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Welcome to UAL Research Season March 1-31
- Written byCat Cooper
- Published date 01 March 2022
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It’s Research Season all this month at UAL. We’re excited to present a diverse programme of events and stories from across our research centres, Colleges and Institutes.
Please do join us for events sharing the many ways our community are critically engaging with themes around Earth and Equity: integrating environmental and racial justice through their research and Knowledge Exchange.
Programme
Explore the Research Season 2022 programme and look out for events across our social media channels, plus more events coming online weekly.
Season launch event: 3 March
Practice Research Panel with Practice Research Advisory Group (PRAG) UK and UAL academics, looking at the future of practice research.
Season keynote: 14 March
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA in conversation with Professor Mark Sealy, OBE: 'Hosting Ideas for Progress'.
Highlights
March 7- 11
- Between Ancient Landscapes and Mesopotamian Artefacts
- MAI-DAY: Textile Elements: A Series of Conversations
- Film screening: Salt: dispersed, by Selina Thompson
- Decolonising Performance Histories and Contemporary Practices: Selina Thompson in conversation
- Frontiers and Best Practice in Influencer Marketing
March 14-18
- Transnational Fashion and its Challenges
- Songs of Mercy: Digital Transformation and the Public Good
- Decolonising Performance Histories and Contemporary Practices: In conversation with Sonia Hughes
- Celebrating neurodivergent voices at UAL
- UAL Institute Associates Showcase
- Improvisional Film-Making and the ethics of (re)presenting others
March 21-25
- Exploring Social Design Principles
- Decolonising Arts Institute: Research Residency Symposium
- Exploring Social Design Principles
March 28-31
- Wild and Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose
- No Rules: The Helen Frankenthaler Radical Beauty Symposium
- Why Slow Ethics?
- Decolonising Performance Histories: Winsome Pinnock and Miranda Cromwell
Image: The Sartists, ‘The Sports Series’. Courtesy of Wanda Lephoto, and the Research Season event Transnational Fashion and its Challenges.
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