Upcoming Research Events

Here are this Semester's research seminars - a fascinating programme, I'm sure you'll agree! Everybody is very welcome to join us for these. Further details on the speakers and their papers will be circulated nearer the time of the relevant seminar.

Date, Time and Location	Speaker and Paper Title	Location or weblink
16 February 2022 5:15pm	Margaret Ames, Simon Banham, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Susan Forster, Lisa McCarty, Milja Kurki, Miranda Whall (Aberystwyth University) 'What is Material Thinking?'	Online Join the online event
23 February 2022 4:30pm	Liesbeth Groot Nibblelink (Utrecht University) ‘Where Scenography Meets Ecology: Assemblage, Affect and Material Thinking’	Online Join the online event
16 March 2022 4:30pm	Joslin McKinney (University of Leeds) 'The Scenographic City: making sense of urban experience using scenography'	Online Join the online event
30 March 2022 4:30pm	What is Material Thinking? Part 2	Online Join the online event
27 April 2022 4:30pm	Becca Voelcker (Central Saint Martins, UAL) ‘Land Cinema: Filming Climates in Crisis’	Online Join the online event
4 May 2022 4:30pm	What is Material Thinking? Part 3	Online Join the online event
11 May 2022 5:00pm	Dr Zoe Laughlin 'Adventures in Materials and Making'	Foundry Studio, Parry Williams Building and Online Join the online event
25 May 2022 4:30pm	Cristina Delgado-Garcia (University of Glasgow) ‘Rethinking character beyond anthropocentrism’	Online Join the online event

Previous Research Events

For a list of our previous research events consult the table below.

Academic Year 2021-22, Semester 1

20 October 2021 4:30pm	Heidi Morstang (University of Plymouth), ‘Intuitive Interventions: Constructing Documentary Cinematic Narratives’	Online
27 October 2021 4:30pm	Marcy Saude (Aberystwyth University), ‘Artists’ Film and Reproductive Labour’	Online
3 November 2021 4:30pm	Lisa Richards (Aberystwyth University), ‘“In essence, a talent show for bakers”: The Great British Bake Off as genre hybrid and cosy commodity’	Online
9 November 2021 3:00pm	SPECIAL LAUNCH EVENT FOR THE CENTRE FOR MATERIAL THINKING Carrie Noland (University of California, Irvine), ‘Fact and the Materiality of Meaning: Merce Cunningham's Winterbranch’	In person and online Foundry Studio, Parry Williams Building
17 November 2021 4:30pm	Lucy Gough and Piotr Woycicki (Aberystwyth University), ‘Mapping the Soul VR’	In person RGJ Studio, Parry Williams Building
24 November 2021 4:30pm	Bethany Usher (Newcastle University), ‘NOTORIOUS: journalism, dramatisation and crime’	Online
1 December 2021 4:30pm	Johanna Isaacson (Modesto Junior College, California), ‘Coming of Rage into the Futureless Future: Social Reproduction and Young Women in Contemporary Horror Films’	Online
8 December 2021 4:30pm	Bella Merlin (University of California, Riverside), ‘Life on Zoom: The Actor as a Practical Researcher’	Online
15 December 2021 4:30pm	Liam Jarvis (University of Essex), ‘Immersive Embodiment: Empathy Activism & Postdigital Performances of Care’	Online

Academic Year 2020-21, Semester 1

Date, Time and Location	Speaker and Paper Title	Microsoft Teams weblink
21 October 4:30pm Microsoft Teams	Glen Creeber, ‘Never Ending Stories: Reconsidering complex TV and the historical evolution of the new multiarc drama serial’
4 November, 10am Microsoft Teams	Tanja Beer (Griffith University, Australia), ‘Ecoscenography: An Introduction to Ecological Design for Performance’	Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
11 November, 4:30pm Microsoft Teams	Ffion Jones, ‘How to talk to my Dad and other stories: Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate'	Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
18 November, 4:30pm Microsoft Teams	Roger Owen, ‘Cafflogion, Endemism and Exile: Returning to a novel by R. Gerallt Jones	Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
2 December, 4:30pm Microsoft Teams	Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London), ‘Hydromedia: From water literacy to aqueous politics’	Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
9 December, 4:30pm Microsoft Teams	Janet McCabe (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Divided Bodies, Crossing Borders, Transnational Encounters: towards a feminist approach to transnational TV studies’	Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

Academic Year 2020-21, Semester 2

Date, Time and Location	Speaker and Paper Title	Microsoft Teams weblink
3 February 2021 4:30pm	Marie Cronqvist (Lund University), ‘The entangled television histories of Scandinavia and East Germany: Influences and exchanges across the Baltic Iron Curtain’	Click here to join the meeting
10 February 2021 10:00am	Kath Bicknell (Macquarie University, Australia), 'Staying alert to risk and bodily vulnerability in performance and training: a cognitive ethnographic study on the static trapeze' (Performance, Media and Sport series)	Click here to join the meeting
17 February 2021 4:30pm	Rachel Hann (Northumbria University), ‘Decolonizing Scenography: A case study on Rosie Elnile's Prayer (2020)’	Click here to join the meeting
24 February 2021 4:30pm	Sarah Crews (University of South Wales) & Solomon Lennox (Northumbria University), ‘Soft Borders and menstrual tensions: Resisting hegemonic narratives in boxing’ (Performance, Media and Sport series)	Click here to join the meeting
3 March 2021 4:30pm	Johanna Karlsson (Aberystwyth University), ‘Laying Claim to the Power One Desires: How the #women2drive Campaign Changed Traffic in Saudi Arabia’	Click here to join the meeting
10 March 2021 4:30pm	Tasha Kitcher (Loughborough University), ‘Electrophone: the Victorian precursor to live streaming’	Click here to join the meeting
17 March 2021 4:30pm	Anat Pick (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Permacinema: Vegetal Ethics in Eric Rohmer's The Green Ray’	Click here to join the meeting
14 April 2021 4:30pm	Harry Heuser (Aberystwyth University), ‘The Gothic of Audition: Audionarratology, Transdisciplinarity and Old-Time Radio Listening as Self-Othering’	Click here to join the meeting
21 April 2021 4:30pm	Amy Daniel (Aberystwyth University), 'Ghosts of My Life - a hauntological documentary on the works of Mark Fisher'	Click here to join the meeting
5 May 2021 4:30pm	Shannon Walsh (Louisiana State University, USA), ‘Shifting Affinities: Sports and Theatre During the Pandemic’ (Performance, Media and Sport series)	Click here to join the meeting
19 May 2021 4:30pm	Lucy Gough (Aberystwyth University), ‘Footnotes to a Snowglobe’	Click here to join the meeting