Cradle of Fire: Website launch for exciting collaborative project on Vulcan and Steelmaking

Banner Cradle of Fire logo - Image copyright Cradle of Fire, courtesy of Carolyn Waudby

Journalism lecturer and poet Carolyn Waudby is part of a collaborative team that has launched a website documenting their research project Cradle of Fire https://cradleoffire.com The venture is a multimedia exploration of the story of Vulcan, which has received a Lottery- funded Arts Council grant. Carolyn is writing a sequence of poems using the mythology of the Roman god of […]

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No Bounds Festival 2024 – “Entanglement, commons and cultural mycelium”, a Blog by Amy Carter Gordon

No Bounds Banner Logo (courtesy of No Bounds Festival)

Curator and Innovation Manager, Amy Carter Gordon, Culture and Creativity Research Institute, shares the value of collaborating with No Bounds independent festival in Sheffield in order to engage audiences in practice-based cultural research and innovation in non-traditional venues across the city from neighbourhood social enterprises to an artist studio basement. Entanglement, commons and cultural mycelium For my curated strand of […]

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Professor Anja Louis’ Inaugural Lecture – “The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: Women, Law and Pop Culture”

Professor Anja Louis and Sheffield Hallam University Logo (courtesy of Sheffield Hallam University)

Professor Anja Louis’ Professorial Inaugural Lecture “The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: Women, Law and Pop Culture” Sign up here! All welcome. 1800 – 2030, Wednesday 06 March 2024 Sheffield Hallam University – Peak Lecture Theatre, Level 5 Owen Building, City Campus, Hallam Square, Sheffield, S1 2LX As an early celebration of International Women’s Day (8 March), this interactive professorial […]

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Maud Haya-Baviera speaks to BBC Radio Sheffield about current research and residency at the Holocaust Centre North

Maud Haya-Baviera with Ellie Colton, courtesy of Maud Haya-Baviera

Maud Haya-Baviera, Senior Lecturer in Photography, spoke to Ellie Colton on BBC Radio Sheffield about her current research and residency at the Holocaust Centre North. Listen back until the 27 January 2024 at this link (at around 0710, or 70 minutes in).   Maud Haya-Baviera is a Lecturer in Photography at Sheffield Hallam University and a multimedia artist and researcher in CCRI. She […]

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Writing the Water – Eco-poetry workshops cruising the Sheffield waterways as part of Being Human festival – 18 November 2023

Writing the Water image - barge on canal, courtesy of Amy Carter Gordon

Update: Professor Harriet Tarlo featured on BBC Radio Sheffield’s Creative Lives to talk about eco-poetry and Hallam’s upcoming Being Human Festival event, Writing the Water. Listen back from 2:14:28. Join us on 18 November 2023 for an eco-poetry workshop exploring the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal – Writing the Water. Sheffield Hallam University, in collaboration with the River Don Project and […]

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Fear 2000: Horror Uncaged – July 2023

Fear 2000

Fear 2000 is a conference series dedicated to twenty-first century horror media convened by Craig Ian Mann, Oli Hicks, Mars Nicoli and Kirstie Rutter at Sheffield Hallam University, hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and Society and the Department of Media Arts and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University. The 2023 edition of Fear 2000, Horror Uncaged will be hosted both online […]

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‘Comes the Flood’: New exhibition reflects on Sheffield’s floods

'Comes the Flood' exhibition, with Ark Sheffield at Millennium Gallery. Image credit - Becky Payne

Academics and students from Sheffield Hallam University have added to the new Ruskin Collection displays at the Millennium Gallery reflecting on the impacts of flooding in Sheffield. Find out more on the SHU News website here. Comes the Flood is a redisplay of the Ruskin Collection which reimagines objects from Sheffield’s major floods and artworks of Venice as fragments from cities destroyed […]

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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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‘a sukkah for our times’: City centre installation by PhD researcher Max Munday and local Jewish community

2022-10 'a sukkah for our times' Drawing - Image credit Max Munday

a sukkah for our times Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 October 2022 Sheffield Winter Garden You can hear audio of this text being read out here: a sukkah for our times audio. a sukkah for our times is an art installation and event-space created for the festival of Sukkot by PhD researcher Max Munday and members of the local Jewish community, including Ken […]

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