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
Professor Paul Seawright, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University and internationally renowned photographer, will be presenting his research over the current REF census period and talking through his perspective on the current REF landscape at a talk on Thursday 24 January 2019. We would urge all staff who are engaging with REF […]
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Always in Translation A day of conversations with invited artists, academics and a targeted audience. 11AM – 4.30PM, Friday 18 January 2019 Site Gallery, Sheffield The metaphor of translation has been used increasingly since the eighteenth century to describe both the activity and the end result of painting, conveying such terms as ‘reproduce’, ‘render’ and ‘express’. Charles Baudelaire used this […]
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Professor Virginia Heath’s feature documentary film From Scotland With Love will be screening in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday 16 January 2019 as part of the British Council’s Film As Cultural Heritage symposium. This is part of the wider British Council’s Heritage of Future Past – A Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth Project, a two-year pilot initiative exploring the use of cultural heritage for growth […]
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MAINS GANTEÉES ET PIEDS BOTTÉS: Représentations d’armées de femmes et corps collectifs féminin Éditions Incertain Sens / Cabinet du livre d’artiste, Université Rennes 17 February 2019 – 19 March 2019 Curated by Lise Lerichomme Women in battalions are often portrayed as caricatures, assigned to be only the mechanical or erotic repetition of a generic character. Yet these alignments of booted […]
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Loughborough University’s Feminist Methodologies Symposium will take place this year on Monday 01 and Tuesday 02 April, showcasing a a multi-disciplinary range of current feminist methodologies and approaches. There will also be a PGR session as part of the programme (currently TBC) followed by evening performances. Feminist Methodologies Symposium 2019 Martin Hall, Loughborough LE11 3TU See here for ticketing. Final programme TBC. Featuring talks […]
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Following feedback at the successful conference in November, the Centre for Contemporary Legend research group have taken on board advice and comments from our plenary session and feedback postcards, and set up a JISC email list to promote discussion and the sharing of ideas relating to the academic study of folklore in UK higher education in its many forms: • […]
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Work by Andrew Robinson, Senior Lecturer in Photography at Sheffield Hallam, is currently included in a popular BBC On-line article about seasonal customs entitled Queer as Folklore: A year of English customs. The article has been receiving worldwide attention with upwards of 90,000 views. The images are from an unpublished body of work Andrew undertook in the late 1990s documenting calendar customs […]
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Rose Butler‘s Lines of Resistance will be screened at the 32 Filmwinter Stuttgarter Festival for Expanded Media on Saturday 19 January 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany. Lines of Resistance will form part of the screening curated by A BROKEN LINK, a survey of contemporary practice in artist film and video. The themes explored include ideas of temporal and geographical displacement, of how digital technologies bring […]
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Design Futures raised nearly £500 for Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity at their festive pop-up shop last month, selling products the packaging design consultancy had designed the packaging for as part of the Sheffield Innovation Programme. John Kirkby and his team within the University’s design consultancy, Design Futures, have been supporting local businesses across the region and providing packaging expertise as part of […]
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Professor of Design and Design History Paul Atkinson was a guest on BBC World Service’s Click programme on Saturday 29 December talking about the computer mouse on its 50th anniversary and how the design was developed and refined. Fifty years ago Doug Engelbart, engineer and inventor from the Augmentation Research Center Lab, gave what has become known as the ‘mother of […]
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