Category: Events

Events and seminars run by CCRI

Wednesday 25 January 2017 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds)

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Speaker: Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) Title: Governance of heritage and heritage practices in governance: Co-production and futures Helen Graham is Associate Professor in In/tangible Heritage and Director for the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage at the University of Leeds. Helen’s research and teaching interests directly flow from working in learning and access teams in […]

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Wednesday 18 January 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Prof Paul Atkinson (Design, SHU)

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Speaker: Professor Paul Atkinson (Professor of Design and Design History) Title: The Electric Guitar: A Design History Pauls’ academic research covers a wide variety of subjects, all concerned in one way or another with the relationship between society and technology. The relationship between people and technological artefacts is explored through his writings on the design history of computers. The impact […]

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19 January 2017 – Redress ‘EcoChic Design Award’ Educators Workshop & Fashion Academy

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Reader in Fashion, Dr Alison Gwilt, invites SHU staff and students to a free one-day fashion workshop on 19 January 2017 that aims to inspire through the positive power of fashion. The event is organised by Redress,  a Hong Kong based environment NGO working in the fashion industry, in collaboration with hosts, ADRC and Sheffield Institute of Arts. As the only […]

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Wednesday 11 January 2017 – Lunchtime seminar with Prof Antonella De Angeli (Computer Science, University of Lincoln & University of Trento)

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Speaker: Professor Antonella De Angeli (University of Lincoln, School of Computer Science & University of Trento (Italy), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science) Title: Public Design in interAction Spaces – A Case Study on Dyslexia Awareness Antonella De Angeli is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Lincoln and Associate Professor at the University of Trento (Italy). Antonella […]

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CISDIDC 2017 Conference – The Role of Computational Intelligence in Developing Countries – 09 February 2017

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This seminar will explore how computational intelligence can be applied to address challenges faced by developing nations. Computational intelligence (CI) can be viewed as an inter-disciplinary or across platform field of study for developing and applying computer systems that can exhibit human-like intelligence in solving varieties of problems. This seminar will assemble technologists, social scientists, engineers, policymakers, industrialists and other […]

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Wednesday 7 December 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Elisa Oreglia (Centre for Media Studies, SOAS, University of London)

Title: The World (Wide Web) through an App: Internet Use in Myanmar Speaker: Dr Elisa Oreglia (Centre for Media Studies, SOAS, University of London) Elisa Oreglia (PhD, UC Berkeley) is a lecturer in Global Digital Media at the Centre for Media Studies, SOAS, University of London. She studies the appropriation of digital media among marginal users in China and Myanmar, […]

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Tuesday 29 November 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Sonya Robinson (Photography, SHU)

Title: The Refusal of the Image Speaker: Sonya Robinson (Photography, SHU) Sonya is an academic, artist and writer. She is currently Senior Lecturer MArt/BA (Hons) Photography, Sheffield Hallam University.         “The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses“ Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.   In […]

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Wednesday 23 November 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi (Journalism, University of Sheffield)

Speaker: Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi (Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield) Title: Revolution, war, journalism: How Syrian media practitioners tell their stories Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi is lecturer in journalism, politics and public communication at the Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield. A former Fulbright scholar, his work examines journalism, media, and popular culture in the Middle East. Omar’s work has appeared […]

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Tuesday 22 November 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor Galina Paramei (Psychology, Liverpool Hope University)

Speaker: Professor Galina Paramei (Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University) Title: Art expertise in construing meaning of representational and abstract artworks Professor Galina Paramei’s research focuses primarily on colour vision: modelling colour perception in variant forms of colour vision; chromatic discrimination across the lifespan; changes in colour appearance caused by luminance variation; cross-cultural and bilingual studies of colour naming and […]

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