Category: Events

Events and seminars run by CCRI

Tuesday 24 May 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Suzanne Speidel (Film Studies, SHU)

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Title: Lux Presents Hollywood – films on the radio during the ‘golden age’ of broadcasting Speaker: Dr Suzanne Speidel (Film Studies, SHU) Dr Suzanne Speidel is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests include adaptation studies and contemporary American television. Her publications include articles and chapters in The Journal of Adaptation on Film and […]

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Wednesday 18 May 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Michelle Atherton (Fine Art, SHU)

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Title: Submersive Aesthetics Speaker: Michelle Atherton (Fine Art, SHU) Michelle Atherton is an artist whose work objectifies cultural phenomena as a means to investigate structures, systems and preoccupations. She is interested in the resistance of space through the image and the construction of an insubordinate aesthetic. Most recent exhibitions include: RAF Cosford, UK; Zeppelin Museum, Germany; Tatton Park Biennale U.K.; […]

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Wednesday 11 May 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor Hans-Jurgen Scheruhn (Business Informatics, Harz University of Applied Sciences Germany)

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Title: From conceptual models of understanding business to models of business IT application, through the lens of an SAP case study Speaker: Professor Hans-Jürgen Scheruhn (Professor of Business Informatics, Department of Automation and Computer Science, Harz University of Applied Sciences, Wernigerode, Germany) Hosted by: Dr Simon Polovina (Business Computing, SHU) Professor Scheruhn obtained his PhD in Engineering from Hanover University […]

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METHOD 2016 – C3RI POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE – 12 MAY 2016

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METHOD 2016 is a conference exploring the ingenuity embedded in research methods, across disciplines. The event is designed by C3RI staff and research students and includes presentations from across the University’s research student community. Every research student must use a method to find something out, or gain new insights, and must be able to articulate their process. While it is […]

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Tuesday 26 April 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Anja Louis (Languages & Cultures, Sheffield Business School)

A poster of La Suerte Dormida (Ángeles González-Sinde, 2003)

Title: Female lawyers as epithets of powerful career women – From Saénz de Heredia to González Sinde Speaker: Dr Anja Louis (Languages & Cultures, Sheffield Business School) Representations of female lawyers are often seen as personifications of progress and indicative of wider issues of patriarchal crisis. They are also often perceived as epithets of powerful career women and hence their […]

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Wednesday 20 April 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Mary Ellen Carroll (AIA’s Artist of the Year)

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Title: Mary Ellen Carroll in conversation with Dr Sharon Kivland Speaker: Mary Ellen Carroll (AIA’s Artist of the Year) Hosted by: Dr Sharon Kivland (Fine Art, SHU) Mary Ellen Carroll lives and works in Houston, Texas and New York. Her career as an artist spans over twenty years across a range of disciplines including architecture, public policy, writing, performance and […]

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Wednesday 06 April 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Laura Kilby

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Title: Constructing Muslim fundamentals and contesting Islamic fundamentalism – Listening to peace talk Speaker: Laura Kilby (Psychology, SHU) Peace psychology draws together research that in turn makes a contribution to the inter-disciplinary field of peace studies. Notably however, peace psychology is almost exclusively concerned with the study of violent conflict. Vollhardt & Bilali (2008) suggest that the value attached to […]

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Thursday 14 April 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Martin Porcheron (Mixed Reality Laboratory, University of Nottingham)

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Title: Using mobile phones in pub talk Speaker: Martin Porcheron (Mixed Reality Laboratory, University of Nottingham) Hosted by: Dr Luigina Ciolfi (Communication, SHU) Martin Porcheron is a PhD student in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, funded through the RCUK Digital Economy programme. His work focuses on the use of mobile devices within collocated groups and includes […]

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Wednesday 09 March 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Andy Stratton (Computing, SHU)

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Title: Building on Blockly – experience with Google’s Visual Programming language Speaker: Andy Stratton (Computing, SHU) Blockly is a block based programming language that offers unique benefits for research in many different areas. Though Blockly appears to offer a Scratch like approach, Blockly does not include its own language, but can be used to generate executable code in many different […]

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