Research Seminars
Summer Term 2007
Communications, Cultural and Media Studies
Department of Art, Media and Design
Each seminar involves presentations from one or more speakers, lasting
about 45 minutes.
There is then a break for wine, followed by a chaired debate, giving
speakers and audience time to explore the issues in depth.
Further information: Contact Jon Baldwin ([log in to unmask])
Open to all staff, students, and the interested general public.
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Day / Time: Wednesdays 4.00 to 6.00
Place: ILRC Seminar Room Commercial Road
(http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/about/find-us.cfm)
Except 14th March: Room 102, Commercial Road. 4.30 – 6.30
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14th March Professor Adrian Monck, City University, London:
Do the public deserve to be informed?
Adrian Monck is Head of Journalism and Publishing at City University. He
has been an award-winning broadcast journalist with CBS News, ITN and Sky
News, pioneering undercover reporting for News at Ten. His work at
Dunblane and in Bosnia has received awards from the Royal Television
Society, and on Rwanda won the special report gold medal, and overall
prize at the New York International Festival. He is co-author of Crunch
Time (Allen & Unwin, 2004), a guide to current affairs. He is a media
commentator for the Evening Standard, and a columnist for Press Gazette.
He has been an editorial consultant to leading UK and international
broadcasters. He has judged the BAFTAs, both the RTS Journalism and
Television awards, and the British Press Awards. He is currently President
of the Media Society.
21st March Jane Barnwell, London Metropolitan University:
London at Home: How does production design inform place, character and
narrative?
Jane Barnwell is author of Production Design: Architects of the screen
(Wallflower, 2004). Her research includes film design as an expression of
"home"; the historical contribution of the designer in film and
television; and experimental theatre.
18th April Dr. Heather Nunn and Dr. Anita Biressi, Roehampton
University, London:
The Media and Politics of the Kenneth Bigley Case:
Some Reflections
Heather Nunn is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of
Arts, Roehampton University. Her research interests include politics and
culture, images of childhood and documentary and factual programming. Her
publications include Thatcher, Politics and Fantasy (2002), Reality TV:
Realism and Revelation (2005) and Media War (2005). Anita Biressi is Head
of Film, Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Arts, Roehampton
University. Her publications include the books Crime, Fear and the Law in
True Crime Stories (2001) and Reality TV: Realism and Revelation (2005)
and articles in journals such as Screen and Space and Culture. Her
research interests include popular nonfictions and crime and law and order
in the media. Heather and Anita are currently editing The Tabloid Culture
Reader which is forthcoming from McGraw Hill later in 2007.
9th May Professor Parick ffrench, Kings College, London:
Georges Bataille: The Sorcerers Apprentice
Patrick ffrench is Professor of French at King's College London, where he
teaches modern French literature and thought. His principal research
interests are in twentieth-century literature and post-war literary and
critical theory; in particular: Georges Bataille, the journal Tel Quel
(1960-1982), the legacy of French theory and the thought of Gilles
Deleuze. His books include The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel
(Clarendon Press, 1995), The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil
(OUP, 1999), and After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community (Legenda
2007).
30th May Dr William Merrin, University of Swansea:
Baudrillard and the Media
To be confirmed.
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Dr. Paul Cobley
Reader in Communications
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street
LONDON EC3N 2EY
UK
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