Seminars/ RIMAD Activities
The programme of RIMAD Research Seminars 2012-13 is being developed below.
The seminars are held on Wednesdays lunchtime from 1pm - 2pm in Room A107, Park Square, Luton (How to get here - http://www.beds.ac.uk/contactus/directions)
If you have a suggestion for a speaker or would like to give a presentation on your latest work then please feel free to get in contact with Dave Miller (ku.ca.sdeb|rellim.divad#ku.ca.sdeb|rellim.divad) who is curating the 2012/2013 series.
Previous series can be located here
2012/2013 Term One
| Event Number | Date | Location/Room | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|
| 1 | 03.10.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | No seminar | First teaching week |
| 2 | 10.10.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | No seminar | |
| 3 | 17.10.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | REF Update | REF briefing (Staff Only) |
| 4 | 24.10.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Steve Dumbleton PhD student in Privacy, UoB |
Seminar subject: Deconceptualising Privacy: A Condition of Social Negotiation. |
| 5 | 31.10.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | ||
| 6 | 07.11.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | David Malone http://www.golemxiv.co.uk. Financial blogger, film maker & author of "The Debt Generation" |
Seminar subject: Why are we bailing out the banks? |
| 7 | 14.11.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Dr. Pat Brereton http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=475928 Associate Dean of Research, Dublin City University |
Seminar subject: Smart Cinema |
| 8 | 21.11.12 | C419 12:00-14:00 | RIMAD board meeting | RIMAD Board (RIMAD Board Members only) |
| 9 | 28.11.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Dr Scott Thurston http://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/STHURSTON.jsp Senior Lecturer in English & Creative Writing, University of Salford |
Seminar subject: Poetry, Movement, Gesture |
| 10 | 05.12.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Noel Douglas http://www.noeldouglas.net Leader, Design for Communication, UoB |
Seminar subject: Occupy Design UK |
| 11 | 12.12.12 | A107 13:00-14:00 | James Fair http://tinyurl.com/farmfilm & http://www.the72project.org University of Staffordshire |
Seminar subject: The 72 Project - Alternative Models of Film Production |
2012/2013 Term Two
| Event Number | Date | Location/Room | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|
| 1 | 09.01.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | ||
| 2 | 16.01.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Nadezda Fadina PhD student, UoB |
Seminar subject: Contemporary Russian Cinema: From Dusk till Dawn. Exploring a twenty-year period of post-Soviet Russian cinema, debating its financial, artistic and ideological sides. |
| 3 | 23.01.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Dave Miller RIMAD Research Fellow |
Seminar subject: The Augmented Book project |
| 4 | 30.01.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Bronwyn Jones PhD Researcher, Sessional Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University |
Seminar subject: Social networking the news: emerging journalistic practices at global news agencies |
| 5 | 06.02.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Seminar cancelled - rescheduled to 2013-14 | |
| 6 | 13.02.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Mark Margaretten PhD student in Political use of social media, UoB |
Seminar subject: Twitter and Politics |
| 7 | 20.02.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Sound Design students, UoB | CANCELLED |
| 8 | 27.02.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Alastair Turner Masters student, UoB |
Seminar subject: Media and the 2012 Paralympics |
| 9 | 06.03.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Xavier Mendik Project Leader Film and Media, Brunel University |
Seminar subject: Cult horror remakes/sequels and Cine-Excess. |
| 10 | 13.03.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Professor Alexis Weedon Head of Journalism and Communications, UoB |
Seminar subject: Using digital archives for research into an early public library in Kidderminster |
| 11 | 20.03.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Dr James Walters Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Birmingham |
Seminar subject: Dance in Film and Television |
| 12 | 20.03.13 | Ian Dixon Lecture theatre - Room A004 - 18:00 - 21:00 | Dr Richard Stallman Founder of the free software movement and the GNU operating system |
Lecture subject: A Free Digital Society |
2012/2013 Term Three
| Event Number | Date | Location/Room | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|
| 1 | 17.04.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Stephen Keane Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, The University of Northampton |
Seminar Subject: Videogames and Television |
| 2 | 24.04.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Clement Akpang PhD student University of Bedfordshire |
Seminar subject: Cultural Ramifications of Found Objects in Art/ African Modernism |
| 3 | 01.05.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | RIMAD Board Meeting | RIMAD Board (RIMAD Board Members only) |
| 4 | 08.05.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Dr. Grainne Kirwan http://www.grainnekirwan.com Lecturer in Cyberpsychology, Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. |
Seminar subject: The Psychology of Cybercrime |
| 5 | 15.05.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Dr Catherine Grant REFRAME Editor, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex |
Seminar subject: Towards Videographic Film Studies? CANCELLED |
| 6 | 22.05.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Lydia Melnova Comenius University of Bratislava |
Seminar subject: Women's innovative poetry. CANCELLED |
| 7 | 29.05.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Trevor Klein http://www.somethinelse.com |
Seminar subject: story apps and digital stories |
| 8 | 05.06.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | Steven Dumbleton University of Bedfordshire |
Seminar Subject: Confronting The Binary: Online, Offline, Public, Private? |
| 9 | 12.06.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | ||
| 10 | 19.06.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 | ||
| 11 | 26.06.13 | A107 13:00-14:00 |