Dear all,

REFRAME Round-up Summer 2021

REFRAME is an open access academic digital publishing platform for the online practice and curation of internationally produced research and scholarship. Its subject specialisms span media, film, music, critical theory, english literature, history, cultural studies and journalism.
 
We are excited to present a round-up of the various content posted across the REFRAME network over the last few months, hosted by the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex. A host of newly published open access scholarly posts and projects are available to read and explore now.

Links to all the below can be found here: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/blog/2021/06/28/reframe-round-up-summer-2021-new-open-access-digital-scholarship-and-research/ and please check out REFRAME’s projects page for more info on the platform’s many publications and outputs: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/reframe-projects/

Best wishes,

REFRAME
 
1. NEW PROJECT: THE DIGITAL HOLOCAUST MEMORY PROJECT
2. NEW POSTS ON MEDIÁTICO
3. NEW ISSUE OF SEQUENCE
4. NEW PIECES AT LIFE WRITING PROJECTS


1. NEW PROJECT: THE DIGITAL HOLOCAUST MEMORY PROJECT
Editor: Victoria Walden
Visit the site here: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/ 
 
In March, the Digital Holocaust Memory Project was added to the REFRAME network. Edited by Victoria Walden, this site explores the opportunities and challenges that ‘the digital’ brings to Holocaust memory. The project aims to spark conversations that can interrogate the ‘newness’ of digital Holocaust memory, as well as establishing a network of academics and digital users around the world. The project has hosted a variety of online events, and recently held its May panel, featuring a discussion of the tensions between the Holocaust and social media cultures.
 

2. NEW POSTS ON MEDIÁTICO – research, news and perspectives on Latin(o/a/x) American, Spanish and Portuguese media cultures
Editors: Dolores Tierney, Catherine Grant
Visit the site here: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/mediatico/ 
 
a) Cinegogía: Resources for Teaching Latin American Film
In a collaboration with Mediático, Bridget Franco's post introduces Cinegogía: a digital humanities project, focusing on teaching resources for Latin American film and media. Cinegogía provides an array of open access resources that can accommodate a wide variety of approaches to teaching Latin American film. Cinegogía, as a digital humanities project, is dependent on collaboration, and Franco's post includes information about how to contact the project, if you are interested in a particular specialisation
 
b) The Haunting Memories of La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante, 2019)
Maria Chiara D'Argenio explores the political horror movie, La Llorona, and its presentation of accountability, indigenous suffering and social responsibility in Guatemala. Jayro Bustamante's film was nominated for a Golden Globe, but missed out on an Academy Award nomination, despite doing well in the film festival circuit. D'Argenio analyses Bustamante's reworking of the Mesoamerican legend, La Llorona, in order to tackle Guatemala's indigenous genocide in the 1980s.
 
c) Book Review: El Cine Latinoamericano de Siglo XXI: Tendencias y Tratamientos by Ricardo Bedoya
Natalia Ames writes the first post in a new Mediático short series focusing on film criticism in Peru. She reviews Ricardo Bedoya's book, which presents the diverse filmmaking styles in Latin American cinema over the last two decades. Bedoya is Peru's most well-known film critic, and his book draws distinctions between Latin American cinema of the 1960s and more contemporary productions. Ames advocates for the importance of Bedoya's work in rediscovering Latin American cinema. 

d) Between Agency and Erasure: Translating Narratives of Sexual Violence in Latin America by Nuala Finnegan
A brand new post from Mediático presents a recording of Nuala Finnegan's recent plenary lecture at the conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (thanks to the AHGBI), focusing on the important work on cultural narratives of sexual violence in Latin America. The posts also features an introduction and a linked list of Finnegan's references where possible. The lecture focuses on a personal experience of  translation of two performance-related pieces from Latin America on sexual violence.
 
3. NEW ISSUE OF SEQUENCE
Editors: Katherine Farrimond and Russell Glasson, with Joanna Callaghan
Visit the site here: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence6/ 
 
The sixth issue of SEQUENCE, 'Handling Philosophy: Transforming Through Creative Practice' is available to read now. SEQUENCE is REFRAME's experimental, peer-reviewed and sequential edited-collection format. This issue asks - what is philosophy for? It concerns a tension between creative praxis aiming to produce 'stuff' beyond the academy, alongside philosophy's totalising structures. The first article in SEQUENCE Six is Joanna Callaghan's 'Ontological Narratives: ways of being in film'. This entry explores philosophy through filmmaking practice, complicating and extending notions of practice as research. Sequential responses to this entry are invited. Read the article here: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence6/sequence-6-1/ 
 

4. NEW PIECES AT LIFE WRITING PROJECTS – creative representations of lived experience that set their own rules rather than following the conventions of genres such as memoir or biography
Editor: Lyn Thomas
Visit the site here: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/lifewritingprojects/ 
 
a) The Past by Ruth Rosengarten
Ruth's piece, titled 'The Past', is the newest contribution to the Life Writing Projects section 'Traces'. The shared project of authors in this section is to explore the significance of the material traces we and others leave behind, and thus to save something of the past. Ruth's piece explores personal traces that she encounters and leaves behind in her own life.
Read this piece here: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/lifewritingprojects/the-past-by-ruth-rosengarten/ 
 
b) Decision by Ruth Rosengarten
Ruth's piece starts a new section at Life Writing Projects, titled 'Encounters', which will be developed in the coming months. Ruth's text refers to a time when meeting others face to face was taken for granted; some planned future contributions will reflect the more constrained encounters of lockdown life. Ruth wrote along a premise that involved picking a sentence at random from a randomly selected book, and then another. These were used as opening and closing lines of a short piece of non-fiction.
Read this piece here: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/lifewritingprojects/decision-by-ruth-rosengarten/ 
 
 
A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to REFRAME or REFRAME-affiliated projects over the past few months. 
 
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