PhD international Writing Retreat at the Warburg Institute, London

From 3-6 May 2022, The Huizinga Institute and The Warburg Institute co-organise a Writing Retreat, taking place at The Warburg Institute in London. The retreat combines writing time with workshops and clinics, while expanding your professional network with London-based fellow PhD candidates and professors. The tentative programme can be found below

We can accommodate 7 Huizinga Institute PhD candidates in this writing retreat. Participants are offered 5 nights of accommodation. Travel costs will be reimbursed up to €250,-.

You may register below (admission in order of registration). Also indicate in the ‘remarks’ field how the writing retreat would be helpful in the current status of your research project. Course fully booked? Please send us a message for a spot on the waiting list (huizinga@uu.nl).

Tentative programme

Tuesday 3 May 2022

9:30am – Welcome (Bill Sherman)

10am – Workshop: publishing and editing (led by IHR staff)

11:30am – Writing (free coffee throughout)

1pm – lunch (not provided)

2pm – Writing

3:30pm – Coffee break

4pm – Writing OR optional guided tour of Warburg library & SHL (led by Warburg library & SHL staff)

Wednesday 4 May 2022

9:30am – Writing (free coffee throughout)

1 pm – lunch (not provided)

2pm – Warburg work-in-progress seminar

3:30pm – Coffee break

4pm – Writing clinic (independent writing with academic writing staff available for support)

Thursday 5 May 2022

9:30am – Writing (free coffee throughout)

1 pm – lunch (not provided)

2pm – Talk by Charles Burdett and Joseph Ford (IMLR) on transnational cultural history

3:30pm – Coffee break

4pm – Writing clinic (independent writing with academic writing staff available for support)

Friday 6 May 2022

Masterclass Professor Sigrid Weigel