Colleagues in London may be interested in these seminars organised by the 
Centre for Media & Culture Research at London South Bank University.  All 
events are free, but you are asked to reserve a place by emailing 
[log in to unmask]

----

Friday 22 January, 2pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Street, London SE1

Copyright and the Technopolitics of Owning Culture

Gregor Claude is a lecturer in the School of Business and Management at Queen 
Mary University of London and a researcher at the Centre for Cultural Studies, 
Goldsmiths College. The primary focus of his work has been the technology and 
politics of digital copyright. This paper considers Digital Rights Management, a 
novel (but contested) form of techno-legal governance. It offers an example of 
a characteristic political process of the information age: a globalized contest 
between multiple actors for control over information, knowledge and culture, 
and a contest to create, define and control the new media structures which 
govern these flows.

----

Wednesday 10 March, 3pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Street, London SE1

Place and Space in Jazz

Elina Hytönen is a researcher at the University of Eastern Finland and is 
spending this semester as a Visiting Research Fellow at LSBU. As a musicologist 
and a cultural researcher interested in jazz, she has paid special attention to 
the places in which jazz is being performed and what kinds of discussions are 
taking place around the issue. Through the use of observation and interviews 
her research also ponders how we could improve the musician’s work 
environment.

----

Wednesday 28 April, 3pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Street, London SE1

Media, War and Terrorism Seminar Series: Pockets of Resistance: British media, 
war, theory and the 2003 invasion of Iraq

This seminar series addresses news and documentary representations of 
contemporary war and terrorism.  Further seminars are planned for 2010—11.

Piers Robinson is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of 
Manchester and author of the influential book The CNN Effect (Routledge, 
2002). He previously taught Political Communication in the School of Politics 
and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool, and his publications 
include articles for the European Journal of Communication, Review of 
International Studies, and Media, War & Conflict. Piers is currently completing a 
two-year ESRC funded project on ‘News Media Performance and Media 
Management During the 2003 Iraq War’ – the topic of this paper.

----

Thursday 10 June, 3pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Street, London SE1

Virginia Woolf: Walking the City

Margaret Kinsman is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Arts, Media & 
English at LSBU.  Margaret’s main area of research interest is detective fiction: 
she is executive editor of CLUES: A Journal of Detection, a member of the 
Crime Writers’ Association and a member of the judges' panel for the Gold 
Dagger award for the best crime novel of the year.  Taking Virginia Woolf’s 
essay ‘Street Haunting’ as its point of departure, this session will incorporate a 
literary walk around Southwark.

----