PhD Seminar Series Autumn 2023

The Winchester School of Art PhD Seminar Series will be resuming from today (4th October).

We invite you to join us for future instalments in the Seminar Series, which will run from 2-4pm on Wednesdays during term time, in person (PGR Room) and on MS Teams. The series consists of (guest) speakers, workshops, trainings, and other research- and practice-led events.

The full schedule for the Autumn 2023 term is available below (details and bios for individual sessions will be linked as available):

4 October 2023
In this opening week we will be running a Meet & Greet between incoming and current PhD researchers, and colleagues in the department (with refreshments).

11 October 2023
Dr Chris Müller
‘Laughing with Machines’
(workshop)

18 October 2023
Dr Sasha Anikina
‘Animist Infrastructures: Bots, Net-Works and Imagining a (Socialist) AI’
(artist talk + workshop)

25 October 2023
Dr Seth Giddings
‘Toy Theory’
(talk + discussion of academic publishing)

1 November 2023
Dr Kai Syng Tan
‘Tentacular Networking: Making Meaningful Entanglements’
(talk + discussion)

Followed by Halloween party from 4pm! With refreshments.

8 November 2023
Ink Yijie Gao
‘Researching Robots’
(live robot demo and research test)

15 November 2023
Anurita Chandola
‘Speculative Textiles + Building a Martian House’
(artist talk + discussion)

22 November 2023
Dr Shan Wang
‘User experiences in design, interactive design, and inclusive design’
(research talk + discussion)

29 November 2023
Dave Gibbons
‘Developing a PhD research question with Dave Gibbons’
(art/research talk + discussion)

6 December 2023
Julia Vogl
‘Art and/as Social Practice’
(artist talk + discussion)

13 December 2023
Dr Lexi Webster + Dr Sonia Moran Panero
‘Empathetic Peer Review’
(training and talk co-hosted with ECR Development Series)

Followed by Christmas party from 4pm! With refreshments.