Thursday 18 July 2013

Digital Engagement in Theory and Practice: Event at Salford

Wednesday 13th November 2013 and Tuesday 17th December 2013
University of Salford

Deadline for Applications: 15 August 2013

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals from individuals working on any aspect of contemporary literature (post-1916) for our AHRC funded two-day, interactive training event entitled #postC20literaryresearch: Digital Engagement in Theory and Practice. Across these two days participants will be given full training and supported in producing a digital engagement output in the form of a podcast.

The event is scheduled for Wednesday 13th November and Tuesday 17th December and applicants must be available to attend both days.

Further details about the project and this event can be found on our website www.thec21scholar.com. There are a limited number of places and all applications will be judged based on the quality of the proposed podcasts.

A poster may be downloaded here: http://www.hssr.mmu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/C21-Salford-Event-CFP1.pdf
which includes full details about the event and how to apply. If you have any enquiries please do not hesitate to contact us at salford@thec21scholar.com

We look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes,
Claire O’Callaghan, Alex Pryce and Emma Young


Postgraduate Contemporary Women’s Writing Network (PG CWWN)
Twitter @pgcwwn
Website:http://pgcwwn.wordpress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/34468732135/

Monday 8 July 2013

Uni of Manchester talks for the Autumn

CIDRAL, The University of Manchester (room tbc)
October – December 2013
Semester 1: Border Crossings

1. Friday 11 October
Professor Rey Chow (Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke)
Public Lecture: ‘On the Transcultural and Intermediality’
With Chinese Film Forum UK and Cornerhouse
Masterclass before public lecture
http://literature.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=%2Faas%2FLiterature&Uil=rey.chow

2. Tuesday 22 October
Professor Ella Shohat (Professor of Art and Public Policy, Middle Eastern Studies, NYU)
Public Lecture: ‘The Sephardic-Moorish Atlantic’
Masterclass: Wednesday 23rd October
http://meis.as.nyu.edu/object/ella.shohat

3. Tuesday 5 November
Professor Li Wei (Linguistics, Birkbeck)
Public Lecture on migration, diaspora and trans-languaging practices
(title and masterclass tbc)
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/our-staff/li-wei

4. Tuesday 3 December
Professor Max Silverman (French, Leeds University)
Public lecture: ‘Intercultural Memory’
Masterclass: Wednesday 4 December
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20053/french/person/738/max_silverman

Thursday 4 July 2013

Salford Uni Retro PC event at MediaCity

Visitors to the free event can relive the glory days of programming Commodore 64s or ZX Spectrums and can play some old-school computer games. Coming bang up to date, they can also see how the Raspberry Pi is helping teach a new generation of children how to write computer programmes.



Full info via http://manchestergazette.co.uk/technology-goes-retro-at-mediacityuk/

Wednesday 3 July 2013

Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music published!


Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music is about to be published by Bloomsbury, co-edited by Salford academics Drs Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman. 



The book arises from the international conference held at Salford in Summer 2010, “Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures: Noise, Affect, Politics”, and is the sister volume to Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise (published in 2012 by Bloomsbury-Continuum, co-edited by Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan and Paul Hegarty).

Authors include Salford Profs Sheila Whiteley ("Kick Out the Jams! Creative Anarchy and Noise in 1960s Rock") and George McKay ("To Be Played at Maximum Volume: Rock Music as a Disabling (Deafening) Culture") along and an international cast of academics, musicians, programmers and photographers. 

Full info: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/resonances-9781441159373/

From the Introduction:

Contemporary histories of popular Western musics may be more usefully
read as a series of debates concerning what, sonically and experientially,
actually constitutes music in the commonly understood way, and what then
constitutes, or can be termed as, and typically dismissed as, non-music.
Such debates are class-ridden, evidence racial prejudices and profiling,
continually undermine traditional musicological assumptions, radically
problematize the commercial framings of music, mark all pivotal shifts in
music across at least one hundred years, relentlessly advance the ‘death of
the author’, are called upon to define time, place and national identity, and
outmanoeuvre demarcations of high art and low culture. Answers provided
have formed the methodological foundations of the conservatoire as well as
journalistic and academic approaches to music, and now pull in their wake
a judicial apparatus of ownership, censorship and reparations.

Technologies have been calibrated to answers provided too: reproductions
of sound that invariably brag about ‘noise reduction’. Noise, to music,
is typically byproduct, accident, the unwanted, the unpleasant. And yet
noise is inevitable and imminent to music: that inexorable presence that
mixers and sound engineers do their best to exorcize, that gig-goers reflexively
block out, plugging fingers in ears, when it takes the form of feedback.
The exception that proves the rule in terms of contemporary music is folk:
‘natural’ sounds and pre-modern instruments (and, often, affectations) as
a respite from the noise of the real or urban world and the noise of the
musics that the real or urban world taints – a kind of bucolic, aristocratic
asceticism, and one that implicitly casts noise as detrimental to musical, and
human, interactions. 




Monday 1 July 2013

“Where does feminism go from here?” (MMU conference, 6-7/July)


International Conference on Violence Against Women and Girls