All Outputs (11)

Sankofa dialogues: Making things to make sense of colonial saturated embodied landscape (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2018, December). Sankofa dialogues: Making things to make sense of colonial saturated embodied landscape

Sankofa is a Ghanaian symbol which represents the idea that there is no shame in going back to fetch that which you have forgotten. The symbol is of a bird looking back with a seed it its mouth. The common interpretation is that the seed represents c... Read More about Sankofa dialogues: Making things to make sense of colonial saturated embodied landscape.

What is Rastafari? History, beliefs and philosophy of the Rastafari movement (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2018, October). What is Rastafari? History, beliefs and philosophy of the Rastafari movement

This talk sheds light on the core history and beliefs of the Rastafari faith, which Sobers considers to be the world's best secret. Sobers challenges some common misconceptions regarding the public perception of Rastafari culture. This talk also shed... Read More about What is Rastafari? History, beliefs and philosophy of the Rastafari movement.

Haile Selassie in exile, and life in the city of Bath (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2018, October). Haile Selassie in exile, and life in the city of Bath

This talk sets the scene of the circumstances of how and why Emperor came to the UK in exile, and how he came to settle in the city of Bath.

Transatlantic slavery connections with Bath (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2018, October). Transatlantic slavery connections with Bath. Presented at Transatlantic slavery connections with Bath, by Dr Shawn Sobers, Museum of Bath at Work, Bath, England

The predominant discourse relating to the South West's connections with the transatlantic slave trade tends to focus on Bristol, though Bath has got its story to tell. This public talk for Black History Month discusses the rise of Bath's economic for... Read More about Transatlantic slavery connections with Bath.

Red moon diaries conference presentation (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Banks, L. (2018, September). Red moon diaries conference presentation. Presented at Reinventing, rethinking and representing the Menopause: Beyond the Interdisciplinary Paradigm, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University

A screening of the Red Moon Diaries Film and a presentation about the research and methodology of the film including the Red Moon exhibition and event.

A focus on emotion: The representation of refugees in New Forms of (mobile-1st?) mainstream media content (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Gross, B. (2018, September). A focus on emotion: The representation of refugees in New Forms of (mobile-1st?) mainstream media content. Paper presented at ProLanguage: The protective role of languages in refugee settings, University of Reading, England

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An auto-ethnographic dialogue with archive (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2018, July). An auto-ethnographic dialogue with archive. Paper presented at Reframing Film Heritage, Watershed, Bristol, England

This provocation offered an analysis of a piece of photographic artwork I produced, a self-portrait inbetween two enslaved Africans. The Africans portrayed are named Jack and Delia, enslaved on a South Carolina plantation, photographed by Joseph T. Z... Read More about An auto-ethnographic dialogue with archive.

‘Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone’: Documenting an investigative arts project on the environmental destruction of the Thames Estuary (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Oldham, A. (2018, July). ‘Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone’: Documenting an investigative arts project on the environmental destruction of the Thames Estuary. Paper presented at Avanca Cinema-International Conference 2018, Avanca, Portugal

“Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone” is a gallery of fifteen short films that document a multi-layered investigative arts project exploring the changing ecology, society and industry of the Thames Estuary. As this subject matter presented a significant c... Read More about ‘Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone’: Documenting an investigative arts project on the environmental destruction of the Thames Estuary.

Hidden pluralities: Rastafari in the South West and the house where God lived (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2018, July). Hidden pluralities: Rastafari in the South West and the house where God lived. Presented at National Conference for Religious Education Advisers, The Bristol Hotel, Bristol, England

In this keynote presentation Sobers discusses the intricacies of the Rastafari faith, how it has been underestimated as a cultural movement, and how its legacies have local, national and global significance. The paper is presented in three parts.... Read More about Hidden pluralities: Rastafari in the South West and the house where God lived.

Learning Through Practice In Higher Education: A Contrasting Look At Experiential Learning And Communities Of Practice (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Evans, M. (2018, June). Learning Through Practice In Higher Education: A Contrasting Look At Experiential Learning And Communities Of Practice. Paper presented at UWE Learning and Teaching Conference 2018: Building Learning Communities, Bristol, UK

Court reporting and local newspapers (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Keppel-Palmer, M., Smith, T., Reardon, S., & Chamberlain, P. (2018, March). Court reporting and local newspapers. Presented at SLSA Annual Conference 2018, Bristol University, Bristol, England

This paper reported on a pilot study carried out by UWE Law and UWE Journalism in January 2018 into reporting of newsworthy stories at the Magistrates Courts. In one week, researchers saw every case heard in Bristol Magistrates Courts, coded these fo... Read More about Court reporting and local newspapers.