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Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2021, December). Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices. Paper presented at Leicester Human Right Arts and Film Festival, Leicester, UK

The environmental crisis, inequality, anti-trans discrimination and racism are some of the most pressing issues of our times. Can artists credibly claim engage with pressing issues? When does art become a form of activism? Why might we need arts ac... Read More about Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices.

And some of us are silenced (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2021, September). And some of us are silenced. Paper presented at 14th Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium, Online, University of Sussex

In Mangrove the first of the Small Axe films, bio-chemist student Althea says “We need to challenge the system… We mustn’t be victims but protagonists of our stories and what better way of representing ourselves but self-representing ourselves.” A bo... Read More about And some of us are silenced.

The dark economies of sexual myths (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021, July). The dark economies of sexual myths. Presented at Dark Economies: Anxious futures, Fearful Pasts, Falmouth University

According to Foucault, the Victorian obsession with sexuality proliferated through discourse. This paper will begin by exploring how it spawned a lucrative industry in anti-masturbatory self-help books and devices, which for males rested on the pseu... Read More about The dark economies of sexual myths.

Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021, February). Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution. Paper presented at Revolutionary Histories – Caribbean Literature, Slavery and the Gothic, Aarhus University, Denmark

Neighbourhood play initiatives on central Bristol estates (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Lovesmith, G., Ferguson, A., & Pinkowska, P. (2019, November). Neighbourhood play initiatives on central Bristol estates. Poster presented at Towards the Child Friendly City International Conference. Chiuldren's Rights in the Built Environment, Bristol City Hall

From 2016-2018 Playing Out, Up Our Street and residents of Twinnell House & Wills Drive (Lawrence Hill) and the vicinity of Somerset Square (Redcliffe) have endeavoued to bring about change for neighbourhood play on these estates. This was rooted in... Read More about Neighbourhood play initiatives on central Bristol estates.

Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019, October). Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place. Presented at The Gothic, the Abject and the Supernatural: 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Mary Shelley’s novel has been seen as encoding the forbidden sexuality of homo-erotic desire and the taboo of illegitimate births. In regard to the former, Lord Byron’s physician, John Polidori, will be discussed as a catalyst for her waking dream wh... Read More about Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place.

Theories on the use of theatrical esotropia in character design and performance (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Bracegirdle, J. (2019, June). Theories on the use of theatrical esotropia in character design and performance. Paper presented at Society of Animation Studies, Lisbon

Based on content analysis and interviews, this paper will present theories on why the eye focus of realistic or semi-realistic animated characters is deliberately skewed inwards, in medical terms presenting as a convergent squint or esotropia.The ori... Read More about Theories on the use of theatrical esotropia in character design and performance.

Poison and pens: Bulwer Lytton’s Lucretia in fiction and real life (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019, June). Poison and pens: Bulwer Lytton’s Lucretia in fiction and real life. Paper presented at Captivating Criminality, Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions International Crime Fiction Association, University of Pescara, Italy

From Harryhausen to Aardman: The evolution of stop-motion animation (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Bracegirdle, J. (2019, June). From Harryhausen to Aardman: The evolution of stop-motion animation. Presented at Animating 'Early Man', M Shed, Bristol

Introduced screening of 'One Million Years B.C.' (1966) and chaired panel discussion with Connor Heaney (Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation) and Merlin Crossingham (Aardman Animations).

Building bridges with your audience: Find your readers (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Pender, E. (2019, February). Building bridges with your audience: Find your readers. Presented at Publishing Lunchtime Seminar Event Series, Oxford Brookes University

Eleanor was invited by Oxford Brookes University to deliver a Publishing Lunchtime Seminar on digital media communications in the publishing industry.

Frankenstein and hidden sexualities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018, November). Frankenstein and hidden sexualities. Presented at 1818-2018: The Silent Revolution: Of Fears, Follies and the Feminine,, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon

Frankenstein’s monstrous sexualities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018, July). Frankenstein’s monstrous sexualities. Presented at 14th International Gothic Association Conference - Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinarity, Multi-Modal and Transhistorical Approaches, Manchester Metropolitan University

Project development: Finding your audience (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Pender, E. (2018, February). Project development: Finding your audience. Presented at New Talent Residents' Programme, Pervasive Media Studio

Eleanor was invited by the Pervasive Media Studio to host a workshop with the 2018 New Talent Residents', directing and supporting artists in project dissemination and audience engagement. The workshop session worked with artist Alec Stevens and... Read More about Project development: Finding your audience.

Publicity in publishing (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pender, E. (2017, November). Publicity in publishing. Presented at Guest Lecture, The University of Derby

Guest lecture on publicity and PR in publishing to Publishing MA students at The University of Derby, 22 November 2017

Self-tracking, embodiment and resistance: A phenomenological enquiry (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hughes, K. (2017, June). Self-tracking, embodiment and resistance: A phenomenological enquiry. Paper presented at Metric Culture: The Quantified Self and Beyond, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark

For the first time in human history we are experiencing the convergence of biology with technology at an immense socio-cultural scale, with affordable digital media devices and self-tracking technologies being ubiquitously disseminated, employed en m... Read More about Self-tracking, embodiment and resistance: A phenomenological enquiry.