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

18/01/2017

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

13/01/2017

SIA Post Hall, HPO Cafe, Research Support Surgeries

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 […]

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

11/01/2017

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

20/12/2016

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 […]

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

07/12/2016

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)

29/11/2016

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)

23/11/2016

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)

22/11/2016

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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Tuesday 15 November 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Chloë Brown (Fine Art, SHU)

15/11/2016

Film still: Dancing in the Street, Chloë Brown, 2016

Speaker: Chloë Brown (Fine Art) Title: The Soft Rebellion Since August 2015 researcher and senior lecturer Chloë Brown has been visiting and working in the US city of Detroit to conduct her on-going practice-based research into what she terms ‘soft rebellions’. Detroit is renowned for being in many ways the epitome of a city in post-industrial crisis. It is also […]

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Wednesday 09 November 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Liz Bridgen (PR, SHU)

09/11/2016

Speaker: Liz Bridgen (Public Relations, SHU) Title: PR as dirty work My research explores the lived experience of people working in public relations and the impact that technology has on their lives, with a particular focus on gender and diversity. My work has been published in Journal of Media Practice and PRism and I have delivered refereed papers at conferences […]

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