Free registration at this link We will screen the documentary film, The Mulberry House, followed by a Skype Q+A with the filmmaker, Sara Ishaq. The Mulberry House Sara grew up in Yemen to a Yemeni father and a Scottish mother, and at age 17, finally decided to move to Scotland. Ten years later – 2011 – Sara returns […]
Free registration at this link Dr João Florêncio (University of Exeter) Breeding Futures: Masculinity and the Ethics of CUMmunion in Treasure Island Media’s ‘Viral Loads’ I will look at Treasure Island Media’s porn film Viral Loads and explore its implications for thinking masculinity and community formations. I’ll claim that Viral Loads enacts a refusal of individual autonomy and bodily integrity and alludes […]
Free registration at this link Jose Arroyo (University of Warwick) Queer Cinema and Cultural Translation: Almodóvar’s The Law of Desire (1987) Law of Desire is a gay triangle in the melodramatic mode but shot through with camp so as to be both distancing and emotionally involving, eliciting laughter AND tears. It is a landmark film in the lgbtq […]
BCMCR Research Seminar Jazz Studies: Translating Curatorial Practice 1600-1730 Wednesday 7 February P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Fiona Talkington (BBC Radio 3) - If Mountains Could Sing From Kristiansand in the south of Norway, to Svalbard in the far, far North, Fiona has spent nearly 20 years travelling throughout the country, getting […]
BCMCR Research Seminar Jazz Studies: Works in Progress 1600-1730 Wednesday 14 February P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Corey Mwamba (BCU) - We all have to deal Gary Burton - representations and turnings away a singular voice in jazz vibraphone performance Gary Burton is one of the most influential vibraphonists of all time. […]
BCMCR Research Seminar Jazz Studies: Translating the Local 1600-1730 Wednesday 21 February P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Dr. Adiel Portugali (Tel Aviv University) – China’s Marginal Sounds: The Case of Kunming Jazz My paper will explore the interface between jazz, place and identity in China, by examining the small-scale and relatively unknown […]
For one week only, School of Art PhD students will hijack The PGR Studio including all social media and The PGR Studio will takeover one of the School of Art PhD seminars to create ... the Alternative Art School Tour! Through an exploration of the fabulous neo-Gothic School of Art building, this alternative seminar event will offer a space to […]
BCMCR Research Seminar – History, Heritage and Archives: Cultural translation, history and loss 1600-1730 Wednesday 14 March P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Dr. David Gange (University of Birmingham) - Sea Sites in Island History: Exploring the Lost Communities of Atlantic Britain and Ireland There are many more once-inhabited islands in the British […]
Transforming Cultural Institutions: Contemporary Art, Pedagogy and Global Change in Palestine, The Middle East and Beyond A two hour seminar investigating the place and problems of contemporary art in Palestine, the broader region and the world. Three presentations by academics and visual arts professionals from universities in Palestine, taking part in the Erasmus Plus Scheme […]
BCMCR Research Seminar – History, Heritage and Archives – Archives, Public History and Historical Reconstruction 1600-1730 Wednesday 21 March P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Dr. Nick Hall (Royal Holloway) - ADAPT: Using hands-on technological simulation to communicate television’s clockwork past to future digital users The tools required to make and share moving images […]