📣 Open for applications
Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South
Scholars will be able to exchange ideas with other researchers at Cambridge and benefit from access to the University’s collections & resources
⏳ Deadline 26 Feb 2024
🔗
📣 Apply for a Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South
⏳ Deadline 20 June 2023
🔗
An opportunity for scholars in the
#GlobalSouth
to exchange ideas with other researchers based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the
@Cambridge_Uni
.
📣 Apply for a Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South
⏳ Deadline 20 June 2023
🔗
An opportunity for scholars in the
#GlobalSouth
to exchange ideas with other researchers based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the
@Cambridge_Uni
.
📣 Apply now
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships at CRASSH
⏳ Deadline 29 August
🔗
A three-year fellowship for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences with emphasis on completion of a significant piece of publishable research
✍️ New blog
'Soro Soke: The Young Disruptors of an African Megacity | 5 questions to Trish Lorenz'
📙
@NineDotsPrize
winner Trish Lorenz talks about her book on the Soro Soke generation in African megacities and what inspired her to write it.
📣 Open for applications
Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship
2024-2025
This Fellowship is intended for early to mid-career scholars who are resident and domiciled in India to spend a term of study and residence in Cambridge
⏳ Apply by 15 Jan 2024
🔗
📣 Apply now
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships at CRASSH
⏳ Deadline 29 August
🔗
A three-year fellowship for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences with emphasis on completion of a significant piece of publishable research
📣 Apply for a
@LeverhulmeTrust
Early Career Fellowship at CRASSH
Applicants should pursue projects that are interdisciplinary & innovative in their approach, and which may fit better at CRASSH than elsewhere in Cambridge
⏳ Deadline 30 Oct 2023
🚨 NEW! CRASSH Research Labs
Research Labs will facilitate innovative practices of collaborative working in the arts, social sciences & humanities, both within and beyond the University and run for two years in the first instance
🔗
⏳ Apply by 31 Jan 2024
📣 Apply for a Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South
⏳ Deadline 20 June 2023
🔗
An opportunity for scholars in the
#GlobalSouth
to exchange ideas with other researchers based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the
@Cambridge_Uni
.
📣 Apply for a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship
⏳ Deadline 17:00 on 12 Jan 2023
➞
The Fellowship offers funding for a term of study and residence in Cambridge during the academic year for scholars who are resident and domiciled in India.
📣 Open for registration
Quentin Skinner Lecture: ‘In and against the state’: revolutionary feminism during deindustrialisation
🗓️ 9 June 2023
📍CRASSH
The lecture is given by Quentin Skinner Fellow
@katforrester
and is part of an all-day symposium.
📣 Apply for a Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South
⏳ Deadline 20 June 2023
🔗
An opportunity for scholars in the
#GlobalSouth
to exchange ideas with other researchers based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the
@Cambridge_Uni
.
📣 Open for applications
CRASSH,
@CamDivinity
&
@CamInterfaith
invite applications for Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South. Apply if your research is connected to inter-religious relations and religious boundary-making
⏳ 26 Feb 2024
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📣 Open for applications
Cambridge Early Career Fellowships
2024-2025 & 2025-2026
Join us for a term and enjoy a stimulating, interdisciplinary environment in which to advance your research project or to begin a new one
⏳ Apply by 15 January 2024
🔗
We are delighted to announce that Annie Zaidi, a Mumbai-based journalist and playwright, has been awarded the US$100,000
@NineDotsPrize
2019/20. The prize was offered for responses to the question: ‘Is there still no place like home?’
#9Dots
➞
🚨 New! Art and Politics Reading Group
Join our new online reading group co-hosted by CRASSH and the Global Humanities Network. Check out this term’s programme and sign up to the mailing list to receive Zoom links and information
✍️ 'Precarious Cambridge: what casualisation does to us, and why it does not have to be like that'
Lorena Gazzotti, VP of
@CambridgeUCU
writes on the casualisation of University teaching and how it translates into a transient & devouring lived experience
🎉 Many congratulations to
@_siddharthsoni
for winning this year's Ideas Prize for his book proposal 'Monstrous Archives'. Siddharth is the Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at
@CamDigHum
and CRASSH. Read more about his entry
Delighted to present 2019-20's CRASSH Research Networks – of which many are new – as well as 16 interdisciplinary conferences on a range of topics that include climate fictions, health inequality, queer migrations and the power of the pineapple ➞
Today, we are delighted to announce an agreement between the
@ICRC
and
@CRASSHlive
@Cambridge_Uni
that delivers a new research programme exploring digital and cyber security policy, ethics and regulation.
🧵 1/7
📣 Registration open! 'Ships in the Proletarian Night: Contemporary Marxist Thought in France and Britain'
An online conference from 25 – 27 March 2021 ➞ .
Keynotes by Julia Nicholls (KCL) & Kristin Ross (NYU).
#ContemporaryMarxistThought
#CRASSHonline
Congratulations to
@renireni
on winning the British Book Award for Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year! Reni will be joining us in Cambridge
@Cambridge_Uni
today for a public event with
@PriyamvadaGopal
. Free and open to all ➞
📣 Open for registration
'Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world'
🗓️ 26 & 27 May 2022
➞
Geographies, disciplines and approaches on the gender dimension of food and cooking in the early globalisation.
📣 Call for papers
#CFP
Queer & Trans philologies
A conference which will bring together researchers interested in the historical ties between language, sexuality, and embodiment
📝 Submit a 15-minute paper
⏳ Deadline 31 October 2023
🎉 We look forward to welcoming William Selinger, recipient of the
#QuentinSkinnerLectureship
for 2024. He is Wick Cary Assistant Professor of Constitutional Studies at
@UofOklahoma
and focuses on the modern history of representative democracy.
@ou_iach
📣 Apply now
Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2023-24
⏳ Deadline 15 March 2023
➞
Join us as a Fellow for a term and give a lecture on a subject of your choosing within intellectual history since 1500, including the history of political thought.
📣 Apply for a
@LeverhulmeTrust
Early Career Fellowship at CRASSH
Applicants should pursue projects that are interdisciplinary & innovative in their approach, and which may fit better at CRASSH than elsewhere in Cambridge
⏳ Deadline 30 Oct 2023
Speaker
@SaraNAhmed
(pictured right) & discussant
@drksalt
at Friday's
#CRASSHImpact
event, 'Complaint as Diversity Work'. You can now watch the full lecture on video:
📣 Are you writing your first book? ✍️
We are excited to announce ‘Opening Lines’, a writing group with
@asiyaislam
for
@Cambridge_Uni
postdocs and early-career researchers in AHSS subjects.
👉 Apply by 12 March 2021!
➞
Funded by
@RDPcam
@CamArtsHums
📣 Open for registration
'Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world'
🗓️ 26 & 27 May 2022
➞
Geographies, disciplines and approaches on the gender dimension of food and cooking in the early globalisation.
📣 Apply now
Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2023-24
⏳ 15 March 2023
Find out more ➞
Join us as a Fellow for a term and give a lecture on a subject of your choosing within intellectual history since 1500, including the history of political thought.
📣 Open for registration
Saffron: global history, Cambridge stories
🗓️ 11 June 2022
This interdisciplinary symposium will explore the history of saffron cultivation and use – both globally and more locally.
✍️ Q&A with Katy Barrett (
@SpoonsOnTrays
)
Discover what an extraordinary drawing in the
@sciencemuseum
collections can tell us about the entwined histories of art & science, visual knowledge production, and the eccentricities of collector George Gabb. ➞
📣 Open for registration
'Between the Black Mediterranean and the Black Atlantic: complexifying stories of connectivity and resistance'
🗓️ 20 May 2022
📍 Gonville & Caius College & Online
Convened by the CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Fellow 2022
@VeraSmnSchulz
.
📣 Apply for a Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South
⏳ Deadline 20 June 2023
🔗
An opportunity for scholars in the
#GlobalSouth
to exchange ideas with other researchers based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the
@Cambridge_Uni
.
📣 Open for registration
'Between the Black Mediterranean and the Black Atlantic: complexifying stories of connectivity and resistance'
🗓️ 20 May 2022
📍 Gonville & Caius College & Online
Convened by the CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Fellow 2022
@VeraSmnSchulz
.
CRASSH friends! Are you all settling in
#workingfromhome
? We thought we'd start a little
#roomwithaview
thread with our home offices! Please comment below with your pictures and a line or two of what you are up to!
Here’s a pic of the current HQ of CRASSH Communications!
#COVID19
Save the date: 'Science Made Visible: Drawings, Prints, Objects', an exhibition curated by
@MVCRASSH
, based on research in the
@royalsociety
archives ➞
How can universities serve the public good? The Critical University Studies network’s inaugural workshop is currently taking place at
@Cambridge_Uni
. Learn more about this emerging field:
📣 Open for registration!
'The Social Life of Care', 13 – 14 May 2021
➞
Reflections on the future of care – both the implications of a care-less society and an envisioning of a society built upon the foundations of care.
#CareAtCam
#Care
#CRASSHonline
📣 Call for comics!
'Comics and the Global South' a hybrid conference on 6 & 7 July 2022
This two-day conference is devoted to exploring the intersections of comics studies and decolonial theory.
Deadline 4 February 2022!
⏳ Conference open for registration!
'Tactics and Praxis: Creativity, Pleasure and Ethics in Academic Work'
🗓️ 5 – 8 July 2021 ➞
Bringing praxis and academic research into contact in creative ways.
#creativity
#tactics
#praxis
#ethics
#AcademicWork
✨
@Cambridge_Fest
2021✨
'Archives of Sound: Syrian Cassette Archives'
12 – 2pm on Friday 26 March 2021
➞
Syria’s cassette era from 1980s to the present day, with audio-visual archivist Mark Gergis.
With
@ArchivesandRuin
at CRASSH.
#20yearsCRASSH
🎉
📣 Thoughtlines Podcast launch! 📣
Wide-ranging, accessible, surprising and also deeply personal, Thoughtlines brings you the best of academic thinking outside the box.
Find out more and read the press release. ➞
#20yearsCRASSH
🎉
#ThouthlinesPodcast
🎧
📣 Open for applications
Visiting Fellowships at CRASSH
Open to self-funded scholars working broadly within the arts, humanities, or social sciences from outside the University of Cambridge to pursue their independent research
⏳ Deadlines in 2024 & 2025
📣 Open for registration
'Shifting landscapes of the medieval world'
🗓️ 13 - 15 September 2022
👉🏽
A conference that focuses on reading medieval landscapes in their multiple manifestations, including spatial, temporal and theoretical dimensions.
Remember the
#pineapple
conference we recently held with
@FitzMuseum_UK
,
@slcuplants
and
@CaiusCollege
?
We've collated all recordings, presentations, photos and tweets from the two days into a summary which hopefully does this fantastic event justice! ➞
'Having heaps of data available online sounds great, but it raises real problems.'
@SabinaLeonelli
's public lecture 'How to (Re)Use Big Data' is now available online
@CSERCambridge
'Bordering Lifemaking from Life: Social Production and Citizenship '
6 May 2021 at 5pm UK time.
➞
A seminar with Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue University), organised by the Subaltern and Decolonial Citizenships Research Network at CRASSH.
📣 Publication launch! 🎉 🎉 🎉
Today we launch the
#20yearsCRASSH
#GlobalConversations
online publication!
"By turns angry, pained, wry, elegiac and meditative, it is an opulent colloquy between writers from all over the world." (Steven Connor)
📖 ➞
📣 Open for applications
Visiting Fellowships at CRASSH
Open to self-funded scholars working broadly within the arts, humanities, or social sciences from outside the University of Cambridge to pursue their independent research
⏳ Deadlines in 2024 & 2025
📣 Apply for a Visiting Fellowship at CRASSH
CRASSH’s Visiting Fellowships are open to scholars from outside the University of Cambridge to pursue a period of independent research & join our vibrant research community
⏳ Deadlines 2 Oct 2023 & 1 Feb 2024
🚨 NEW! CRASSH Research Labs
Research Labs will facilitate innovative practices of collaborative working in the arts, social sciences & humanities, both within and beyond the University and run for two years in the first instance
🔗
⏳ Apply by 31 Jan 2024
📣 Registration is open for 'Queer Migrations: Transnational Sexualities in Theory and Practice'.
Pick your panels and join us for this
#online
conference from 23-27 Nov 2020.
➞
Posting keynote and panel details below.👇 🏳️🌈
#queermigrations
#CRASSHonline
📣 Open for registration
'Bodies of water: negotiating urban and rural environment in early modern Europe'
🗓️ 16 Jan 2022
📍 CRASSH
A workshop on
#EarlyModern
communities, their social and political institutions, and how they interacted with water.
📣 Open for applications
Cambridge Early Career Fellowships
2024-2025 & 2025-2026
Join us for a term and enjoy a stimulating, interdisciplinary environment in which to advance your research project or to begin a new one
⏳ Apply by 15 January 2024
🔗
👉 Join
@MinderooCambs
on 14 Jan 2021 at 5pm UK time!
Political scientist
@RonDeibert
and politics professor, author and podcaster David Runciman (
@TPpodcast_
) will have a conversation about 'Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society'.
➞
#CRASSHonline
📣 Apply for a Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South
⏳ Deadline 20 June 2023
🔗
An opportunity for scholars in the
#GlobalSouth
to exchange ideas with other researchers based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the
@Cambridge_Uni
.
🚨 Join us for the CRASSH annual lecture with Professor Gina Neff!
'The Cost of
#Data
: Making Sense in
#DigitalSociety
'
Can new kinds of data help us live better lives and solve big social problems?
🗓️ 19 Oct at 5pm BST, with
@MCTDCambridge
ℹ️ ➞
🎧 New
#Thoughtlines
episode
'We are innovation & communication with Gina Neff'
In this episode we talk tech, power, and the endless hell of phone storage with sociologist
@ginasue
(
@MCTDCambridge
).
Listen to the full episode ➞
📣 Today we officially launch our
#20YearsCRASSH
🎉 anniversary programme on the theme of 'Global Conversations'!
Watch our video and find out what special events and activities we have planned over the coming months!
➞
We asked Christos Lynteris a few questions about his new book 'Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography', which has arisen out of the 5-year ERC project
@visualplague
at CRASSH and
@StAndrewsAnthro
and is published by
@mitpress
.
A sad farewell to
@CambridgeThings
, a research group that has been at CRASSH for seven years! Fortunately, they have left us with a wonderful audio collection
#emthings
➞
Our
#CRASSHImpact
speaker this term is Harvard Professor Homi Bhabha, a foundational figure in postcolonial studies. His public lecture on November 1st is free & open to all, but please register ➞
'Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age' explores the place of the tacit in the 21st century, where our lives are increasingly augmented by AI algorithms.
Conference registration closes on Sunday
@_Re_Network_
@CamUniMusic
@LeverhulmeCFI
➞
✍️ 'Precarious Cambridge: what casualisation does to us, and why it does not have to be like that'
Lorena Gazzotti, VP of
@CambridgeUCU
writes on the casualisation of University teaching and how it translates into a transient & devouring lived experience
📣 Open for registration
'Between the Black Mediterranean and the Black Atlantic: complexifying stories of connectivity and resistance'
🗓️ 20 May 2022
📍 Gonville & Caius College & Online
Convened by the CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Fellow 2022
@VeraSmnSchulz
.
📣 Open for applications
Cambridge Early Career Fellowships
2024-2025 & 2025-2026
Join us for a term and enjoy a stimulating, interdisciplinary environment in which to advance your research project or to begin a new one
⏳ Apply by 15 January 2024
🔗