07/08/2026
Announcing student events at the annual Design History Society conference!
Writing an Abstract in Design History
Day 1: Thursday 3.9.2026
11.30-12.30
This student-led workshop facilitated by Aurore Damoiseaux (PhD Candidate, University of Brighton, UK) will provide guidance on how to write an abstract in design history and related fields. Concise and precise, abstracts need to follow certain guidelines to fit criteria that a reviewer will look for such as the topic at hand, the relevance to a potential theme, methods used, findings and results. Whether they are responding to a call for papers or developing thesis abstracts, publication proposals, or PhD proposals, abstracts are generally comparable in their form.
In this workshop, MA and PhD students will participate in an exercise on abstract review, following the criteria to assess what makes a strong, concise, and comprehensive abstract. We will analyse several abstracts and the call for papers they responded to, looking at ways abstracts can take different shapes and fit various briefs.
Participants will then be invited to work on a potential submission to a call for papers (CFP) and to provide peer feedback. After a brief freewriting session, participants will be tasked to read each other’s abstracts and explain the research back to the original author, to note points of clarity and potential gaps. Participants are also welcome to bring for discussion and feedback their own CFP to which they would like to respond, a draft abstract they are currently developing, or an abstract they have already submitted.
Register here: https://arthistory.phil.muni.cz/dhs2026/student-events
