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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 [email protected] by February 14th.
This voluntary role lasts throughout the publication of issue 9 (until Sept 2025).
@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! 🙏
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-o…
#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/…
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📚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/…
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.u…
Send your Abstract + Bio to [email protected] by midnight on January 6th!
@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! 🥳
@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! 🥳
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 [email protected] by January 24th.
This voluntary role lasts throughout the publication of issue 9 (until Aug/Sept 2025 approximately).
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…
@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…
Thank you! ✨
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.u…
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 [email protected] to register.
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?
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 [email protected] by January 6th!
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.u…
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!














