Details of meetings, reading groups, and other events will be published here as they become known.
Meeting 2 - 13:30-14:30, 19/11/2025 - contact Ollie for details of the Zoom link
Reading
- Bulley, James and Şahin, Özden. 2021. Practice Research - Report 1: What is practice research? and Report 2: How can practice research be shared?. Practice Research Advisory Group UK (PRAG-UK), London. https://doi.org/10.23636/1347 - please refer to section 1.1, EXPLORING PRACTICE RESEARCH, pp.4-11
- Robinson, Emily. 2010. 'Touching the void: Affective history and the impossible', Rethinking History, 14:4, 503-520, https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2010.515806
(NB, we do not currently subscribe to Rethinking History; but the library is acquiring a pdf for circulation shortly)
Meeting 3 (Hybrid) – Thursday 11 December 2025, Ron Cooke Hub RCH/004
10-10:30 In-person informal networking
From 10:30 onwards we had short presentations
Stef Conner (via Zoom): Aulos presentation from her workshop 'Ancient Drum and Bass' from Moyseion Matera in Italy. Stef and her co-researcher Barnaby Brown (Lotos Lab) presented and demonstrated their group work around the 'Aulos', an ancient Greek wind instrument, and performed an example of an highly complex ancient Greek polyrhythm.
Author, illustrator, and TFTI PhD candidate Mike Smith recited an excerpt of a Middle English stanzaic romance and his work-in-progress translation, leading to a fascinating discussion about the possible approaches to translation and performance
Composer, singer and ACT/SBS Lecturer James Cave presented and performed an excerpt from his 'Field of Broken Ice', a creative response to the Viking Sagas incorporating live-mixed audio and live vocal performance.
We closed with a plenary discussion around the relationship between historical evidence, creative responses, storytelling, and alternative approaches to engaging with historical sources and narratives.