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Memory of a memory (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Giles, L. (2016, December). Memory of a memory. Presented at Photography and the Everyday : 4th International Conference of Photography & Theory, Nicosia, Cyprus

A collective memory project and digital online archive derived from public call-out in collaboration with the Bluecoat gallery and LOOK International Photography Festival, Liverpool, England. This paper investigates the process by which photog... Read More about Memory of a memory.

Using interactive 3d block models of geological maps in geoscience education (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Houghton, J. J., University of Leeds, Robinson, A., Gordon, C. E., Lloyd, G. E., & Morgan, D. J. (2016, September). Using interactive 3d block models of geological maps in geoscience education. Poster presented at Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA

We have created a series of video game-style worlds, using the Unity 3D game engine, which show geological maps draped over virtual landscapes. These are interactive block models that can be rotated, enlarged, walked and flown around to understand th... Read More about Using interactive 3d block models of geological maps in geoscience education.

MPs, Twitter & the EU referendum campaign (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, S., Mcloughlin, L., Gibson, R., & Southern, R. (2016, September). MPs, Twitter & the EU referendum campaign. Presented at Elections Parties and Opinion Polls Annual Conference, University of Kent, UK

In the UK, as in many democracies there has been a rapid rise of MPs using Twitter over the past six years. From being a relative novelty in 2010, over one parliamentary cycle, the technology had been normalized by 2015 with 576 MPs having Twitter ac... Read More about MPs, Twitter & the EU referendum campaign.

Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hiriart, J. (2016, August). Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design. Presented at DIGRA and FDG First Joint International Conference, Dundee, Scotland

The experimental development of game prototypes has been gaining attention in academic circles as a valid research method to understand this medium and its potential for historical representation and learning. In spite that in recent years advances i... Read More about Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design.

Invisible text (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Isherwood, T. (2016, July). Invisible text. Presented at XXI Congress - International Comparative Literature Association, University of Vienna, Austria

Typography, specifically typefaces themselves, are an ever present in our society, a vital tool in our means of communication, and a seemingly invisible partner in conveying and understanding written texts. All typefaces are designed to have a uniqu... Read More about Invisible text.

Daft Punk as Anti-Celebrity Celebrity (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Cookney, D. (2016, June). Daft Punk as Anti-Celebrity Celebrity. Presented at Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, University of Amsterdam

While Western rockist notions of authenticity within music will negate electronic dance music (EDM) due to assumptions regarding its inherent artificiality, French EDM duo Daft Punk has negotiated fame through an alternative approach to the authentic... Read More about Daft Punk as Anti-Celebrity Celebrity.

Memories of the grateful visitor. A look at Spanish spaces, ethnography and material artefacts through contemporary Japanese entertainment industries (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hernandez Perez, M. (2016, May). Memories of the grateful visitor. A look at Spanish spaces, ethnography and material artefacts through contemporary Japanese entertainment industries. Presented at Mutual Images 4th International Workshop, Aarhus University

Audiences from all over the world may differ in the way they perceive a particular country or cultural tradition. Even when it is possible to argue that fictionality can’t be really isolated from any kind of representational form, communicational gen... Read More about Memories of the grateful visitor. A look at Spanish spaces, ethnography and material artefacts through contemporary Japanese entertainment industries.

Breadth, depth and height : early findings on engaging disabled people with digital fabrication (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Taylor, N., Connolly, P., Hurley, U., & Macleod-Iredale, J. (2016, May). Breadth, depth and height : early findings on engaging disabled people with digital fabrication. Presented at CHI 2016 Workshop: Fabrication & HCI: Hobbyist Making, Industrial Production, and Beyond, Salzburg

In this paper we describe early findings from a series of digital fabrication workshops run with disabled people as part of the In the Making project. These workshops aimed to engage more disabled people with digital fabrication and explore how the... Read More about Breadth, depth and height : early findings on engaging disabled people with digital fabrication.

Global civil society activism and the public interest in the debate on the future shape of spectrum (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Rashid, I., & Simpson, S. (2016, March). Global civil society activism and the public interest in the debate on the future shape of spectrum. Presented at 2016 UK Political Studies Association conference, Brighton

This paper explores the positions of actors representing public interest goals in recent international policy activity around possible changes to the allocation of spectrum. Its focus is the lead up to the consideration of the future of the so-called... Read More about Global civil society activism and the public interest in the debate on the future shape of spectrum.

The mysterious feminine : set design and costume in the Season Two finale of Twin Peaks (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Morris, M. (2016, March). The mysterious feminine : set design and costume in the Season Two finale of Twin Peaks. Presented at Marterial Cultures of Television, University of Hull

Just as there is an archetype of woman as the object of man's eternal love, so there must be an archetype of her as the object of his eternal fear, representing, perhaps, the shadow of his own evil actions. (Enchi Fumiko 1983, p. 57) Vampiric femm... Read More about The mysterious feminine : set design and costume in the Season Two finale of Twin Peaks.

Panel discussion : WIT: making art out of illness (2016)
Presentation / Conference
McCormick, S. (2016, February). Panel discussion : WIT: making art out of illness. Presented at Panel Discussion: WIT: Making Art out of Illness, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

Effects of culture and religion on the use of ICT in the Saudi education system (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Albugami, S., & Ahmed, V. (2016, January). Effects of culture and religion on the use of ICT in the Saudi education system. Presented at The IRES -13th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning (IC4E) -, Istanbul, Turkey

Information Communication and Technology (ICT) is one of the fastest growing and advancing areas in our modern time. It has gained a great deal of attention in recent decades and become a cornerstone for development in the 21st century. In Saudi Arab... Read More about Effects of culture and religion on the use of ICT in the Saudi education system.

More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Neylon, C. (2015, November). More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day. Presented at Sibeal, Limerick, Ireland

Due to the historical, and continued, invisibility of women in ‘typically’ male positions and careers, today’s girls and young women are offered few visible female role models to aspire to and this may have a strong impact on their choice of careers... Read More about More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day.

Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, November). Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice. Presented at Women in Sound/Women on Sound symposium, Lancaster University

This presentation arises from an on-going project, exploring the activation of popular music from Salford, through a series of live intermedial events. Live intermedial practice involves the real time mixing of sound, image, object and text and can m... Read More about Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice.

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.

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.

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.

Representations of religion, spirituality and philosophy as international narratives in the manga “Full Metal Alchemist” (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, 2001-2010) (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hernandez Perez, M. (2015, June). Representations of religion, spirituality and philosophy as international narratives in the manga “Full Metal Alchemist” (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, 2001-2010). Presented at CSS Research Day : Spirituality and Popular Culture / Arts, Centre for Spirituality Studies, University of Hull

Japanese Entertainment Industries may be defined by two main features: its transmedia vocation, or its ability to disseminate narratives through several media at once, and its cross-cultural, or heterogeneous representation of different cultural back... Read More about Representations of religion, spirituality and philosophy as international narratives in the manga “Full Metal Alchemist” (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, 2001-2010).