{"id":83,"date":"2017-03-12T19:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2017-08-16T14:08:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:08:01","slug":"participate-bonfire-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/participate-bonfire-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonfire School"},"content":{"rendered":"

30 October – 2 November 2017, CeMoRe, Lancaster University<\/p>\n

To participate in the Bonfire School, applicants should submit a 300 word abstract that describes their research, addressing the following questions: What are you researching? Why? What does or could utopia as a concept or method do for you? Please complete the Application Form Here<\/a>.<\/span><\/h5>\n

Important Dates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
05 June\u00a02017<\/td>\nSubmission of Applications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 June 2017<\/td>\nNotification of Acceptance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 June 2017<\/td>\nEarly Bird Registration closes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25 August 2017<\/td>\nRegistration closes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Participants who will also be at the Mobile Utopia Conference<\/a> will be expected to present results from the Mobile Utopia Bonfire School<\/strong> and the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/strong> at\u00a0the Conference. You need to register separately for the Bonfire School (link will be provided here shortly) and for the Conference (Link to Conference Registration Page<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Participation in the Bonfire School is limited to 25\u00a0PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, artists, practitioners.<\/p>\n

The Bonfire School provides opportunities to participate in a range of activities, including:<\/p>\n

Presentation-based discussions:<\/b> A speedy, fun series of 3 minute presentations about your research – What are you researching? Why? What does or could utopia as a concept or method do for you? Student, staff, postdoc presentations will be mixed, followed by discussion.<\/p>\n

Master classes:<\/b> (after Erik Olin Wright<\/a>) Learning in small groups of one member of staff and 1-3 students\/postdocs. Each student\/postdoc has a total of ten minutes, divided roughly evenly between the student telling the senior researcher something puzzling about their research and them responding with off-the-cuff comments and suggestions. The point here is NOT for students to give a five minute summary of their research, but rather to identify a problem in need of feedback. The optimal presentation spends roughly 1-2 minutes describing the broad research question\/domain and then 2-3 minutes focusing on unresolved issues: something puzzling or confusing; a bottleneck in the project; a difficult (and perhaps annoying) objection that has been raised by someone; a mysterious finding that doesn\u2019t make sense; a seemingly intractable methodological problem; an ethical issue about the research. The senior researcher questions, comments, provides advice, constructive critique. These initial exchanges are followed by discussion.<\/p>\n

Mentoring: <\/b>In pairs or threes staff\/students\/postdocs discuss successes and failures related to the practicalities of research and career.<\/p>\n

Publishing Pleasures:<\/strong>\u00a0A one to one discussion of publication prospects and practices with Gerhard Boomgarden, senior editor, Routledge Sociology Series in a ‘publication surgery’ session. Please note: Participants wishing to take advantage of this must send in a short outline of a book proposal by 1st October<\/strong> to Aurora Trujillo<\/a>. This can be rough. To see what might need to go into a\u00a0book proposal, consult the Changing Mobilities Book Series<\/a> Form here<\/a>. Scheduling of the sessions will be on a first come, first served basis.<\/p>\n

Writing Exchange: <\/b>Taking inspiration from the activities at the Bonfire school, participants will have the opportunity to produce and exchange a 500-1000 word piece of writing for constructive critique with other participants.<\/p>\n

The Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/b>: As part of the Cemore<\/i>|T2M<\/i>|Cosmobilities<\/i> 2017 Conference (2-5November), there will be a creative experimental pre-enactment of mobile utopia, with various activities. Participants in the Bonfire School will participate in the experiment. See here for more information about the experiment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For further detail, please see Preliminary Programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bursaries and Travel Grants<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Travel Grants Applications are now closed.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A small number of bursaries and travel grants are available. Allocation is competitive and based on peer review of the research abstract submission.\u00a0Please complete this Travel Grant Application Form\u00a0by 05 June 2017. Decisions will be made by 12 June.<\/p>\n

Note that the Bonfire School is one of several events and we would be delighted to welcome you for the whole week.<\/h3>\n

There are many\u00a0ways to participate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
1.<\/td>\nTake part in all of it, the\u00a0Bonfire School<\/a><\/strong>, the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Conference<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n29th October – 5th November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/td>\nJoin the\u00a0Bonfire School<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to discuss your research and\u00a0participate in the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(you don’t have to bring\u00a0an experiment)<\/td>\n29th October – 2nd November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/td>\nMake a\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and bring it to Lancaster<\/td>\n1-2nd November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We’d be delighted\u00a0to welcome you. Registration will\u00a0open shortly here<\/a>\u00a0(early registration is recommended).<\/p>\n

If you have any questions, please contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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