Mediated Youth Culture: A subcultural or post-subcultural phenomenon? | Professor Andy Bennett (Griffith University) Twenty years after the so-called digital revolution, debate regarding the impact of social media on young people and their collective cultural practices continues to be a significant aspect of the youth research. Topics explored range from the ways in which social media […]
Whether you are on the verge of your viva or want to know more about what it entails, this workshop is for you! This Viva Survival workshop aims to equip you with useful strategies to help you prepare for your viva, get through the big day itself and provide relevant information to demystify the viva […]
Screen cultures | The Politics of Funny Women: Negotiating Femininities and Feminisms through Comedy (panel and book launch) The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. Comedy and Online Audiences contributes to that debate by exploring how we evaluate screen comedy. What kinds of criteria do we use to judge […]
Ever want to have just a few hours in amidst all the PhD chaos to just focus on writing? In our first Writing Intensive this year, we collectively wrote over 26,000 words in the space of a day! We’ve carried on this momentum through regular Shut Up & Write sessions where like-minded PhD students meet […]
We would like to invite you to a one-day workshop 'Experimental approaches to writing research’. This event is an opportunity for PhD students in ADM and beyond to expand their horizons in terms of writing style and postgraduate publications, benefitting from the expertise of internal and external speakers from a range of backgrounds applicable to Arts, […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Popular Music – Music and memory Dr. Lauren Istvandity (Griffiths University, Australia) | ‘Son, can you play me a memory?’ Hearing music, recalling memories: Characteristics of a Lifetime Soundtrack Personal associations between memory and music can be created daily, and recalled for many years to come. Anecdotally, the interaction between memory and […]
To say goodbye to our iconic Brutalist home at Paradise Place, the Birmingham Conservatoire presents CODA; a two-day marathon of new music featuring the likes of Howard Skempton, Fumiko Miyachi & Kate Halsall, Eric McElroy, Michael Wolters, Seán Clancy and many more. The grande finale features Andy Ingamells’ celebrated Piano Recital, an intriguing and destructive piece featuring a […]
Ever want to have just a few hours in amidst all the PhD chaos to just focus on writing? In our first Writing Intensive this year, we collectively wrote over 26,000 words in the space of a day! We’ve carried on this momentum through regular Shut Up & Write sessions where like-minded PhD students meet […]
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 […]