Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Credit: Michelle Atherton Soil Séance Sessions V 2025 Album Cover Low Lying & Soil Séance Sessions V Museum für Sepulkralkultur Opening 19:00 Thursday 6 March 2025 A new commission by Michelle Atherton at Museum für Sepulkralkultur as part of the next instalment of In Between. You, life and finiteness Kassel, Germany 7 March – 10 August 2025. […]
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On the Radar research seminar series is back next month – this year with a focus on highlighting Early Career Researchers across Hallam. We are keen to use this series to connect colleagues across disciplines and departments, and in particular to support this years ECRI Fellowship cohort (of which organiser Diane Rodgers is a member) – please email d [dot] rodgers […]
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Join Hallam’s Professor of Arts and Culture John Goodby, as he explores the vivid life and legacy of Dylan Thomas, one of the twentieth century’s most memorable and compelling lyric poets. Thomas is still best known for his wild lifestyle and as the author of lyrics such as ‘Fern Hill’ and ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’, and […]
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‘The river is always communicating’ Amy Carter Gordon in collaboration with Alban Krashi & Jonny Douglas: The River Dôn Project I live and work in close proximity to the River Sheaf, a tributary of the Dôn. Within this biotic community, I hear the 5am calls of a Tawny Owl and witness the underside of a heron’s wingspan as it […]
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“Reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling” Dr Harriet Earle, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, has written a piece for The Conversation’s Reimagining Classics series. Harriet’s piece suggests reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling.
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fæthm: explorations in co-curation with the River Dôn Upper Gallery at Kelham Island Museum and The River Dôn Thursday 13th – Sunday 16th March 2025 Free entry Opening times Thurs: 10-4 Fri: 10-4 Sat: 10-4 Sun: 11-4 Our entanglement with the more-than-human deepens as we iteratively explore co-curation with the River Dôn. In a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and […]
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Rose Butler’s experimental video The Fair will be screened as part of One Minute Volume 9, Close-Up Cinema on Thursday 12th December at 8.15pm. Over the past 16 years, artist-filmmaker Kerry Baldry has been curating and organising this innovative series of artists’ moving images, each precisely one minute in length. These experimental works thoughtfully engage with the concept of time in cinema, challenging traditional […]
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International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2024) Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-9th November Photography has been associated with death since its inception. The invention of photography influenced dramatically how people remember and mourn the dead. The technological advances of photography have also influenced – and are still influencing – how war, conflict, accidents, and atrocities are being documented, circulated and received. Following the […]
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In Charlie Cooper’s new series Myth Country (streaming on BBC I-player) the actor and writer reveals his passion for folklore and how the peculiar rituals and traditions of this country ‘bring people together’. Far from being outdated and trivial folklore is, he says, ‘very much alive and thriving on social media’. The National Folklore Survey funded by UKRI Arts & […]
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Cradle of Fire logo – Image copyright Cradle of Fire Journalism lecturer and poet Carolyn Waudby co-created, multi-media film Cradle of Fire will be launched at an exciting performance event at Kelham Island on Thursday November 7th 2024. The film re-imagines the story of Vulcan, the Roman god of fires, furnaces and volcanoes, who was adopted as an icon for […]
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