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
City of Westminster Libraries and Archives are hosting a lecture by Dr Sheldon Hall titled ‘Appointments with Fear: The Programming of Horror Films on British Television’, on 29th October 2021 at 18.30 – 19.30 BST. Tickets are free and available via Eventbrite. About this event Countless horror fans owe their love of the genre to their first exposure to it on […]
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The Centre for Culture, Media and Society is launching an Anti-Racism Research Group open to all staff and postgraduate research students across the university. We hope that the group will be a forum for colleagues across disciplines to collaborate as well as share their work. We would like to invite all interested colleagues to an initial meeting so that we can share […]
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‘Three Chords and the Truth’ a 20 mins cinema film, directed by Prof Virginia Heath and written by Prof Paul Atkinson (both of ADMRC), is screening at the Lighthouse Cinema, Wolverhampton, as part of BOXSTOCK 2021, the Cigar Box Guitar Festival, on 16th October 2021. ‘Three Chords and the Truth’ has screened at international festivals including Woodstock, Nashville and Albuquerque, […]
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Cigar Box Blues – The Makers of a Revolution by two Professors, Virginia Heath and Paul Atkinson of the Art Design and Media Research Centre, will be screened for a fourth time on Saturday 23rd October 2021 on BBC4 and subsequently on BBC iplayer. Directed by Virginia Heath, Professor of Film, and written by Paul Atkinson, Professor of Design and Design […]
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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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Principal lecturer in film studies, Dr Chi-Yun Shin, has been speaking on the PM programme on BBC Radio 4 about Squid Game, the Netflix series which looks set to be one of the most successful yet on the streaming service. Listen here from 51:45
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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 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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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 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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