Challenges of Doctoral Supervision
Challenges of Doctoral Supervision is the first event organised in the frame of the
Erasmus Plus Strategic Partnership Project Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates.
On 24-25 September 2019, ELIA and the project partners will host the international meeting, which will take place at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, Germany.
Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates produces intellectual, ready-to-use outputs for those involved in doctoral supervision across all artistic disciplines. The event
Challenges of Doctoral Supervision sets the basis of the first project phase
Setting the framework, and focuses on two strands:
- Mind Mapping Supervision
- Ethics in Art, Ethics in Supervision, Ethics in Artistic Research
Moderated by Kerstin Mey, the
opening panel Triangulation in Doctoral Supervision: Challenges between interdependency and autonomy engages a discussion among representatives of the triangular doctoral framework: PhD student – Supervisor – Institution.
Thanks to the cooperation with ELIA and the project partners, this event aims to attract a wide group of stakeholders from the higher arts education sector; particularly, students, supervisors, university leaders, and policymakers.
Everyone is welcome to join the discussion around the questions on doctoral supervision.
Furthermore, the conference
Challenges of Doctoral Supervision is organised in conjunction with the
ELIA Academy, a unique, lifelong learning experience for academic and research staff, which explores emerging teaching and learning practices in the arts. Delegates are invited to attend both events in Stuttgart.
For more info about the project please visit the website
Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates.
Programme
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Wednesday 25 September 2019
Speakers & Moderators
In the opening panel Triangulation in Doctoral Supervision: Challenges between interdependency and autonomy representatives of the three dimensions of the triangular doctoral framework come to discuss the Challenges in Doctoral Supervision.
Moderator:
Kerstin Mey is a Professor of Visual Culture and Vice President Academic Affairs and Student Engagement at the University of Limerick since April 2018. Mey was also the Director of CREST and Vice-Chair of CHEAD and served on the Austrian Science Board. She currently serves the ISEA International Advisory Committee and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Irish Chamber Orchestra.
PhD student perspective:
Masha Godovannaya is a visual artist, queer-feminist researcher, and a PhD-in-practice candidate at Institute of Fine Arts, Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. She holds MFA degree in Film/Video from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, USA, and MA in Sociology from European University in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her artistic and scholarly practices are closely connected to artistic research and draw on intersections of moving image theory, social science, queer theory, decolonial methodologies, and contemporary art. She is a co-founder of a queer-feminist affinity art group “Unwanted Organisation”, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Supervisor perspective:
Ellen J Røed is employed as a Professor of Film and Media for the profile area Art, Technology and Materiality at Stockholm University of the Arts. Røed is a visual artist and has made video, electronic/digital art and audiovisual installations within a variety of cross-disciplinary contexts since 1995. During recent years she has engaged in developing the frameworks that enable and support artistic research, in particular in the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme.
Institutional perspective:
Susannah Thompson is the Head of Doctoral studies at The Glasgow School of Art. She is an art historian, critic and writer based in Glasgow. Her research interests are in the broad area of visual culture, with a particular emphasis on contemporary art, feminist art practice, art criticism and expanded forms of art writing. Her current projects include a co-edited collection of essays on painting in Scotland in the mid-twentieth century, a book chapter on the role of boarding houses and spinsters in the novels of Muriel Spark, and ongoing work on the theme of art history writing as a creative practice.
Accommodation
Delegates are advised to book accommodation at the earliest convenience. ELIA has made pre-bookings for delegates at several hotels in the city centre.
For booking your accommodation please go to the following portal
link.
At this portal you will find more information about available hotels and pricing for your stay in Stuttgart.
The deadline for booking the accommodation is
25 August 2019. Any bookings after the deadline will depend on availability and on a first come first serve basis.
Travel
Stuttgart can be reached easily from across the country and abroad.
By plane
An increasing number of European and International airlines provide direct flights to Stuttgart. Travelers arriving at the Stuttgart Airport can easily get to the city center by train. It runs from early morning to midnight; the interval between trains is 20 minutes. Train tickets are purchased in vending machines and cost about €3,50. Remember to validate the ticket before boarding the train.
By train
The Stuttgart Main Train Station is the junction of the international north-south and east-west stretches. Through the rail network (ICE, IC; InterRegio), Stuttgart is directly connected with 13 European capitals.
Workshops
This event is organised around two main topics within the first project phase Setting the framework. On Wednesday morning, after an introduction to the two subject areas, delegates will join one of the parallel workshop sessions. When registering for the event, delegates will choose the workshop they would like to attend.
Workshop 1: Mind Mapping Supervision
To supervise: to co-work, to be curious, to make visible?
Mind-mapping as a collective quest for understanding supervision as complex relational activity beyond academic discipline. Undoing supervision as neither explaining nor evaluating artistic research as such. An opportunity to clean the mind of previous assumptions about supervisors´ potential ´to act´ towards the artistic research project itself (object), to researchers in art themselves (subjects) and to the institutional frame they act within (environment).
Presenter: Maria Topolčanská, Senior lecturer in the Department of Theory and History of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Prague (AVU)
Workshop 2: Ethics in Art, Ethics in Supervision, Ethics in Artistic Research
Map Ethics!
The aim of this experimental workshop is to propose and test out ways of unfolding and mapping ethical aspects and issues within the frame of artistic PhD projects and doctoral supervision – not with a normative approach, but to instigate discussion, curiosity and consciousness. A presentation of the proposed method, including a set of key concepts will be introduced to the participants in advance, as well as a few projects descriptions, which will form the basic material for the workshop. Active engagement from the participants will be necessary.
Presenter: Anne-Helen Mydland, Vice Dean at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
Lunch Table Talks: Share Your Experience
The closing lunch offers delegates the chance to exchange their experiences on Challenges in Doctoral Supervision. Delegates can suggest topics for discussion, share their institution’s perspective, ask questions and join the table discussions of their interest.
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