The Media, Arts and Humanities Research Institute

The Media, Arts and Humanities Research Institute is the collaborative hub of research in Media, Arts and Humanities at Sussex. It draws on the Sussex traditions of radicalism and innovation to support our research and creative practice from across the School.

Coming soon:

Italian Cinema (and Theatre) Today: Mario Martone in Conversation

3.15-4.30pm Friday 8 December 2023, Jubilee 144 and online

With an impressive record of acclaimed and award-winning films, such as L’amore molesto [Troubling Love] (1995), Noi credevamo [We Believed] (2010), Il giovane favoloso [Leopardi] (2014), Capri Revolution (2014), Qui rido io [The King of Laughter] (2021), Nostalgia (2022), and the docufilm Laggù qualcuno mi ama [Massimo Troisi: Somedody Down There Likes Me], to name but a few, Italian film and stage director Mario Martone is among Italy's most esteemed and influential contemporary cultural figures.

The School of Media, Arts and Humanities is proud to host “Italian Cinema (and Theatre) Today: Mario Martone in Conversation with Ambra Moroncini, Guido Bonsaver and Darrow Schecter” to gain first-hand insights into the artistic and civic significance of Martone’s work.

This in-person conversation will be held in English and in Italian (with simultaneous translation from Italian into English when Italian occurs). British Sign Language Interpreting will also be provided.

The event is free, pre-book your free ticket via Eventbrite.

Events programme

Making something out of nothing

Wednesday 6 December from 15:00 until 17:00

University of Sussex Campus

Can we develop research about absence? Discover the beauty of negative findings, lost opportunities, impossible selves, unlived experience.

Media, Arts and Humanities Communal Writing Sessions

Thursday 7 December from 14:00 until 17:00

University of Sussex Campus

Media, Arts and Humanities staff and PGRs can attend all or part of these sessions.

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Latest news

Our inaugural research theme for 2023/24 is Beginnings.

An ideal start for this new initiative, Beginnings is a multidisciplinary theme that engages with Sussex research in many different ways, encouraging us to think about creation, origins, emergence, natality, and newness. How might ideas of coming-into-being help us think anew about interdisciplinarity, climate change, history, creative practice, and our teaching and research more broadly?

The theme will support events throughout the year, starting with a Beginnings-themed Research Conversation and will involve a call for ideas that will feed into the Media, Arts and Humanities Festival of Ideas in Spring 2024.