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Research Seminars

For a list of recent and forthcoming seminars, please click here. This page provides an archive of semiinars that have taken place in previous years.

Archive

2007/8

Thursday 1st May, 2008 1pm, A103, Ayr

Wrestling, Debt, Grief and Nanotechnology

An afternoon of presentations from our new PhD students.

Televised and Backyard Wrestling
John Quinn

Marketing Media and Personal Debt
John Andrew Carruthers

Media Representation and Public Grief
Elizabeth McLaughlin

Web 2.0 and public engagement: Public space reconsidered - identities and roles for experts and citizens in communication based networks
Bettina Hoermann

Tuesday 29th April, 2008 3:30pm, E101, Ayr Theory v. Practice: The Creative Crucible
Dr David Manderson, UWS
Thursday 21 February, 2008, 1-2pm, C107. Framing China's Olympic Games:
Public Relations, International Media and the Online Public

Ana Adi, Doctoral Researcher UWS
Wednesday 12 Dec, 2007, 6pm, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Intermediality: Perspectives on Convergent Media
Professor Yvonne Spielmann , UWS
Tuesday 6 Dec, 2007, 2pm, J129. Video & Asian Film
Professor Yvonne Spielmann , UWS
Friday 21 Nov, 2007, 12pm, J129. Issues in Practice-led Research
Chris Freemantle
Wednesday 24 Oct, 2007, 2:30pm, J129. Quality and Quantity’: The value of online seminars for Media and Cultural Studies undergraduates
John W. Robertson, UWS
2006/7
Friday 11 May, 2007, 2:30pm, J129. The politics of slowness in Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993)
Sarah Smith
Department of Historical and Critical Studies
Glasgow School of Art

Changing Rooms in the Museum; A brief consideration of Historical Narratives
Neil Mackinnon (doctoral researcher)
School of Media, Language and Music
University of the West of Scotland
Wednesday 6 December, 2006, 12pm, J129. "Foreign films": the reception of European cinema as foreign-language cinema
Emily Munro
Department of Theatre, Film and Television
University of Glasgow
Monday 20 November, 2006, 2pm, J129. On the edge’: Practice-led research
Chris Fremantle
Gray’s School of Art
The Robert Gordon University
Monday 23 October, 2006, 1pm, J129. Licensed to Thrill: Elias, Mimetic Activity and the Taming of the Skateboarder
Daniel Turner
Business School
Glasgow Caledonian University
2005/6
Monday 8 May, 2006, 3pm, J129. Performing memory on television: documentary and the 1960s
Myra MacDonald
University of Stirling
Department of Film and Media Studies
Monday 27 March, 2006, 3pm, J129. Local Hero Revisited
Alistair Scott
University of the West of Scotland
School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Monday 20 February, 2006, 3pm, E101. At the Edge of the Amateur Sector: The Films of Enrico Cocozza.
Ryan Shand
University of Glasgow,
Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Monday 12 December, 2005, 3pm Re-configuring the 'music industry' : contemporary changes and the implications for research.
John Williamson
University of the West of Scotland
School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Thursday 1 December, 2005, all day University Research Conference,
Ayr Management Centre,
will include presentations from MLM staff:

Gordon Gibson
Kate McBain
Andy Miah
Tuesday 29 November, 2005, 3pm Jihad. A personal reflection on the war against terrorism
Amir Saeed
(University of Sunderland, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies)
Monday 24 Oct, 2005, 3pm Laughing at politics: Scottish devolution in political cartoons
Pille Petersoo
(University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Studies)
2004/5
Mon 30 May, 2005, 3pm Foreign Languages at Governmental Level in the EU
Paul Pilger (MLM, Paisley)
Monday 9 May, 2005, 1-2pm, Ayr Tony Grace (MLM, Paisley) will speak on his work on the Glen Keln sculptures.
Monday 26 April, 2005, 3pm, Room J129, Ayr The Spanish civil war in cinema
David Archibald (Open University)
Saturday 23 April, 2005, 11am-5pm, Glasgow Film Theatre. The Drouth magazine in collaboration with University of Glasgow and University of the West of Scotland present:

Here Like the Fabric' - Rediscovering Margaret Tait

An event dedicated to the screening, discussion and debate of the late Margaret Tait's pioneering work as a poet of both image and word.

Provisional speakers include: Janet McBain, Peter Todd, Murray Grigor.
Monday 18 April, 2005, 1-2pm, Ayr Gordon Gibson (MLM, Paisley) will speak on his doctoral research relating to 'Scotland and Sentimentalism'.
Thursday 3 March 2005, 3pm, Ayr Björn Gudmundsson (Linköping University, Finland) on 'Media Technology'

Björn Gudmundsson (Director of Undergraduate Studies in Media Technology) teaches computer graphics in the MSc programme in Media Technology and Engineering.

Alar Surna will talk about Swedish Music Production.

Alar Surna (Lecturer in Recording Technology) teaches a course in music production. He has professional experience as a music producer with artists such as Roxette, Gyllene Tider, and others.
Monday 28 Feb, 2005 Practice Based Research and the RAE
Tony Grace (MLM, Paisley)
Monday 6 Dec, 2004 Neuro Linguistic Programming
Blane Savage (MLM, Paisley)
Monday 15 Nov, 2004 Cultural Computer Games
Dr Philip Drake (MLM, Paisley)
Monday 18 Oct, 2004 Heritage Cinema
Dr Sarah Neely (MLM, Paisley)
Monday 14 April, 2003, 12pm, Ayr Ayr Too soon for the victory lap?
Dr Alina Bernstein (Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University, Israel), will give a research seminar paper about changes in media coverage of women and sport.