Brief Encounters

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@CHASE_DTP Hi CHASE team! Could you help us share our advert for a new Web & Layout Officer for issue 9 of Brief Encounters? Thank you! 🙏

We continue to look for a Web & Layout Officer for issue 9! If you are a current CHASE scholar, please get in touch to express your interest via training@chase.ac.uk by February 14th. This voluntary role lasts throughout the publication of issue 9 (until Sept 2025).

Tomorrow, from 5pm-6pm GMT, @fobzu will host an event about higher education in Palestine, Survival through Education: Stories of Resilience from Palestinian Universities. Co-organised with @ucu. To register please visit: eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-of-r… #solidarity #palestine

Event for scholars at CHASE institutions on 20.02.25! 📣 The Procrastinator’s Guide to Writing a Journal Article will help you to overcome procrastination & streamline your writing process. It will take place online from 10am -1pm GMT. To register visit: ticketsource.co.uk/chasedtp/t-lng…

📚Despite the devastation, students & academics in Gaza are finding ways to keep education alive. Watch their powerful accounts of resilience and hope on this #InternationalEducationDay. 🎥Watch the full film: youtu.be/G5MmIDc1LXE

Event for scholars at CHASE institutions on February 27th! Peer Review in the Arts & Humanities is a workshop designed to demystify peer review, and will take place at Birkbeck, Bloomsbury in London from 10.30am until 4.00pm. To register, visit the URL: ticketsource.co.uk/chasedtp/peer-…

Submissions for Issue 9 are now closed! Thank you to everyone who put forward a contribution 🎉 🙏 – we have been so delighted with the ideas we have received and will now turn to reviewing all the submissions. We expect to complete this process before the month is out! 👀

Only 2 DAYS to go! We seek submissions that relate to this year's theme of Encounters in Solidarity. For full details of the Call for Papers, check out the following URL: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/news/11/ Send your Abstract + Bio to chasedtpjournal@gmail.com by midnight on January 6th!

@BConceived, @CHASE_writers, @ChaseDecolonise, @chase_climate, @Digital_DiSCo_, @ChaseFeminist, @repsychoanalyse, @MEMRNChase – Hi CHASE Networks! Could you help us share our advert for a new Web & Layout Officer for issue 9 of Brief Encounters? Thank you! 🥳

@uniofeastanglia, @BirkbeckUoL, @EssexPostgrads, @SoasRSA, @SussexDocSchool, @CourtauldRes, @GRCKent, @GoldsmithsUoL – Could you help us share our advert for a new Web & Layout Officer for issue 9 of the CHASE-funded journal? Thank you! 🥳

We are looking for a Web & Layout Officer for issue 9! If you are a current CHASE scholar, please get in touch to express your interest via training@chase.ac.uk by January 24th. This voluntary role lasts throughout the publication of issue 9 (until Aug/Sept 2025 approximately).

@MediaComGold, @KentUniPoCo, @SussexUniMAH, @SOAS_CCLPS, @LiFTS_at_Essex, @birkbeck_arts – Could you share this curated series of films, essays and interviews about Palestinian life put together by Alliances of Understanding? alliancesofunderstanding.com/before-and-sin… Thank you! ✨

Take a look! Put together by Alliances of Understanding (@uniofeastanglia), this series of films ‘speaks to a reality of Palestine that frames Palestinian identity as bigger, richer and more human than the current devastation can admit’. alliancesofunderstanding.com/before-and-sin…

Please be reminded that we welcome submissions from research students and staff from CHASE-affiliated institutions, as well as contributions which are co-created with individuals who do not have an affiliation to CHASE. ✊

In the spirit of our theme for issue 9, today we celebrate International Human Solidarity Day. We invite proposals from all disciplines & institutions across the consortium and its affiliates, & across all forms of solidarity. Submission guidelines URL: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/submissions/

Online & in-person event today at 5.30pm GMT! Hosted by Alliances of Understanding, this panel explores the parallel struggles of Palestinians and Tamils, showing how each community has faced systemic violence & erasure. Contact Syed Haider at s.haider@uea.ac.uk to register.

CHASE institutions include: @SussexUni; @UniKent; @uniofeastanglia; @Uni_of_Essex; @soasuni; @GoldsmithsUoL; @BirkbeckUoL + @TheCourtauld. Submit your Abstracts (300 words) and Bios (200 words) to us at chasedtpjournal@gmail.com by January 6th!

To practise & promote #solidarity, we invite submissions co-authored with individuals/groups not affiliated with CHASE. Are you interested in collaborating with current/former students or staff members at a CHASE institution to produce a contribution for this year’s issue?

Hello everyone! Please may you share our Call for Papers with your union members? We hope to represent the work of CHASE institution unions within the journal. @GoldsmithsUCU @UoK_UCU @CourtauldUCU @sussexucu @UCUSOAS @UCUEssex @BirkbeckUCU @UEA_UCU Thank you!

A reminder that submissions are OPEN! We seek proposals across all forms of solidarity: solidarity in environmental crises; LGBTQIA+ alliances; against scholasticide; within Indigenous and anticolonial struggles, and more. See the link below for the CfP: briefencounters-journal.co.uk/news/11/