The “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest is sponsored by AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Science. It challenges scientists to explain their research without PowerPoint slides or jargon—in fact with no talking at all.

https://www.sciencemag.org/projects/dance-your-phd

The goal of this “Dance your PhD Uclouvain” workshop is to prepare UCL PhD student to take part in this contest. It will give PhD students the opportunity to reflect upon their research.

Since the first "Dance your PhD @ UCLouvain” in December 2020, three UCLouvain PhD students took part in the competition with the following videodances:

Roman and Byzantine Weights from the Iberian Peninsula (L. Delanaye, INCAL)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F60wmhIvB-o

Education through social entrepreneurship an integrated identity construction (J. Solbreux, LOURiM)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBoxEnHkyZg

How Do Chinese Adolescents Resist Their Parents When Feeling Over-controlled? (Y. Wu, IPSY)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxNTkrORLKI

Professors:

The workshop will be taught by Pr. Sheila G. Rojas & Gea Zazil and coordinated by Pr. N. Kervyn

Pr. S. Rojas is teaching contemporary dance at the University of Chiapas. She holds a Master’s Degree in Development and Promotion of Culture by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Research of the Autonomous University of Coahuila. Pr. S. Rojas was selected as one of the top 10 dancers in Mexico by the newspaper El Universal in 2012. She has performed in over 60 productions ranging from dance to opera, theater and performance.

G. Hernandez Castro: Artist, dancer and choreographer from Brussels, G. Hernandez Castro was trained as a contemporary and folklore dancer at Academia de la Danza Mexicana INBA (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes). She has a Master in choreography from Escuela Nacional de Danza Clasica y Contemporanea INBA-CENART (Centro Nacional de las Artes).

N. Kervyn: Trained as a psychologist, Pr. N. Kervyn is Associate Professor of Marketing at LSM (UCLouvain).

Eligibility:

SSH UCL PhD students irrespective of their dance experience and level of advancements in their PhD (including PhD recently defended) .

Dates:

From Friday September 2 to Friday September 9, 2022

Register here before June 15 (max 15 people) 

Program: