OCTOBER 2012 Issue No. 10

Update from the Centre Director
Student Party
Other News
Study Abroad Update
SSLC Representatives
Facebook
Previous Newsletters

UPDATE FROM THE CENTRE DIRECTOR

We have been having some very productive discussions recently about improving our visibility to applicants and our identity. Our student reps have been fantastic in coming up with ideas as to how we might communicate with people who are looking for a different and challenging kind of degree. We are working on the websites at present to make them more direct in the way they describe what we do and why our degrees are special.

We are about to make CISH: The Movie (in fact, four films: one for each degree course, a bit like the Star Wars franchise) with the video production team at Essex, and we’ll need some volunteers soon to be involved in that project, talking about their studies, year abroad experiences and so on. But since CISH is a lively and fun organisation, the team believe that students will make better and more interesting films independently, and that these could complement the official movies. So, I am announcing a call for applications to make 3 minute videos that we can use on the CISH website. Some of you may already be budding filmmakers – but if you need technical support we can hook you up with film students at Colchester or at E15 Acting School. To apply, simply send a 100-word scenario or film idea to the Lyn Loaring and Dawn Mott on cish@essex.ac.uk by 31 January 2013. The CISH Directors will take a look at the entries the best ones will be selected for support via our marketing budget.

Finally, we have been discussing the name of CISH (again!). We have come to the view that we should drop the ‘Centre’ and ‘Humanities’ bits, becoming ‘Interdisciplinary Studies’ at Essex. We don’t know if you have a better idea, so here’s a challenge: suggestions for a name for CISH, to be sent via email by 31 January 2013. There will, I am sure, be a mystery prize for the more original (and viable!) idea.  

Neil Cox

STUDENT PARTY - TONIGHT

Don’t forget to collect your ticket for the SPAH/CISH Student Party. It is on TUESDAY 4TH DECEMBER starting at 6.00 p.m. in FRANGO’s (formerly Mondo’s)  

Please come along to the admin office (6.130) to collect a FREE ticket which allows your first drink at no charge, plus food. Tickets NOW available.   

We look forward to seeing you there.

OTHER NEWS

• eNROL opens on Wednesday 5th December for Spring term modules.  Please check your spring term timetable and report/make changes to avoid clashes.  
  
• Thursday 6th December – CS101 Film Night – ‘Ridicule’ – 7.00 pm in LTB10.  This film will help you grasp what it was like to live under an absolute monarchy. It illuminates 18th - century thinking about the 'natural man' and 'civilised man', and depicts the social context of Rousseau's essay on 'The Origin of Inequality.'
  
• Note to 2nd and final year students – there have been some changes to the Online Coursework Submission (OCS). Please familiarise yourself with the new look before your first essay deadline.  Further details are available on the blog.  
   
• Salsa party every Tuesday at the Qube in Crouch Street, Colchester, with DJ Carlos.  9.00 p.m. till late

STUDY ABROAD UPDATE

• Essex Abroad Information - If you are on a 4-year degree with a built in year abroad, or in your second year of study and considering a term abroad in your final year then please come along to one of the drop in sessions. You can also talk to your departmental study abroad officer about opportunities, or send an email to the Essex Abroad team saoadmin.
• Drop in information sessions, for second-year students going away in 2013-14: 
  Every Monday in Autumn term (commencing 22 October 2012): Room 2.404. 10am-12pm. Every Friday in Autumn term (commencing 19 October 2012): Room 2.411. 12pm-2pm.
• Year Abroad Society (YAB) We are 4th year returning students ourselves who want to use our newly acquired experience to aid all INCOMING, OUTGOING, AND RETURNING students with their transition to and from Essex. We want to use our knowledge to make student’s experience abroad the best possible. We want to link those who have been abroad, to those who want to go abroad or those who are already there, be it by Course or by destination.  
  FIND US  http://www.facebook.com/groups/yabsociety/

STAFF-STUDENT LIAISON COMMITTEE

We have recently recruited the course representatives for 2012/13.  Their role is to represent you at SSLC meetings.  The first meeting is on Wednesday 7th November.  If you would like to raise any items for discussion, please contact your representative:

*If you would like to fulfil this role then please see the administrators in the CISH office (6.130) or email cish@essex.ac.uk    

FACEBOOK

Please ‘like’ our Facebook Pages and make any contributions you would like to share.  We would especially like to see photos and news from current and returning Study Abroad students:

Latin American Studies: http://www.facebook.com/UoE.LAS
US Studies: http://www.facebook.com/UoE.US.Studies
Humanities: http://www.facebook.com/BAHumanitiesEssex
European Studies: http://www.facebook.com/UoE.EU.Studies  

One of our European Studies students has also set up a Year Abroad Society which you might like to join on Facebook.    

If you have any news to share in the next edition, please email:  cish@essex.ac.uk

If you would like to subscribe/unsubscribe to this Newsletter, please contact the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities:  cish@essex.ac.uk or 01206 872688/873845
 

Previous Newsletters

Issue Number 11 - November 2012 (word doc)

Issue Number 10 - October 2012 (word doc)

Issue Number 9 - March 2012 (word doc)

Issue Number 8 - February 2012 (word doc)

Issue Number 7 - January 2012 (word doc)

Issue Number 6 - December 2011 (word doc)

Issue Number 5 - November 2011 (word doc)

Issue Number 4 - October 2011 (word doc)

Issue Number 3 - May 2011 (word doc)

Issue Number 2 - April 2011 (word doc)

Issue Number 1 - March 2011 (word doc)

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