The IGRS offers a programme in research skills and methods to its own students, to students at other institutes of the School of Advanced Study, and to graduate students (MA and research) of modern languages in universities in London and beyond. The programme, comprising a series of Saturday workshops, has been running since 1999 and it is taught by teachers from the Institute and University of London Colleges and other UK universities. This research training complements PORT (online research training) website at http://port.igrs.sas.ac.uk/.

The programme is offered free to graduate students.

Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Stewart House.

Course convenor: Dr Katia Pizzi

* PORT
Several of the research training sessions can be made more effective if you consult the PORT (Postgraduate Online Research Training) website. Those sessions which link to PORT are marked with an asterisk.

Autumn Term Workshops

22 October 2011 (Room ST273)
Research Projects in the Modern Languages
11.00 An introduction to the course (Dr Katia Pizzi, IGRS)
11.15 Choosing, defining and structuring a research project in the Modern Languages (Dr Katia Pizzi, IGRS)
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Writing and revising your drafts (Professor Edward Hughes, QMUL)
15.30 Break
16:00 Nuts and bolts of being a Modern Languages postgraduate (Jana Busresova, IGRS, and Georgia Panteli, UCL)
17.00 Workshop ends

5 November 2011 (Room G 35)
Modern Language Archives and Libraries 
11.00 Catalogue and database searchingand other information on literacy concepts around Romance language-based research (Colin Homiski, Senate House Library)
12.00 Using Modern Languages libraries and building a bibliography (Dr Colette Wilson, IGRS)
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Using specialist libraries and archives in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Russia and Spain (speaker to be confirmed)
16.00 Meet a specialist British Library librarian (Katya Rogatchevskaia )
17.00 Workshop ends

3 December 2011 (Room G 35)
Digital Languages
11.00 PowerPoint for Modern Languages presentations (Dr Colette Wilson, IGRS)
12.00 Digital languages (Dr Lucia Rinaldi, UCL)
13.00 Lunch
15.00 Research 2.0: Using Web 2.0 tools to have information come to you. Participants will learn and use in real time RSS feeds, social bookmarking and Zotero (Colin Homiski, Senate House Library)
17.00 Workshop ends

Spring Term Workshops

14 January 2012 (Room ST 273)
Theories
11.00 Hermeneutics (Dr Johan Siebers, UCLAN/IGRS)
12.00 Post-colonial theory and its applications (Dr Akane Kawakami, Birkbeck College, London)
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Queer theory and its applications (Professor James Williams, RHUL)
15.30 Break
16.00 Film theory and its appliications (Dr Michael Witt, Roehampton)
17.00 Workshop ends

Resources and Texts:
Background: http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-quee.htm -- a fun and quick resource (devised by the University of Westminster) which provides a useful sense of the field and helpful links
Case study: http://www.hum.aau.dk/~shb/fletcher_closet.pdf -- an accessible queer reading of Henry James by John Fletcher published in 2000
Text: Jean Grondin: Artikel "Hermeneutik" (Hist. WB der Rhetorik)
Paru dans le Dictionnary of the History of Ideas 2005

11 February 2012 (Room ST 273)
Visual Languages
11.00 Working on painting (Dr Jim Harris, Courtauld Institute, London)
12.00 Working on photography (Dr Theresa Mikuria, Kent)
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Working on exhibitions (Dr Ben Thomas, Kent)
15.30 Working across disciplines (Dr Ben Thomas, Kent)
16.30 Workshop ends

17 March 2012 (Room ST 273)
Historical and Memorial Methods
11.00 Historical methods and archives (Dr Carlos Lopez Galvis, RHUL/IHR)
12.00 Introduction to oral history and fieldwork (speaker to be confirmed)
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Cultural memory (Dr Rick Crownshaw, Goldsmiths, London)
15.30 Theories of cultural memory (Lucy Bond, Cambridge)
16.30 Workshop ends

Summer Term Workshops

5 May 2012 (Room ST273)
Before, During and After the PhD
10.30 Publishing in the Modern Languages (Dr Maria-José Blanco, IGRS)
12.00 The PhD viva (Professor Tim Mathews, UCL)
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Organizing a conference and giving a conference paper (Dr Colette Wilson, IGRS)
16.00 Applying for academic jobs, writing a cv, and the job interview (Professor Bill Marshall, IGRS/Stirling)
17.00 Round-table dicussion and drinks

Refreshments

Please note that refreshments are not provided. There is a water cooler near the seminar rooms in Stewart House and you are welcome to bring a packed lunch and eat it in the seminar room. Alternatively, there are plenty of cafes and sandwich shops close by.

Charge
Research training is offered free of charge to graduate students in Germanic and Romance Language Departments
Feedback
We welcome feedback on our sessions. Please complete the research training feedback form below. Forms should be submitted by post or emailed to igrs@sas.ac.uk.
Click here to download the form (pdf format).

In addition to the sessions detailed above, there will be an on-site seminar at the Wiener Library on Monday, 5 March, at its new premises (29 Russell Square, WC1B 5DP).
Programme

For details on the Joint Postgraduate Training Programme in Italian being held at the IGRS see http://www.reading.ac.uk/italian/jointprog/

The SAS programme is designed to complement the Institute's discipline-specific courses and also includes sessions for MA and research students. Details of the programme are available on the SAS website: http://www.sas.ac.uk