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CAMC Curates is the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities newsletter with suggestions and news from our expert and engaged researchers.
Research News
Victoria Leonard at Women on Wikipedia
In February 2021, the Women’s Classical Committee joined up with the Wikiproject Women in Red to improve the representation of women on Wikipedia. Did you know that only 18.72% of English-language biographies on Wikipedia feature women? #WCCWiki is an initiative that runs alongside Women in Red, creating pages for women in classics (broadly conceived). Led by CAMC researcher Dr Victoria Leonard, #WCCWiki brings people of all genders together, in person at training sessions and conferences, and through online sessions held monthly, to create and improve pages for women.
You can read more about the initiative on the WikiProject page. For more information, please contact victoria.leonard@coventry.ac.uk.
Caption: Kathleen Freeman
Niall Curry’s Institute of Coding Grant
CAMC researcher Niall Curry was awarded £19,911.36 funding from the Institute of Coding to run a research project on digital pedagogy and online interaction. The project is called: “Opportunities and barriers for social and engaged learning in digital pedagogies: towards research informed guidelines". For this project, Niall Curry is using existing data on online engagement on the IOC courses/FutureLearn platform to identify digital spaces and features that support and inhibit interaction online. Curry proposes guidelines for the development of IOC courses/FutureLearn spaces that create more opportunities for learning through socialisation.
The conversation with Wayne Modest explores museum practices in the context of ethnographic museums. The birth of ethnographic museums is intrinsically related to the pan-European modernity/coloniality programme of extraction, occupation and exploitation of overseas territories. These histories are present not only in the function of the museums, but also in their collections and exhibitionary practices. Modest discusses the role of these museums today and how we are to think differently about their objects.
Modest is Director of Content for the National Museum of World Cultures, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam and Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies in the faculty of humanities at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Events
Anthony Luvera at Queering Spaces Exhibition
Queering Spaces is a group exhibition, curated by the Socially Engaged Art Salon (SEAS), featuring work by Anthony Luvera, Cathy Cade, Hussina Raja, Luc€ Raesmith, Nate Lavey / Stephen Vider, Shannon Novak, Tara Brag / Launderette Films, Queer History Now collective, and Gil Mualem-Doron. The exhibition focuses on significant places and moments for the LGBTQ+ community in the UK and abroad, through film, photography, installation, and socially engaged practices that amplify the voices of those that are often unheard. Queering Spaces celebrates LGBTQ+ History Month and is the first of SEAS’ exhibitions in the up-and-coming Brighton LGBTQAI+ venue, The Ledward Centre.
Queering Spaces by the Socially Engaged Art Salon is at The Ledward Centre, 93 St. James’s Street, Brighton, BN2 1TP with On online version of the exhibition at: https://www.seasbrighton.org/queering-spaces
Caption: Collaborative Portrait of Fox Fisher from Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera
Emotional Objects Conference at the Warburg Institute
Professor Juliet Simpson (CAMC) is leading an international conference (online) on Emotional Objects: Northern Renaissance Afterlives in Object, Image and Word, 1890s-1920s at the Warburg Institute, London, 22-23 April 2021. With a line-up of leading global scholars and curators, the conference explores the emotional resonances and meanings of Northern Renaissance art, monuments, images and texts for contemporary culture at a time of social turbulence and heady artistic innovation. Via emotional viewing, object encounters, passionate prints, sensing trauma, wonder-inspiring collections, we will illuminate new ways in which the cultures of a pivotal past touch and embody our modernity.
Register Online (free) and Full Programme available at https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23626
Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Broadening the Agenda Event
For those interested in the myriad applications of corpus linguistics to a range of areas of language study, CAMC researcher Niall Curry is organising an event with colleagues at Aston and Lancaster universities, Dr Robbie Love and Dr Gavin Brookes on the 15th and 16th of April. The event “Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Broadening the Agenda" aims to: bring together researchers who are using corpora in Applied Linguistics (broadly defined); facilitate discussion of the ways in which corpora are used in contemporary Applied Linguistics research, and how these may be used in future; and explore the opportunities and challenges of engaging with stakeholders and achieving impact within applied corpus linguistic research.
To find out more about the talks, plenaries, and how to register if interested, see the website at: https://baalcupaston2021.wordpress.com/
Jill Journeaux at Work in Progress
Join us on Teams for the next WIP seminar, featuring CAMC researcher Jill Journeaux on unpalatable meals.
Wed, 17 March 2p-3pm
For more details, please contact Patricia Phillippy ad4524@coventry.ac.uk.
Photo: Jill Journeaux, Place Setting, 2020
Publications
Niall Curry’s latest publications
In the paper, Curry and Clark use the Cambridge learner corpus to investigate spelling errors across the MENA region in the B1 Preliminary exam. They found that Arabic speakers from a range of contexts made significantly more spelling errors when compared to learners with any other L1. Using case studies, also found that English spelling errors were linked to orthographic & phonological differences between English and Arabic. This paper questions whether these spelling errors should indeed always be seen as errors and highlights the challenges international examinations face in creating equity across a range of contexts. The authors make recommendations for localising approaches to assessment that take into account the different challenges that students face in different regions.
For this study, Curry and Pérez-Paredes took Dafouz and Smit's ROADMAPPING framework to unpack lecturers' practices and processes in a Spanish EMEMUS context. Through interviews and surveys of EMI lecturers, researchers found that lecturers' practices and processes could be categorised as pertaining to learning and social constructivism, and reflexive and adaptive teaching. In particular, they found that reluctance to permit translanguaging and efforts to decentralise the role of language were apparent obstacles to EMI in this EMEMUS context.
Ania Sadkowska’s latest publication
Townsend, Katherine, and Sadkowska, Ania, Re-Making fashion experience: A model for ‘participatory research through clothing design’ Journal of Arts & Communities, Volume 11, Numbers 1-2, 1 December 2020, pp. 13-33(21)
The article presents a participatory research model based on two case studies, involving the making of the research and the making of the clothing. In recent years, there has been growing interest in participatory design research, especially in relation to textiles and clothing. Various practice-based initiatives focused around the role, value and use of clothing have demonstrated success in developing and applying research methodologies aimed at activating or recording creative outcomes while staying attuned to participants’ experiential knowledge and feedback. The authors seek to highlight some of the practical opportunities and ethical responsibilities faced by researchers when making with others, while delineating some of the challenges and potential pitfalls raised by both case studies.
PGR Community
Jennifer Dudley appointed Curator at National Museum Wales
Jennifer Dudley, a PhD student from CAMC, has recently been appointed as the new Curator: Art Collections Management and Access at National Museum Wales, Cardiff. This two-year role will provide curatorial, collections management and research support within the Art Department, working to make the rich and varied art collections accessible to the widest possible audience.
This appointment follows a three-year studentship at Coventry University, where Jennifer’s research explored the work of women sculptors in 1980s Britain.
Opportunities
Fashion and Ageing PhD scholarship
Due to the ageing population, growing old has become a significant topic in the contemporary research agenda. The post-industrial economy of improved health care, leisure and bio-medical technologies has affected both the biological and social spheres of ageing, producing new challenges for individuals, policy makers and associated industries, including fashion. There is a clear need to better cater to older individuals’ needs and expectations. The research question is: how can garments for older individuals be designed more effectively to respond to their changing bodies while meeting their aesthetic expectations? Within the context of COVID-19 and its aftermath, this project could also explore issues such as: how do we co-create garments remotely with older adults; or, how have older people’s clothing needs and preferences been influenced by lock-down?
Supervisory team: Ania Sadkowska: ac3739@coventry.ac.uk; Louise Moody l.moody@coventry.ac.uk; Carolina Rito carolina.rito@coventry.ac.uk
Deadline for applications: 31st May 2021
More info: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fashion-and-ageing/?p126802
CAMC New Starters
Tanazia Gabriel-Fleary
Tanazia Gabriel-Fleary is CAMC Project Assistant of the Black Art Movement in Coventry (CU/CofC) project. Tanazia works with Prof. Carolina Rito (PI of the BAMiC project) to oversee and perform administrative functions concerned with the project. This includes events planning and coordination, social media, marketing, and liaising with partners and stakeholders. Tanazia is currently studying Media and Communication Television at Birmingham City University.
