Time: 9.30am – 5.30pm
Venue: Park Building, Room 1.23

The School of Languages and Area Studies invites you to attend the following Study Day on Wednesday 22 May. The Study Day aims to examine the use of visual materials as sources and teaching tools, and as a means to make academic research accessible to the wider community. Please see the programme below.

• 9.00am - 9.45am
  Registration, tea and coffee

• 9.45am - 10.00am
  Welcome from Dr Ann Matear (Head of School of Languages and Area Studies) and Professor Tony Chafer (Director of Centre for European and International Studies Research) 

• 10.00am - 11.00am Session 1 (chair, Margaret Majumdar, University of Portsmouth)
  Patrick Crowley (University College Cork) - ‘Illustrating “Algeria” and the Heuristic Use of Examples’
  Lee Sartain (University of Portsmouth) - ‘The Use of Visual Materials in American/African American Studies’

• 11.00am - 12.00pm Session 2 (chair, Claire Eldridge, University of Southampton)
  Laurike in 't Veld (University of Chichester) - ‘The Representation of Genocide in Comic Books’
  Ann Matear (University of Portsmouth) - ‘Photography and Ethics’

• 12.00pm - 1.00pm
  Lunch

• 1.00pm - 2.30pm Workshop Session
  Matt Smith (University of Portsmouth) - ‘Applied Theatre and Puppetry’

• 2.30pm - 3.00pm
  Break, tea and coffee

• 3.00pm - 4.00pm
  Postgraduate Poster Session

• 4.00pm - 4.30pm
  Patrick Altès (Leverhulme Artist in Residence, University of Portsmouth) - ‘The Artist Talks Back’ 

• 4.30pm - 5.30pm
  ‘The Academic as Curator’ (roundtable chaired by Natalya Vince, University of Portsmouth)
  Patrick Altès (Leverhulme Artist in Residence, University of Portsmouth)
  Berny Sèbe (University of Birmingham)
  Heloise Finch-Boyer (National Maritime Museum)

Registration is free, but please confirm attendance via Eventbrite.