The Midlands3Cities doctoral training partnership is collaborating with Bird&Gorton to offer two workshops specifically designed to enable arts and humanities doctoral students to explore careers in the creative and cultural industries. The workshops will provide practical advice and insider insights for students interested in working in and with Theatre and Performing Arts, Museums, Libraries and Galleries, […]
In Process: Perspectives on collaborative theatre in Brazil Aleksandar Dundjerovic, Professor of Performing Arts I will present material from my second book, coming out in mid-2018, on collaborative theatre in Brazil. The material presented offers different perspectives on collaborative, visual and physical performing arts practices in Brazilian theatre. The book is focused on creative methodologies […]
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 to Yemen as a different person, geared […]
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 […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Creative Industries - Work in progress session Dr. Annette Naudin and Dr. Natalie Hart (BCU) | A critical exploration of the use of data visualisation methods for communicating and addressing inequalities in children and young people’s engagement with arts and culture In this paper, we interrogate the development of a methodology for collecting […]
Please join us for the School of Art PhD seminar programme ... . Sophie Hedderwick | "in the blink of an eye" Current M3C student Sophie Hedderwick will present and discuss her recent work “in the blink of an eye”. Inspired by Erin Manning's notions of incipient movement and pre-acceleration (2009), the animation explores micro-gestures […]
“Not to be opened during the War”: The Mobilisation of French Music Publishing, 1914–1918 | Dr Rachel Moore (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) This research seminar focuses on the activities of French music publishers during the First World War. With the outbreak of war in 1914, the dominance of Austro-German firms on the market for musical editions in France […]
NIGHT SCHOOL | On the last Tuesday of each month the School of Art will open to the public as a way of sharing work that our students, staff and researchers are doing. Dr. Lisa Metherell will present her research at the next Night School event on ...on 31st October at 7.30pm in the School […]
Led by Dr Helen Kara, this practical workshop will enable you to explore different aspects of the writing process, writing strategies and will be a chance for you to do some PhD writing. It is tailored specifically for Arts, Design & Media PhD researchers in the early to mid-stages of their research. Lunch and refreshments will be […]
BCMCR Research Seminar – Journalism, Activism, Community – Reaction and amnesia Dr. Gavan Titley (Maynooth University, Ireland) - ‘After Charlie Hebdo: the polyphony of free speech controversies’ This talk is drawn from a forthcoming book After Charlie Hebdo, that analyses the aftermath of the attacks in Paris in January 2015 as ‘Charlie Hebdo’, a transnational political and communicative […]