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Neurath's whale (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2009, December). Neurath's whale. Paper presented at The Afterlife of Animals, Manchester University, UK

Taking a brief passage by Otto Neurath about a whale exhibit, I raise questions about how we interpret exhibits, using phenomenological and social-historical approaches, and I use Bruno Latour’s notion of objects as actants and imbroglios to reconsid... Read More about Neurath's whale.

Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., & Mitchell, R. (2009, November). Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms. Paper presented at Slavery and the British Country House, London School of Economics

This presentation describes the process, production and context of Re:Interpretation, a participatory media project carried out by Firstborn Creatives in partnership with the National Trust. The brief was to explore the challenging subject of transa... Read More about Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms.

Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J. (2009, November). Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity. Paper presented at International Jean Rouch Symposum, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Building on Rouch’s thoughts on cinema-sincerity, this paper will interrogate new possibilities for the creation of polyphonic narratives brought about by the multiple windows environment of 21st century computing. Drawing on material recorded in the... Read More about Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity.

Still pictures, moving contexts (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J., & James, W. (2009, November). Still pictures, moving contexts. Paper presented at The Image Relation: Towards an Anthropology of Photography, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

This presentation will highlight ways of presenting still photographs, both black and white and colour, as well as colour slides, using multimedia methods which add fresh resonance to archival materials. Examples will be drawn from James’s ethnogra... Read More about Still pictures, moving contexts.

Expressionist film and beyond (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bracegirdle, J. (2009, October). Expressionist film and beyond. Presented at Journey out of Darkness, New Walk Museum, Leicester

Public Lecture in relation to The Journey out of Darkness exhibition at New Walk Museum, Leicester (31/10/09 - 3/05/10). The author used the New Walk’s Expressionist Art exhibition as a starting point, tracing early forms of film exhibition in Ge... Read More about Expressionist film and beyond.

Embodied reality: Contemporary biopics and the inflections of stardom (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2009, October). Embodied reality: Contemporary biopics and the inflections of stardom. Paper presented at IMAGEing reality: Representing the Real in Film, Television and New Media, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

With films like Iris (Eyre, 2001), Walk the Line (Mangold, 2005), The Queen (Frears, 2006,) Milk (Van Sant, 2008), The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008) dominating international film awards, the importance of biopics to contemporary circuits of ‘factual’ sc... Read More about Embodied reality: Contemporary biopics and the inflections of stardom.

Comic-book adaptation (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2009, September). Comic-book adaptation. Paper presented at Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts, University of Winchester

Josephine Dolan was the conference panel chair for this conference. The panel contributors were Ian Hague: The Manhattan perspective: Sequence and simultaneity in comics and film; Liam Burke: 'It's a bird... It's a plane... no, it's a genre!’ Adapta... Read More about Comic-book adaptation.

A(cute) animation: Miss Potter and the creative subject (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2009, September). A(cute) animation: Miss Potter and the creative subject. Paper presented at Framing Films Conference, University of Winchester

The paper analyses the 2008 biopic Miss Potter and the extent to which the film constitutes Potter as an artist, rather than a writer. The paper explores the use of animation to constitute the psychic interiority of Beatrix Potter – she literally is... Read More about A(cute) animation: Miss Potter and the creative subject.

My recent research (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2009, September). My recent research. Paper presented at Symposium of International Experts on Otto Neurath and Isotype, University of Reading

This was a symposium of international experts on Otto Neurath and Isotype, I gave a half-hour talk on my findings in the various archives in Vienna, Haarlem and Reading. The aim was for partipants to network and share expertise and to visit the Readi... Read More about My recent research.

Database narrative, spatial montage and the cultural transmission of memory: A case study from the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J. (2009, August). Database narrative, spatial montage and the cultural transmission of memory: A case study from the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands. Paper presented at ISEA2009, The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, University of Ulster, Belfast

A peer reviewed paper presented within the Interactive Storytelling theme of an international conference on Engaged Creativity and Mobile Environments.

Imagining post-war happiness: Otto Neurath and Britain in 1945 (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2009, May). Imagining post-war happiness: Otto Neurath and Britain in 1945. Paper presented at After the War: Post-War Structures of Feeling, Birkbeck College, London

In this paper I outline what Otto Neurath understood by planning for happiness, and show some of the ways in which post-war happiness was being imagined by Neurath and his correspondents in 1945.

Boring, trivial and dubious: Photographing place and the construction of meaning (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Campbell, J., & Allen, P. (2009, April). Boring, trivial and dubious: Photographing place and the construction of meaning. Paper presented at Framing Time and Place: Repeats and Returns in Photography, Plymouth University, UK

Looking specifically at the Dorset coast; a place designated a 'world heritage site' and replete with cultural discourse such as the novels of Thomas Hardy, the photographs of Paul Nash and the history of the south coast holiday trade. This paper use... Read More about Boring, trivial and dubious: Photographing place and the construction of meaning.

The consciousness of documentary: Teaching documentary (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Oldham, A. (2009, April). The consciousness of documentary: Teaching documentary. Paper presented at Dun Laoghairefilmsense: A Symposium on Film and Education, National FIlm School, Ireland

This paper looked at teaching documentary production as an integrated process of practice, theory and pedagogy. It attempted to outline an established but necessarily flexible methodology for teaching documentary production that encompasses purpose... Read More about The consciousness of documentary: Teaching documentary.

Übersong (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Buchheim, Y. (2009, March). Übersong. Presented at Übersong, Plan 9 gallery, Bristol, UK

ÜBERSONG: A night of experimental song, art, performance and open mic The event combined live performances, video screenings, DJ set, happenings and open mic to explore the culture of song. The event brought together Berlin artist/DJ Maurus Gmur,... Read More about Übersong.