This workshop is open to current ADM postdoctoral award-holders and explores the process for applying for the next round of fellowship extensions, including guidance on evidencing progress against the initial case for support, as well as details on what the panel will be looking for in successful fellowship extensions. Please email any specific questions regarding the […]
BCMCR Research Seminar – History, Heritage and Archives: Cultural translation, history and loss 1600-1730 Wednesday 14 March P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Dr. David Gange (University of Birmingham) - Sea Sites in Island History: Exploring the Lost Communities of Atlantic Britain and Ireland There are many more once-inhabited islands in the British […]
BCMCR Research Seminar Jazz Studies: Translating the Local 1600-1730 Wednesday 21 February P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Dr. Adiel Portugali (Tel Aviv University) – China’s Marginal Sounds: The Case of Kunming Jazz My paper will explore the interface between jazz, place and identity in China, by examining the small-scale and relatively unknown […]
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. […]
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 […]
Free registration at this link Dr João Florêncio (University of Exeter) Breeding Futures: Masculinity and the Ethics of CUMmunion in Treasure Island Media’s ‘Viral Loads’ I will look at Treasure Island Media’s porn film Viral Loads and explore its implications for thinking masculinity and community formations. I’ll claim that Viral Loads enacts a refusal of individual autonomy and bodily integrity and alludes […]
Free registration at this link We will screen the documentary film, 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 […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Online solidarity and its limitations 1600-1730 Wednesday 22 November 2017 P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Dr. Miriyam Aouragh (University of Westminster) - Solidarity and the "refugee crisis": Engagement beyond Affect An extraordinary shift in perception occurred when the photo of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi broke all media headlines in 2015. The dramatic […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Online solidarity and its limitations 1600-1730 Wednesday 22 November 2017 P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link Dr. Miriyam Aouragh (University of Westminster) - Solidarity and the "refugee crisis": Engagement beyond Affect An extraordinary shift in perception occurred when the photo of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi broke all media headlines in 2015. […]
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 […]
