Category: Events

Events and seminars run by CCRI

Monday 7th August 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Professor Michael Twidale (University of Illinois)

Professor Michael Twidale, School of Infomation Sciences, University of Illinois

Speaker: Professor Michael Twidale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Title: Museum Informatics: GLAMouros Design Thinking Michael Twidale is a professor of the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include computer-supported cooperative work, computer-supported collaborative learning, human-computer interaction, information visualization, and museum informatics. Current projects include studies of informal social learning of technology, technological appropriation, metrics […]

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Dr Anandi Ramamurthy hosts screening and director Q&A of ‘Off Frame Aka Revolution Until Victory’ with director Mohanad Yaqubi 11/12 July 2017

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As part of her research for the AHRC funded Creative Interruptions project, Dr Anandi Ramamurthy (Reader in Post-Colonial Cultures) will conduct Q&As with director Mohanand Yaqubi following the screenings of ‘Off Frame Aka Revolution Until Victory’. Off Frame Aka Revolution Until Victory explores the Palestinian people’s struggle to represent themselves.  By using archival material from the Palestine Film Unit, founded in the 1960s to document the […]

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Association for Contemporary Jewellery’s 20:20 Visions Conference in Sheffield 07 – 09 July 2017

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The Association for Contemporary Jewellery (ACJ) is bringing an agenda of promoting the artform, supporting the makers and developing the audience in the UK and abroad this week, as part of a 3-day conference between Friday 07 July and Sunday 09 July 2017. Association for Contemporary Jewellery’s 20:20 Visions Conference Cantor Building Sheffield Hallam University S1 2NT Friday 07 July […]

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Wednesday 28 June 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Raj Ramachandran (Computing, SHU)

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Speaker: Raj Ramachandran (C3RI PhD student and Associate Lecturer, Computing)  Title: ‘Exploring the Vedic concepts in determining requirements for a speech to text technology: The case of  Tamil Brahmans’ Raj Ramachandran is in his final stages of PhD. His PhD research sets  focus on the user acceptance of speech to text in Tamil. In this seminar, he aims to look into the relationship between […]

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*CANCELLATION* Wednesday 14 June 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Anjana Raghavan (Sociology, SHU)

Raghavan Seminar - Image of a group of people of different cultures holding rainbow flags.

** This seminar has been cancelled. A rescheduled date will be announced in due course  ** Speaker: Dr Anjana Raghavan Title: Intersections of Performance, Violence and Resistance: Trans- Solidarities in Southern India Anjana is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics, Sheffield Hallam University. Her research is broadly in the areas of Decolonial Feminism, and Cultural Theory, […]

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Wednesday 07 June 2017 – Lunchtime seminar with Joanne Lee (Visual Communication, SHU) and Rosemary Shirley (Art History & Curating, Manchester Metropolitan University)

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Speakers: Joanne Lee (Visual Communication, SHU) and Rosemary Shirley (Art History and Curating, Manchester Metropolitan University) Title: Littered Landscapes Joanne Lee (Visual Communication, SHU) and Rosemary Shirley (Art History and Curating, Manchester Metropolitan University) invite you to a lunchtime seminar about ‘Littered Landscapes’ With its multiple causes, varied material substance, persistent mobility and enduring legacy, litter is a subject that […]

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Wednesday 31 May 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Anja Louis (Sheffield Business School, SHU)

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Speaker: Dr Anja Louis Title: ‘Spanish police dramas: action, emotion and politics’ Anja is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Intercultural Studies. Her research is firmly grounded in Spanish Cultural Studies in its openness to interdisciplinarity and its celebration of popular culture. Previous projects have examined the representation of gender issues in popular culture through the prism of various law-and-culture debates. […]

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Doctoral Student, Victoria Lucas in conversation with Dr Paula McCloskey at AirSpace Gallery – Saturday 20 May 2017

Lay of the Land (and other myths), Installation view, AirSpace Gallery, 2017. Image credit: Jules Lister.

LAY OF THE LAND (and other such myths) AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent Friday 5 May – Friday 2 June 2017 Open daily Thursday to Saturday 11.00am – 5.00pm (& Tuesdays and Wednesdays by appointment)   As part of her current solo exhibition at AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Victoria Lucas is holding two events on Saturday 20 May 2017 The Artist Soup Kitchen Reflections […]

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