[Commlist] UEA Media Research Seminar series (May-July)

The UEA Media Research seminar series has got three great online events 
coming up in May, June and July:

TUESDAY MAY 10^TH , 4.00-5.00pm

Dr Helen Warner (UEA), ‘The Costume Designers Guild: Trade Stories as 
Resistance’

Costume design presents a specific set of challenges when it comes to 
professional recognition. Costume designers must bring characters to 
life through their designs and yet, to ensure suspension of disbelief, 
their labour must be rendered invisible. Consequently, labour has 
historically failed to be viewed as ‘work’. This paper examines the 
strategies used by the Costume Designers Guild (CDG) to mobilise its 
members in fighting for recognition. Focusing on /The Costume Designer/, 
the organisation’s official magazine, the paper explores how the CDG 
provides a space in which to create the sense of community and 
camaraderie required for collective action.

TUESDAY JUNE 7^TH , 4.00-5.00pm

Dr Lorna Richardson (UEA), ‘”I Know I’m Not Alone”: TikTok and Peer 
Support in the Endometriosis Patient Community’

This seminar will explore the use of the platform TikTok for the 
discussion of the experience of endometriosis, and the use of the 
platform for peer-support around this topic amongst people with 
endometriosis or their families. It will discuss the lived experiences 
of the endometriosis community on TikTok, and the concepts, memes, music 
and themes that are used to describe the emotions involved with the illness.

TUESDAY JULY 12^TH 4.00-5.00pm

Dr Geraint D’Arcy (UEA), ‘Science Fiction and the Architectural 
Vernacular of the Modernist Spectacular’

This seminar discusses the persistence of modernist architectures in 
science fiction design in Film, TV and Comics. It will (re)define these 
design process as methodologies of science fiction production which 
construct, redress or extend familiar buildings and environments. It 
aims to show how architecture’s presentation in science fiction 
influences the way we read these texts as wistfully futuristic whilst we 
often condemn their optimistic templates in the context of their 
construction.

You can book for one or more events via the following link:

https://store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities/conferencesevents/media-research-seminar-series-apriljuly-2022 

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