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Dear colleagues, Happy new year. I'm pleased to share the Spring 2018 schedule for the Faculty of Arts Research Seminar Series at the University of Winchester. All welcome. Updates can also be found on Twitter: @CMT_UoW All sessions take place on Wednesday afternoons (apart from Tues 6 Feb - booking details to follow for this one). *** University of Winchester Faculty of Arts Research Seminar Series – Spring 2018 24 January | 4.30pm | SAB002 Hard Surfaces and Sensuous Textiles in Sci-Fi Cinema: Reading the Haptic Narratives of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 Caroline Wintersgill (Winchester) and Dr Savithri Bartlett (Winchester) & Utopia and Matriarchy in an Exhausted Future: Ben Wheatley's High-Rise (2015) Dr Matthew Leggatt (Winchester) 31 January | 4.30pm | SAB002 'That's Not My Name': The ethics of allocating pseudonyms to transgender participants Dr Nicola Puckey (Winchester) 6 Feb | 7.00pm | Stripe Auditorium **booking required** Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World James Ball (Investigative journalist. ex: WikiLeaks, Buzzfeed, Guardian, Washington Post. His reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the Scripps Howard prize, the British Journalism Award for investigative reporting, the Royal Statistical Society award and the Laurence Stern Fellowship, among others.) 14 February | 4.30pm | SAB002 Paternalism and Policing: Framing female investigators via the good/bad fathers of US crime television Prof. Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia) 21 February | 4.30pm | SAB002 Working Women and the Welfare State in Jenny Turner’s The Brainstorm Dr Liam Connell (University of Brighton) 28 February | 4.30pm | SEB101 What to Expect when On-Screen Women are Expecting: Pregnancy in Contemporary Anglo-American Film Sarah Smyth (University of Southampton / University of Winchester) 7 March | 4.30pm | SAB002 Seven characteristics defining online news formats: Towards a typology of sourcing practices in online news and live blogging Dr Dan Jackson (Bournemouth University) 21 March | 4.30pm | SAB002 "Wayward orphans and lonesome places": the reception of Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels in the English regional press, 1848-55. Prof. Mary Hammond (University of Southampton) 28 March | 4.30pm | SAB002 Perversions of power: celebrity, cronyism and the corruptions of Jimmy Savile. Or why celebrity studies tells us nothing about how Jimmy Savile got away with it. Dr Simon Cross (Nottingham Trent University) Best, Neil -------- Dr Neil Ewen Senior Lecturer | Programme Leader Media and Communication School of Media and Film University of Winchester Winchester, SO22 4NR. UK. Alwyn Hall East, 39 +44 (0) 1962 624520 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------