Dear all,
It is my pleasure to share the spring schedule for the Faculty of Arts Research Seminar Series at the University of Winchester.
All events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking required, apart from the events on 6 Feb and 22 March. I will send out further details in the new year. Please feel free to email me with any queries: [log in to unmask]
Faculty of Arts Research Seminar Series
Spring 2017 Schedule
Wed 25 January, 4.30pm, location TBA
“Screening Australia: Tasmania, Landscape and Loss”
Dr Steven Allen
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Winchester
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“When Dolls Attack: Horror Films, Living Dolls and the Monstrous-Feminine”
Abby Whittall
PGR student, School of Media and Film, University of Winchester
Wed 1 February, 4.30pm, location TBA
"Animality, Domesticity and Enterprise in ‘My Cat From Hell’”
Professor Diane Negra
Head of Film Studies, University College Dublin
Mon 6 February, 6-9pm, Stripe Auditorium
PUBLIC FILM SCREENING & ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION co-hosted with "Calling the Shots", AHRC-funded project, University of Southampton.
“Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model” (d. Rebecca Brand, 2016)
See: https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/nov/12/media-representation-matters
Rebecca Brand (Producer and Director)
Dr Shelley Cobb (Associate Professor in Film, University of Southampton)
Kate Kinninmont MBE (Chief Executive, Women in Film and Television UK)
Professor Linda Ruth Williams (Professor of Film Studies, University of Southampton)
Wed 15 Feb, 4.30pm, location TBA
“How Free is the BBC?”
Dr Tom Mills (Aston University)
Wed 22 Feb, 4.30pm, location TBA
Ayisha Malik
Author of 'Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged' [twenty7, 2016]
See: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2016/01/women-i-know-aren-t-downtrodden-ayisha-malik-writing-muslim-romcom
Wed 1 March, 4.30pm, location TBA
[Title TBC]
Dr Jo Littler
Reader in Cultural Industries, City University of London
Wed 8 March, 4.30pm, location TBA
Vanessa Altin
Author of ‘The Pomegranate Tree’ [Blanket Press, 2015]
See: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/vanessa-altin-tackles-isis-in-the-pomegranate-tree-a-moving-novel-about-the-syrian-war-for-young-a6917696.html
Wed 15 March, 4.30pm, location TBA
“Write What You (Don’t) Know: The Ethics of Writing Beyond Experience”
Emily Vair-Turnbull
PGR student, ECWAS, University of Winchester
&
‘Hegemony for Beginners – neo-liberal think tanks and their news media strategies’.
Dr Paul Manning
Reader in Media and Communication, University of Winchester
Wed 22 March, 6-9pm, Stripe Auditorium
PUBLIC LECTURE: “Finding America: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Story of The Great Gatsby.”
Professor Sarah Churchwell
Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Dr Neil Ewen
Lecturer in Media and Communication
School of Media and Film
University of Winchester
Winchester SO22 4NR, UK
Alwyn Hall East, 39
+44 (0) 1962 624520
Staff Page | Academia.edu
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