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The Pentapartito (2015)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2015). The Pentapartito. In E. Jones, & G. Pasquino (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669745.013.23

The pentapartito was the five-party governing coalition which, aside from two brief interruptions, held governmental office in Italy between June 1981 and April 1991. The parties making up the coalition were: Christian Democracy (DC), the Italian Soc... Read More about The Pentapartito.

Graphic design educators’ network : re-establishing the purpose and value of a graphic design subject association (2015)
Journal Article
Burns, J., Corazzo, J., Hardie, K., Harland, R., & Raven, D. (2015). Graphic design educators’ network : re-establishing the purpose and value of a graphic design subject association. Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, 14(2), 199-205. https://doi.org/10.1386/adch.14.2.199_3

This report discusses the Graphic Design Educators’ Network (GDEN): a fledgling subject association that has pedagogic practice, research and scholarship at its heart. The rationale and impetus for creating the network – its origins, development, aim... Read More about Graphic design educators’ network : re-establishing the purpose and value of a graphic design subject association.

Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano (2015)
Book Chapter
Bentham, A. (2015). Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano. In F. Peters, & R. Stewart (Eds.), Antihero (72-84). Bristol: Intellect

Summons and Repulsion: The Curious Appeal of Tony Soprano In a Los Angeles Times article published in the wake of James Gandolfini’s death, Chris Lee described Tony Soprano, Gandolfini’s most famous incarnation, as ‘a cultural sensation’, ‘one of TV... Read More about Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano.

Hedging in the Middle East and China-U.S. Competition (2015)
Journal Article
Salman, M., Pieper, M., & Geeraerts, G. (2015). Hedging in the Middle East and China-U.S. Competition. Asian Politics and Policy, 7(4), 575-596. https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12225

This article examines policies of both China and the United States in the Middle East. It evaluates the effectiveness of Beijing's strategic hedging behavior against Washington's “hard power” strategies by discussing several policy challenges in this... Read More about Hedging in the Middle East and China-U.S. Competition.

The Alpine-themed song (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wise, T. (2015, October). The Alpine-themed song. Presented at The European Salon : Nineteenth Century Salonmusik, Maynooth, Ireland

My paper discusses a staple of the salon, the Alpine-themed song, which emerged in the early nineteenth century. Typically based on picturesque lyric imagery and Ländler rhythms, this barely remembered repertoire was dismissed as trivial music by pro... Read More about The Alpine-themed song.

Here[…] there : a game of childhood (2015)
Journal Article
Carson, J., & Miller, R. (2015). Here[…] there : a game of childhood. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37(5), 641-649. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2015.1075702

A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change) (2015)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2015). A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change). Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 14(4), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022215591102

The Radio 4 comedy-drama A Higher Education was written in 1999 to present a satire of a dysfunctional and cash-strapped university (Northfield) led by the egotistical and amoral Head of Drama Don Crookfield (Rik Mayall). For those of us passionately... Read More about A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change).

Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama (2015)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2015). Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama. In I. Ermida (Ed.), Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts. Amsterdam: Brill | Rodopi

The most hideous aspects of Dracula and his vampire brethren are visual ones – pallor, dark hirsute hands, piercing eyes, razor-sharp fangs. The settings, too, in Dracula are integral to creating mood: for example, Harker’s journey into Transylvania... Read More about Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama.

Spitalfields Life (2015)
Journal Article
Yates, M. (2015). Spitalfields Life. #Journal not on list, 2, 225-228

Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet (2015)
Book Chapter
Bigliazzi, S., & Nigri, L. (2015). Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet. In S. Bigliazzi, & L. Calvi (Eds.), Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and Civic Life : the Boundaries of Civic Space (171-186). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315733104

Romeo and Juliet offers precisely one such highly connoted and open-ended coda. Shakespearean endings are peculiar for making statements, but also for promising statements, thus closing the text while leaving it open to further elucidation. The touri... Read More about Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet.

The rationale and concept of the European code of conduct for microcredit providers (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Dayson, K. (2015, September). The rationale and concept of the European code of conduct for microcredit providers. Presented at 14th UMM Workshop : on Responsible Inclusive Finance and Customer Empowerment, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

The article draws on the rationale and concept of the European Code of good Conduct for Microcredit Providers which was intended to set out good practice guidelines that will better enable the sector to face the challenges of accessing longterm... Read More about The rationale and concept of the European code of conduct for microcredit providers.

Evidence of healing in the eradication of schizophrenia in Western Lapland (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Talbot, R. (2015, September). Evidence of healing in the eradication of schizophrenia in Western Lapland. Presented at Theatre & Performance Research Association; Performance & The Body Working Group: Bodies of Evidence, University of Worcester

The presentation will draw on the documents, traces and evidence from The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland (2012- 2015) based on my experience as a performer throughout the process of making and touring, as well as video, images, and u... Read More about Evidence of healing in the eradication of schizophrenia in Western Lapland.

Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting (2015)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2015). Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting. In C. Olsen (Ed.), Acting Comedy (5-24). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709673

All forms of live performance require the establishment of some kind of interplay between the performer and audience. The presentation of a theatrical event requires the making of a ‘contract’ (Verma in Giannachi and Luckhurst 1999: 129) wherein perf... Read More about Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting.

Has man “paid too dear a price for his empire”? Monsters in romantic-era literature (2015)
Book Chapter
Ruston, S. (2015). Has man “paid too dear a price for his empire”? Monsters in romantic-era literature. In R. Calzoni, & G. Perletti (Eds.), Monstrous Anatomies : Literary and Scientific Imagination in Britain and Germany During the Long Nineteenth Century. Göttingen: V&R unipress

The book explores the significance and dissemination of ‘monstrous anatomies’ in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenme... Read More about Has man “paid too dear a price for his empire”? Monsters in romantic-era literature.

Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, September). Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music. Presented at Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Annual Conference, University of Worcester

In response to the working group call this year, I am sharing developments in a current strand of research, aspects of which were presented as part of the interim event in April. Here, I explored music as a ‘memorative sign’ (Rousseau in Boym 2001: 4... Read More about Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music.

The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants (2015)
Thesis
Howley, G. (in press). The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants. (Thesis). University of Salford

This dissertation reports the results of an ethnographically informed, variationist sociophonetic account of the acquisition of vernacular English dialect features by adolescent Roma migrants attending a Manchester high school. As one of the first st... Read More about The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants.

Driven voids (2015)
Other
Davismoon, S. (2015). Driven voids. [Score]

A work for Mezzo-soprano, harp, violin and multi-channel live electronics. The texts set in the work are taken from ideas on architecture - in particular duration and place - from Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Steve Holl and Johnny Rodger. All of whom... Read More about Driven voids.