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Past Events from 2014- 2015

The Subject of Addiction: Culture and Clinic

Date: 08 - 09 September 2014
Description: This interdisciplinary event brings together critical and cultural theorists with clinical practitioners in order to interrogate contemporary addiction discourse, whether in governmental policy, psychiatric diagnostic frameworks, literary and media representations, or in the neuroscience of the 'addicted brain'.

Inside-the-scenes: materiality, embodiment and the new spaces of cinematic reception

Date: 22 October 2014

Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings at Djanogly Theatre

Date: 06 November 2014
Description: Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings will discuss their own involvement with writing and the making of art by critically analysing different forms of writing used in support of their work as artists. Introduced and chaired by Paul Gladston, associate professor of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham and principal editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.

Foucault, Subjectivity, and Truth

Date: 12 November 2014
Description: Department of Culture, Film and Media: Visiting SpeakerProfessor Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)

The 3D Cinema Body

Date: 26 November 2014
Description: Discussion of 3D (stereoscopic) cinema often highlights three distinct areas in operation during the unfolding of action. This presentation will argue that instead of considering these as three distinct spaces, they are better thought of as a continuum of stereoscopic space.

To War with the Senses: Space, Distance and Cognition in a fully Mediated World

Date: 26 November 2014
Description: Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex is giving a talk upon a multi-sensory analysis of the media, and it's training of the human subject.

International Television Distribution: The 'Space in Between' Production and Consumption

Date: 04 February 2015
Description: Department of Culture, Film and Media Visiting Speaker

Convergent Television: broadcasters' strategies, textual features, consumers' practices

Date: 18 February 2015
Description: Department of Culture, Film and Media Visiting Speaker

Journalism, Mobile Witnessing and Gender

Date: 25 February 2015
Description: Department of Culture, Film and Media Visiting Speaker

Professor Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield)

Date: 25 March 2015
Description: Department of Culture, Film and Media Visiting Speaker

Mediating Selma: 1965, 2015 - Professor Aniko Bodroghkozy (University of Virginia)

Date: 29 April 2015
Description: Department of Culture, Film and Media Visiting Speaker

Chinese Film Screening and Q&A at Broadway

Date: 13 May 2015
Description: The Last Moose of Aoluguya and Director's Q&A

'Chinese Cinema: Space, Identity and Politics' Research Symposium

Date: 05 June 2015

Is There a Transnational Queer Studies?

Date: 06 July 2015
Description: Centre for Critical Theory Research Seminar with speaker Professor Donald Hall (Lehigh University)

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