Showcasing research from the Sheffield Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Sheffield Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Events and seminars run by CCRI
Title: The Work and the World Speaker: Prof Keith Wilson Keith Wilson completed a major new commission Steles ready for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, works that remain as a key part of the new Queen Elizabeth Park. His most recent curatorial project (with Penelope Curtis) was Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy in 2011, and as part of […]
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Title: ‘But are you a real lawyer?’ Career women in 1960s Spain Speaker: Dr Anja Louis (SHU) Dr Anja Louis is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Intercultural Studies at the Sheffield Business School (SBS), Sheffield Hallam University. She is the author of Women and the Law: Carmen de Burgos an Early Feminist (Tamesis, 2005) which was the first study to […]
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Title: Remapping Dissensus in Cognitive Capitalism: The Glossary of Cognitive Activism Speaker: Warren Neidich Warren Neidich is a Berlin and Los Angeles-based post-conceptual artist and theorist who exposes the interfaces between Marxist inspired cultural production and its interrelationship to the brain and cognitive capitalism to produce an Emancipatory Materialism. His interdisciplinary anarchic experimental works combine photographic and video elements, Internet […]
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The programme for the Fine Art lecture series, Gravity, has been announced for 2014/15. Please see below for information on each discussion, the invited artist and the chair. In 2014/15 we invited guests to discuss their work by focusing on Time. We will look at how time is used as form, content and material by artists and how they have […]
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Title: What is this Sims 4? PR, Promotion and Play during the launch of a new PC game Speaker: Dr Ruth Deller (Media & Communications, SHU) Dr Ruth Deller is a Principal Lecturer in Media and Programme Leader for Undergraduate Communications (Journalism, Media, PR, eComms). Her research interests are varied and she has published on topics including fan and audience […]
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Title: 5 Walks – A selection of ongoing research projects in the Media Arts Area Speakers: Annie Watson & Jeremy Lee, Media Arts, SHU As a subject group, we have a history of walking, and the idea for this group has organically grown out of our own interests. We are coming from a diverse practice area, and walking has been […]
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Title: Chasing the accreditation dream: do employers value accredited courses or are HE institutions pursuing an archaic endorsement scheme? Speaker: Dr Lily Canter (Journalism, SHU) Dr Lily Canter is a former print journalist and current Subject Group Leader for Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests include journalism education, digital journalism, regional newspapers, hyperlocal journalism, utilising social media networks […]
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Title: Critical Care: the position of artist and patient in artworks made in care contexts Speaker: Dr Becky Shaw I explore the relationship between individual and society through live artworks made in care, education and production contexts. Works are made through rigorous responsiveness to situation, with no prior known outcome. I teach undergraduate creative art practice and MA Fine Art […]
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Title: SEX, SPIES AND SHIRLEY TEMPLE: Feature Films on British Television in the 1970s Speaker: Dr Sheldon Hall (Stage & Screen, SHU) Dr Sheldon Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Stage & Screen Studies in the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It – The Making of […]
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Title: Help Beacons – Design and Evaluation of a lightweight, ad-hoc S.O.S. system for smartphones Speaker: Dr. Alexander Boden, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT (Germany) Alexander is a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Siegen as well as a Master in Cultural Anthropology […]
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