Research Forum
The role of Research Forum is to explore and experiment with ideas, material culture, landscapes - right through to music, images and performance. It is somewhere to test pre-publication ideas on a sympathetic, supportive but informed audience and to report back to friends and colleagues on fieldwork, research, activities, progress and achievements. It is somewhere to launch discussions about ideas that might (or might not) turn into larger, funded projects, or that would benefit from communal critique. It is informal, experimental, adventurous, even courageous and inventive.
Sessions vary from more structured papers to informal workshops on a specific problem or even discussions around a pre-set text or draft. We are particularly keen to explore these more flexible and informal approaches to discussing research, though it remains an ideal environment to test out conference papers.
The Forum will meet at 4pm on Fridays, usually in K/159 in the Autumn and Spring Terms, and more occasionally in the Summer Term.
The Research Forum slot is preceded by a 2.30pm session for smaller informal research clusters to meet. These are more ad hoc groups which may come together to develop a specific grant proposal or to convene as a reading group. Broader thematic and period research groups may also meet during this slot periodically to report on progress. Both types of research group will thenfeed into the Research Forum schedule to keep the wider community up to date with progress. It is followed by the York Seminar series of more formal lectures from external and internal speakers.
