Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
Ana María Sánchez-Arce, reader in English, has been featured in a New York Times piece discussing the history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking.
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Dr Ruth Deller, reader in media and communications, was featured on BBC Radio Sheffield to discuss the biggest TV shows of 2024, including Baby Reindeer and Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Listen back from 1:43:39.
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International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2024) Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-9th November Photography has been associated with death since its inception. The invention of photography influenced dramatically how people remember and mourn the dead. The technological advances of photography have also influenced – and are still influencing – how war, conflict, accidents, and atrocities are being documented, circulated and received. Following the […]
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Improvising Care, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 5-9th October as part of Flux experimental music festival, Arts in the Margins, Montreal. “In a democratic society art should be the location where everyone can witness the joy, pleasure, and power that emerges when there is freedom of expression….” bell hooks, “Workers for Artistic freedom” “Healing can occur . . . when one’s inner experience is […]
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In Charlie Cooper’s new series Myth Country (streaming on BBC I-player) the actor and writer reveals his passion for folklore and how the peculiar rituals and traditions of this country ‘bring people together’. Far from being outdated and trivial folklore is, he says, ‘very much alive and thriving on social media’. The National Folklore Survey funded by UKRI Arts & […]
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Cradle of Fire logo – Image copyright Cradle of Fire Journalism lecturer and poet Carolyn Waudby co-created, multi-media film Cradle of Fire will be launched at an exciting performance event at Kelham Island on Thursday November 7th 2024. The film re-imagines the story of Vulcan, the Roman god of fires, furnaces and volcanoes, who was adopted as an icon for […]
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No Bounds Festival 2024 has received a review in Clash magazine with comments from Amy Carter Gordon, curator, producer and public art specialist. Amy is a co-curator at No Bounds Festival and has twenty-five years of experience in curating exhibitions, installations, dialogues and collaborations for leading UK research-based festivals. Amy says: “There’s such a strong community within subcultures, I didn’t […]
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‘Robin Hood, Morris dances and UFOs: English folklore survey gets post-Brexit reboot. A fresh look at cultural identity will follow outline of 60-year-old Survey of Language and Folklore, conducted by two academics driving a red Mini’ As seen in The Guardian. The Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University, is to conduct the UKRI-funded National Folklore Survey, to discover […]
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Journalism lecturer and poet Carolyn Waudby is part of a collaborative team that has launched a website documenting their research project Cradle of Fire https://cradleoffire.com The venture is a multimedia exploration of the story of Vulcan, which has received a Lottery- funded Arts Council grant. Carolyn is writing a sequence of poems using the mythology of the Roman god of […]
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Dust & Metal is a creative documentary feature film combining archive film, newly shot footage and contemporary music, bringing unfamiliar stories of Vietnam past and present to the screen for the first time. Stepping away from Hollywood’s portrayals of the American/Vietnam War, Dust & Metal offers an unorthodox perspective of Vietnam told through the lens of the country’s ubiquitous mode of transport: […]
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