You are warmly invited to attend the next in our series of PEP Talks, the seminar series for the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. Wednesday 4 May 2016 , 16.30 – 18.00pm, in the Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University The papers will be presented by Phil Smith and Ruth Way. Abstracts and titles for both are… Continue reading 4 May 2016: performance research seminar on moving, being & thinking at Plymouth University
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Feature: “Anachronistic Intervention: Steampunk, Performativity & Participatory Design”
BY SIMON LOCK The term Steampunk emerged in the 1980s as a classification for a branch of fictional literature and film. It imagines a modern world, but with knowledge, skills and materials as they were during the late Victorian era. The “steam” element of the name is due to the preoccupation with steam engines as… Continue reading Feature: “Anachronistic Intervention: Steampunk, Performativity & Participatory Design”
28 April 2016: BODY, SPACE, MEMORY (& A LITTLE BIT OF SUSHI) – a public lecture
Thursday 28 April 2016, 6-8 pm. at the Plymouth School of Creative Arts, 22 Millbay Road Millbay, Plymouth PL1 3EG FREE – all welcome. Book your place via the Eventbrite webpage. This lecture by Professor Bob Brown is last in the ‘Remember This?’ public lecture series from The Arts Institute at Plymouth University. The series, by members of the Arts and… Continue reading 28 April 2016: BODY, SPACE, MEMORY (& A LITTLE BIT OF SUSHI) – a public lecture
27 April 2016: English research seminar on transatlantic fiction
You are welcome to attend the following seminar of Plymouth University’s English & Creative Writing research group: Wednesday 27th April 2016, 3.30-5pm in the Babbage Building, room BGB 409, at Plymouth University ‘The Chain of the Narration’: transatlantic fiction and the natural history of North America a paper by Dr Kathryn Gray.
Feature: “The right to a parking space: the spatial state of marginality”
BY SANA MURRANI Have you ever felt that your right to a parking space has been violated when another driver decides to drive the wrong way down a one-way lane and occupies it before you can get there yourself? If yes, then read on. When it happens to me, I feel like doing this – but… Continue reading Feature: “The right to a parking space: the spatial state of marginality”
PAINTING BY MARTIN BROOKS SELECTED FOR BP PORTRAIT AWARD AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
A portrait by Martin Brooks, who is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Plymouth University, has been selected from a total of 2,557 entries by artists from 80 countries around the world for the 2016 BP Portrait Award, the most prestigious international portrait painting competition of its kind. Martin trained at the Royal College of Art… Continue reading PAINTING BY MARTIN BROOKS SELECTED FOR BP PORTRAIT AWARD AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
21 April 2016: Screening of film and discussion about mathematical thinking
You are invited to a screening of THINKING SPACE BY HEIDI MORSTANG THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2016, 17:30-20:00 JILL CRAIGIE CINEMA, ROLAND LEVINSKY BUILDING, PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY ALL WELCOME – FREE ADMISSION Heidi will be joined at this event in conversation with Stephen Huggett, Professor in Pure Mathematics, chaired by the presenter, writer and comedian, Timandra… Continue reading 21 April 2016: Screening of film and discussion about mathematical thinking
20 April 2016: P.E.P. Talk research seminar on performance and the body
Performance. Experience. Presence. You are warmly invited to attend the next in our series of PEP Talks, the seminar series for the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. Wednesday 20 April 2016 , 16.30 – 18.00, in Roland Levinsky Building room 309, Plymouth University. The papers will be presented by Leah Dungay and John Matthews. Abstracts and titles… Continue reading 20 April 2016: P.E.P. Talk research seminar on performance and the body
19 April 2016: Renee Verhoeven ‘Talking Live in Design Lab’
Renee Verhoeven will be ‘Talking Live in Design Lab’ 19th April 2016 at 2pm – Free. All welcome. Roland Levinsky Building Room 213, Plymouth University Whether or not you are concerned with the importance of cryptography and surveillance issues, the digital world frequently asks us to prove our identities to grant us access to our data.… Continue reading 19 April 2016: Renee Verhoeven ‘Talking Live in Design Lab’
Feature: “Fear of the Warping Dead”
BY PHIL SMITH In her recent book Forms (2015), Caroline Levine makes a powerful case against using media and literary fictions as direct analogies for political realities. She warns of the dangerous politics, not least a dependence on “acts of exclusion” and a “constitutive outside” that can accrue from such a tendency. Yet, that is… Continue reading Feature: “Fear of the Warping Dead”