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Screen Test: What is the future for film and television research?

Geological Society, Piccadilly, London
Tuesday 05 July 2011

Details of speakers, schedule, and registration available at www.screentest.org.uk.

While all intellectual fields periodically go through processes of review, this event is driven by timely questions over how the field will respond to two key challenges we face: firstly, evident changes to the funding of arts and humanities research; and secondly, larger questions about the status of film and media scholarship in the changing academic marketplace and what implications this may have for the type of knowledge which colleagues may look to generate in future through their scholarship.

The aim of the day is to generate informed debate around the following issues:

• What is the current state of the field in screen studies research?
• How does the academic community engage with constituencies beyond the immediate research context?
• What role do non-academic partners have in promoting access to film and television sources?

Speakers

James Bennett (London Metropolitan University)

Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading)

Luis Carrasqueiro (BUFVC)

John Caughie (University of Glasgow)

John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Jacquie Kavanagh (BBC Written Archives)

Rachael Moseley (University of Warwick)

Richard Paterson (British Film Institute)

Sarah Street (University of Bristol)

Articulating Practice: Practice as Research

Courtyard Theatre, London
Saturday 21 May 2011

Practice as Research is often held hostage by the 'secure' academic discourse of the written text, required to defend, explain or describe itself for accessibility, archiving or dissemination. The familiar written 'appendix' to practical work sits sometimes uncomfortably alongside a practical artefact or process that is the chosen form of articulation, a form that sometimes deliberately resists, provokes and challenges logocentrism. Practice as Research is also very often a collaborative, interdisciplinary or intermedial exploration, in which different forms, embodiments and methodologies engage in discourse. These concerns raise a number of key questions: how do we read practice as critical and academic discourse?; how does practice 'write' for itself?; and how can practical processes reveal and disseminate a theoretical contribution to knowledge?

The symposium will explore relationships between articulations of practice and the written word, and will appeal to scholars in a variety of academic disciplines relating to performance and practice. In particular, we welcome postgraduate researchers interested in the area of Practice as Research in Performance.

Transnational Cinemas

University of Portsmouth
13 February 2010

The inaugural symposium of the Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Portsmouth, marking the launch of the journal Transnational Cinemas.

Explorations of transnational exchanges in film culture have emerged in response to an increasing awareness of the limitations of conceptualising cinema within strictly national boundaries. This symposium brought together some of the most respected scholars working in the field of transnational cinema studies. Speakers explored the transnational dynamics of cinema from a range of perspectives, including historical investigations of transnationalism, critical analysis of contemporary theory, and the reception and distribution of blockbusters from East Asia.

Full details of the day are listed in the Transnational Cinemas Programme

Researching Cinema History: Perspectives and Practices in Film Historiography

Geological Society, London
6-7 July 2009

Historiography has produced one of the richest seams of enquiry for cinema and film researchers. Yet rarely are matters of research perspective or methodology reflected upon. Organized in collaboration with the British Universities Film & Video Council, this symposium provided a context in which to explore and interrogate the conceptual perspectives, methodological principles and practical working procedures involved with researching cinema history. Speakers included Robert C. Allen, Karel Dibbets, Mark Glancy, Julia Hallam.

For further information, please visit the Researching Cinema History website.

British Culture and Society in the 1970s

University of Portsmouth
1-3 July 2008

Without the creative energy and glamour of the Swinging Sixties, or the entrepreneurial acquisitiveness of the Thatcherite Eighties, frequently the 1970s have been either dismissed or simply ignored by historians of British culture. To review the significance of the decade, this event brought together papers exploring the diversity of culture in the period through aspects of film, television, music, architecture, interior design, magazines and comics. Speakers included Ken Russell, James Chapman, Juilan Petley and Andrew Spicer.

For further details, please visit the 1970s Project website.

James Bennett (London Metropolitan University)

Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading)

Luis Carrasqueiro (BUFVC)

John Caughie (University of Glasgow)

John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Jacquie Kavanagh (BBC Written Archives)

Rachael Moseley (University of Warwick)

Richard Paterson (British Film Institute)