Friday 17 May 2013

Using Twitter as a Postgraduate Researcher

A TGS Fridays talk, hosted by the University Graduate School:
 
24 May 2013, 12:30 to 14:00, The Learning Centre, UG05
 
Social media is everywhere, so why not use it to your advantage? More than just a tool to keep in touch with friends or to look at pictures of kittens, social media can be used for research, business and personal gain. This talk will introduce Twitter (as an example of social media) to the beginner, and introduce ways in which the tool can be used in information dissemination and collation, to keep up to date with research, and as a forum among academics in similar fields. It will also highlight the pitfalls, so keenly exaggerated by the media, and how to avoid them.
 
A free buffet lunch will be provided.

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Call for Papers: HARTS & Minds: Journal of Humanities and Arts

“Space and Place in the Humanities and Arts”
This call for papers invites submissions by postgraduate students (MA, MSc, MPhil, MLitt, PhD) for the second edition of HARTS & Minds due to be published online in September 2013. Abstracts should be approximately 300 words in length and articles no longer than 6000 words.
 
Please email your abstract and draft article along with an academic CV to by 17th May 2013. Please consider that HARTS & Minds is intended as a truly inter-disciplinary journal and therefore esoteric topics will need to be written about with a general academic readership in mind. Click for a suggested list of topics.
 
Articles should be previously unpublished works and copyright of published articles will remain with HARTS & Minds. The editors accept no responsibility for copyright infringement by individuals submitting papers to the journal. Further information about submission guidelines is available at the journal website. If you have any pressing questions or concerns please contact the editorial board.

Call for Papers: BILL OVERTON MEMORIAL CONFERENCE ON EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY

Loughborough University, 18-19 September 2013

The organisers are grateful to all those who responded to the first Call for Papers for this memorial conference. There has been a large response from colleagues in Britain and overseas offering papers on a wide variety of topics to do with eighteenth-century poetry. These include a good proportion from postgraduates working in the field, many of them influenced by Bill’s own work.

The purpose of this Second Call for Papers is to give to those who might have missed the first call the opportunity to make a late submission, and to draw attention to the rich programme we’ve been able to assemble and thereby perhaps stimulate ideas to people who might wish to join it. Expressions of interest, titles and abstracts of up to 250 words should be addressed to 18cverse@lboro.ac.uk – with a final submission date of 15 May 2013.

A conference website with a link for registration will open shortly on the Loughborough University website. Those accepted, or those who wish to attend without giving a paper, are invited to register.