The department runs regular series arranged by faculty or doctoral students.
Here are the list of events for this term.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mfm/internal/newsandevents/calendar
- Research in Progress Seminars
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Silverstone Building, Room 121, 4.00pm
Wednesday 30th January
Janet Harbord (Queen Mary, University of London)
Ghosts, Animals, Aliens: Cultural Translation in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
(plus screening of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – Silverstone 309 at 1pm)
Wednesday 13th February
Richard Elliott (University of Sussex)
“Across the Evening Sky”: Real and Anticipated Experience in Nina Simone’s Late Voice
Evelyn Ficarra (University of Sussex)
Bewilderment: Re-contextualising the Sound Object in Music Theatre Performance
Wednesday 27th February
Helen Kennedy (University of Brighton)
"Please Don't Feed the Trolls": Negotiating Misogyny and Chivalry in Contemporary Games Culture
Wednesday 13th March
Dolores Tierney (University of Sussex)
Argentina’s Industrial Auteurs: Campanella, Bielinsky and Piñeyro
Wednesday 27th March
Adrian Goycoolea (University of Sussex)
Drawing on the Past: Tracing the Intersection of Recent Chilean History and a Family Trauma.
Includes screening of ¡Viva Chile Mierda! (80 minutes)
- MFM PhD Research Seminars
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PhD Research-in-Progress seminar organised by Ryan Burns, Aejin Han, Frank Verano, and Elizabeth Reed.
23rd January
16.30-18.00
Silverstone 317
First Year Research Introductions
AND
Start of Term Get-Together
New PhD students will give a brief outline of their research plan. This is a fantastic opportunity to see the kind of research that we will undertaken in the School over the next few years. Speakers include:
Lizzie Reed – The place, production and potential of the queer family
Juan Ramos – The US Spanish Language Telenovela
Rachel Tavernor – From Spectatorship to Solidarity: visualising protest movements in the British media
Tanya Kant – Problematising personalisation: interrogating the relationship between end users and online personalised media
Maki Iseri – Against Flexibility: Limitation of the Body Politics in Queer Theory and the Experience of Debility
(More to be confirmed)
Followed by: MFM Research Party
6th February
16.30-18.00
Silverstone 317
Research Updates
Sally Bream – title tbc
20th February
16.30-18.00
Silverstone 317
Research Updates
Paul McConnell - research introduction
Rachel Wood – “You sit differently, you do act differently when you’re in it”: Women’s Experiences of Buying and Wearing Lingerie
Maki Iseri - Flexible Femininities?: Japanese Gilrs’ Culture and Neoliberalism/Neonationalism
6th March
16.30-18.00
Silverstone 317
Teaching
Information session about teaching and being an associate tutor. We will hear from Tina O’Donnell from the TLDU for all the information you need to know about applying to be an AT. Kate Lacey will give the School’s perspective on the advantages of teaching and how to achieve a good balance between teaching and research. Current ATs will give their advice on what it’s actually like to teach alongside your PhD research.
20th March
16.30-18.00
Silverstone 317
Research Updates
Carina Westling - title tbc
Janes Traies - Invisible Intimacies: Sexuality in the Lives of Older Lesbians
Mick Feltham – Digital Aesthetics: Creativity and Post-Humanism
- The Nitrate Underground Presents... (Fim Screenings)
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28 January
The Nitrate Underground Presents: Bob Rafelson's HEAD
Silverstone 327
16:30-18.00
The Nitrate Underground is a film screening and discussion group for MA students,doctoral researchers, and faculty dedicated to reviving a cinema
of the obscure, the forgotten and the challenging. Our spring programme opens with the Monkees' first -- and last -- foray into feature-filmmaking, the absurd and utterly bizarre Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968)! Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork star in a self-reflexive dismantling of the band's prefabricated origins and reputation that lampoons the media, homages classic Hollywood cinema, and rallies against the Vietnam War with a
kaleidoscopic, psychedelic gloss. Discussion to follow. Led by PhD researcher Frank Verano.
18 February
The Nitrate Underground Presents: Jack Nicholson's DRIVE, HE SAID
Silverstone 327
16:30-18.00
The Nitrate Underground is a film screening and discussion group for MA students,doctoral researchers, and faculty dedicated to reviving a cinema of the obscure, the forgotten and the challenging. Our spring programme continues with Jack Nicholson's directorial debut, Drive, He Said (1971). Campus unrest, radical politics, college athletics and Vietnam-era anxieties collide in this frenetically shot and edited rebel yell, which stars William Tepper as a disaffected college basketball player and Michael Margotta as his increasingly unhinged roommate. Discussion to follow. Led by PhD researcher Frank Verano.
11 March
The Nitrate Underground Presents: Norman Mailer's MAIDSTONE
Silverstone 327
16:30-18.00
The Nitrate Underground is a film screening and discussion group for MA students,doctoral researchers, and faculty dedicated to reviving a cinema of the obscure, the forgotten and the challenging. Our spring programme continues with Norman Mailer's Maidstone (1970). Want to see Rip Torn spontaneously -- and alarmingly -- erupt and viciously attack Mailer with a hammer in front of Mailer's hysterical wife and children (and D.A.Pennebaker's camera)? Direct cinema and the fiction film collide in the largely improvised "gonzo narrative" of filmmaker and U.S. presidential candidate Norman T. Kingsley (Mailer) and his hanger-on brother (Torn), which Time describes as "an inkblot test of Mailer's own subconscious." Discussion to follow. Led by PhD researcher Frank Verano.
8 April
The Nitrate Underground Presents: Bob Dylan's EAT THE DOCUMENT
Silverstone 327
16:30-18.00
The Nitrate Underground is a film screening and discussion group for MA students,doctoral researchers, and faculty dedicated to reviving a cinema
of the obscure, the forgotten and the challenging. Our spring programme concludes with Bob Dylan's radical "anti-documentary," Eat the Document (1972). Rather than see D.A. Pennebaker turn the project, filmed during Dylan's first "electric" tour of Europe and Britain with the Band in 1966, into Dont Look Back, Part 2, Dylan hired him only as a cameraman and edited the film himself (with the assistance of like-minded friends). The result is a
spontaneous and "infuriatingly disorienting" deconstruction of direct cinema, whose "quasi-methedrine logic" is "a near visual equivalent of some of the songs Dylan was singing on Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde" (Jonathan Cott). Complete with incendiary, confrontational, and sensational
concert footage of Dylan and the Band at their peak. Discussion to follow. Led by PhD researcher Frank Verano.
- CMDC Reading Group
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The CMDC reading group meets in Silverstone 203 at 4:30pm on Tuesdays in even weeks. The readings for Spring 2013 are as follows. All faculty and postgraduate students are more than welcome to attend. If you have any questions, feel free to contact one of this term's organisers, Ryan Burns, Tanya Kant and Russell Pearce. We will continue to meet over the summer 2013 - if you would like more information or would like to suggest a reading, please feel free to get in touch.
CMDC Reading Group Spring 2013:
Week 2 (29th Jan)
Laura Portwood-Stacer (2012) 'Media refusal and conspicuous non-consumption: The performative and political dimensions of Facebook abstention'
New Media and Society, 0(0) [iFirst] 1-17Week 4 (14th Feb)
Klaus Jensen (2013) 'What's Mobile in Mobile Communication?'
Mobile Media & Communication 1(1) 26 –31
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Gerard Goggin (2013) 'Youth Culture and Mobiles'
Mobile Media & Communication 1(1) 83 –88Week 6 (26th Feb)
Ellen McCracken (2013) 'Expanding Genette's Epitext/Peritext Model for Transitional Electronic Literature: Centrifugal and Centripetal Vectors on Kindles and iPads'
Narrative 21(1) 105-124Week 8 (12th Mar)
Adam Arvidsson & Elanor Colleoni (2012) 'Value in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet'
The Information Society, 28(3) 135-150Week 10 (26th Mar)
Taylor Dotson (2012) ‘Technology, choice and the good life: Questioning technological liberalism’
Technology in Society 34(4) 326–336Week 12 (9th April)
Dorothee Birke & Birte Christ (2013) 'Paratext and Digitized Narrative: Mapping the Field'
Narrative 21(1) 65-87
- NGender Seminar Series Spring 2013
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Tuesdays 1-3 Silverstone Building Room 327, University of Sussex
Week 1, January 22nd:
Emilomo Ogbe, Institute of Development Studies
‘The Construction of The Nigerian Identity’: The Intersections of Enforced Heteronormativity and Colonialism
Week 2, January 29th:
Claire Bennett, University of Sussex
Lesbian Asylum Seekers: Talking about ‘Violence’ and ‘Sexuality’ During the Legal Asylum Process
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Dr Sibel Safi, University College London
Honour killing asylum applications of Turkish asylum seekers in the UK and the asylum gender gap
Week 3, February 5th:
Morna Laing, London College of Fashion
Nostalgic Glue: ‘Re-unifying’ the Female Subject through Childlike Femininity
Week 4, February 12th:
Divya Mehta, University of Sussex
History as Gendered Archetype in Carlos Fuentes’ The Death of Artemio Cruz
Week 5, February 19th:
Novidayanti Hayid, University of Sheffield
Waria and Islam in Indonesia: How do Warias negotiate their gender and sexual identity?
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Maria Corral Fernandez, University of Sussex
Palestinian queers in Israel/Palestine: political concerns and potential challenges to the status quo
Week 6, February 26th:
Gilda Nunez, University of Barcelona
Deprivation and drug dealing: a comparative study from the female perspective
Week 7, Week of 8th March: Special Event for International Women’s Day
Information to follow
Week 8, March 12th:
Ieva Seryte
Femme Bloggers: Construction, Representation and Dynamics of Identity Politics Online
Week 9, March 19th:
Lorena Fuentes, Birkbeck
Bringing Political Economy Back-In: Theorizing the Femicides of Maquila Workers in Guatemala
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Laura Joyce, University of Sussex
Reproducing Violence: Rihanna, Chris Brown and the Aestheticization of the Ciudad Juarez Femicides
Week 10, March 26th:
Padmini Iyer, University of Sussex
Gender, sexuality and schooling: a feminist critical discourse analysis of a new sex education curriculum from Delhi, India
Week 11, April 9th:
Anais Bertrand-Dansereau, Graduate Institute, Geneva
Falling in love with participatory research: the ups and down of researching love with young people in Malawi
Week 12, April 17th, End of term special event:
Naomi Booth, University of Sussex
Succumbing to the Power of Capital: Female Masochism and the Retrograde Swoon in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy
With discussant Rachel Wood, University of Sussex
- SCCS Doctoral Reading Group
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Spring 2013: Mondays 4-6 p.m. Room SB 325
Refreshments Provided. All Welcome!
28 January
(1) Childhood/Innocence/Moral Panic Film
Film: “Innocence” (2004) Dir. Lucile Hadzihalilovic (France) (Lizzie has the DVD of this).
Readings:
Meyer, A.(2007) “The Moral Rhetoric Of Childhood” in Childhood Vol. 14 (1): 85–104.
Or
Wilson, E. (2012) “Miniature Lives, Intrusion and Innocence: Women Filming Children.” French Cultural Studies, 18(2): 169–183.
(Both readings will be sent out to everyone. You can choose which to read).
11 February
(2) Music/subculture
‘Dancing Bodies on K-pop Music Videos' Speaker: Ae Jin Han (MFM PGR Sussex) presentation of recent research.
Reading and discussion: Gilbert, J. and Pearson, E. (1999) chapter 4: “Take your Partner by the Hand: Dance Music, Gender and Sexuality” Discographies: Dance Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound. Routledge: 83-109.
February
(3) Non-British perspectives on marriage
FILM: “A Separation” (2011) Dir. Asghar Farhadi (Iran) In MFM Media Library.
11 March
(4) Media Representation/Invasion of Privacy
News clippings/current affairs illustrated by video clips from U-tube, and a reading.
25 March
(5) Queer (or Camp)
Film "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994) Dir. Stephan Elliott & reading - any ideas? Lizzie has this film on DVD.
Sontag’s notes on Camp.
Question: Is camp dead with the advent of same-sex marriage?
Easter Break 28th March to 3rd April
8 April
(6) Utopia/Capitalism/Feminism/ Communism
Film: "Metropolis" (1927) Dir. Fritz Lang
End of Term Friday 19th April
Contact: sb77@sussex.ac.uk / A.Saunderson-Cross@sussex.ac.uk
- MA Masterclasses
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MA Masterclasses, Spring Term 2013
Silverstone SB 121,
Alternate Wednesdays, 4 – 5.30 pm
ALL WELCOME!
6 February
Robert Stilman, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent.
Salvage and Creative Practice: Re-using the old to create the new in sound and music
Chair: Ed Hughes
20 February
Johnny Hopkins, Triad Publicity
Public Relations and the Media Industries
Chair: tbc
13 March
David Andrews, Media Consultant and Journalist
Why Financial Journalism matters
Chair: Monica Metykova
10 April
Jordie Montevecchi, Matchbox Media, ex MA Digital Documentary
Sandgrains: pleasures and perils of making a crowd-funded documentary
Chair: Lizzie Thynne
22 May
Melanie Brown [Freelance journalist] (MA in Multimedia Journalism graduate)
'Freelancing in Journalism'
Chair: Monica Metykova
- Creative & Critical Practice Group
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CCPRG meets every two weeks, our next meetings will be on:
Wed 6th March - 2-4pm
Wed 20th March - 2-4pm
Wed 10th April - 2-4pm
Wed 29th May - 2-4pm
Wed 12th June- 2-4pm
Wed 26th June- 2-4pm
Wed 10th July- 2-4pmfor info please contact Cecile Chevalier