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 […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Journalism, Activism, Community – Representation and voice 1600-1730 Wednesday 15 November 2017 P233, Parkside, Birmingham City University *please note room change Free registration at this link Dr. Andrew Jones (University of Warwick) - Jonathan Dimbleby's Unknown Famine: Television, Humanitarianism and Politics in Britain This paper discusses how television coverage of major disasters in the global South […]
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: 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. […]
Conversations in Cultural Translation: Translating the International Peace Movement From now until September Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research will hold a series of events exploring cultural translation, starting with an interdisciplinary dialogue between a historian and a geographer on Thursday 26 April 2018. Dr Jake Hodder (University of Nottingham) will be in dialogue with Dr […]
BCMCR Research Seminar – Screen Cultures – Special session on Afrofuturism 1600-1730 Wednesday 25 April P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Juice Aleem - What is Afrofuturism? Juice will be going through the roots of Afrofuturism in regard to what it is and what it can be. Showcasing where we might see it in common […]
Popular Music Works in Progress 1600-1730 Wednesday 2 May 2018 P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Wednesday, 2 May 2018 from 16:00 to 17:30 (BST) Sarah Raine and Professor Tim Wall | 'Hidden Histories’: An invitation for collaboration In this session, we will be introducing an idea for a research project that brings together a lot of work that […]
BCMCR Research Seminar – Pop Music: Heavy metal cultural translation 1600-1730 Wednesday 30 May *please note room change* C424, Curzon, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Prof. Karl Spracklen (Leeds Beckett University)- Throat-singing as extreme Other: an exploration of Mongolian and Central Asian style in extreme metal Throat-singing is a form of singing practiced in […]
Please join us for the launch of the History, Heritage and Archives Research Cluster in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University (BCU). The cluster meets on a monthly basis and seeks to connect academics, archivists and librarians, community groups and heritage professionals. This event event will introduce our work and set […]
Dr Abigail Gardner (University of Gloucester) Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians The talk discusses key ideas from Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians (Routledge, 2019). The book focuses on age and ageing across three connected areas of female creative practice in contemporary popular music; the recent wave of women’s rock memoirs, the continuing performance of women […]