Blood Wedding

Drama & Performance and Theatre Practice students are staging a production of Blood Wedding in January, coinciding with the MA symposium.

MA students are offered a concessionary ticket price of £5.

The play is in Edric Hall Theatre, Borough Road, every evening from 19-22 January, at 7pm.

To get your ticket, phone 020 7815 5419 or email Gill Foster.

Centre for Media & Culture Research Autumn 2009 Events

Tuesday 27 October, 2pm, K806, Keyworth Street

Media, War and Terrorism Seminar Series

This seminar series addresses news and documentary representations of contemporary war and terrorism. Two further seminars are planned for the spring 2010 semester.

John Conroy is a BAFTA-nominated director and producer. He won the 2009 Broadcast Award for Best Multichannel Programme for Ross Kemp in Afghanistan, and was a 2009 BAFTA nominee for Best Factual Series. In 2008 John produced and directed the BBC’s world affairs editor, John Simpson, in a documentary for BBC2 on the dilemmas of war reporting, and directed ITV1’s Doctors and Nurses at War series. John’s presentation will focus on his current work preparing a new documentary series on the state of the war in Afghanistan.

Adania Shibli is a celebrated Palestinian novelist and short story writer, who has been described as ‘the most talked-about writer on the West Bank’. Adania has also recently completed a PhD at the University of East London. Her research focuses on Arab, Israeli, and European media discourses and visual representations of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the 9/11 attacks, and the ‘war on terror’. Her presentation, titled ‘Visual Terror’, will explore the issue of invisibility and its function within the visual representation of terror.

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Wednesday 4 November, 3pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Street

Berlin—Frankfurt—Istanbul: Turkish Hip-hop in Motion

Thomas Solomon is Associate Professor in the Grieg Academy – Department of Music, at the University of Bergen, Norway. His publications include articles in Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, and Yearbook for Traditional Music, as well numerous edited volumes. His current research focuses on popular musics in the Turkish diaspora in Europe, issues of gender in Turkish rap music, and musical imaginations of regional identity on the Turkish Black Sea coast. This paper explores the implications the experience of movement can have for feelings of belonging, arguing that multi-sited ethnography is an especially appropriate method for investigating these transnational communities of affect, following actors along the routes they take as they trace the itineraries of their identity.

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Wednesday 25 November, 3pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Street

Michigan’s Morphing Media: A US Test Case

Maria Marron is Professor and Chair of the Journalism Department at Central Michigan University, and is spending this semester as a Visiting Professor at LSBU where she is undertaking research on investigative journalism in the British Isles, examining attitudes toward investigative journalism, related levels of professionalism, and the effects of investigations on public policy.

Culture and the role of the state

The Media & Culture Research Group's next event is a talk by Munira Mirza, director of policy on Arts, Culture & the Creative Industries for the Mayor of London. Click here for futher details, or here if you're on Facebook. Details of all of this semester's events can be found here.

get your hands DIRT(Y)

here's a wiki with information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) - that means YOU! - conduct research more efficiently or creatively.

Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki

In the citation and management tols section, http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/Citation+Management+Tools you'll find one of my favorite tools: zotero. It lives in your (firefox) browser and makes your reading and note-taking life so much fun!

Photographic Workshop

I'm going to organise a photographic workshop, I think it will be good to get immersed in the facilities that are avaialble. I'll find out who's going to do it and get some dates. If anyone's interested let me know, I'll post this on Facebook too & email the rest with dates, as I know not everyone's on here.

Eager to get started but...

...I'm feeling slightly lost. I've printed a document from the lsbu site outlining the four dimensions of study. Have any of the other first year students looked through it?

I think I need guidance on how to apply the four dimensions to writing my project proposal, which is our first task. I'm doing a lot of reading and perhaps I am already applying the four dimensions without realising it. Should I separate my note-taking out and assign them to whichever dimension they apply to?

I don't understand at all the explaination of "Critical and reflective practice" in the document, in fact it makes me dizzy, but I will hopefully pick my tutor's brains and get a layman's explaination.

Thanks for setting this up Lorraine - Wendy

The journey ahead

Well I have a stack of books on photography, cultural theory, energy fields and study skills so I hope this blog will help me to focus my attention! There's just over 3 months until the first assessment on May 8th, seems like a fair amount of time but I know it will fly.

I'm going to develop this blog over time and find out if I can upload documents etc. Meanwhile the next event at LSBU is "Culture and the Role of the State", on Tuesday 24th Feb @ 7pm. I think someone suggested meeting up in London for a drink & chat, even if we don't go to this talk.