"Spielberg at Sixty" International Conference
20th - 21st November, 2007
Keynote speakers: more keynote speaker information
Robert Phillip Kolker, University of Virginia, USA
Peter Kramer, University of East Anglia, UK
Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University, Canada
Linda Ruth Williams, University of Southampton, UK
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The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity
International Conference
East Midlands Media and Technology Centre
University of Lincoln UK
15-16th November 2007
Hosted by the Faculties of Art, Architecture & Design and Media,
Humanities & Technology
Click here for The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity webpage
Radical Cultures and Local Identities
An International Symposium
September 21 – 22 2007
The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum
Lincoln 16-19 July 2007
This conference aims to continue the work of Sussex 2001,
Madison, Wisconsin 2003 and Melbourne 2005 to bring together
scholars, practitioners, and students of radio to share ideas
and perspectives on radio’s cultural role in an increasingly
global media context.
We also hope to build on developments in European radio research
stimulated by the International Radio Research Network (IREN).
The conference is jointly sponsored by the University of Lincoln
and the UK Radio Studies Network.
Click here for Radio Conference Programme (pdf).pdf
The Faculty of Media, Humanities & Technology
Postgraduate Event took place on Monday 18th June, 2007
The opening welcome by Dr Philip Swan and introduction to the day by Professor Ann Gray was followed by a number of excellent presentations by research students.
Click here for the full postgraduate event article.pdf
Lincoln Book Festival
11th-20th May 2007
The Faculty contributed to this year's successful
Lincoln Book Festival.
On Tuesday 15 May, over 80 people attended a poetry reading
event. Work was presented to an appreciative audience by the
well-known and established poet, Moniza Alvi, and Zoë Brigley as
well as by University of Lincoln student poets representing all
three years of the English degree. '
On Wednesday 16 May, two members of the Faculty, Dr Jane Chapman
and Nigel Morris presented talks and answered questions on film
and documentary making.
On Thursday 17 May, two of the
Faculty's historians, Professor Krista Cowman and Dr Ian Packer,
spoke about their most recent books, which examined different
aspects of British politics in the turbulent years of the early
twentieth century.
Lincoln Book festival.pdf
International Colloquium: Rethinking Cultural Studies in the ‘New Europe’
University of Lincoln : November 2006
Institutions represented:
Institut fur Europaische Ethnologie & Privatdozent of the ELTE
Budapest, University of Pecs, and the Institute for Political
Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Institute for Sociology of Slovak Academy of Sciences &
Institute of European Studies and International Relations,
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
University of Tartu and University of Tallinn, Estonia
University of Tampere, Finland
INHOLLAND University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Leading thematic groups identified:
• Epistemological and methodological issues, including problems
of translations
• History of cultural research prior to 1989, especially
projects conducted in former communist countries which still
remain excluded from the mainstream European cultural research
tradition
• Audience research: transformation of European audience
behaviour in response to the increasing globalized media
production
• Possible comparative case studies of the reception of
internationalized TV programmes
The importance of communication channels and networks was
recognised and colleagues from the former Eastern Europe
welcomed the forum and network in developing contacts. Three
academic journals were represented at the Colloquium and
discussions were held about the potential for new kinds of
journals which would support postgraduate research students and
early career scholars especially from former Eastern Europe.
Plans were also discussed for institutional co-operation at a
number of levels.