Remnants of a Separation (HarperCollins) is an Oral History archive and the first and only material study of the Partition of India, taking into consideration those objects that refugees brought with them when they migrated across the border, those objects that were left behind in houses and lastly, those objects that were lost in the midst […]
Parallel Practices: Hacking the Enlightenment Project - Knowledge exchange through collaborative automata-making | John Grayson Talking Practice is delighted to welcome back John Grayson, for his second appearance behind the Talking Practice lectern. Do join us for his talk, chat and a glass of wine in the Vittoria Street Gallery afterwards. Parallel Practices was a collaborative project […]
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Dr. Bridget Conor (Kings College London) | Britain’s Hardest Workers: Developing a cultural political economy of the low wage economy Britain’s Hardest Workers screened for five consecutive nights in August 2016 on BBC2. This was after a groundswell of critical reportage about this programme which was dubbed variously as ‘Hunger-Games-style’ TV, ‘poverty porn’ and ‘exploitative’ […]
Creative Industries: Craft Explorations Alison Bell (University of the West of Scotland) | Re _ connect: consequences of a re-imagining As part of an art practice based PhD exploring the subjective experience of the ageing woman artist, a textile installation embodying a series of ‘departing selves’ was created and subsequently filmed, with the artist becoming both […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Screen cultures – Media, affect and sexuality Sebastian Svegaard (BCU) | "All the Feels!": Music, Affect and Critique in Fanmade Music Videos The fanworks known as vids (or fanvids) are short, remix music videos made by fans within what Henry Jenkins termed media fandom (Jenkins 1991). They are narrative and present a […]
This seminar is the first to be presented by members of the HEAD research cluster. The research within HEAD (History and Education in Art and Design) is wide-ranging, potentially embracing any aspect of visual culture from any period of history up to and including the present day, as well as exploring past and current issues and approaches in […]
Enfleshed writing practices – Are you feeling it yet? | Dr Amanda French Academic writing is a contingent yet ever present ‘thing’ in the Academy, which academics and students feel positive and negative about. This paper draws on data collected for my PhD where became very clear that participants, especially female participants, had experienced the process […]
The Brilliant Club offers a unique paid opportunity for current and completed PhD researchers! Tutors deliver programmes of university-style teaching based on their research to small groups of high-performing pupils in schools that serve disadvantaged communities based on their research to help them secure places at top universities. Hear from Joe Loudon, Regional Director of The Brilliant Club about what […]