Please find below details of the research seminars which the School of
Cultural Studies at UWE is running this year.  The seminar series is
called TECHNOLOGY, UTOPIA, AFFECT, and all are welcome.  Talks begin at
2pm in room M30 on St Matthias campus in Fishponds.    Talks are given
by both members of the School of Cultural Studies and visiting speakers.
The 'forums' are an opportunity to share and compare diverse interests
and approaches to a particular topic or theme - further details will be
circulated nearer the time. Directions to St. Matts can be found at
www.uwe.ac.uk.  Any other queries or for posters please contact me at
[log in to unmask]  Further speakers and a series of evening
events will be circulated later.
 
Michelle Henning
 
Technology, Utopia, Affect
 
9 November 2005    Kieran Kelly "The world's music in your pocket; the
development of the Apple Ipod" 

7 December 2005    Ronald  Inden (University of Chicago)  "Images of
Utopia and Dystopia in Bollywood Films" 

14 December 2005  Richard Hornsey "'Harry Beck's tube map: the everyday
in 1930s London" and 
Michelle Henning "From Froebel to  Fluxus: Cybernetic Serendipity and
learning through play" followed by Cybernetics Forum 

18 January 2006   Matt Briggs "Rethinking meaning in children's media
cultures: from a pedagogy of effects to an affective pedagogy" and 
Gillian Swanson "Serenity and psychosis:  aesthetic values and
'distraction", followed by Affect forum

25 January 2006   Stuart Allan: "Online journalism: old principles, new
priorities" and
Michael Chanan "Report on Report from Madrid"  followed by Information
Forum 

1 February 2006   Aphra Kerr "New medias - new pleasures" and
China Mievelle "Law and the commodity" (to be confirmed)

8 February 2006   Martin Lister  "Thinking  photographies : taking
stock" 

15 February 2006   Ruth Levitas (University of Bristol)  '"The imaginary
reconstitution of society: Utopia as method

8 March 2006  Peter Broks "How to make gold and travel in time: between
the real and the imaginary in late-Victorian visions of science"
followed by Utopias Forum

22 March 2006      Greg Tuck " Masturbation, sexual logic & capitalism:
the autoerotic in contemporary cinema and beyond"

29 March 2006      Seth Giddings "Artifice and Artefacts: simulation in
the real world" and 
Tonia Carless (Oxford Brookes) "The panorama of Independent Tropical
Wales", followed by Mimesis Forum

14 June 2006  Suzy  Gordon "Negativity and destructiveness in the field
of vision"  and   
Helen  Kennedy "The affordances of immersion and the pleasures of
submission" 

5 July 2006    Prasun Sonwalker "'Journalism Practice as Cultural
Hegemony" and 
Elspeth kydd "'The Last Days of Our House': the caribbean diasporic
family and the theory-practice filmed autobiographyre


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