BCMCR Research Seminar: Creative industries: Publishing and documentation Andy Conway (BCU) - PUNK PUBLISHING – How Self-Publishing Indie Authors Took Over the Book World A revolution in publishing has happened. More writers today earn a living by self-publishing than through traditional publishing. ‘Punk Publishing’, the new book by Andy Conway and David Wake, examines the new […]
Work less to achieve more: lessons from the world’s most prolific and cited researchers | Prof Mark Reed What would you expect the top ten most prolific and cited researchers to have in common? Workaholics? Burnt out? No longer recognized by their families? That’s what I thought, when I read the Times Higher Education list […]
The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts at Birmingham City University would like to invite you to their annual conference ... . Confirmed keynote speakers: Karen Smith (OCAT, Xi'an), Pauline J. Yao (M+, Hong Kong), Scott Lash (Goldsmiths, University of London) The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster […]
You are invited to the exhibition "By the Book", a traveling exhibition coming all the way from Bahrain, and a public talk as a part of a series of events under the name of "I am Khlaeeji".
All printed or published music requires editing, at some level, and computer music-setting forces all of us to be editors. Decisions about how to notate and design the printed page often intertwine with decisions about the music itself, and thus with the “composer’s intentions”. Performers cannot escape the obligation to familiarise themselves with issues of […]
The Midlands3Cities doctoral training partnership is collaborating with Bird&Gorton (https://birdandgorton.com/) 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 […]
From sourcing literature in its various forms and specialist journals from other Universities to using services like EThOS to access theses across the UK, a library is a potentially endless resource that is vital in helping you with your PhD research. In collaboration between The PGR Studio and ADM library specialists at BCU, this workshop is tailored specifically for […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Creative Industries: Reading the Whiteness of British Asian Literature Commodified British Asian literary production is an example of the ways in which the state/market has co-opted resistance while appearing inclusive, through multicultural and diversity discourse. While packaged forms of ‘identity’ and ‘difference’ are used to sell these texts, the texts themselves reject ‘identity’ […]
Preach R Sun’s work, a combination of protest activism and social critique (described as, Fugitivism and Conjuring) incorporates and fuses art and activism as a means to investigate and interrogate the nature and limits of freedom, while simultaneously posing a direct challenge to systems of oppression and injustice. Sun accomplishes this through implementation of unconventional protest […]
The acclaimed Mexican performance artist Rocio Boliver will give an illustrated talk about her life and art. Rocio’s story is particularly compelling: once a teenage model Rocio became one of Mexico’s leading News Readers before having to leave the job when news of her pornographic feminist texts spread. Rocio then dedicated her life to Performance […]
