[ecrea] Seminars in Communications, Cultural and Media Studies

>Research Seminars
>Summer Term 2007
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>Communications, Cultural and Media Studies
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>Department of Art, Media and Design
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>Each seminar involves presentations from one or more speakers, lasting
>about 45 minutes.
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>There is then a break for wine, followed by a chaired debate, giving
>speakers and audience time to explore the issues in depth.
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>Further information: Contact Jon Baldwin ((j.baldwin /at/ londonmet.ac.uk))
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>Open to all staff, students, and the interested general public.
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>Day / Time:      Wednesdays 4.00 to 6.00
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>Place:                           ILRC Seminar Room Commercial Road
>(http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/about/find-us.cfm)
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>Except 14th March: Room 102, Commercial Road. 4.30 ­ 6.30
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>14th March      Professor Adrian Monck, City University, London:
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>                         Do the public deserve to be informed?
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>Adrian Monck is Head of Journalism and Publishing at City University. He
>has been an award-winning broadcast journalist with CBS News, ITN and Sky
>News, pioneering undercover reporting for News at Ten. His work at
>Dunblane and in Bosnia has received awards from the Royal Television
>Society, and on Rwanda won the special report gold medal, and overall
>prize at the New York International Festival. He is co-author of Crunch
>Time (Allen & Unwin, 2004), a guide to current affairs. He is a media
>commentator for the Evening Standard, and a columnist for Press Gazette.
>He has been an editorial consultant to leading UK and international
>broadcasters. He has judged the BAFTAs, both the RTS Journalism and
>Television awards, and the British Press Awards. He is currently President
>of the Media Society.
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>21st March      Jane Barnwell, London Metropolitan University:
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>London at Home: How does production design inform place, character and
>narrative?
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>Jane Barnwell is author of Production Design: Architects of the screen
>(Wallflower, 2004). Her research includes film design as an expression of
>"home"; the historical contribution of the designer in film and
>television; and experimental theatre.
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>18th April         Dr. Heather Nunn and Dr. Anita Biressi, Roehampton
>University, London:
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>                         The Media and Politics of the Kenneth Bigley Case:
>Some Reflections
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>Heather Nunn is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of
>Arts, Roehampton University. Her research interests include politics and
>culture, images of childhood and documentary and factual programming. Her
>publications include Thatcher, Politics and Fantasy (2002), Reality TV:
>Realism and Revelation (2005) and Media War (2005). Anita Biressi is Head
>of Film, Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Arts, Roehampton
>University. Her publications include the books Crime, Fear and the Law in
>True Crime Stories (2001) and Reality TV: Realism and Revelation (2005)
>and articles in journals such as Screen and Space and Culture. Her
>research interests include popular nonfictions and crime and law and order
>in the media. Heather and Anita are currently editing The Tabloid Culture
>Reader which is forthcoming from McGraw Hill later in 2007.
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>9th May           Professor Parick ffrench, Kings College, London:
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>                         Georges Bataille: The Sorcerers Apprentice
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>Patrick ffrench is Professor of French at King's College London, where he
>teaches modern French literature and thought. His principal research
>interests are in twentieth-century literature and post-war literary and
>critical theory; in particular: Georges Bataille, the journal Tel Quel
>(1960-1982), the legacy of French theory and the thought of Gilles
>Deleuze. His books include The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel
>(Clarendon Press, 1995), The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil
>(OUP, 1999), and After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community (Legenda
>2007).
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>30th May         Dr William Merrin, University of Swansea:
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>                         Baudrillard and the Media
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>                         To be confirmed.
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>Dr. Paul Cobley
>Reader in Communications
>London Metropolitan University
>31 Jewry Street
>LONDON     EC3N 2EY
>UK
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>Email: <(p.cobley /at/ londonmet.ac.uk)>
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>Tel. ++44 (0)207 320 3086

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