Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2024, August)
Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023). Paper presented at European Society of the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Conan Doyle and Mormonism: Global Contexts for A Study in Scarlet
Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2024, April)
Conan Doyle and Mormonism: Global Contexts for A Study in Scarlet. Paper presented at Global Conan Doyle Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI.
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2023, June)
‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Innovation In Music Conference 2023, Edinburgh, UK
The story of the Fairlight CMI is a story of misuse. Designed primarily as a digital synthesizer for the imitation of acoustic instruments, it was used in the worlds of popula...
Channel 4 - then and now - the view from Scotland: the evolution of the Channel’s relationship with the Scottish production sector
Presentation / Conference
Scott, A., & Correia, N. (2022, September)
Channel 4 - then and now - the view from Scotland: the evolution of the Channel’s relationship with the Scottish production sector. Paper presented at Channel 4: Then and Now, BFI Southbank, London
This paper examines the historic relationship between Channel 4 and the Scottish independent production sector over four decades and investigate how the opportunities and supp...
Beyond Sustainability: The Music Industries Declare Emergency on Planet Earth – or do they?
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2022, August)
Beyond Sustainability: The Music Industries Declare Emergency on Planet Earth – or do they?. Paper presented at IASPM UK and Ireland Conference, University of Liverpool
In December last year, a number of record labels based in the UK signed the Music Climate Pact in which they committed to reducing the emission of greenhouse gases by 50% by 2...
Step on Me Charlotte Rampling or on Arrakis No One Can Hear You Orgasm
Presentation / Conference
Artt, S. (2022, June)
Step on Me Charlotte Rampling or on Arrakis No One Can Hear You Orgasm. Paper presented at Association of Adaptation Studies annual conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal
In Dune (Denis Villeneuve, 2021), the much-anticipated adaptation of the Frank Herbert series, Charlotte Rampling briefly appears as Mother Helen Mohiam, high priestess of the...
Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P., & Blackburn, M. (2022, June)
Finding the Female Users: A Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Rethinking the History of Technology-based Music, University of Huddersfield
The story of the Fairlight CMI, a digital synthesizer that was designed in Sydney, Australia in the mid-to-late 1970s, is dominated by a few high-profile male users: Peter Gab...
Critical Revival: How Critics have read Revival and Renaissance
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2022, March)
Critical Revival: How Critics have read Revival and Renaissance. Paper presented at 'The Scottish Revival and the Canon', Seminar 3 of The Scottish Revival Network, Online
Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education
Presentation / Conference
MacLeod, K. (2021, October)
Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education. Paper presented at Menstruation in the Media (in collaboration with Menstruation Research Network), Sheffield Halam University
This paper will discuss the a university produced social impact documentary, Bleeding Free, produced by an advocacy and impact collective, Bleedin Saor . The collective (meani...
The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic
Presentation / Conference
MacLeod, K. (2021, July)
The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic. Paper presented at 2021 MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium, Solent University, Southampton
The presentation will discuss initial reflections on a UKRI funded impact and engagement project in the Pacific, aimed at addressing community based and participatory media pr...