Media Communications: Research Seminars

Research Seminars - 2000 Programme

• "Cyborg Sex"
  Wednesday 22 March 2000, Joanna Zylinska.
• "Wyndham Lewis's Representations of the First World War: Empathy versus Abstraction"
  Wednesday 29 March 2000, Paul Edwards.
• "Sex, Race and Empire: The Seretse Khama Affair"
  Wednesday 10 May 2000, Jerry Clifford.
• "Riot, Torture and Repression in sixteenth-century London: the dramatists' view"
  Wednesday 17 May 2000, Tracey Hill.
• "The Great Debate: Posh versus Pulp - Popular culture is rubbish and should be rejected by academic criticism."
  Wednesday 24 May 2000, Richard Kerridge and Terence Rodgers.

Seminars will take place in the Stanton Lecture Theatre (NP.SN.GO1), starting at 1830h and ending around 2000h.

Research Seminars - 1999 Programme

• "Ken Loach and Censorship"
  Wednesday 24 February 1999, Julian Petley (Brunel University).
• "'I'm the bad guy now?' Hollywood Whiteness and Masculinity after the angry white males"
  Wednesday 3 March 1999, Jude Davies (King Alfred's College).
• "British films in the USA: the case of Black Narcissus (1947)"
  Wednesday 10 March 1999, Sarah Street (University of Bristol).
• "Sex and Marriage in Contemporary Hollywood Film"
  Wednesday 17 March 1999, Carol Smith (King Alfred's College).
• "Harold Pinter's Screenplays: a Hidden Art"
  Wednesday 21 April 1999, Linda Renton (Bath Spa University).
• "The Great Debate: Postmodernism: What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing/Everything"
  Wednesday 28 April 1999, Terence Rodgers and John Newsinger.

Seminars took place in the Stanton Lecture Theatre (NP.SN.GO1), starting at 1830h and ending around 2000h.

Research Seminars - 1998 Programme

• "'Don't Mess with the Brits' The SAS as a Cultural Phenomenon."
  Wednesday 18 February 1998, John Newsinger.
• "Satires of Pre-Victorian Rural Culture: Thomas Hardy and the Lure of 'Facts'."
  Wednesday 25 February 1998, Bill Greenslade (University of the West of England).
• "What is the Literary?"
  Wednesday 4 March 1998, Peter Widdowson (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education).
• "Family Standbys: Single Men and Women in the Mid-Twentieth Century England."
  Wednesday 11 March 1998, Kath Holden (University of the West of England).
• "Bikers! Beards! and Butch Broads in Bloomers! Cycling in Nineteenth Century Ireland."
  Wednesday 22 April 1998, Brian Griffin.
• "The Great Debate: The Love of Nature Versus the Economy of Desire: Should Environmentalism Embrace Postmodernism."
  Wednesday 29 April 1998, Richard Kerridge and Greg Garrard.
• "Henry James and Class"
  Wednesday 6 May 1998, Tessa Hadley.

Seminars took place in the Stanton Lecture Theatre (NP.SN.G01), starting at 1830h and ending around 2000h.

Research Seminars - 1997 Programme

• "The Great Debate: Is Shakespeare Relevant?"
  Wednesday 7 May 1997, Tracey Hill and Gavin Cologne-Brookes.
• "Semen, Tallow, Gelatin: BSE and the Literary Pastoral"
  Wednesday 30 April 1997, Richard Kerridge.
• "Buttered Buns and Slavery: Court Life under the later Stuarts"
  Wednesday 23 April 1997, Alan Marshall.
• "The Dislocated Self in Modern French Writing"
  Wednesday 16 April 1997, Olga Gomez.
• "The Possible Worlds of Language and Literature"
  Wednesday 19 March 1997, Keith Green (Sheffield Hallam University).
• "The Awkward Audience: Responses to Judge Dredd: The Movie"
  Wednesday 12 March 1997, Martin Barker (UWE).
• "None is too many' and `not the right type': the politicization of Irish migration to Australia and Canada, 1919-1939"
  Wednesday 5 March 1997, Kent Fedorowich (UWE).
• "Understanding Islam in the 1990s"
  Wednesday 26 February 1997, Iftikhar Malik.
• "The Artist at Work: Commercialism and Integrity"
  Wednesday 19 February 1997, Peter Flannery.
• "Hysteria and Female Sexuality in Dracula"
  Wednesday 12 February 1997, William Hughes.

Seminars took place in the Stanton Lecture Theatre (NP.ST.G01), starting at 1800h and ending around 2000h.

Research Seminars - 1996 Programme

• "Fascism and the Internet"
  Wednesday 28 February 1996, Roger Eatwell ( University of Bath).
• "Elegiac Writing and the Myth of Prince Henry"
  Wednesday 6 March 1996, Roberta Anderson (Bath Spa University).
• "Male Modernist Murders Blind Beggar: Wyndham Lewis and 'The Death of Ankou'"
  Wednesday 13 March 1996, Paul Edwards (Bath Spa University).
• "Fantastic Journey: Lafcardio Hearn in Japan"
  Wednesday 20 March 1996, Paul Murray (Irish Embassy, London).
• "'The Offspring of Prostitutes': Popular Attitudes towards the Royal Irish Constabulary"
  Wednesday 27 March 1996, Brian Griffin (Bath Spa University).
• "The Unknown Morris: Design and Enterprise in Victorian Britain"
  Wednesday 1 May 1996, Jon Press (Bath Spa University).
• "The Great Debate: Churchill, Warmonger or National Saviour?"
  Wednesday 8 May 1996 Terrence Rodgers and John Newsinger (Bath Spa University).