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Where are the Frontiers of Evidence? The Critical Politics of Big Textual Data
Date: 21/5/2013 | Time: 4.30pm – 5.45pm
You are invited to take part in the next ICS Visual and Digital Cultures research group seminar, presented by William Allen of The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford. The seminar will take place in Clothworkers’ Building North, Room 1.17 (Seminar Room).
Louis Le Prince Research Seminar Screening: Nous Sommes Tous des Assassins
Date: 22/5/2013 | Time: 4.00pm – 6.00pm
You are invited to attend this research seminar screening of Nous Sommes Tous des Assassins (‘We Are All Murderers’, France, 1950, dir. André Cayatte), held in the Phil Taylor Cinema, Clothworkers’ Building North.
The New Memory of Warfare
Date: 5/6/2013 | Time: 4.15pm – 5.30pm
You are invited to attend this next event in the ICS Research Seminar Series, to be delivered by Professor Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow). The seminar will be held in the ICS Lecture Theatre, Room G12, Clothworkers’ Building North.
The Non-Financial Crisis: Politics, Media and Culture in the Present Economic Context
Date: 10/6/2013 (all day)
The annual ICS PhD conference will interrogate various aspects of the current financial crisis, going beyond economic considerations to broader issues related to socio-political systems, media and cultural production.
Louis Le Prince Research Seminar Screening: Model
Date: 12/6/2013 | Time: 4.00pm – 6.00pm
You are invited to attend this research seminar screening of Model (US, 1980, dir. Frederick Wiseman, 129 minutes, 16mm), held in the Phil Taylor Cinema, Clothworkers’ Building North.
Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media
Date: 14/6/2013 – 15/6/2013
The programme for the “Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media” conference has been finalized. Over 70 papers will be delivered by scholars from 20 different countries, including Colombia, Japan, Russia, Australia and China.
Advancing Media Production Research
Date: 24/6/2013 (all day)
This conference is intended to address the issues raised in the process of researching within media, journalistic, and cultural organisations, primarily from the anthropological and sociological traditions of long-term exposure to production cultures through ethnographic observation or participant observation.
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Louis Le Prince Research Seminar Screening: Mulan
Date: 15/5/2013 | Time: 4.00pm – 6.00pm
You are invited to attend this research seminar screening of Disney’s Mulan, held in the Phil Taylor Cinema, Clothworkers’ Building North.
Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations
Date: 8/5/2013 | Time: 4.15pm – 5.30pm
You are invited to attend the next in the ICS Research Seminar Series, delivered by Professor Ben O’Loughlin, International Relations and Co-Director of the New Political Communication Unit at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The Fourth Age of Political Communication?
Date: 30/4/2013 | Time: 4.00pm – 5.30pm
You are invited to join the next ICS Political Communication Research Group seminar, led by Emeritus Professor Jay Blumler with Dr Katrin Voltmer as discussant. The seminar will take place in the Conference Room (1.18), Clothworkers’ Building North.
ICS Visual & Digital Cultures Research Group Seminar: Life After New Media
Date: 24/4/2013 | Time: 3.00pm – 4.00pm
You are invited to join the next meeting of the ICS Visual & Digital Cultures Research Group in room 1.17 (the seminar room) of the ICS Building, Clothworkers’ North.
Journalists Witnessing Disasters: From the Calculus of Death to the Injunction to Care
Date: 17/4/2013 | Time: 4.15pm – 5.30pm
You are invited to attend the next in the ICS Research Seminar Series, delivered by Professor Simon Cottle, Professor of Media and Communications and Deputy Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.
How Voters Feel
Date: 16/4/2013 | Time: 5.00pm – 6.30pm
You are warmly invited to the next research seminar of the ICS Political Communication Research Group, where Professor Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication in ICS, will discuss his latest book, How Voters Feel.
Straightjacket Love: YouTube Fan Channels, Queer Auto-ethnography, and Political Identity
Date: 13/3/2013 | Time: 4.00pm – 5.30pm
Professor Kevin Barnhurst, Professor of Communications in the Digital Era in ICS, will consider how queer storylines offer titillation in straight-centered daytime television, but YouTube channels up-end soap operas.
2013 Jay Blumler Lecture: Journalism in Times of Globalization
Date: 30/1/2013 | Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm
The 2013 Jay Blumler Lecture will be given by Professor Frank Esser, Professor of International & Comparative Media Research at the University of Zurich and a specialist on international journalism and comparative political communication research.
New Forms of Writing
Date: 16/1/2013 | Time: 4.15pm – 5.30pm
You are invited to attend the first ICS Research Seminar of 2013, which will be delivered by Theo van Leeuwen, Professor of Media and Communication and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Cities, Creativity and the Museum
Date: 19/12/2012 | Time: 3.00pm
ICS’ Professor Kate Oakley will present at this panel discussion in association with the launch of Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance, volume 5 of the Sage Cultures and Globalization Series.