technē Congress th th Thursday 10 and Friday 11 January 2019 An environment of research may be physical: the Environments of Research archives, libraries, museums, labs and studios in which we undertake research. They might be corporal, intellectual, philosophical or imagined environments. Our interdisciplinary spaces examine urban and rural cityscapes/landscapes of the past and the future, ecologies, ecowriting, environmental humanities. How do spaces, places, institutions and contexts shape our research and practice? What happens to our research when we move between environments? How can and have our disciplines confronted the challenge of environmental change? DAY 1 – Thursday 10th January Times Sessions Speakers Room 09:45 to 10:15 Registration & Tea/Coffee Windsor Building Foyer Katie Normington (technē Director) and 10:15 to 10:30 Environments of Research: Welcome and Introduction Windsor Auditorium Harriet Hawkins (technē Deputy Director) Keynote Lecture 10:30 to 11:30 Drifting Ecologies Carl Lavery Windsor Auditorium 11:30 to 12:00 Tea/Coffee Windsor Building Foyer Film screening – Correspondence O and Sitting on a Man Ilona Sagar and Onyeka Igwe Windsor Auditorium Daniel Whistler, Lucie Mercier, Benjamin Where Does Thinking Happen? 0-02 Dawson, Marika Rose Session 1 Against the Cult of Creativity Oli Mould 0-03 Katie McGettigan, Francesca Benatti, 12:00 to 13:15 New Research in Digital Humanities 0-04 Christopher Ohge, Sharon Webb Making the Most of PhD Supervision: Top Tips and Best Practice Chris Megson 0-05 How To Fail Your Viva Ted Vallance 1-02 Lunch Windsor Building Foyer CV 1-to-1 Harriet Hawkins, Jay Willink, Ted Vallance 0-02 13:15 to 14:00 Inkpath: Feedback Working Group John Miles 0-03 Partners Networking Ben Cole 0-04 TECHNECAST Student Podcast: Find Out More Jo Langton, Polly Hember 0-05 What is a technē Conflux? Harriet Hawkins and Conflux teams 0-02 Session 2 Developing an Academic Career Jay Willink 0-03 14:00 to 15:15 Discovering the Potential of a Placement Ben Cole 0-04 Page 2 of 26 Times Sessions Speakers Room Participating in The Brilliant Club Scholars Programme Simon Oldham 0-05 Making Your Teaching Count: Research-Led Teaching Will Shüler 1-02 Archives Reading Room Royal Holloway Archives, Special Collections and Rare Books Annabel Valentine (meet in the Windsor Building Foyer) Tea/Coffee Windsor Building Foyer 15:15 to 15:45 technē Confluxes: Meet the Teams Drop-in Conflux Teams 0-02 technē Confluxes: Meet the Teams Drop-in Conflux Teams 0-02 Time Management for Research Students Jay Willink 0-03 Olivia Swift, Caroline Hamilton, Anja Student PechaKucha Presentations Kirschner, Myrto Farmaki, Lizz Fort, Kostas 0-04 Session 3 Gousis 15:45 to 17:00 The Academic Monograph in the Arts and Humanities: Practices, Innes Keighren, Charlotte Mathieson, Martin 0-05 Problems and Possibilities Paul Eve Picture Gallery, Founder’s Building Tour of the Royal Holloway Picture Gallery Imogen Tedbury (meet in the Windsor Building Foyer) Accommodation check-in. 17:00 to 19:00 The Café on the Square in the Davison Building (next door to the Windsor Building) will be open during this time. Picture Gallery, 19:00 to 21:00 Drinks reception and dinner Founder’s Building Crosslands, Founder’s 21:00-23:00 Crosslands bar open for drinks Building Quiet Space Page 3 of 26 If you want to take some time out during the conference or need a space to get some work done, rooms 1-04 and 1-05 upstairs in the Windsor Building are dedicated quiet rooms for the duration of the conference. You could also pay a visit to Royal Holloway’s new library in next door in the Davison Building which has some comfy study spaces with stunning views across the campus. DAY 2 – Friday 11th January Times Sessions Speakers Room Windsor Building 9:00 to 9:30 Registration & Tea/Coffee Foyer Keynote Lecture Windsor 9:30 to 10:30 Nandini Das Stories of the In-Between Auditorium Redell Olsen, Susan Johanknecht, Publishing Practice-led Research (continued into Session 5) Drew Milne, Georgina Colby, Alison 0-02 Gibb Catch up for NPIF students Matthew Smith, Katie Normington 0-03 Session 4 Developing an Academic Career Jay Willink 0-04 Carol Hughes, Henrietta Lebeter, 10:45 to 12:00 Student-led Conference: Information and Questions 0-05 Katy Mortimer, Harriet Salisbury What is REF and Why Should You Care? Harriet Hawkins 1-02 Arboretum (meet Tour of the Royal Holloway Arboretum Joanna Westover in the Windsor Building Foyer) Redell Olsen, Susan Johanknecht, Publishing Practice-led Research (continued from Session 4) Drew Milne, Georgina Colby, Alison 0-02 Gibb Session 5 Are You Sure You Want To Do A Post Doc? Harriet Hawkins, Cecilie Sachs Olsen 0-03 12:00 to 13:15 Time Management for Research Students Jay Willink 0-04 Rob Priest, Rebecca Jinks, Sophie Archives as Environment: Practices and Politics of Archival Research 0-05 Nield, Jessica Thorne Song Share Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe 1-02 Page 4 of 26 Times Sessions Speakers Room Danielle Sands, Eric Robertson, Katie Why Should We Care About Translation? 1-04 Docwra, Tim Matthews Windsor Building Lunch & Feedback Questionnaires Foyer 13:15 to 14:30 Student Funding Drop-in Jane Gawthrope and Carol Hughes 0-02 Harriet Hawkins, Ruth Livesey, Jay CV 1-to-1 0-03 Willink All rooms in the Windsor Building are available for meetings, networking and 14:30 to 17:00 group work for anyone who would like to use them. Quiet Space If you want to take some time out during the conference or need a space to get some work done, rooms 1-04 and 1-05 upstairs in the Windsor Building are dedicated quiet rooms for the duration of the conference. You could also pay a visit to Royal Holloway’s new library in next door in the Davison Building which has some comfy study spaces with beautiful views across the campus. Open Space If you want to get some fresh air and explore Royal Holloway’s campus, we will have some campus walk maps available at the Congress reception. The campus is also a 15 minute walk from Windsor Great Park and Virginia Water lake – see www.windsorgreatpark.co.uk or ask for map at the Congress reception. Page 5 of 26 General Information How to find Royal Holloway Address: Windsor Building, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX Travel directions: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/more/how-to-find-us/ Egham is on the Waterloo to Reading train line run by South Western Railway. Trains from London Waterloo take 40 minutes. Royal Holloway is a 20 minute walk from Egham train station. Leave the station on the ticket office side and turn right onto Station Road. At the traffic lights turn left and follow the main road round. After a few minutes you will come to a big roundabout, follow the main road left up the hill (Egham Hill/A30) past the BP garage. After about ten minutes you will reach the Royal Holloway campus on your left. Buses 8 and 441 also run from Egham town centre to Royal Holloway. You can find the Windsor Building on the campus map – it is next to Founder’s Building and the Davison Building. Parking If you require parking on campus, please email [email protected] ahead of the Congress to arrange a permit with the make, model, colour and registration plate of your car. Registration Registration will be from 9:45am on Thursday 10th January in the foyer of the Windsor Building. Page 6 of 26 Luggage We have a lockable room available in the Windsor Building on both days where you can store your luggage. Dietary and access requirements We have used the information you have previously provided to us at recent Welcome Event/Congresses. Please let us know if anything has changed as soon as possible. Catering Refreshments and lunch will be served during the conference in the foyer of the Windsor Building at the times stated on the conference programme. Dinner on the Thursday evening will be served in the Picture Gallery, only for those who have booked into the dinner beforehand as part of their Eventbrite booking. For those booked into overnight accommodation only, breakfast will be served between 7.30am and 9am in Founder’s Dining Hall. If you want any other refreshments during the Congress, Crosslands bar in Founder’s building will be open both days from 8.30am to 4pm (and after 8.30pm on Thursday evening), Café on the Square in the Davison Building will be open from 7am to 7pm on both days, and the Union Shop in the Davison Building will be open on both days. Accommodation Accommodation is being provided by Royal Holloway in Founder’s Building, which is just across the square from the Windsor Building. You will be able to collect your room keys from the reception desk in the Windsor Building foyer when you arrive on Thursday, and check out is by 10am on Friday. Breakfast for those booked to stay overnight only will be served between 7.30am and 9am in Founder’s Dining Hall. Thursday Evening Following the meal on Thursday evening in the Picture Gallery, Crosslands bar in Founder’s Building will be open for drinks from 8.30pm until 11.00pm. Childcare Royal Holloway has an on-site nursey, Bright Horizons. The nursery have said that they may be able to provide some childcare facilities for those attending the Congress over the two days of the conference, subject to spaces being available. technē will liaise with the nursery to arrange this where possible, so if you would like to enquire please email [email protected] and we will try to arrange this for you.