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The unimaginable journey: Time and spatial boundaries in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ The Wheel (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Fowler, D. M. (2012, July). The unimaginable journey: Time and spatial boundaries in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ The Wheel. Paper presented at International Women and War Project, Hydra, Greece

This paper considers the respective journeys of the central female protagonist in Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ more recent The Wheel (Traverse Theatre, 2011). Both plays trace the experience of war on ordinary working women as they ass... Read More about The unimaginable journey: Time and spatial boundaries in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ The Wheel.

Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, June). Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage. Paper presented at Postdigital Encounters: Creativity and Improvisation. Journal of Media Practice Symposium, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK

With the affordances of locative media, the heritage industry is rapidly embracing the postdigital era, with iPhone Applications for English Heritage, the National Trust and UNESCO World Heritage sites. At the same time, nostalgia for the past (and... Read More about Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage.

The Martians of Africa: Reading anti-colonial and post-colonial cinema as science fiction (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, June). The Martians of Africa: Reading anti-colonial and post-colonial cinema as science fiction. Presented at The Martians of Africa: Reading anti-colonial and post-colonial cinema as science fiction, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Workshop on Chris Marker and Alain Resnais’ Les statues meurent aussi and Ousmane Sembene’s La noire de…

Philip K. Dick’s Valis (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, June). Philip K. Dick’s Valis. Presented at Philip K. Dick’s Valis

Public talk and discussion

Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, March). Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer. Paper presented at idocs2012 - interactive documentary, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol / UWE

i-docs2012 Abstract Charlotte Crofts Title: ‘Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer’ The affordances of mobile technologies enable the i-doc experience to occur in dialogue between... Read More about Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer.

Sf and the short film (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, March). Sf and the short film. Presented at 33rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

Plenary panel

Foreign bodies: British theatre and the staging of humanitarian intervention (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Fowler, D. (2012, March). Foreign bodies: British theatre and the staging of humanitarian intervention. Paper presented at UWE Drama Research Group, St Matthias Campus, Bristol, UK

This paper considers the attempts made by British theatre to characterize foreign aid workers in areas of war and conflict since 2009. It is argued that changes in the political and cultural landscape of British theatre have resulted in an increased... Read More about Foreign bodies: British theatre and the staging of humanitarian intervention.

Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012 (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, January). Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012. Poster presented at MeCCSA Annual Conference 2012, University of Bedfordshire, Luton

**this poster won the poster prize at MeCCS@ 2012** Original MeCCSA Abstract for a Poster and Demo: I would like to present a poster and a demo of my Curzon Memories App, a practice-research project that uses mobile technologies and locative me... Read More about Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012.

Presentation on Curzon Memories App (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2011, November). Presentation on Curzon Memories App. Paper presented at National Association of Moving Image Education Specialists, BFI, Southbank, London

This presentation was jointly presented with Cathy Poole, Education Office at the Curzon Cinema Clevedon, exploring how the affordances of mobile media can be used to enhance learning and teaching about cinema history, cinema-going and cinema technol... Read More about Presentation on Curzon Memories App.

Globalised labour and world Sf cinema (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2011, November). Globalised labour and world Sf cinema. Paper presented at The Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS

The Curzon Memories App: Shifting practices, from filmmaking to experience design (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2011, October). The Curzon Memories App: Shifting practices, from filmmaking to experience design. Presented at MA Masterclass, University of Sussex Department of Media, Film and Music, Brighton, UK

Invited to lecture to MA students about the development of my practice from filmmaking to experience design, specifically reflecting on the impact of digital media on my practice research trajectory.

Spatialising the Archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2011, October). Spatialising the Archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App. Presented at IMTAL International Museum and Theatre Alliance Conference, MShed Museum, Bristol, UK

Spatialising the archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App at IMTAL International Museum and Theatre Alliance Conference, Bristol, October (invited).

Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Hanks, P., McClure, P., & Coates, R. (2011, September). Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics. Presented at 24th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

We present a major new research project in surname studies in Britain. The project is called Family Names of the United Kingdom (abbreviated to FaNUK). It is a 4-year project based at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of the West o... Read More about Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics.

Class, control and clones (panel discussion) (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2011, August). Class, control and clones (panel discussion). Presented at Class, Control and Clones’, Out of this World exhibition, British Library, London, UK

Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2011, July). Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App. Paper presented at Screen International Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK

This paper presents a practice-based research project based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an archive of cinema projectors donated by the Projected Picture Trust. The original cinema was built in 1912 and is... Read More about Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App.