Dr Diane Rodgers (Senior Lecturer) interviewed by ‘Digital Folklore’ podcast

Dr Diane Rodgers was recently interviewed for an episode of the popular US podcast ‘Digital Folklore’. The episode is called ‘Why is Old Tech Creepy? (Analog Horror, The Gothic & Hauntology)’, and the hosts interviewed Diane about her research relating to the communication of folklore and contemporary legend in the media, and the nostalgia and hauntological nature of physical media. […]

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40th International Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Conference

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Read more about the conference coming to Sheffield on its 40th anniversary here and in the Sheffield Star. We’re pleased to open registration for the 40th International Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Conference, held this year June 26-30, 2023 at Sheffield Hallam University, and hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Legend. There will be a series of themed panels including: Body […]

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Rehabilitation in the virtual age: Using VR to support patient recovery and reduce pain

ImpactVR

Rehabilitation in the virtual age: Using VR to support patient recovery and reduce pain Wednesday 08 February 2023, 1200-1300 Held online Join the Parent and Carer Network to find out about the work of Sheffield Hallam University’s Impact VR lab where SHU researchers are developing pioneering virtual reality (VR) technology in healthcare to support children and adults with rehabilitation from […]

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From Valley to Fishtail – Exhibition at Soft Ground Sheffield

From Valley to Fishtail Exhibition at Soft Ground Sheffield

Please join us for the private view of From Valley to Fishtail on Tuesday 24 January 1800-2000, at Soft Ground, Sheffield City Centre. This exhibition responds to a SHU Go Global trip to Nepal which took place in September 2022. Students and staff from a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses worked individually and in small teams to gather and create […]

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James Fenwick to deliver key Stanley Kubrick lecture in London

Dr James Fenwick

Hallam Lecturer, Dr James Fenwick will be talking about the influential filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick at the free Disrupting Dominance in the Archive conference in London’s University of the Arts on 5 and 6 December. Some of Kubrick’s best-known directorial works include Spartacus, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Killing, Dr Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, and Eyes Wide Shut. The Stanley Kubrick Lecture is an annual fixture at this popular […]

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ON THE RADAR: ‘What Cultural Heritage? Cinema in and on Southern Italy’ with Lucia Di Girolamo (University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)

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ON THE RADAR: ‘What Cultural Heritage? Cinema in and on Southern Italy’ with Lucia Di Girolamo (University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”) Tuesday 22 November 2022, 1300-1400 Cantor 9235 All welcome, free to attend – and please share with your colleagues and PGR students! Please join us for ON THE RADAR, an informal research seminar promoting the sharing of knowledge within […]

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Racism in healthcare: an anti-racist manifesto for change – Friday 21 October 2022 at 11am

As part of Sheffield Hallam’s Black History Month 2022 programme, the first Inclusive Hallam event of this academic year focuses on addressing racial inequality in one of the UK’s most treasured public institutions – our National Health Service. Drawing on the ‘Nursing Narratives’ project, co-led by Sheffield Hallam’s Professor Anandi Ramamurthy, the event will bring together a panel of Black […]

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Penser la muséologie du cinéma: Thinking about cinema museology – Dr Rinella Cere contributes to colloquium and study day at the École nationale des Chartes

Penser la muséologie du cinéma (Thinking about cinema museology) Thursday 13 October to Friday 14 October 2022 École Nationale des Chartes Stéphanie E. Louis, researcher at the Center Jean-Mabillon, organizes the CinEx Lab autumn school entitled “Thinking cinema museology: theory, tools, know-how“, with the support of EUR Translitterae, PG Arts and FIAF-International Federation of Film Archives. CinEx Lab is a […]

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Diane Rodgers Researcher Blog: Reflections on the Centre for Folklore, Myth and Magic in Todmorden, Sat 1st October 2022

About the Author Diane A. Rodgers is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Arts and Communications at Sheffield Hallam University and a CCRI PhD candidate conducting doctoral research relating to folklore and folk horror in ‘wyrd’ 1970s British Film and Television. As a co-founder of the Centre for Contemporary Legend (CCL) and part of the CCMS Cultural Heritage Research Group, I was honoured to be invited to speak […]

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