Research Seminar Series 2011-12

Semester 2:

Friday 10 Feb, 5.30pm, Postgraduate Seminar Room:

Simon Banham (Aberystwyth): ‘The work with Quarantine and methods of presenting practice beyond the event’

Wednesday 15 Feb, 5.30pm (venue tbc).  

Colin Thomas (television producer): ‘Picturing the Past - putting Welsh history on television’

Joint Research Seminar, TFTS and History

Thursday 16Feb, 6.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics Department:

Maja Zehfuss (Manchester), ‘War the gentle way? Cultural knowledge and the social sciences at war’

Performance and Politics Research Group

Friday 17 Feb, 2-4pm, Postgraduate Seminar Room:

Research seminar with Maja Zehfuss

Friday 17 Feb, 5.30pm: Postgraduate Seminar Room:

Karen Lury (Glasgow): 'Tears and laughter: desire and epistephilia in contemporary television.'

Monday 20 Feb, 5.30pm, Postgraduate Seminar Room:

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (Lincoln): ‘Opera and Spirituality’

Wednesday 22 Feb, 5.30pm, Postgraduate Seminar Room:

Nathan Abrams (Bangor): ‘The Banality of Evil: Polanski, Kubrick and the Reinvention of Horror’

Wednesday 29Feb, 5.30pm, Postgraduate Seminar Room:

James Bennett (Royal Holloway), 'Broadcast Baggage: Television and digital media production cultures in a multiplatform BBC'

Friday 9 March, 5.30pm, Postgraduate Seminar Room:

Clare Thornton and Paul Clarke (Bristol), ‘Re-Use, Re-Make, Re-Enact: Performing the Archive’

Tuesday 13 March, 6pm, Emily Davies Studio:

Louise Amoore (Durham), ‘On a potential politics: the matter of associative life’

Performance and Politics Research Group

Wednesday 14 March, 9.30am – 12:00, 1.64 Penbryn 5:

Research seminar with Louise Amoore

Friday 23 March, 5.30pm, Postgraduate Seminar Room:

Rachel Moseley (Warwick), 'Researching the History of Women's Television'

Friday 4 May, 5.30pm, venue tba:

Hans-Thies Lehmann (Frankfurt am Main)

Lecture on contemporary tragedy

Friday 4 May, 5.30pm, Postgraduate Seminar Room:

Steve Rawle (York St John University): paper tbc

Tuesday 8 May, 6pm – 7.30pm, Main Hall, International Politics (tbc)

Janelle Reinelt (Warwick), title tba.

Performance and Politics Research Group

Wednesday 9 May, 9.30 – 12:00, Postgraduate Seminar Room (tbc)

Research seminar with Janelle Reinelt

Semester 1:

Tues 4 October, 5.30pm:
Meredith Godley (Curtin University, Western Australia)
‘All My Selves on YouTube’

Wed 12 Oct, 5.30pm:
Richard Murphet (Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne)
‘Action, Image and the Idea of the Experimental’

Mon 17 October, 5.30pm:
Jim Davis (University of Warwick)
‘The Unbearable Rightness of Archives’

Wed 26 October, 5.30pm:
Kevin Donnelly (University of Southampton)
'Occult Aesthetics': Synchronizing Sound and Image'

Wed 2 November, 5.30pm:
Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England, Bristol)
‘Why Study the Film Producer?’

Fri 11 November, 5.30pm:
Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading)
‘Spaces of television: production, site and style’

Wed 23 November, 5.30pm:
Sian Barber (Royal Holloway, University of London)
'Reading the BBFC archive: Film Censorship in the 1970s'

Fri 9 December, 5.30pm:
Tony Fisher (Central School of Speech and Drama, London)
‘Shakespeare's Theatrocracy: The Globe and the Theatre of the Multitude’

Fri 16 December, 5.30pm:
Glen Creeber (Aberystwyth University)
‘Online Drama: The Return of the Intimate Screen?’

Research Seminar Series 2010-11

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