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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

Call for Papers: Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television

Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television is a two day international conference that will take place in September 2020 at De Montfort University and co-organised by Professor Ian Hunter (De Montfort University) and Dr James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University). The conference will be the first major gathering of scholars researching the ‘shadow’ histories of film and television. […]

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Podcast: Dr Clarke vs The Flying Saucers

Talking History with British Online Archives

Dr David Clarke, Principal Research Fellow in Journalism has been speaking with Jim Chisem for his podcast Talking History. The pair discussed David’s work as curator of The National Archives UFO Project, the history of the UFO phenomenon, and folklore in technological societies. Listen to the podcast here.     Image from Talking History at British Online Archives

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Professor Virginia Heath’s film, ‘Lift Share’, screens with legendary French Director Agnes Varda’s short films

Banner image of Professor Virginia Heath's 'Lift Share' still with laurels

Professor Virginia Heath‘s Lift Share will screen along with legendary French director Agnès Varda’s short films shot in California as part of Cinema @ Summerhall on Sunday 27 October 5PM courtesy of the French Film Festival UK. Lift Share screening as part of Triple Bill: Agnès Varda in California Cinema @ Summerhall, Summerhall Edinburgh Sunday 27 October 2019, 5PM – 6.30PM Event information and […]

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‘Investigatory Power’ – Exhibition by Rose Butler opens next month at Decad Berlin

Banner image for 'Investigatory Powers' - an exhibition at Decad Berlin by Rose Butler

Investigatory Power is an exhibition by British artist Rose Butler curated by Mareike Spendel bringing together the artist’s own photographic work captured in the UK Houses of Parliament with video footage and imagery selected from the Stasi Records Agency, Film and Video Archive. As part of her doctoral study which centres on surveillance, Butler considers the ethics and politics of […]

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‘Morris: A Ghost for Today’ – PhD researcher Diana Taylor’s symposium explores the relevance of William Morris in an age of instability

Banner image for Diana Taylor's symposium 'Morris: A Ghost for Today'

Morris: A Ghost for Today symposium William Morris Gallery, London E17 4FP Saturday 05 October, 10AM – 1PM Free to attend – register on Eventbrite here. Morris: A Ghost for Today is a symposium bringing together five contemporary, London-based artists to address the relevance of William Morris and why he matters particularly today, in these times of ecological and political instability. This […]

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Lab4Living is recruiting! Professor, Reader and Researcher posts

Lab4Living recruitment

Lab4Living is recruiting to expand its team of researchers as the 100-Year Life project gets underway. Plans for the project, funded through Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England (E3) research fund, include a new creative working space, an international research hub and a Design4Ageing Academy. The E3 award has enabled a major recruitment opportunity which includes a Professor, two Readers, a Project […]

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‘Nothing Happens in Huddersfield’ – Sheffield Off the Shelf festival event features Joanne Lee

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Sheffield Off the Shelf Festival Ideas Alive at 5.45PM: Nothing Happens in Huddersfield Tuesday 22 October 2019, 5.45PM Ambulo Café, Sheffield Nothing Happens in Huddersfield is organised by Professor Richard Phillips, of the Department of Geography at University of Sheffield, editor of George Perec’s Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces, a book offering a rounded picture of Perec’s geographical interests. […]

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Penny McCarthy wins the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019

Composite banner image of Penny McCarthy's 'DNA in Nature' and the logo of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Prize logo

Update – 10 December 2019  Penny’s achievement was recently featured in the Contemporary Visual Arts Network in a piece celebrating three Sheffield artists winning prestigious national awards over the past few months. Find out more here. Penny’s success has also been reported in the Sheffield Telegraph – read the article, in which Penny is interviewed, here.   We are pleased […]

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‘Illustration Heroes’ – An exhibition of staff, alumni and friends of SHU’s Illustration course

2019-10 Illustration Heroes - HPO Exhibition Banner

Illustration Heroes  An exhibition celebrating the professional work of illustration staff, alumni and friends of the Illustration course at Sheffield Hallam University. The exhibition highlights the key ‘hero’ figure for each exhibitor and the role each played in their education and future career. Illustration Heroes  Friday 11 October – Friday 08 November 2019 Private View Thursday 17 October, 6PM Post […]

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