Plymouth University researcher Dr Min Wild has one of the lead articles in last week’s Times Literary Supplement: a 3,000 word essay-review of a new book on Oliver Goldsmith and eighteenth-century Grub St subcultures. Min researches in the eighteenth century, with special interests in periodicals and print culture, in satire, and in criticism. She teaches eighteenth-century literature, as well as early modern… Continue reading Feature article by Dr Min Wild in Times Literary Supplement
Month: May 2016
23-24 June 2016: What did ‘Judgement’ mean in the 19th century?
Registration is now open for ‘A Time of Judgement: The Operation and Representation of Judgement in 19th century Cultures’ to be held on 23 and 24 June 2016 at Plymouth University. Please note that you can benefit from the Early Bird Delegate rate and save £25 by booking before 31 May. This international, interdisciplinary conference seeks… Continue reading 23-24 June 2016: What did ‘Judgement’ mean in the 19th century?
Feature: “Milton, Woolf and the mad Magnificat”
BY MIN WILD Because what we do as academics is demanding, and coercive in so many ways – ways both good and bad – there is seldom any time for play, or experiment, or sheer foolery. Even when the day-to-day demands of teaching or admin ease, our own research involves restrictions, parameters, duties and certain… Continue reading Feature: “Milton, Woolf and the mad Magnificat”
Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements
Two doctoral researchers in the arts at Plymouth University have been awarded prestigious placements to complement their programmes of study. Coral Manton has been awarded a placement by the British Library to investigate possibilities for the PhD thesis in multimedia and non-text forms, and how a national database of UK doctoral theses can record and make accessible… Continue reading Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements
Get involved in the #SmarterStreets Pilot project
The #SmarterStreets project is inviting road users to participate in a pilot to test a new app, which enables participants to report road issues or highlight positives by taking photos. The live feedback that is provided is then used to help better prioritise road maintenance issues. The app is called Changify, and Plymouth University is one of the research… Continue reading Get involved in the #SmarterStreets Pilot project
Digital Art installation by Plymouth University researcher in Hong Kong
Plymouth University researcher David Strang, together with Vincent Van Uffelen, has created a digital art installation entitled Transmission+Interference, which is currently being exhibited in Hong Kong at the annual ISEA conference. The ISEA is one of the most prominent arts and technology events in the world, bringing together scholarly, artistic, and scientific domains. Originally installed in Vienna in March 2016, Strang and Uffelen’s interactive installation is… Continue reading Digital Art installation by Plymouth University researcher in Hong Kong
Book now for the next showing of ‘The Cosmic Perspective’
i-DAT proudly presents Plymouth University’s Immersive Vision Theatre, a planetarium reborn as a transdisciplinary instrument for creating and exploring science and art. Come and witness our most popular show, The Cosmic Perspective, a live and interactive demonstration with Luke Christison, tracking the frontiers of cosmic discovery and understanding. This is a journey from Earth to the edge of… Continue reading Book now for the next showing of ‘The Cosmic Perspective’
Feature: “Sian Davey: Looking For Alice”
BY DAVID CHANDLER During the 1980s, as the domestic realm increasingly became one of its primary subjects, photographic art began to add a new critical dimension to what experience had already seared into the core of our collective being: that the models of family life propagated by advertising and the media, were, on almost every… Continue reading Feature: “Sian Davey: Looking For Alice”
Allister Gall’s work exhibiting at Peckham 24 Photo Festival
As part of Peckham24’s moving image programme, South Kiosk presents an hour long programme of films featuring the work of visual artists with strong links to the Cornish peninsula. ‘Omgyjer Glusek’ is a product of South Kiosk’s recent participation in The Cornwall Workshop with film maker Ben Rivers and of the gallery’s recent links with… Continue reading Allister Gall’s work exhibiting at Peckham 24 Photo Festival
18 June 2016: Thinkering unSymposium in Plymouth
Saturday 18th June 2016, 10am – 7.30pm Ocean Studios – The Factory Cooperage, Royal William Yard, Plymouth This event explores the theme of t(h)inkering—a practice that brings together tinkering and thinking—in the contexts of living coding, hardware hacking, the maker movement, media archaeology and design. This unSymposium is made up of 3 workshops that will run… Continue reading 18 June 2016: Thinkering unSymposium in Plymouth