{"id":2967,"date":"2015-08-14T08:26:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T08:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/?page_id=2967"},"modified":"2015-08-14T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T08:26:45","slug":"seminar-iv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/seminar-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seminar IV: Research Toolkit\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(Spring 2015)
\nSeminar IV covers a set of key areas from developing a critical literature review to ethnographic research methods.\u00a0NB. All sessions take\u00a0place in the PGR study room unless otherwise stated<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday 11 February (1-3pm)
\n<\/strong>Session 1: What is the Doctorate\u00a0in<\/em>\u00a0Philosophy?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/b>This session examines the nature of the PhD as both a lived process and a formally assessed qualification. It explores the significance of the word ‘philosophy’ in its title and\u00a0the role of ‘theory’ as a means to\u00a0speculate upon and generate ‘new knowledge’.
\n<\/span><\/i>Set Reading
\n<\/span>(1) Woodhouse, M. (2000) ‘Recognizing Philosophical Subject Matter’,\u00a0A Preface to Philosophy<\/i>. Wadsworth, pp. 1-19.
\n(2) Culler, J. (2000)\u00a0Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction<\/i>\u00a0(Chapter 1). Oxford, pp.1-17.<\/p>\n

+\u00a0WSA Seminar, 4-6pm:\u00a0<\/strong>Ashok Ranchhod:\u00a0The Futures of Genetically-Modified Foods: Global Threat or Panacea?\u00a0<\/em>(Harvard Suite,\u00a0<\/em>RM #3032)<\/p>\n


\nWednesday 25 February\u00a0(1-3pm)
\n<\/strong>Session 2: Critical Literature Review
\n<\/span><\/strong>Details to Follow<\/p>\n

+\u00a0WSA Seminar, 4-6pm:\u00a0<\/strong>John Armitage:\u00a0How to Write an Academic Paper for Publication<\/em>\u00a0(Harvard Suite,\u00a0<\/em>RM #3032)<\/p>\n

Wednesday 11 March (1-3pm)
\n<\/strong>Session 3:\u00a0Cultural Politics – Research & Writing
\n<\/span><\/strong>As one of the founding editors of the journal Cultural Politics, Prof. John Armitage will examine\u00a0two articles from the journal to explore differing approaches to research, asking how the articles relate to wider fields of knowledge, what methods are employed, how\u00a0styles of writing differ and how the articles are structured.
\nSet Reading<\/span>
\n(1) Matthias Messmer and Hsin-Mei Chuang (2013) ‘China’s Vanishing Worlds:\u00a0Countryside, Traditions, and Cultural Spaces’,\u00a0Cultural Politics<\/em>, Vol. 9, No. 1,\u00a0pp.43-52.
\n(2) \u00a0Anna-Verena Nosthoff (2014) ‘Art after Auschwitz: Responding to an Infinite Demand: Gustav Metzger\u2019s Works as Responses to Theodor W. Adorno\u2019s \u201cNew Categorical Imperative\u201d’,\u00a0Cultural Politics<\/em>, Vol. 10, No. 3,\u00a0pp.300-319.
\n(3) John Armitage and Joy Garnett (2015) ‘Vespertine’,\u00a0Cultural Politics<\/em>, Volume 11, issue 1, pp.126-133.<\/p>\n

+\u00a0WSA Seminar, 4-6pm:\u00a0<\/strong>Gordon Hon:\u00a0A Hole in the Ground: Poussin and Filmmaking<\/em>\u00a0(Harvard Suite,\u00a0<\/em>RM #3032)<\/p>\n

EASTER VACATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday 22\u00a0April\u00a0(1-3pm)
\n<\/strong>Session 4:\u00a0Creativity in Research
\n<\/span><\/strong>Details to follow<\/p>\n

+\u00a0WSA Seminar, 4-6pm:\u00a0<\/strong>Adam Dunn:\u00a0The Artifice of Seemingly Natural Charm: Constructing and Learning the Algorithm of Seduction<\/em>\u00a0(Harvard Suite,\u00a0<\/em>RM #3032)<\/p>\n

Wednesday 6 May\u00a0(2-3.30pm)
\n<\/strong>Session 5:\u00a0Writing with Images
\n<\/span><\/strong>DISCUSS: \u2018\u2026visual studies remains a field that is mainly engaged with kinds of argument that do not need to make continual, close concerted, dialogic contact with images\u2019 \u00a0(Elkins)
\n<\/em>Set Reading
\nElkins, J. (2013) \u2018An Introduction to the Visual as Argument\u2019, Elkins, J. et al. (ed.)\u00a0Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Disciplines<\/em>. Routledge, pp.25-60.<\/p>\n

+ WSA Seminar, 4-6pm:\u00a0<\/strong>Eirini Bazaki:\u00a0Business Methods Research<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(Harvard Suite,\u00a0<\/em>RM #3032)<\/p>\n


\nWednesday 13\u00a0May\u00a0(2-4pm)
\n<\/strong>Session 6:\u00a0Archives and Historical Sources\u00a0
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>Prof.\u00a0Jussi Parikka\u00a0discusses the notion of archives and in general, the way in which historical interest of knowledge can become part of our research. Examples are\u00a0drawn from media history and media archaeology, but with an eye towards archives, online archives\/resources and questions as to the realm of historical knowledge production<\/p>\n


\nWednesday 20 May\u00a0(12-3pm)
\n<\/strong>Session 7: Studio-Based Thesis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Details to follow<\/p>\n

+\u00a0WSA Seminar, 4-6pm:\u00a0TBA<\/strong>\u00a0(Harvard Suite,\u00a0<\/em>RM #3032)<\/p>\n


\nWednesday 3 June\u00a0(1-3pm)
\n<\/strong>Session 8:\u00a0Ethnographic Methods
\n<\/span><\/strong>Details to follow<\/p>\n

+\u00a0WSA Seminar, 4-6pm:\u00a0TBA<\/strong>\u00a0(Harvard Suite,\u00a0<\/em>RM #3032)<\/p>\n

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