UGRE 2023

Programme, 20-24 February 2023

No need to book*, just turn up!

UGRE 2023 programme with abstracts
Please keep checking this website for the latest programme, room locations and further information about our speakers and their presentations.

*Apart from the Skills Sessions and the Barriers to PG Study session - and even then you can turn up, booking will help us manage attendance.

Monday 20 February, Parkinson Building, SR B.10

Skills Workshop, 12:00-13:00, book here

Managing Your Time
Sometimes it can be challenging to manage your university workload alongside other commitments, events, and opportunities and it can start to feel a little overwhelming. Reflecting on how you currently manage your time and thinking about how you would like to develop this is at the core of this workshop. We’ll think about the challenges we all face and strategies and techniques to help you manage your time so that tasks and deadlines don’t become overwhelming. By the end of the session, you will have developed a plan to feel more prepared, productive, and positive!

Monday 20 February, Michael Sadler LG15 (Please note change of room)

Session One: 14:00-15:00
Welcome: Professor Mel Prideaux, Pro Dean Student Education, FAHC
Chair: Mel Prideaux
Nell Hayes, The Colonial History of the University of Leeds
Ella Barnes, Migrant Identity & Nationalism as Explored in Mohsin Hamid's Novel Exit West
Amelia Craik, Memory Culture in Germany: The Berlin Dokumentationszentrum: Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung as a case study in how historical narratives can be exploited
Ben Allerston, The Origins of European Colonialism: An Imperial Plan or Economic Opportunism?
Emma Haglund, Creating a Transcultural Model of Sustainability

Session Two: 15:00-16:00
Chair: Professor Joslin McKinney
Ellie Douglas, Emotions of women
Caitlin Forster, Taking Back the Gaze: Female Photographers Destroying Male Fantasies
Reese Wake, Up The North!
Reiham Amin, “I see myself in you” - Poem By Reiham Amin

Barriers to PG study: 16:00-17:00 - sign up here
Once again, the brilliant Plus Programme is running this session in collaboration with the UGRE, where you can find out more about Masters level study, including the application process and what it’s actually like! You’ll hear from an academic in the Faculty about the step up from Undergraduate to Postgraduate study and from current Masters students who’ll be sharing their experience and advice. You’ll also get the lowdown on how to fund a Masters and have the chance to ask any questions you might have about Postgraduate study.

Please note, you don't have to be a Plus Programme student to attend!

Tuesday 21 February, Michael Sadler LG19 (Please note change of room)

Session Three: 14:00-15:00
Welcome: Professor Jeff Grabill, PVC Student Education
Chair: Professor Kate Nash
Iona Ogilvy-Stuart, Traumatic Knowledge and Encryption
Arlo Taylor-Osmond, The Stevie Project
Reiham Amin, “I see myself in you” - Poem By Reiham Amin
Martine Neang, A Faceless Name

Session Four: 15:00-16:00
Chair: Professor Kate Nash
Elizabeth Eastwood Dewing, Campbell's Soup & Dostoevsky: Can 'Art' be History?
Grace Patterson, Does Love Really Conquer All? The representation of Passion from Virgil to Caravaggio
Sarah Cole, How and why do pregnancy portraits within the seventeenth century show a construction of gender in society?
Niall Mapplebeck, New Queer Cinema and the Complex Representations of Queerness
Beth Norfolk, UnIdeal Victims: The Unsolved Murders of Older Women

16:00-17:00: PAID Research Opportunities Information Session:
Find out more about this fantastic opportunity to get PAID research work experience. Come along and hear from current and previous students who have taken part in LITE Student Research Experience Placement scheme, Q Step Summer Placements, AHC Summer Internships and Laidlaw Leadership and Research Scholars.
All of them will be able answer questions about their schemes and share top tips for applications, interviews and getting the most out of these brilliant schemes.
Presenters/panellists include:

Nell Hayes,The Colonial History of the University of Leeds, LITE Student Research Experience Placement
Saba Siddiqui, AHC Summer Internship Programme Intern, Decolonising Project
Lizzie Angus, Laidlaw Research & Leadership Scholar: North Africans in the French Resistance
Andrea Denny, Q Step Programme Manager

Wednesday 22 February, Michael Sadler LG10 (Please note change of room)

UGRE and Wellbeing Clothes Swap, 12:00-14:00
We are joining up with the AHC Wellbeing Project to bring you an environment-conscious clothes-swap. Bring items to trade for other items, get a new wardrobe without the waste! Just drop in!

Session Five - HIST2505 Archive Intelligence: 14:00-15:00
Welcome: Professor Andrew Thorpe, Dean of AHC
Chair: Professor Nina Wardleworth
Alexander McCann, David Oluwale: 50 years on
Chris Wilkinson, The Yorkshire Ripper Murders: The Failures of the West Yorkshire Police Force
Isla Defty, British Folklore and Mythology in the 20th Century: Impact and Influence

Session Six: 15:00-16:00
Chair: Roshni Marath Jairaj
Lily Mistry, How did the Gibellina community respond to the natural disaster of the 1968 Belice earthquake?
Della Stiff, Marketing during a crisis of consumerism: how should the past be used in contemporary fashion campaigns?

The Stevie Project film showing: 16:00-16:30
We are delighted that Arlo Taylor-Osmond will be back and sharing the whole of his short documentary about his family, The Stevie Project. This film follows the story of Arlo's family’s experience with learning disability.

Berkofsky Arts Award Panel: 17:00-18:00
ONLINE: Click here to join the meeting

Are you a final year undergraduate in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures?
Want a career in the creative arts?
The Berkofsky Arts Award celebrates and supports creative excellence in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. The awards were made possible by a very generous gift made by the late Mr Hugh Joel Berkofsky a long-time Leeds resident and art lover who was keen to support students to establish their artistic careers. Up to FIVE awards of no more than £2,000 each will be made each year for the creation or dissemination of artwork that will benefit the development of a student’s career in painting, sculpture, drama (including photography or film that has a narrative content) or music.

Tune in to find out more about the application process with previous winners, Hettie, Isaac and Katherine, and get the chance to find out what they did with their money! It's a great opportunity for you to ask questions and find out more about this brilliant opportunity.

Find out more about the prize here: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanities-cultures/doc/berkofsky-awards

Thursday 23 February, Parkinson Building, SR B.10

Skills Workshop, 12:00-13:00, book here
Building compelling arguments: how to use sources efficiently
Through practical examples, this workshop shows participants a number of techniques relating to the tasks of screening, sorting, and presenting sources, with an emphasis on how these techniques can support argument building. The aim is to provide participants with guidelines on how to organise their own database and to demonstrate how a well structured database can be crucial to the task of developing compelling arguments.

Short biography
Manuel Farolfi is a musicologist and sound engineer. He completed his doctoral study at the University of Leeds in 2022 with a thesis on the American composer John Cage and
currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Leeds Arts & Humanities Research Institute.
His research interests centre on experimental music and music technology. He has presented his work at several international conferences, including the International
Musicological Society Quinquennial Congress, the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Annual Conference, and the Society for Music Analysis Conference. His works have been
published in edited collections and scholarly journals, including those issued by Peter Lang, Olms, and Brepols. He worked as a sound engineer in recording studios for over a
decade and is credited, among others, on albums by Mariah Carey, Robert Palmer, The Orb, Akhenaton and Veronique Sanson.

The following students will have their research posters on display, from 13:00 in Michael Sadler LG10.
Susannah Butland, Researching Suffragettes in the Archives
Amy Colvin, Black Queer Culture in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s
Joshua Elgin, How women and ethnic minorities fought for better working conditions in Yorkshire
Daniel Hunter, The Homefront - understanding morale
Caitlin Slocombe, Exploring Nineteenth Century Punishment and Crime in the Archives

Session Ten, 15:00-16:00
Chair: Charlotte Durham
Rosa Coleman, 'A Wicked Voice': The Paradox of Repulsive Art
Niamh Ingram, "I heard this song on my for you page!": The New Era of Music in a Digital Age
Matilda Lailey, Localising Video Games
Marcus Wright, Tracing the origins of Romance: Who wrote the most famous classical guitar piece?

UGRE 2023

Programme, 20-24 February 2023

Monday 20 February, Parkinson Building, SR B.10

Monday 20 February, Michael Sadler LG15 (Please note change of room)

Tuesday 21 February, Michael Sadler LG19 (Please note change of room)

Wednesday 22 February, Michael Sadler LG10 (Please note change of room)

Thursday 23 February, Parkinson Building, SR B.10

Thursday 23 February, Parkinson Building, SR B.10

Friday 24 February, Michael Sadler LG10

Friday 24 February, Michael Sadler LG10

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