Registration is open for the 2021 Techne student-led conference, Voices: Past, Present, Future on the 24th, 25th and 26th November 2021! We have a fantastic line-up of talks, panel discussions and workshops. Check out our website (link in bio) for more details!

RT @evey_reidy: major congratulations to the committee of the .@techne_voices21 conference -- they put together such a fascinating and vari….

We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did creating it!.

What a wonderful way to end! @YungIfto gave an inspiring workshop helping us all to create some beautiful pieces of poetry! Thank you to all the speakers, and everyone who got involved, this conference would not have been as successful without all of your contributions!!.

Excellent morning session today given by @SummerMPhillip1 who really held a mirror up to what we consider “normal” and that being ingrained within us and Hannah James Louwerse who gave us a workshop on bringing archives into the future! One more session to go!!.

A brilliant end to the second day of our conference with an amazing student panel who eloquently talked through their personal and emotive research and an incredibly insightful talk from @BlindSpotHannah on audio descriptions in theatre! Another thought provoking days of talks!.

What another fantastic start to day two of our conference! A very useful talk by Katie Grant on how we can find our academic voice and a great collaborative discussion from Laura Brammer on imposter syndrome. Thank you to the attendees for their contributions!.

RT @BlindSpotHannah: I’m getting excited for the #THEAwards tonight: I am nominated for outstanding contribution to #EDI.

Women’s voices from the past! A fantastic end to our first day, thank you to all the speakers, and we look forward to continuing tomorrow!!.

What a fantastic afternoon of discussions for our voices conference! Our panel made up of @mishaewen Hannah Young and @DonCurates inspired a deep discussion on inclusivity and equality within institutions and a thorough and emotive talk was give by @sixteenthCgirl on uncovering. .

What a fantastic start to the conference this morning, with an amazing talk by @PeteTheTemp and an enlightening panel on enacting historical voices! Quick lunch break and then on to the afternoon sessions!👏🏻👏🏻.

The conference starts tomorrow and we’re all excited to experience the amazing talks lined up with you all!! Don’t forget to register for tickets!.

. Finally, Katie Hall is a creative practice PhD student at Kingston University. Using research and practice examples from her PhD project ‘Queer as Friends’, Katie will share insights and raise questions about the role of queer feminist voice in memoir.

. Marina Castledine is a PhD student at the University of Brighton. Her research centres on Lefkaritika, lacemaking unique to rural Cyprus. She discusses.parallels between the creation of holes in the linen with silences in women’s lives, and silence as radical action. .

. our first speaker, Clara Searle, is a PhD student at Loughborough University London. Her research focuses on developing an accessible means for women racially underrepresented by the British publishing industry to voice their relationships with books. .

We are so excited that the conference will taking place in just over a week! Katie Hall, Marina Castledine and Clara Searle will be taking part in our Techne Student Research Panel on the 25th November, discussing Gender and Voice in their own research.

Hannah is currently working on creative audio description in museums, art galleries and theatres and the notion of ‘blindness gain’. She is the author of the popular blog Blind Spot (. Follow her on twitter @BlindSpotHannah.

Her third monograph, Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction (Palgrave, 2017), marked the beginning of a new research focus on the intersections between Critical Disability Studies and French Studies.

Her works include Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola (Oxford: Legenda, 2004) and Taboo: Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century France (Oxford: Legenda, 2013).

Hannah is Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and an AHRC Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow 2021. She has published on nineteenth-century French prose fiction, focusing on gender, sexuality and the non-normative body.

Audio descriptions are becoming increasingly available and crucial to making the world more accessible. This talk looks at the importance of audio description for both blind and non-blind people as a way of representing marginal or minority voices in culture.