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> Reply-To: Seth Giddings <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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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