Arts and Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 15th February 2017 at 1pm, in CogNovo seminar room, Link Building floor 3 – “Narrative”, a Transtechnology seminar 15th February at 3pm, in Babbage 2016 – REF workshop for researchers in UoA… Continue reading Arts and Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

Arts and Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 7th February 2017, 3pm in Babbage 409 – REF Workshop for Art & Design Researchers (UoA 34), led by Prof Stephen Partridge. 8th February, 4.30pm in Roland Levinsky Building RLB 308… Continue reading Arts and Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

Art & Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 31st January 2017, 1pm in Roland Levinsky Building RLB 213 – Joanna Davies, a Design Knowledge seminar 31st January, 7pm in RLB LT2 – Dr Angela McShane (V&A): ‘Women, Power and… Continue reading Art & Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

Arts & Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 24th January 2017 at 3.30pm in Scott 105 – Dr Alexis Kirke: “Music with Unconventional Computing II – Quantum Computing”, an ICCMR seminar 24th January at 12.30pm in Roland Levinsky Building… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

Arts & Humanities Research Events This Week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 17th January 2017 at 7pm in Roland Levinsky Building, RLB LT2. Professor James Daybel on ‘Gender, Power and Early Modern Gloves’, a History with Pen Arts lecture 18th January, 1pm, CogNovo… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research Events This Week at Plymouth University

Arts & Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 10th-19th January 2017 at Plymouth Art Centre: On Location, a new film directed by Dr Kayla Parker, will be shown in the cinema between regular cinema programme screenings and private events. Please contact… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research Events this week at Plymouth University

Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. Message Workshop: Mandy Russell on Elements. 4pm on 12th December 2016 in RLB 703 Design Knowledge Seminar: Marc Trotereau and Tavs Jorgensen. 12.30pm on 13th December  Land/Water Seminar: 3pm on 14th December in Scott 102… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

14th December 2016: Art History Research Seminar

Peace - Burial at Sea exhibited 1842 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N00528

Professor Sam Smiles, an internationally-recognised expert on British painter J.M.W. Turner, will be giving a paper in next week’s Art History Research Seminar. Professor Smiles will be discussing the critically-acclaimed exhibition he co-curated at Tate Britain, ‘Late Turner: Painting Set Free’ of 2014, and the challenges he faced as an academic-curator in meeting the museum’s… Continue reading 14th December 2016: Art History Research Seminar

Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. MIA (Moving Image Arts) Seminar: Tom Trevor on ‘The River Tamar Project’. 4pm on 6th December 2016 in Jill Craigie Cinema  ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) Seminar: Edward Braund on ‘Music… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

30 November 2016: Research seminar on drowning in early photography

Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887), Self portrait as a drowned man (1840)

English & Creative Writing Research Seminar  Breathless: the look of drowning in early underwater photography Speaker: Dr Matt Kerr (University of Southampton)  3.30-5pm on Wednesday 30th November 2016 in Babbage 406, Plymouth University This paper investigates the imaginative links between photography and drowning in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. If photography can be thought of as… Continue reading 30 November 2016: Research seminar on drowning in early photography