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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

‘From Scotland with Love’ – Professor Virginia Heath’s BAFTA-nominated documentary film screening with Q&A at Phosphorescence Festival of Dance – Saturday 16 October 2021

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Professor Virginia Heath’s BAFTA-nominated feature documentary film, From Scotland With Love, is screening with a Director Q&A at the Phosphorescence Festival of Dance on Saturday 16 October 2021. “From Scotland With Love, Virginia Heath’s hypnotic archive film with transcendent musical score by Scottish composer King Creosote, offers a cinematic reflection on 20th century human experience. We’re delighted to have Virginia join […]

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South Korean Women’s Cinema Conference – 23-25 September 2021

Still from Kangyu Garam's documentary Us, Day by Day (우리는 매일매일, 2019) II

The full programme for the South Korean Women’s Cinema conference can be found here. Be sure to register on Eventbrite for details of how to join the conference. The South Korean Women’s Cinema (SKWC) conference will take place online, from Thursday 23 September to Saturday 25 September 2021, hosted online by Dr Chi-Yun Shin of Sheffield Hallam University and funded […]

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Professor Esther Johnson screening ‘Liberation Radio’ at the 65th BFI London Film Festival

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Professor Esther Johnson will present her research Liberation Radio at the forthcoming prestigious 65th BFI London Film Festival 2021, screening October 14th at BFI Southbank. The film screens within the Experimenta strand and will also be available to view on BFI Player between 6 to 17 October with an audio-description soundtrack for customers who are blind or partially sighted, and […]

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Delving into the roots of the electric guitar – Professor Paul Atkinson interviewed on the BBC World Service’s ‘The Forum’ about how the electric guitar has conquered popular music

Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar

Professor Paul Atkinson, industrial designer and design historian at Sheffield Hallam and author of Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar, has appeared on BBC World Service’s The Forum discussing how the electric guitar has conquered popular music. Professor Paul Atkinson is Professor of Design and Design History in the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University. […]

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Remembering Germany’s Black victims of the Holocaust – Professor Robbie Aitken

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Remembering the forgotten Black victims of the Holocaust is the aim of two new memorials initiated by Professor of Imperial History, Robbie Aitken. He applied to lay the new memorials to bring new visibility to Germany’s Black history, following his extensive research into the history of Germany’s Black community and compensation claims by Black Holocaust victims. The memorials were recently […]

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Professor Esther Johnson’s ASUNDER screening at the BFI

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Update (02 September 2021) Esther was recently interviewed about the making of ASUNDER – find out more here.   There will be a special screening of Professor Esther Johnson‘s WW1 feature film ASUNDER at the BFI in London on Saturday 04 September at 1200. The screening will be introduced Director/co-producer Esther Johnson, and co-producer Bob Stanley. Please note this event will […]

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Hester Reeve to present at ‘Beyond Bohm: Science, Order and Creativity’ on August 14th as part of the Pari Center Online Summer Series

Beyond Bohm: Contemplation and Creativity

On August 14th Hester Reeve, Reader in Fine Art, will be presenting at ‘Beyond Bohm: Science, Order and Creativity’ and leading a panel of invited artists to discuss the physicist’s ideas about creativity and what he termed ‘Artamovement.’ She will also join in a round table discussion chaired by Lee Nichol exploring the Bohm-Barfield connection and links between imagination and […]

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Patti Smith, From Scotland With Love and Pauper’s Dough by King Creosote

Professor Virginia Heath was honoured to recently discover that the legendary Patti Smith, who has always been a profound inspiration, chose ‘Pauper’s Dough’ by King Creosote from “the transcendent Documentary, From Scotland with Love”, as a song she would like to cover.  Patti received a thousand song suggestions from her Blog readers and two particularly struck her.   Patti writes in […]

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David Clarke discusses the conspiracy surrounding the Pentagon UFO report

As the US government prepare to release a landmark report into UFOs, Dr David Clarke has been quoted in an Evening Standard article examining the case for extraterrestrial life, commenting: “Just because something’s unidentified doesn’t mean it’s alien.” He believes the more interesting aspect to focus on is why flying saucers sightings took off post-WWII. He points to the Cold War for […]

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