Previous Research Events

Here's a list of previous research events, by academic year and semester.

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Academic Year 2023-24, Semester 1

Date and Time	Speaker and Paper Title	Location or Link
25 October 2023, 4:30yh	Professor Neil Fox (Prifysgol Falmouth), 'The Falmouth Sound/Image Cinema Lab'	Cinema, Parry Williams Building
1 November 2023, 4:30yh	Aim King (Prifysgol Aberystwyth), 'Transmateriality and place-making poetics whilst walking with river ecologies	Cinema, Parry Williams Building
15 November 2023, 4:30yh	Dr Andrew Filmer (Prifysgol Aberystwyth), 'Unsettled Assemblies: Architecture and Performance Space at PQ23'	Cinema, Parry Williams Building
22 November 2023, 4:30yh	Claire Doherty, 'Site-specific theatre in the streaming age: rethinking time and place to produce new forms of real-time storytelling'	Cinema, Parry Williams Building
29 November 2023, 4:30yh	Phil Layton (Prifysgol Aberystwyth), 'Materiality and the Experimental Moving Image'	Cinema, Parry Williams Building

Academic Year 2022-23, Semester 1

Date and Time	Speaker and Paper Title
19 October 2022	Kim Knowles, ‘Thinking the ecological thought through film’
26 October 2022	Centre for Material Thinking lunchtime lecture: Carl Lavery (University of Glasgow), ‘On the need for a lexicon: getting a “taste” for landscape’
2 November 2022	Margaret Ames, ‘Disability, gesture, aesthetics’
10 November 2022	Centre for Material Thinking: artist commission talk with Doug Burton, Aim King, Tanya Syed, Simon Whitehead
16 November 2022	Centre for Material Thinking lunchtime lecture: Julie Dind (Brown University), ‘In and On Autistic Terms: Towards an Autistic Theory of Gesture’
23 November 2022	Heledd Hardy, ‘Troi Tir: Regrow Hemp’
30 November 2022	Centre for Material Thinking lunchtime lecture: Leah Lovett (University College London), ‘Walking in the Posthuman City’
7 December 2022	Tom Alcott, ‘The Image of Gareth Bale: Presenting hierarchies, masculinity and national identity through sports stardom’
9 December 2022	Centre for Material Thinking: film screening and Q&A: Hart of the Wood by Benjamin Wigley
14 December 2022	Roger Owen, ‘Cafflogion, Korsakow and The Hero’s Journey’

Academic Year 2021-22, Semester 2

Date	Speaker and Paper Title
16 February 2022	Margaret Ames, Simon Banham, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Susan Forster, Lisa McCarty, Milja Kurki, Miranda Whall (Aberystwyth University), 'What is Material Thinking?'
23 February 2022	Liesbeth Groot Nibblelink (Utrecht University), ‘Where Scenography Meets Ecology: Assemblage, Affect and Material Thinking’
16 March 2022	Joslin McKinney (University of Leeds), 'The Scenographic City: making sense of urban experience using scenography'
30 March 2022	Margaret Ames, Simon Banham, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Susan Forster, Lisa McCarty, Milja Kurki, Miranda Whall (Aberystwyth University), 'What is Material Thinking? Part 2'
27 April 2022	Becca Voelcker (Central Saint Martins, UAL), ‘Land Cinema: Filming Climates in Crisis’
4 May 2022	Margaret Ames, Simon Banham, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Susan Forster, Lisa McCarty, Milja Kurki, Miranda Whall (Aberystwyth University), 'What is Material Thinking? Part 3'
11 May 2022	Dr Zoe Laughlin, 'Adventures in Materials and Making'
25 May 2022	Cristina Delgado-Garcia (University of Glasgow), ‘Rethinking character beyond anthropocentrism’

Academic Year 2021-22, Semester 1

Date	Speaker and Paper Title
20 October 2021	Heidi Morstang (University of Plymouth), ‘Intuitive Interventions: Constructing Documentary Cinematic Narratives’
27 October 2021	Marcy Saude (Aberystwyth University), ‘Artists’ Film and Reproductive Labour’
3 November 2021	Lisa Richards (Aberystwyth University), ‘“In essence, a talent show for bakers”: The Great British Bake Off as genre hybrid and cosy commodity’
9 November 2021	SPECIAL LAUNCH EVENT FOR THE CENTRE FOR MATERIAL THINKING Carrie Noland (University of California, Irvine), ‘Fact and the Materiality of Meaning: Merce Cunningham's Winterbranch’
17 November 2021	Lucy Gough and Piotr Woycicki (Aberystwyth University), ‘Mapping the Soul VR’
24 November 2021	Bethany Usher (Newcastle University), ‘NOTORIOUS: journalism, dramatisation and crime’
1 December 2021	Johanna Isaacson (Modesto Junior College, California), ‘Coming of Rage into the Futureless Future: Social Reproduction and Young Women in Contemporary Horror Films’
8 December 2021	Bella Merlin (University of California, Riverside), ‘Life on Zoom: The Actor as a Practical Researcher’
15 December 2021	Liam Jarvis (University of Essex), ‘Immersive Embodiment: Empathy Activism & Postdigital Performances of Care’

Academic Year 2020-21, Semester 2

Date	Speaker and Paper Title
3 February 2021	Marie Cronqvist (Lund University), ‘The entangled television histories of Scandinavia and East Germany: Influences and exchanges across the Baltic Iron Curtain’
10 February 2021	Kath Bicknell (Macquarie University, Australia), 'Staying alert to risk and bodily vulnerability in performance and training: a cognitive ethnographic study on the static trapeze' (Performance, Media and Sport series)
17 February 2021	Rachel Hann (Northumbria University), ‘Decolonizing Scenography: A case study on Rosie Elnile's Prayer (2020)’
24 February 2021	Sarah Crews (University of South Wales) & Solomon Lennox (Northumbria University), ‘Soft Borders and menstrual tensions: Resisting hegemonic narratives in boxing’ (Performance, Media and Sport series)
3 March 2021	Johanna Karlsson (Aberystwyth University), ‘Laying Claim to the Power One Desires: How the #women2drive Campaign Changed Traffic in Saudi Arabia’
10 March 2021	Tasha Kitcher (Loughborough University), ‘Electrophone: the Victorian precursor to live streaming’
17 March 2021	Anat Pick (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Permacinema: Vegetal Ethics in Eric Rohmer's The Green Ray’
14 April 2021	Harry Heuser (Aberystwyth University), ‘The Gothic of Audition: Audionarratology, Transdisciplinarity and Old-Time Radio Listening as Self-Othering’
21 April 2021	Amy Daniel (Aberystwyth University), 'Ghosts of My Life - a hauntological documentary on the works of Mark Fisher'
5 May 2021	Shannon Walsh (Louisiana State University, USA), ‘Shifting Affinities: Sports and Theatre During the Pandemic’ (Performance, Media and Sport series)
19 May 2021	Lucy Gough (Aberystwyth University), ‘Footnotes to a Snowglobe’

Academic Year 2020-21, Semester 1

Date	Speaker and Paper Title
21 October 2020	Dr Glen Creeber (Aberystwyth University), ‘Never Ending Stories: Reconsidering complex TV and the historical evolution of the new multiarc drama serial’
4 November 2020	Tanja Beer (Griffith University, Australia), ‘Ecoscenography: An Introduction to Ecological Design for Performance’
11 November 2020	Dr Ffion Jones (Aberystwyth University), ‘How to talk to my Dad and other stories: Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate'
18 November 2020	Dr Roger Owen (Aberystwyth University), ‘Cafflogion, Endemism and Exile: Returning to a novel by R. Gerallt Jones
2 December 2020	Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London), ‘Hydromedia: From water literacy to aqueous politics’
9 December 2020	Janet McCabe (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Divided Bodies, Crossing Borders, Transnational Encounters: towards a feminist approach to transnational TV studies’

Previous Research Events

For a list of our previous research events consult the table below.

Academic Year 2021-22, Semester 2-3

16 February	Margaret Ames, Simon Banham, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Susan Forster, Lisa McCarty, Milja Kurki, Miranda Whall (Aberystwyth University) 'What is Material Thinking?'
23 February	Liesbeth Groot Nibblelink (Utrecht University) ‘Where Scenography Meets Ecology: Assemblage, Affect and Material Thinking’
16 March	Joslin McKinney (University of Leeds) 'The Scenographic City: making sense of urban experience using scenography'
30 March	What is Material Thinking? Part 2
27 April	Becca Voelcker (Central Saint Martins, UAL) ‘Land Cinema: Filming Climates in Crisis’
4 May	What is Material Thinking? Part 3
11 May	Dr Zoe Laughlin 'Adventures in Materials and Making'
25 May	Cristina Delgado-Garcia (University of Glasgow) ‘Rethinking character beyond anthropocentrism’

Academic Year 2021-22, Semester 1

20 October 2021	Heidi Morstang (University of Plymouth), ‘Intuitive Interventions: Constructing Documentary Cinematic Narratives’
27 October 2021	Marcy Saude (Aberystwyth University), ‘Artists’ Film and Reproductive Labour’
3 November 2021	Lisa Richards (Aberystwyth University), ‘“In essence, a talent show for bakers”: The Great British Bake Off as genre hybrid and cosy commodity’
9 November 2021	SPECIAL LAUNCH EVENT FOR THE CENTRE FOR MATERIAL THINKING Carrie Noland (University of California, Irvine), ‘Fact and the Materiality of Meaning: Merce Cunningham's Winterbranch’
17 November 2021	Lucy Gough and Piotr Woycicki (Aberystwyth University), ‘Mapping the Soul VR’
24 November 2021	Bethany Usher (Newcastle University), ‘NOTORIOUS: journalism, dramatisation and crime’
1 December 2021	Johanna Isaacson (Modesto Junior College, California), ‘Coming of Rage into the Futureless Future: Social Reproduction and Young Women in Contemporary Horror Films’
8 December 2021	Bella Merlin (University of California, Riverside), ‘Life on Zoom: The Actor as a Practical Researcher’
15 December 2021	Liam Jarvis (University of Essex), ‘Immersive Embodiment: Empathy Activism & Postdigital Performances of Care’