BCMCR Seminar: Emerging Collaborations

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

BCMCR Research Seminar – Journalism, Activism, Community – New Projects: Emerging collaborations 1600-1730 Wednesday 8 November 2017 P424, Parkside, Birmingham City University Free registration at this link    Dr. Rachel-Ann Charles (BCU) The ‘after party’: Musings of a Post-Doc My presentation will focus on my transition from PhD to post-doc research. I will discuss some of the main […]

BCMCR Research Seminar: Journalism, Activism, Community

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

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 […]

BCMCR Research Seminar: Creative Industries – Work in progress

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

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 […]

BCMCR Research Seminar: The Mulberry House

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

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: Reading the Whiteness of British Asian Literature

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

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’ […]

BCMCR Research Seminar: Publishing and documentation

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

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 […]

BCMCR Research Seminar: Media, affect and sexuality

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

BCMCR Research Seminar: Screen cultures – Media, affect and sexuality Sebastian Svegaard (BCU) | "All the Feels!": Music, Affect and Critique in Fanmade Music Videos The fanworks known as vids (or fanvids) are short, remix music videos made by fans within what Henry Jenkins termed media fandom (Jenkins 1991). They are narrative and present a […]

BCMCR Research Seminar: Norms and transgressions

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

Screen cultures: Norms and transgressions Dr. Anne Graefer (BCU) and Dr. Ranjana Das (University of Leicester) | ‘Who on earth watches this?!’: Offended Television Audiences in Britain and Germany This paper explores some findings from our forthcoming book ‘Provocative Screens: Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany’ (Palgrave Pivot 2017). In our audience study we explored […]

BCMCR Research Seminar: Sexuality, power and violence

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

Screen cultures – Sexuality, power and violence Dr. Debra Ferreday (Lancaster University) | ‘Only the bad gyal could do this’: Rihanna, rape-revenge narratives, and the cultural politics of White Feminism In 2015, Rihanna released a video single, Bitch Better Have My Money (more widely known as BBHMM), whose violent imagery would become the focus of […]

BCMCR Research Seminar: Craft explorations

Parkside - P424 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

Creative Industries: Craft Explorations Alison Bell (University of the West of Scotland)  | Re _ connect: consequences of a re-imagining As part of an art practice based PhD exploring the subjective experience of the ageing woman artist, a textile installation embodying a series of ‘departing selves’ was created and subsequently filmed, with the artist becoming both […]

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