)
• Max Erwin (University of Leeds)
• Manuel Faroli (University of Leeds)
• Marta Donati (University of Sheffield)

Now in its 4th year, this annual White Rose South Asia conference has built a substantial following amongst PGR students focused on the study of the subcontinent. Interest has spread across discipline and region (beyond solely the UK) and produced demand for the continuation of an event which offers rewarding potential for forging collaborations and…

See the full details about 4th Annual White Rose South Asia Conference: Space, Place and Temporalities

Other student organisers

• Arunima Theraja (University of York)
• Meena Menon (University of Leeds)
• Radha Kapuria (University of Sheffield)
• Thomas Shillam (University of York)
• Zaynab Seedat (University of York)

External link

https://whiterosesouthasiaconference.wordpress.com/

Sculpture holds an indeterminate position within art historical dialogues. Categorisations such as art, craft, or industry contrive barriers between sculptural production, which separate works from each other and serve to remove scholars from sculpture’s commonalities. The conference ‘Valuing Sculpture: Art, Craft and Industry 1660-1851’ aims to bring together researchers investigating sculpture across these definitions in…

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Awarded

£ 1634

Lead Student

Charlotte Davis (University of Leeds)

Other student organisers

• Hannah Kaspar, University of Leeds
• Caitlin Scott, University of Sheffield
• Samantha Scott, University of York

The purpose of this symposium and exhibition, which is titled ‘Process, Practice, and Environmental Crisis’, is to confront societal failures in resolving the climate crisis and investigate the synthesis of artistic and political responses to crisis. It will gather creative professionals, activists, and academics working at the intersection of artistic and political practices responding to environmental crisis.

See the full details about Process, Practice, and Environmental Crisis

Awarded

£ 1078

Lead Student

Adam Koper, Department of Politics, University of York

Other student organisers

Rosamund Portus, University of York; Marielle Hehir, University of Leeds; Joshua D'Archy, University of York

Flooding poses significant challenges to societies across the world, drastically affecting the lives of those who have suffered from its social, environmental and economic impacts. However, as a phenomenon, flooding does not sit easily in any one discipline; research on the impacts of flooding may gain as much insight from social, political or cultural studies…

See the full details about Flooding the field: exploring novel interdisciplinary and participatory approaches to flood research

Awarded

£ 1079

Lead Student

Seb O'Connor

Other student organisers

• Colombine Neal (Sheffield)
• Alexander Jardine (York)

Understanding Value 2020 will be the ninth annual instalment of the University of Sheffield’s successful postgraduate conference, dedicated to the philosophical study of issues and topics surrounding the notion of “value”.

See the full details about Understanding Value IX

Awarded

£ 2390

Lead Student

Anna Klieber

Other student organisers

• Henry Roe (University of Sheffield)
• Barney Riggs (University of Sheffield)
• Yuhan Fu (University of Sheffield)
• Lillian Wilde (University of York)

External link

https://understandingvalue.weebly.com/

Imagination is a topic which pertains to many areas in philosophy, such as philosophy of fiction, philosophy of science, epistemology and cognitive science. Questions include (but are not limited to): how can we learn through fiction and scientific thought experiments; what is the relationship between memory and imagination; how can we solve puzzles in philosophy of fiction; is empathy underwritten by imagination?

See the full details about Northern Imagination Forum

Awarded

£ 700

Lead Student

Andrea Blomqvist, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Alice Murphy, University of Leeds Celia Coll, University of York

This conference aims to make new connections between PGRs working on the history of science, for example between research taking place within the History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds and Medical Humanities Sheffield. The event aims to bring together scholars across the White Rose who have intersecting interests within these fields, and hope that further collaborations, for example student led forums, will materialise as a result of the conference.

See the full details about British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2020

Awarded

£ 3047

Lead Student

Rachel Garrett, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

Polina Merkulova, University of Leeds Kaija-Liisa Koovit, University of Leeds Marta Donati, University of Sheffield (co-supervised University of York) Jean-Baptiste Masson, University of York (co-supervised University of Leeds) Sarah Murphy-Young, University of Leeds

This conference examines the relevance of exhaustion for interdisciplinary research in the environmental humanities. We are interested in academic and non-academic responses to the interrelated meanings of exhaustion, and its durative effects on livelihoods and ecosystems. See our website at: https://worldweary2020.co.uk/

See the full details about World Weary: Cultures of Exhaustion

Awarded

£ 3165

Lead Student

Francesca Curtis, Department of History of Art, University of York

Other student organisers

Gabriella Beckhurst, University of York/University College London; Cecilia Tricker-Walsh, University of Sheffield

The Dreams and Atrocity symposium is a two-day interdisciplinary event that aims to explore diverse representations and theorisations of dreams through the lens of specific moments of historical atrocity

See the full details about Dreams and Atrocity symposium

Awarded

£ 867

Lead Student

Emily Rose Baker, School of English, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Diane Otosaka, University of Leeds Michael Holden, University of York

‘Time and the Mind’ is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers in philosophy and psychology to explore how their different perspectives can yield new insights into our experience of time.

See the full details about Time and the Mind

Awarded

£ 1855

Lead Student

Henry Pollock, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

Lillian Wilde, University of York

Food is an easy avenue to get non-philosophers to think about philosophy and community dining is an excellent avenue to encourage conversation.

See the full details about Plates: Philosophically Intriguing Foods

Awarded

£ 634.50

Lead Student

Nadia Mehdi, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Alice Murphy, Leeds Celia Coll, York Henry Roe, Sheffield Kayleigh Doherty, Sheffield Victor Wolemonwu, Sheffield Will Morgan, Sheffield

The Northern Diversity Forum is a new initiative by Minorities and Philosophy, the Diversity Reading List, and the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York

See the full details about Northern Diversity Forum

Awarded

£ 3595

Lead Student

Andrea Blomqvist, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Anna Klieber (University of Sheffield) William Killborn (University of York) Carl Fox (University of Leeds)

Decriminalisation and Sex Work is an interdisciplinary conference exploring legal approaches to sex work, examining the impact these approaches have on workers.

See the full details about Decriminalisation and Sex Work

Awarded

£ 910

Lead Student

Rosa Vince, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Alana Wilde, University of Sheffield Anna Klieber, University of Sheffield Sally-Anne Beverley, University of Leeds Catherine Yarrow, University of York Alice Murphy, University of Leeds

The White Rose Aesthetics Forum (WRAF) is a long-standing collaboration between local academics to share research on aesthetics and maintain community ties. Yorkshire has the greatest concentration of high-profile aesthetics scholars in the UK, and is perhaps second in the world only to New York (in a recent Leiter Report on aesthetics and Philosophy of…

See the full details about White Rose Aesthetics Forum summer workshop 2019

Awarded

£ 807.90

Lead Student

Nadia Mehdi (University of Sheffield)

Other student organisers

• Jamie Cawthra (University of York)
• Alice Murphy (University of Leeds)
• Celia Coll (University of York)
• Christie Oliver-Hobley (University of Sheffield)

New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Periodical Studies is a conference to promote discussion of novel research amongst those working in the field, at all levels. The recent passing of one of the founders of periodical studies, Michael Wolff, makes this an opportune moment to take stock of the field, look forward to future changes, and foster…

See the full details about New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Periodical Studies

Awarded

£ 2322

Lead Student

Mary Chapman, School of English, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

Roger Baxter, University of Sheffield Amanda Davis, University of Sheffield, Victoria Clarke, University of Leeds Frances Long, University of York

Imagination is a topic which pertains to many areas in philosophy, such as philosophy of fiction, philosophy of science, epistemology and cognitive science. We aim for this to be a broad conference which can cover all those areas, but with a crucial focus which unites them: learning from imagination. Philosophy of fiction has long been…

See the full details about Learning from Imagination

Awarded

£ 1800

Lead Student

Andrea Blomqvist, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Alice Murphy (University of Leeds) Celia Coll (University of York)

This Student Led Forum will explore methods, approaches and practices to concepts of ‘space’

See the full details about Space Networking Meeting One – Symposium

Awarded

£ 717

Lead Student

Jessica Bates, Department of Archaeology, University of York

Other student organisers

Nicholas Groat, University of Sheffield Nicholas Clarke, University of Sheffield

Audience research is a growing area in many diverse areas of study, including film and television, theatre, music and gaming. Given its situation as an emerging field of academic study, the methodological requirements of audience research  are in a constant state of development, with new innovations constantly being devised. This form of research is notoriously…

See the full details about Across the Live / Mediatised Divide

Awarded

£ 2089

Lead Student

Shelley Galpin, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York

Other student organisers

Emma McDowell, University of Leeds

A dedicated conference for those studying Philip Larkin

See the full details about Philip Larkin: Personality, Poetry, Prose.

Awarded

£ 1660

Lead Student

Kyra Piperides Jacques, University of York

Other student organisers

Rebecca Devine - University of Hull Felicity Powell - University of Sheffield Wei Zhou - University of Leeds

Understanding Value VIII is the 8th annual instalment of the graduate philosophy conference at the University of Sheffield, which explores philosophical themes about the nature and application of value.

See the full details about Understanding Value, 8

Awarded

£ 1650

Lead Student

William Morgan, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Will Morgan (University of Sheffield) Kayleigh Doherty (University of Sheffield) Barend de Rooij (University of Sheffield) Lijiaozi Cheng (University of Sheffield) Celia Coll (University of York) Arthur Carlyle (University of Leeds)

External link

https://understandingvalue.weebly.com/

Taking place in the Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, the conference will comprise ten papers divided into five panels. Dr Leah Clark at the Open University will give a keynote on art and diplomacy in the Italian Renaissance (t.b.c.), followed by a wine reception.

See the full details about Art as Commodities/Commodities as Art

Awarded

£ 3250

Lead Student

Adam Sammut, Department of History of Art, University of York

Other student organisers

Simon Spier, University of Leeds Apurba Chatterjee, University of Sheffield

This event is in partnership with the National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum is undertaking a seven year, £50 million, redesign of its entire site. The ambition of this new Vision 2025 project is to tell new stories, brought forth from our archives through detailed research, that challenge and fascinate its visitors. One of the untapped…

See the full details about Building Modernity: Britain, Railways, and the Hispanophone World

Awarded

£ 305

Lead Student

Joel Baker - University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Dr Oli Betts - Research Fellow at the National Railway Museum

This event is the fourth annual Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) lecture which has come to be a staple event of the calendar for philosophers in the region. Organised by students, MAP aims to improve the representation of marginalised groups within the discipline and also marginalised areas of philosophy. The aim of the annual lecture is…

See the full details about Event Minorities and Philosophy Fourth Annual Lecture

Awarded

£ 720

Lead Student

William Hornett (Sheffield)

Other student organisers

• Andrea Blomqvist, Sheffield
• Nadia Mehdi, Sheffield
• Alice Murphy, Leeds
• Celia Coll, York

External link

Minorities and Philosophy Fourth Annual Lecture

The event will commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and bring together PGRs and some of the most prominent experts on twentieth century Spain. The papers at the conference will focus on the hundreds of thousands of Spaniards who had to flee Spain in order to escape the…

See the full details about Refugees and Exile: Commemorating the Eightieth Anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War

Awarded

£ 2,872

Lead Student

Scott Ramsay

Other student organisers

• Liam Morris, University of Leeds
• Joel Baker, University of Sheffield
• Louise Shepperd, University of York

This event seeks to build on the already burgeoning White Rose South Asia series of conferences by offering its 3rd instalment, after events at Leeds in 2017 and Sheffield in 2018. Despite the success of the conference last year, one primary objective for any future conference was to expand the interest to all White Rose…

See the full details about 3rd Annual White Rose South Asia Conference: ‘Exclusion, Dialogue, Exchange’

Awarded

£ 1,659

Lead Student

Ben Holt (Leeds)

Other student organisers

• Purba Hossain, University of Leeds
• Thomas Shillam, University of York
• Arnab Chakraborty, University of York
• Andrew Lunt, University of Leeds
• Zahid Ullah, University of York

External link

https://whiterosesouthasiaconference.wordpress.com/

We have planned three workshops that are based around the theme of indexicality. This is a major topic in sociolinguistic research and has been a focal topic of the SLF on Language Variation and Change. By contrast, researchers in other sub-disciplines, despite exploring language variation extensively, do not always invoke this term. Yet, insights from…

See the full details about Historical and Contemporary Knowledgebase in Sociolinguistics (HaCKS)

Awarded

£ 575

Lead Student

Nat Dziura - University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Thomas Rollings, University of Sheffield
• Joshua Bengough-Smith, University of Sheffield
• Keith Tse, University of York
• Salina Cuddy, University of York

External link

https://hacksocioling.wordpress.com/

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) is one of the most widely studied popular culture texts with many of its own academic monographs, essay collections, and the biannual peer-reviewed journal Slayage. Important for its subversion of the horror genre through its strong female protagonist, it inaugurated the teen vampire phenomenon, increased representation of LGBTQ characters on mainstream television, and…

See the full details about Buffy and the Bible

Awarded

£ 1608

Lead Student

Emma Nagouse (University of Sheffield)

Other student organisers

• Mary Going (University of Sheffield)
• Naomi Hetherington (University of Sheffield)
• Holly Dann (University of Sheffield)
• Kelly Richards D'Arcy-Reed (University of York)
• Dana Alex (Kingston University London)

The long eighteenth century is barely covered in schools, but it was a period of great importance in world history. The major events such as the industrial revolution, the French Revolution, and the American Wars of Independence are part of most people’s general knowledge, but fewer people know about developments in print culture, medicine, and…

See the full details about Eighteenth Century Study Day at Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage

Awarded

£ 1141

Lead Student

Frances Long - University of York

Other student organisers

Lilian Tabois - University of York

15-16 November 2018, University of Sheffield The one-day course Decolonizing The Mind (DTM) explores concepts and tools from the theoretical framework Decolonizing The Mind and is taught by Sandew Hira, independent scholar, activist and organiser of the international decolonial network. Two narratives of liberation had dominated knowledge, culture and activism the past 150 years: Liberalism…

See the full details about Decolonizing The Mind – a third narrative of liberation

Awarded

£ 1780

Lead Student

Nadia Mehdi, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Maryam Jameela, University of Sheffield
• Britt Harrison,University of York
• Alice Murphy, University of Leeds
• Adina Covaci, University of Leeds

Professional philosophy systematically and seriously under-represents women, people of colour, and other marginalised groups. This is tied up in implicit biases against these groups’ abilities to do philosophy, and they often face stereotype threat in the workplace. Many philosophers are still unaware of these issues, and hence do not take steps to combat this. Further,…

See the full details about Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Workshop

Awarded

£ 630

Lead Student

Andrea Blomqvist, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• William Hornett (University of Sheffield)
• Nadia Mehdi (University of Sheffield)
• Alison Toop (University of Leeds)
• Celia Coll (University of York)

Twitter @NVPoco ‘New Voices in Postcolonial Studies’ is a postgraduate researcher-led network for M3C and WRoCAH institutions. The network aims to provide a supportive forum for PhDs across all disciplinary backgrounds to connect with each other, share their work, and most importantly, share their passion for postcolonial research! We hope to create a meaningful cross-disciplinary…

See the full details about New Voices in Postcolonial Studies

Awarded

£ 1442

Lead Student

Emily Timms, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Nadia Medhi (University of Sheffield)
• Lotta Schneidemesser (University of York)
• Emma Parker (University of Leeds)
• Sofia Aatkar (Nottingham Trent University)
• Kelsi Delaney and Tim Hannigan (University of Leicester)
• Stacey Kennedy and Alex Thom (University of Birmingham)

This one-day conference for postgraduates from WRoCAH and beyond considers the opportunities and challenges of researching the 20th-century history of science, technology and medicine. The sources used to research recent history are increasingly varied and extensive. Researchers deal with a combination of materials, including paper, born-digital, audio and audio-visual. Access may be restricted through copyright…

See the full details about The Opportunities & Challenges of Studying 20th Century history of science, technology and medicine

Awarded

£ 560.50

Lead Student

Helen Piel, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

• Emmeline Ledgerwood, University of Leicester
• Linda Ross, University of the Highlands and Islands

External link

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-opportunities-challenges-of-studying-20c-hstm-tickets-48755795898

This event will bring together postgraduate researchers and early-career researchers/scientists, artists and activists from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines to explore the issues surrounding anthropogenic climate change (and other environmental problems), and the communication of those issues. The conference will give attendees a rare opportunity to view their research from a perspective beyond their…

See the full details about A Hostile Climate?: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change

Awarded

£ 1344

Lead Student

Isabel Cook

Other student organisers

• Lucy Rowland, University of Leeds
• Claire Cooper, University of Leeds
• Rosamund Portus, University of York

Temporal Experience: Perspectives from Philosophy and Psychology

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Awarded

£ 746

Lead Student

Henry Pollock, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

Andrea Blomqvist, University of Sheffield

The conference aims to bring together different methodological approaches for the studying of emotions in the medieval and early modern periods. It is centred on the work of Professor Rosenwein (Loyola, Chicago), whose lecture on the first evening will be an open event. This should attract a lot of interest as she is one of…

See the full details about Approaching Emotion

Awarded

£ 628

Lead Student

Jamie Graves, Department of History, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Laura Alston, University of Sheffield, Robert Grout, University of York, Jack Litchfield, University of York

The White Rose International History and International Relations seminar series will provide a forum for discussion amongst PGRs and ECRs working in the fields of post-1900 international history and empirical international relations through regular work-in-progress research seminars. It will foster an inter-disciplinary network between visiting speakers, the organisers and attendees that goes beyond the White…

See the full details about White Rose International History and International Relations Research Seminar

Awarded

£ 2,340

Lead Student

Alex Shaw, School of History, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

Scott Ramsay (Univerity of Leeds), Chukwu Lucian Obinna (University of York), Stephen Rainbird (University of Leeds), Francesca Morphakis (University of Leeds)

Women of the Global South and its Diasporas: Rights, Representation, Activism Symposium. Women’s Paths is a research group based at University of Leeds. It was established in 2015 by feminist researchers from a variety of disciplines to bridge the gap between women’s issues in the community and feminist scholarship. Women’s Paths’s impact across White Rose…

See the full details about Women’s Paths Research Group

Awarded

£ 1800

Lead Student

Ope Adegbulu, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

Marlo De Lara, University of Leeds, Amber-Louise Lascelles, University of Leeds, Arththi Sathananthar, University of Leeds, Maryam Jameela, University of Sheffield, Sam Buchan-Watts, University of York

Understanding Value VII is the 7th annual instalment of the graduate conference at the University of Sheffield, which aims at exploring philosophical themes related to the nature and application of value. Value pertains to most areas in philosophy, and the conference thus has a broad theme and accepts submissions from every area in philosophy including, but not…

See the full details about Understanding Value VII

Awarded

£ 2,500

Lead Student

Andrea Blomqvist, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Nadia Mehdi, University of Sheffield
• Matthew Cull, University of Sheffield
• Celia Coll, University of York
• Olaf Leffler, University of Leeds

External link

https://understandingvalue.weebly.com/

Quilting Points is an ongoing, fortnightly interdisciplinary reading group and seminar series interested in critical and cultural theory which is run collaboratively by a different team of PGRs within the Leeds Humanities Research Institute each year. In 2017-18, discussions focus on the work of Sara Ahmed, a prolific thinker whose work crosses the diverse fields…

See the full details about Quilting Points Presents: Sara Ahmed

Awarded

£ 585

Lead Student

Bethan Hughes, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

External link

http://quiltingpoints.blogspot.co.uk/

This is an international, interdisciplinary, formal, two-day conference. We have selected 8 ‘Invited Speakers’ all of whom are already working Without Theory and/or are eagerly embracing the new opportunities such research methods offer. By identifying a deliberately diverse of interdisciplinary academics the aim is to offer up a bespoke but simultaneously wide-ranging set of new intellectual…

See the full details about ‘Philosophy of Film Without Theory’ Conference

Awarded

£ 3,452.00

Lead Student

Britt Harrison, University of York

Other student organisers

• Rachel Johnson, University of Leeds
• Nadia Medhi, University of Sheffield

External link

https://philosophyoffilmwithouttheory.com/

This event aims to allow a space for understanding and re-conceptualising recent political shifts which have seen moves to the right wing across Europe and America. We are aiming to allow a platform for PGR and early career researchers who belong to the identity categories they are presenting on. This is an effort to contribute to…

See the full details about Intersections & Academia

Awarded

£ 870

Lead Student

Maryam Jameela, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Alex Marsh, University of Sheffield
• Alex Mason, University of Sheffield
• Amber Lascelles, University of Leeds

External link

https://twitter.com/Intersections18

The purpose of this conference is to bring together UK silent film academics and restorers to discuss the vitally important issues surrounding silent cinema preservation and restoration. Silent film academics and restorers rarely co-operate, despite the fact that the two disciplines can directly benefit each other. We plan to use this event to create a…

See the full details about New Approaches to Silent Film Historiography: Technology, Spectatorship and the Archive

Awarded

£ 2604

Lead Student

Laurence Carr, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

Agata Frymus, University of York and Dr Luca Antoniazzi, University of Leeds

External link

https://silentfilmhist2018.wordpress.com/

Gaming the Gothic is a one-day conference focusing on the interdisciplinary connections between the Gothic and Game Studies. Open to researchers from all levels including undergraduates, but with a primary focus on PGRs, we will provide a space for all academics to share their knowledge with each other and explore new avenues of research.   …

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Awarded

£ 1962.50

Lead Student

Emily Marlow, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Lauren Nixon (University of Sheffield) Tom Lubek (University of York) Esther Wright (Warwick University) Ash Darrow (Manchester Metropolitan University) Mary Going (University of Sheffield) Matthew Crofts (University of Hull) Thyrn Henderson (University of York) Kate Gadsby-Mace (University of Sheffield)

This conference aims to build upon the WRoCAH funded PGR event of 2017, ‘Futures Past: South Asia Then and Now’, which provided an exciting opportunity for students of South Asia to converge. This two-day event is focused on aspects of South Asian history such as marginalised historical agents, voices or hidden stories which have thus…

See the full details about South Asian Studies: Voices through History

Awarded

£ 2203

Lead Student

Benjamin Holt, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

Apurba Chatterjee, University of Sheffield. Purba Hossain, University of Leeds. Samuel Ellis, University of Leeds.

External link

https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/1373350/cfp-white-rose-south-asia-network-pgr-symposium-south-asian

Northern Animals brings together animal studies and environmental humanities scholars at various stages of their academic careers across the North of England, and beyond, to share ideas and research, and stimulate new ways of thinking about animals and the natural world. We particularly welcome PGRs and past events have had majority attendance from PGRs. It…

See the full details about Northern Animals: Extinction in the Anthropocene

Awarded

£ 433

Lead Student

Rozzy Portus, University of York

Other student organisers

• Sophia Nicolov, University of Leeds
• Cecilia Tricker-Walsh, University of Sheffield

External link

https://northernanimalsblog.wordpress.com/

The idea of the workshop is to bring together postgraduates across the White Rose network working on issues to do with the nature of imagination and learning via the imagination. Although the main focus of the event will be on philosophical approaches, we aim to make it an interdisciplinary event by also highlighting the role…

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Awarded

£ 252

Lead Student

Andrea Blomqvist, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Alice Murphy, University of Leeds
• Amaia Fraga González, University of Leeds
• Celia Coll, University of York

This will be an opportunity for the PhD students from the WRoCAH White Rose Beyond Charlie Network to present the conclusions of their research on freedom of expression in the press through graphic art to an audience of journalists, graphic artists and historians of French politics. We hope to trigger a debate between the academics…

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Awarded

£ 2,346.00

Lead Student

Imen Neffati, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Stephanie Williams, University of York
• Allis Moss, University of Leeds

External link

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-the-role-and-the-self-image-of-the-satirist-in-the-21st-century-tickets-43090747586

The purpose of this event is to provide an opportunity for postgraduate students working on the Hispanic World to present their research to fellow researchers who are at a similar stage in their academic careers, so that they can gain experience of presenting their work in a supportive and constructive environment. It is highly important…

See the full details about History of Ibero-America Postgraduate Symposium

Awarded

£ 745

Lead Student

Nathaniel Andrews, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

• Joel Baker, University of Sheffield
• Scott Ramsey, University of Leeds

External link

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125250/centre_for_the_history_of_ibero-america/3112/events

Every day, global news feeds and social media engagements testify to the many complex relationships that exist between religion and sexual violence. They also highlight the significant part religions can play in confronting and perpetuating the myths and misperceptions that lie at the heart of rape cultures, which conceptualise gender violence as an ‘inevitable’ or…

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Awarded

£ 2,425

Lead Student

Emma Nagouse, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Erin Shannon, The University of York
• Sofia Rehman, The University of Leeds
• Mary Going, The University of Sheffield

External link

http://shiloh-project.group.shef.ac.uk/?p=2022

Many of us working in applied philosophy deal with areas that are politically sensitive and socially important, what we need is the skills to theorise in those areas, in a way that is in line with our commitments to responsible research, and fair treatment of those we theorise about. This workshop aims to fill the…

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Awarded

£ 765

Lead Student

Nadia Mehdi, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

• Rosa Vince, University of Sheffield
• Charlie Crerar, University of Sheffield
• Sarah Murphy-Young, University of Leeds
• Celia Coll, University of York

External link

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/research/conferences/just-theorising

The White Rose Postgraduate Philosophy Forum aims to bring together postgraduate students and researchers in philosophy and related disciplines from across the White Rose universities York, Leeds, Sheffield for three conferences a year at each of which one representative from each institution presents a paper on their current research. In addition, we also seek to…

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Awarded

£ 1180

Lead Student

David Strohmaier (Sheffield)

Other student organisers

• Jack Warman, University of York
• Olof Leffler, University of Leeds
• James Lewis, University of Sheffield

External link

https://whiterosephilosophy.com/

This reading group aims to bring together a diverse range of researchers at York, Sheffield, and Leeds whose work has stakes in queer theory and its numerous and overlapping sister fields. It is crucial to the broad remit of this group that queer theory is here understood at its most capacious, especially regarding its essential…

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Awarded

£ £315

Lead Student

Georgia Walton, University of Leeds

Other student organisers

• Brendan Whitmarsh, University of York
• Adrienne Mortimer, University of Leeds
• Cecilia Tricker-Walsh, University of Sheffield

External link

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/events/event/4188/queer_theory_reading_group

Gendered Emotions in History on Twitter This one-day conference will  provide an opportunity for postgraduates and early career researchers in particular to present their work, and to meet and share ideas. The theme of the conference is broad. It will not be confined to any particular time period or location and will go beyond simply…

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Awarded

£ 2126

Lead Student

Rebecca Mytton

Other student organisers

• Hannah Jeans, University of York
• Hannah Parker, University of Sheffield
• Joshua Doble, University of Leeds

External link

https://genderedemotions.wordpress.com/

This project will be a chance to share some of the outputs of the WRoCAH Expressive Ensemble Performance network with academic peers, students, performers and educators with an interest in ensemble performance. To achieve this we plan to run a 2.5 day conference,’Together in Music’, which we will organise and host at the National Centre…

See the full details about Together in Music: Expression, Performance and Communication in Ensembles – 12-14th April 2018

Awarded

£ 3633

Lead Student

Nicola Pennill

Other student organisers

WRoCAH White Rose Network: Expressive nonverbal communication in ensemble performance Sara D'Amario, York Ryan Kirkbride, Leeds

External link

http://wrocahensemble.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/tim

The purpose of the Language Variation and Change (LVC) reading group is to bring together postgraduates and academics from all three White Rose institutions to discuss current sociolinguistic research related to language variation and change. The aim of the group is to encourage cross-institutional collaboration in sociolinguistic research and to provide a space for linguists…

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Awarded

£ 797

Lead Student

Sarah Tasker, York

Other student organisers

Kate Moore, Leeds Holly Dann, Sheffield

This is a symposium/workshop focussed on the relationship between feminism, education and research within our three institutions. The aim is to bring together feminist researchers and teachers from the three institutions and beyond to reflect on practices of feminist research, teaching and publishing in the UK in the past fifty years as a way to…

See the full details about Feminism and Education: Looking Back to Think Forward

Awarded

£ 1464

Lead Student

Caroline McCaffrey

Other student organisers

Rosa Vince (University of Sheffield) Jessica Schouela (University of York) Elspeth Mitchell (University of Leeds)

External link

http://www.fine-art.leeds.ac.uk/news/call-for-papers-a-feminist-space-at-leeds-looking-back-to-think-forward/

We will run a one-day conference at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at York. ‘Contested Inheritances,’ refers to the conference’s theme of ‘multiple versions of history.’ The conference will be tied in with the Sheffield University Gothic Reading Group who will run a session based on the themes of the conference. The main objective of…

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Awarded

£ 1406

Lead Student

David Barrow

Other student organisers

Elizabeth Bobbitt (University of York) Lauren Nixon (University of Sheffield) Rachel Sulich (University of Leeds)

External link

https://contestedinheritances.wordpress.com/

In The Political Unconscious: Narrative as Socially Symbolic Act, Fredric Jameson likens genre to that of a contractual arrangement between producer (writer, filmmaker, historian), text, and consumer (reader or audience). Jameson’s commentary considers texts – whether literary or historical – to be transactional structures, defined within the parameters of capital and consumption. Using such current…

See the full details about Portraying the Past: Genre, Identity, and Artistic Engagement with history

Awarded

£ 1360

Lead Student

Daniel Clarke, Sheffield

Other student organisers

WRoCAH White Rose Network: European Film and European Heritage Michael Samuel, Leeds Martina Lovascio, York

The ELLiPs (Extended Language Learning in Postgraduate Research) Symposium is a 1-day workshop in which the PGRs taking part in this training program in either the Autumn or Spring semesters can present either their thesis research or new research projects arising from their work in the course. There are both talks and a poster session…

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Awarded

£ 531

Lead Student

Patrick Connolly

Other student organisers

Jacqueline Ingham, University of Sheffield Wei-Min Wu, University of York Maria-Margarita Makri, University of York Ghada Alkuwaihes , University of York Haylin Zhao, University of York Yuxi Gong, University of York Ekali Kostopoulos, University of York Fei Gao, University of Leeds

External link

http://wrocah.ac.uk/training/wrocah-open-training/ellips/

Both the organisers attended (and indeed met) at an event in Skaholt, Iceland, called Feminist Utopias. Although an academic conference on feminist philosophy, the event foregrounded ways of practicing feminist thought and theory, not just discussing it. The event gave time and space to non traditional ways of working through feminist thought and our research….

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Awarded

£ 385

Lead Student

Elspeth Mitchell, Leeds

Other student organisers

Rosa Vince, Sheffield

The conference is now in its second year. Our aims for this year’s conference are three-fold. First, we aim to support the establishment of an annual interdisciplinary medievalist postgraduate conference, based at the Centre for Medieval Studies in York. It is our goal to ensure that this becomes an intellectually productive annual event. The second…

See the full details about Centre for Medieval Studies Graduate Conference

Awarded

£ 568

Lead Student

Tom Powles

Other student organisers

Carla Jardim, University of York; Harriet Evans, University of York; Catherine-Rose Hailstone, University of York; Jack Litchfield, University of Leeds; Tim Wingard, University of York; Ross McIntire, University of York Emily Reed, University of Sheffield

External link

https://cmsgradconf.wordpress.com/

Recently, there has been a surge in critical activity around neoliberalism, which has led to the emergence of an increasingly settled understanding of its political, economic and cultural mechanics. Most critiques, however – whether undertaken from a Marxist, Foucauldian, or sociological-historical perspective – have proven reluctant to engage neoliberalism on the territory that it has…

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Awarded

£ 2361

Lead Student

Harriett Neal, York

Other student organisers

Joseph Rollins, University of York Adam Bristol Smith, University of York Sam Perks, Leeds University

External link

https://freedomafterneoliberalism.wordpress.com/2017-conference/

The event is to showcase two award-winning London-based poets (Tamás winner of the Manchester Writing Prize; Doegar a Fellow of the Complete Works Program) with these events in the North – and to bring their work into conversation with York- and Sheffield-based poets and researchers. The events also serve to mark the publication of Tamás…

See the full details about CLINIC PRESENTS: Two New Poets

Awarded

£ 231

Lead Student

Sam Buchan-Watts

Other student organisers

Alex Marsh, University of Sheffield

External link

https://www.picastudios.org/events/2017/4/25/5w60jhh027kapnyofaadr09c06ee0m

A continuing scholarly fascination with all things ‘Shelley’ is due in part to the unprecedented access we now have to PBS’s and MWS’s texts (in annotated scholarly editions) and manuscripts (presented in facsimile and transcript). The Shelleys’ works are more readily available than ever before. The lack of an annual or even frequent conference dedicated…

See the full details about The Shelley Conference

Awarded

£ 1728

Lead Student

Harriett Neal, York

Other student organisers

Anna Mercer, University of York Carly Stevenson, University of Sheffield Carl McKeating, Leeds University

External link

https://theshelleyconference2017.wordpress.com/

The aim of the Northern Animals one day event is to promote cross-institutional links between PGRs working in the area of environmental humanities in any academic discipline at universities in the north of England. The event also aims to offer advice to postgraduate students (both MA and PhD) on how they can best prepare for…

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Awarded

£ 614

Lead Student

Adam Farrow, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Caitlin Stobie, University of Leeds Martha Cattell, University of York Alice Higgs, University of Sheffield Rebecca Simon, University of Sheffield Joe Mansfield, University of Sheffield

The conference aims to explore the connections between the pragmatist tradition, and the divide between ‘continental’ and ‘analytic’ philosophy. Like the analytic and continental traditions, pragmatism developed around the turn of the 20th century. The early pragmatists influenced (and were influenced by) the founding thinkers on both sides of the divide, and their work contains…

See the full details about Pragmatism and the Analytic-Continental Split

Awarded

£ 750

Lead Student

James Lewis, Sheffield

Other student organisers

External link

https://pacsconf.weebly.com/

“Speak, body” is a three-day conference taking place at Leeds, April 21-3 2017. This conference, which has a central PGR component, aims to explore the juncture of the “body” in recent Art History in relation to feminism(s) and the discourses of capitalism. We want to track the relationship between both the figuring of the body…

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Awarded

£ 2640

Lead Student

Tom Hastings

Other student organisers

Melissa Gustin, University of York

External link

https://speakbody2017.tumblr.com/

This two-day interdisciplinary conference will take place at the HRI – University of Sheffield on 1-2 June 2017. It aims to draw together graduate scholars as well as early career researchers (PhD students and postdoctoral fellows) working on material culture, digital humanities, medicine, consumption, daily routine, practice and more in the early modern period, and…

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Awarded

£ 2995

Lead Student

Annamaria Valent, York

Other student organisers

WRoCAH White Rose Network: Cultures of Consumption in Early Modern Europe Jose Cree (Sheffield) Giovanni Pozzetti (Leeds).

This conference will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine how conflict permeates the domestic sphere. Whereas the term ‘home’ is commonly associated with familiarity and safety, ‘conflict’ evokes the opposite sense. War often enters the home as quotidian lived experience; critics such as Mary A. Favret address the concept of…

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Awarded

£ 1000

Lead Student

Harriet Beadnell, York

Other student organisers

Stephanie Wright, University of Sheffield (WRoCAH) Lotta Schneidemesser, University of York

External link

https://bringingconflicthome.wordpress.com/

The concept of value has been one of the most discussed concepts in the history of philosophy, and this conference has, for the last five years, aimed to bring together a diverse group of postgraduate philosophers to discuss the wide-ranging issues relating to it. We have had speakers talk about the nature of art, morality,…

See the full details about Understanding Value VI

Awarded

£ 2000

Lead Student

Rosa Vince, Sheffield

Other student organisers

James Lewis, University of Sheffield Olof Leffler, University of Leeds George Stamets, University of Leeds William Hornett, University of Sheffield Ahmad Fattah, University of Sheffield Jamie Cawthra, University of York

External link

https://understandingvalue.weebly.com/

This one-day interdisciplinary conference is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers working on any aspect of this period. It arises from the Sheffield University Eighteenth Century Reading Group; there is a taste and need for events which offer more time to explore this complex and fascinating era, and there is currently a lively, active…

See the full details about Borders, boundaries and beyond in the long eighteenth century

Awarded

£ 1700

Lead Student

Alison Horgan, Leeds

Other student organisers

Samuel Longhurst, University of Sheffield Hannah Jeans, University of York

External link

https://bordersandboundaries18thc.wordpress.com/

This series of one-day events brings together postgraduate students across White Rose researching through creative practice. Each event includes practical workshops and guest speakers. We aim to provide a collaborative, supportive forum in which students can discuss their research successes and concerns.

See the full details about Performance as Research Postgraduate Colloquium

Awarded

£ 1313.45

Lead Student

Kirsty Surgey (Sheffield)

Other student organisers

Omar Shahryar, University of York Jade French, University of Leeds Rommi Smith, University of Leeds Matthew Elliott, University of Leeds Alaena Turner, University of Leeds

External link

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parnet-pg-colloquium-tickets-27127434888

The aims of this conference are to open up channels of discussion about recent work in monastic archaeology and studies. There are a number of WRoCAH students studying aspects of monasticism, as well as other students at White Rose Universities, so this will be an excellent opportunity to present post-graduate research within the White Rose…

See the full details about Re-evaluating the religious: recent approaches to monastic archaeology in later Medieval Britain

Awarded

£ 1500

Lead Student

Francesca Breeden, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Victoria Yuskaitis, Leeds Emma Woolfrey, York (WRoCAH) Katie Harrison, York (WRoCAH) Martin Huggon, Sheffield Pete Townend, Sheffield.

This two-day interdisciplinary conference is designed to bring together those in the humanities whose work explores human-animal relations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular, it seeks to investigate the various, and often ambiguous, ways in which animals were consumed by humans symbolically and materially. Through various methods of consumption, typically characterised by exploitation…

See the full details about Consuming Animals

Awarded

£ 2000

Lead Student

Harriett Neal, York

Other student organisers

Sky Duthie, University of York Martha Cattell, University of York Lauren MaCarthy , University of Leeds

External link

https://consuminganimalsconference2017.wordpress.com/

This conference will be taking place on the 18th-20th November, as a follow-on from the PGR day ‘Time:Immaterial’. Building on Nagel and Wood’s Anachronic Renaissance and Nagel’s Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time this conference brings together new research on a range of sculptural and related visual material across periods; addressing ideas of periods, periodization…

See the full details about Past Time: Art, Anachronism, Anachronisticism

Awarded

£ 1050

Lead Student

Carla Suthren, York

Other student organisers

Melissa Gustin, University of York Tom Hastings, University of Leeds

External link

https://anachronicyork.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/timeimmaterial-pgr-symposium-programme/

This event is a one-day postgraduate conference that is intended to tie in with an existing event in Leeds’ LCS: the visit of Memory Studies scholar, Astrid Erll, who is giving a keynote speech the evening before the conference. Erll is widely known as Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, and…

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Awarded

£ 1377

Lead Student

Jade Douglas, Leeds

Other student organisers

Hanna Abakunova, University of Sheffield Harriet Beadnell, University of York Jessica Ortner, University of Copenhagen

External link

https://memorymigrationconf17.wordpress.com/

This is a two-day international postgraduate-organised conference exploring the inter-dependencies and dynamics of ‘private’ art collections and their display in ‘public’ institutions, to be held on 30th-31st March 2017. The conference will take place under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Art and Antiques Market, a research hub for interdisciplinary study…

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Awarded

£ 5104

Lead Student

Anna Reeve, Leeds

Other student organisers

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, University of Leeds (WRoCAH) Heather Findling, University of Leeds Shir Kochavi, University of Leeds Victoria White, University of York (WRoCAH) Kirsty Surgey, University of Sheffield (WRoCAH)

External link

http://www.fine-art.leeds.ac.uk/events/private-collecting-and-public-display-art-markets-and-museums/

This event is a one day workshop for postgraduate students from the arts, humanities and social sciences across the White Rose Consortium and beyond whose work is focused upon South Asia or its diaspora. Twelve students will present papers in an innovative and unconventional format (see below) with discussion from faculty members. It will bring…

See the full details about Futures Past: South Asia Now and Then

Awarded

£ 1891

Lead Student

Sarah Gandee, Leeds

Other student organisers

Sam Ellis, University of Leeds Apurba Chatterjee, University of Sheffield

External link

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/events/event/3485/futures_past_south_asia_now_and_then

The University of Leeds has been selected to host the PILAS Annual Conference on June 26 and 27, 2017. It is free to attend and will include keynote speakers, workshops and social engaging activities. PILAS is the postgraduate affiliate of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS). As an organisation run by and for postgraduate…

See the full details about PILAS Annual Conference 2017

Awarded

£ 950

Lead Student

Jesús Sanjurjo, Leeds

Other student organisers

Lourdes Parra, University of Leeds Valentina Caruso, University of Sheffield Peter Watson, University of Sheffield

External link

http://pilas.slas.org.uk/

In the early modern world, ‘first impressions’ played a central role in the establishment and maintenance of individual and group identities. However, anxiety over the potential for outward appearances to confuse, disguise, or deceive also gained increasing momentum in this. This one-day interdisciplinary symposium will take ‘first impressions’ as a starting point in order to…

See the full details about “First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies, 1600-1800

Awarded

£ 1321

Lead Student

Elizabeth Spencer, York

Other student organisers

Hannah Wallace, Sheffield (WRoCAH CDA)

External link

https://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/firstimpressionsconfnov2016/

The event, Consuming Heritage, is a one-day PhD workshop event, aimed at giving a platform for PhD students belonging to the WROCAH cohort (from 2014 -2016 starters) to showcase aspects of their research, with a specific focus on heritage and culture. The day also includes several keynotes from key academics working in the field of…

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Awarded

£ 471

Lead Student

Michael Samuel, Leeds

Other student organisers

WRoCAH White Rose Network: European Cinema, European Identity, European Culture Daniel Clarke, University of Sheffield Martina Lovascio, University of York

External link

http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue13/13_1Report_Clarke.pdf

The Time:Immaterial postgraduate research symposium will take the first chapter to Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood’s Anachronic Renaissance as its foundation. While this seminal work offered a profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance, Time:Immaterial will look beyond that period to find the anachronic in new times and places, with papers presenting…

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Awarded

£ 1262

Lead Student

Carla Suthren, York

Other student organisers

Melissa Gustin, University of York Tom Hastings, University of Leeds

External link

https://anachronicyork.wordpress.com/

Almost every area of philosophy deals with value, and many of these areas fundamentally aim to study value: questions such as ‘Which actions are right and wrong?’, ‘Which things do we have good reasons to believe?’, ‘What is the nature of aesthetic value?’, as well as the countless questions which derive from them, are, at…

See the full details about Understanding Value V

Awarded

£ 2000

Lead Student

Stephen Bolton, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Isela Gonzalez Vazquez, University of Sheffield Trystan Goetze, University of Sheffield Jamie Cawthra, University of York

External link

https://understandingvalue.weebly.com/previous-editions.html

The conference “Communication, Correspondence and Transmission in the Early Modern World”, part of the established “Northern Renaissance Seminar” (NRS) series, will take place on 12-13 May 2016. The event seeks to complicate and move beyond the “printing revolution” narrative to consider the messy and multiplicitous facets of early modern communication. It features 32 papers, plus…

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Awarded

£ 1038

Lead Student

Giovanni Pozzetti, Leedes

Other student organisers

Hannah Coates Stephen Foster Kit Heyam Claire Rennie Claudia Rogers, all Leeds Anna Valent , York Jose Cree, Sheffield We are holding this event in conjunction with the Early Modern Lines WRoCAH Student-Led Forum

External link

http://www.rensoc.org.uk/news/northern-renaissance-seminar-communication-correspondence-and-transmission-early-modern-world

The event is planned as a combination of public engagement, performance and scientific discovery. The event will take place on April, 16th 2016 in the Sir Jack Lyons concert at York University. The format will be as follows: – A short introductory talk will introduce some of the principles and equipment needed to measure vocal…

See the full details about Mastering Ensemble Singing: The Science and the Art

Awarded

£ 1281

Lead Student

Sara D'Amario, York

Other student organisers

WRoCAH White Rose Network: Expressive nonverbal communication in ensemble performance Ryan Kirkbride, Leeds Nicola Pennill, Sheffield

External link

http://wrocahensemble.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/

The purpose of this event is to bring scholars from Leeds, York and Sheffield together for a two-hour seminar in which we will discuss the theme of world literature as based upon Pheng Cheah’s recent monograph, What is a world? (2016); a recent and novel intervention in this field. The seminar will be based on…

See the full details about World against Globe: Reconceptualising World Literatures Today

Awarded

£ 101

Lead Student

Jade Douglas, Leeds

Other student organisers

Dominic O'Key, University of Leeds Ian Ellison, University of Leeds Rebecca Macklin, University of Leeds Joe Rollins, University of York (WRoCAH) Daniel South, University of York (WRoCAH) Maryam Jameela, University of Sheffield (WRoCAH)

External link

http://www.getvamos.com/events/world-against-globe-reconceptualising-world-literatures-today/11171325

The day will take the form of a symposium with 15-minute conference-style papers, workshops with practitioners, a round-table discussion with established academics, and a keynote presentation from Robin MacKay, philosopher and director of UK arts organization Urbanomic, addressing the relationships between philosophy, science and art practice.

See the full details about Humanities and Beyond: Exploring the Frontiers of Interdisciplinarity

Awarded

£ £2,8589

Lead Student

Madelaine Schurch, (York)

Other student organisers

Catherine Evans, (Sheffield) Fiona Hobbs-Milne, (York) Ryan Kirkbride, (Leeds) Nicola Pennhill, (Sheffield)

The event will explore a range of approaches, from across a variety of disciplines within the arts and humanities, to thinking critically about contemporary as well as historical societies. The event will focus on the ways that we in the arts and humanities can offer a challenge to a range of societal issues, the methods…

See the full details about Thinking critically about society: perspectives from the arts and humanities.

Awarded

£ 298

Lead Student

James Hickson, York

Other student organisers

Emily Nunn, University of Sheffield

External link

https://thinkingcritically2016.wordpress.com/

The aim of HaCKS is twofold: to provide a network for collaborating and sharing knowledge in contemporary and historical sociolinguistic topics, and to provide the opportunity for postgraduates to engage with the wider research community and the public. These aims will be addressed via two platforms: a website and a seminar series, to be launched…

See the full details about Historical and Contemporary Knowledge base in Sociolinguistics (HaCKS)

Awarded

£ 1811

Lead Student

Joshua Bengough-Smith, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Grace Wood, University of York Andrew Bradley, University of Sheffield Kate Moore, University of Leeds

External link

https://hacksocioling.wordpress.com

OITNBible offers students and researchers from UG to ECR level opportunities to present and observe short research-led presentations to peers and academic staff on interdisciplinary topics allied to the Netflix show Orange is the New Black and the Bible. The symposium will create and nurture a research community drawing speakers and delegates from across WRoCAH…

See the full details about Orange is the New Bible Symposium (OITNBible)

Awarded

£ 2001

Lead Student

Jo Henderson-Merrygold, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Charity Hamilton - University of Leeds Lucy Skerratt - King's College London (MA Student)

There are many ways to be a moral realist, but realism in ethics was considered dead and buried for much of the twentieth century. In the last twenty five years, however, various forms of moral realism have been exhumed and revivified. The purpose of our two-part event is to renew and advance the debate about…

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Awarded

£ 4200

Lead Student

Stephen Bolton, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Stephen Ingram, University of Sheffield Joe Saunders, University of Leeds Mark Wilcox, University of Leeds

The Wider World History Network aims to bring together postgraduate students researching topics that have an international dimension, whether that be connecting European history to the rest of the world or centred on a different continent altogether. Inviting discussion on topics ranging from the medieval period to the present day – transcending restrictive historical periodisation…

See the full details about Wider World History Network

Awarded

£ 540

Lead Student

Claudia Rogers, Leeds

Other student organisers

Sarah Gandee (WRoCAH, Leeds) Lucy Taylor (ESRC, Leeds). Stephanie Wright (Sheffield) Thomas Jackson (Sheffield) Annamaria Valent (York) Jesús Sanjurjo Ramos (Leeds) Lauren McCarthy (Leeds) Giovanni Pozzetti (Leeds)

How should we understand the claim that torturing innocent people is morally wrong? According to expressivists, this is not a statement of fact but an expression of one’s disapproval of torturing innocent people. In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in expressivist theories of moral discourse, with a range of new and…

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Awarded

£ 4440

Lead Student

Graham Bex-Priestley, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Stephen Ingram, University of Shefffield Marc Wilcox, University of Leeds

This event will consist of an informal day of papers based at the University of Sheffield’s Department of History, exploring the creation, dissemination and reception of discourse in regimes commonly referred to as ‘authoritarian’. The aim of the event is to bring together people working on the language of ‘authoritarian’ states, and to discuss how…

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Awarded

£ 1162

Lead Student

Stephanie Wright, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Hannah Parker, University of Sheffield Sabine Grimshaw, University of Leeds

The two-day international post-graduate conference titled ‘Feminist Readings 2’ which will take place in April 2016 is a continuation of an international symposium held by the Women’s & Gender Studies Centre at the University Paris 8 in 2015. By bringing together postgraduates from Paris 8, University of Helsinki, University of Leeds, University of Sheffield &…

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Awarded

£ 1642

Lead Student

Elspeth Mitchell, Leeds

Other student organisers

Louisa Lee, York

This conference is the outcome, first, of ‘lyric turn’ in literary studies that has resulted in a reconsideration in in literary as well as in ethical and psychological studies of the significance of lyric as opposed to narrative genres in articulating a variety of interdisciplinary questions. The aim of this conference is to bring together…

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Awarded

£ 5011

Lead Student

Laura Blomvall, York

Other student organisers

Alex Alonso, University of York Stephen Grace, University of York David Troupes, University of Sheffield Jack Quin, University of York

The colloquium provides a forum for graduates and doctoral researchers to present and discuss their work within and involving topics around Medieval Archaeology

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Awarded

£ 613

Lead Student

Emma Green, University of Sheffield

Other student organisers

Robert Grout (York) Holly Hunt-Watts (Leeds)

Understanding Value IV continues a series of graduate conferences at the University of Sheffield exploring the nature and function of value. Due to its common importance, the topic of value is well suited to encouraging discussion and debate between graduates working in a wide array of philosophical sub-disciplines. These conferences create a supportive and engaging…

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Awarded

£ 1932

Lead Student

Charlie Crerar, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Neil W. Williams, University of Sheffield Joshua Black, University of Sheffield Ashley Pennington, University of Sheffield Marc Wilcox, University of Leeds

External link

http://understandingvalue.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/3/6/24368826/uv_4.pdf

‘Moving Pictures and Photoplays: New Perspectives in Silent Cinema’ is a 2 day conference designed to bring together postgraduate researchers working on any aspect relating to silent cinema and film industry of the silent period. It will take place on the 18th and 19th of June 2015. As organisers, we welcome papers on all the…

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Awarded

£ 5718

Lead Student

Agata Frymus, York

Other student organisers

Fiona Keenan, York

Three panels of work-in-progress presentations by PhD students from different academic institutions working on related issues, a series of research training and career development sessions led by experts in the field and related very specifically to research in film and television. The event has been shaped with the idea of giving PhD students researching in this field the opportunity to share ideas, research methodologies and knowledge within an informal but still academic environment. The idea behind it is bringing together PhD students at different stages in their work in order to give them the possibility to confront each other and potentially contributing to each other’s research. Doing this event under the auspices of our WRoCAH PhD Network, will give visibility to the network itself and our website

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Awarded

£ 3083

Lead Student

Martina Lovascio (York)

Other student organisers

WRoCAH White Rose Network: European Film, European Heritage, European Identity Daniel Clarke, Sheffield Michael Samuel, Leeds

This interdisciplinary research group will explore the concept of ‘lines’ in any aspect of early modern thought or culture, from metaphor to architectural theory or scientific conceptions of the material world. It will consider how lines were used to organize, make and disrupt knowledge during 1450-1700. We aim to foster dialogue on this engaging topic…

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Awarded

£ 1527

Lead Student

Sarah Cawthorne, York

Other student organisers

Francesca Dornan - University of Sheffield (WRoCAH cohort) Claudia Rogers - University of Leeds (WRoCAH cohort) Claire Canavan - University of York Frances Maguire - University of York

The Annual Postgraduate Monasticism Conference aims to bring together researchers from many different institutions and disciplines to discuss monasticism in its broadest sense. This year the topic is Monastic Sciences and two keynote speakers have already been secured, Prof. Peregrine Horden (RHUL), and Dr. Sophie Page (UCL). The event allows delegates to network and create…

See the full details about 4th Annual Postgraduate Monasticism Conference. Monastic Sciences: Medicina, Mechanica, Philosophia.

Awarded

£ 260

Lead Student

Francesca Breeden, Sheffield

Other student organisers

Amy Devenney - University of Leeds Richard Thomason - University of Leeds Esther Kim - University of Leeds

Arts and Social Change’ aims to describe a broad field of work in which the arts intersect with social or political intentions. In this context, art is a political act and produced in a conscious effort to facilitate and/or participate in social change. The interdisciplinary nature of this field, with blurred boundaries between arts, geography,…

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Awarded

£ 1822

Lead Student

Jade French, Leeds

Other student organisers

Pippa Gardner, The University of Sheffield

Nahuel Sznajderhaus, Leeds
Elizabeth Thorsson, York

See the full details about White Rose Philosophy Postgraduate Forum (WRPPF)

Awarded

£ 2010

Lead Student

Jared Stoughton (York)

Other student organisers

The White Rose Philosophy Postgraduate Forum (WRPPF) is a research network between postgraduate students of Philosophy at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, York, and Hull. The WRPPF organises tri-annual workshops, held in rotation between the four universities, at which a student from each university presents their research to an audience of peers. The WRPPF reaches out to a large philosophy postgraduate community and our meetings has provided the ideal opportunity for postgraduates to both present their research and hear about others’ research in an environment that is at the same time less formal than an academic conference and more challenging than an intra-departmental meeting. Our Forum meetings have therefore given the postgraduates, at York and beyond, an exciting experience and are invaluable in preparing us for a future career in academia.

External link

https://whiterosephilosophy.com/