Outputs (11)

Exploring the use of an entertainment device in a time of trauma. A longitudinal approach to communicating the story of an Emperor in exile and the role of material culture in everyday life (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk will explore a long-running project that has evolved slowly, revealing different stages of how the project will be revealed over a long period of time. The Emperor in question is Haile Selassie I, and the material culture in question is a p... Read More about Exploring the use of an entertainment device in a time of trauma. A longitudinal approach to communicating the story of an Emperor in exile and the role of material culture in everyday life.

Visual anthropology of home, culture and identity (2023)
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Specially commissioned staff development lecture for housing professionals at Stonewater, (one of UK's largest social housing providers). The lecture discussed different ways of thinking about the idea and importance of home and housing, through th... Read More about Visual anthropology of home, culture and identity.

AI and Society: Behind AI Systems (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artificial Intelligence, algorithmic systems and machine decision making are being embedded in many areas of society – policing, justice, finance, banking, shopping and navigation just to name a few. These systems are affecting people’s lives in ways... Read More about AI and Society: Behind AI Systems.

Exploring stardom: Sean Connery (2022)
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Sean Connery was one of a select few stars who have become an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular culture and public consciousness.

Best known as the screen’s ‘first’ Ja... Read More about Exploring stardom: Sean Connery.

They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film (2022)
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Set within the context of populism, patriarchy and the debilitating legacy of colonialism, The Art of Oppression follows three artists as they each rise to the challenge of creating a new work for the film. The women, award-winning artists, are as di... Read More about They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film.

Re-visioning cultural, historical and gendered aspects of Nottingham's past and present (2022)
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Representing Rastafari and Ethiopian culture in life, creative practice, and research (2022)
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Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices (2021)
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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 Contribution

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.

From Harryhausen to Aardman: The evolution of stop-motion animation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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).

Self-tracking, embodiment and resistance: A phenomenological enquiry (2017)
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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.