Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities

Prospectives 2021

19 May

Collection Ecologies – Scientific Heritage, Historical Ecology and Multispeci...

This series of sessions is part of the International Summer School. They will explore how historical ecology approaches can be used to analyse the past of collections and how (historical) collections may provide important answers for current ecological issues now and in the future.
11 Jun

Dislocations | Olia Sosnovskaya in conversation with Dr Jon Blackwood

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.
01 Jun

[PM] Keynote: Dr Mark Carrigan

This talk will discuss how the university has changed over the last 18 months, as well as which of these changes are likely to remain. Dr Mark Carrigan from the University of Cambridge will explore what digital scholarship means in practice, as well as offering strategies and techniques to thrive under these conditions.
19 May

The Aberdeen Burgh Records: Historical Languages, Investigations, Creative Re...

This session is part of the International Summer School programme. It explores Aberdeen's medieval civic records and their historical languages, current digital humanities investigation of this material, and new creative responses through song-writing.

20 May

Transnational History as Spatial History: the case of the Esperanto Movement ...

This workshop aims at providing an insight into the Esperanto movement in the early twentieth century. It will showcase a transnational historical perspective in theory and practice.
25 May

Dislocations | Discussion Session on Digital Curation

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.
25 May

Dislocations | Ahmet Ögüt in conversation with Dr Jon Blackwood

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.
01 Jun

[PM] Keynote: Arts & Humanities Research, Activism and Social Justice Roundtable

This roundtable will hear from researchers in the arts and humanities from across Scotland whose work informs or functions as activism.

20 May

Exchanges between Scotland and Europe through the Demarco archives

This workshop is part of the International Summer School programme. It will explore exchanges between Scotland and Europe through the Demarco archives.
25 May

Dislocations | Stella Rooney in conversation with Dr Jon Blackwood

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.
01 Jun

[PM] Keynote: Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

In Britain today, historical research is under threat: history departments are being closed, historical research projects are being defunded, and historians are being demonised by politicians and newspapers. This talk will outline how this has unfolded, and will make a case for historians responding not by retreating and hoping not to be noticed, but by working to defend their public role.
20 May

SGSAH Internationalisation Consultation Event for PhDs

If you’re interested in international opportunities during your PhD (virtual or in-person, once safe), come have your voice heard at this consultation event!

20 May

Prospectives 2021

Prospectives 2021 is a one-day symposium highlighting an international selection of work by graduate and PhD students working at the edge of developments in scholarly and practice based work involving digital technologies.
25 May

Dislocations | Mila Panić in conversation with Dr Jon Blackwood

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.
01 Jun

[PM] Keynote: Professor Celia Lury

An inspiration for the book Problem Spaces was Richard Serra’s claim that ‘Drawing is a verb’. Serra himself draws attention to the relations in which the action that ‘simply acts’ takes place: he describes the list as a series of ‘actions to relate to oneself, material, place, and process’. Problem Spaces tries to describe what this might involve at a time when the epistemic infrastructures in which knowledge is produced are undergoing radical change.

20 May

Workshop: Compound 13 Lab, Dharavi, Mumbai: waste, work and survival in a glo...

This session explores practice-based methodologies in arts-based research in urban settings, considering issues of interdisciplinarity, participatory practice, inclusion, and ethics.
25 May

Dislocations | Elena Chemerska & Ivana Mirchevska in conversation with Dr Jon...

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.
01 Jun

[PM] Keynote: The Dear Green Bothy Pop-Up

This pop-up event is hosted in collaboration with the University of Glasgow's College of Arts initiative 'The Dear Green Bothy', aimed at demonstrating the vital role played by arts and humanities research in understanding and addressing climate emergency.