Guest blogger Liz Sage, doctoral researcher in the school of English and senior founding editor of Excursions, was selected as one of just fifteen PhD students from across the world to spend a week studying with the feminist theorist, Luce Irigaray. In Adventures with Irigaray Part 1: Long Shot, Short Deadline, Liz talked about how … Continue reading
Deadline for articles: 15th August 2011 Extended to 1st November 2011 Submit online at: http://www.excursions-journal.org.uk/cfp.html ‘The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history which is in keeping with this insight. Then we … Continue reading
Update from Martin eve, on Excursions: the interdisciplinary open-access journal set up and run by Sussex researchers. In the contemporary world, notions of the viral are infused, as was impossible in a pre-globalised time, with connotations both positive and negative. Even as the AIDS pandemic, caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, continues to rage worldwide, … Continue reading
Guest blogger Liz Sage, doctoral researcher in the school of English and senior founding editor of Excursions, has been selected as one of fifteen PhD students from across the world to go and spend a week studying with the feminist theorist, Luce Irigaray. In this post, Liz talks about how she caught this golden opportunity. … Continue reading
Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text Conference at the University of Sussex, 24-26 March, 2011 Postcards Competition: Deadline for entries: 21 January, 2011 (see below for further information and how to enter the competition) Judge: Nicola Barker The Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text conference is delighted to launch its Postcards Competition, a … Continue reading
*Excursions*, the Journal for Interdisciplinary Research, is based in the Sussex Doctoral School, and run by Sussex doctoral researchers. The journal is Open Access (freely available to all), online, and most importantly: peer-reviewed. Which is why Excursions is looking for doctoral researchers and early career academics from all disciplines, to join their editorial team. So … Continue reading
Excursions: The Postgraduate Journal for Interdisciplinary Research invites submissions around the theme of ‘Virus’. Virus: – a submicroscopic infective particle typically consisting of nucleic acid coated in protein, which is able to multiply with the cells of a host organism an infection or disease caused by such an agent piece of code surreptitiously introduced into … Continue reading
Calling all Doctoral Researchers and Research Staff, Your presence is requested to help celebrate the launch of the University of Sussex’s new on-line, interdisciplinary postgraduate journal, *Excursions*. Date: Wednesday, 23rd June Time: 15:00 - 18:00 Place: Social Space Arts B 274 Come and find out what it’s all about, with free wine, free food and … Continue reading
Sussex Interdisciplinary Journal to launch soon Excursions is a new interdisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed electronic journal based at Sussex. It was conceived, implemented and will be launched and run by our very own doctoral researchers. The project is funded with a successful application to the Roberts money fund through the Doctoral School (and we are still … Continue reading
