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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! 🙏

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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).

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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: https://t.co/0Jmd7E6Qvd

#solidarity #palestine

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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: https://t.co/pjUH38ga21

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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: https://t.co/CQdWenwlZ5

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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: https://t.co/GihH8LgwEx

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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! 👀

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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: https://t.co/uoVikB87Lj

Send your Abstract + Bio to [email protected] by midnight on January 6th!

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@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! 🥳

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@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! 🥳

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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).

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@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? https://t.co/NauSvfJ7HK
Thank you! ✨

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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’.

https://t.co/NauSvfJ7HK

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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. ✊

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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: https://t.co/Ygv2Dzi1mt

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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.

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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!

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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?

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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!

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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:
https://t.co/uoVikB7zVL