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CRMCS hosted a fortnightly research seminar series every year, which presented a range of external speakers, both national and international. We also regularly hosted or jointly organised academic conferences and symposia.
22 May 2017
Eleonora Belfiore (Loughborough University)
Who is cultural policy for? The politics of cultural value
8 May 2017
Andy Crisell (Emeritus Professor, University of Sunderland)
British Broadcasting: An Historical and Philosophical Overview
27 March 2017
Kate Fox (University of Leeds)A Funny Turn: Performing Northernness, class and gender in stand-up
20 March 2017
Susannah Paasonen (University of Turku, Finland)
Pleasure and Possibility: Reframing Sex Through Play
27 February 2017
Debra Ferreday (University of Lancaster)
'What doesn't kill you makes you stranger': the queer temporalities of survival as superpower in Marvel's Jessica Jones
20 February 2017
Mark Duffett (University of Chester)
Things that Go Punk in the Night: Popular Culture and the Enfield Poltergeist
30 January 2017
Sam Summers (University of Sunderland)
Performers in Pixel Suits: Actors as Sites of Intertextuality in DreamWorks Animation
2 December 2016
Giovanna Maina (University of Sardinia) and Frederico Zecco (University of Bari)
Porn in the Hub: The Social Economy of Pornographic Tubes
28 November 2016
Bruce Mutsvairo (Northumbria University)
Cyber-activism in Africa: Opportunities and Threats
7 November 2016
Steve Cannon and Silvia Caramella (Unviersity of Sunderland)
Home movies and stardom: a case study Juan Belmonte's domestic film archive
24 October 2016
Alex Lockwood, Trish Winter, Martin Shingler (University of Sunderland)
Vegan Studies, Mapping Local Culture, and New Film Histories
10 October 2016
Simone Natale (Loughborough University)
There are no old media
23 May 2016
Maya Nedyalkova (University of Sunderland, London Campus)
What is a Bulgarian Film? The Issue of Multiple National Cinemas
16 May 2016
Amy Donovan Blondell (Oxford Department of International Development/USA)
Navigating Gender and Sexuality on the Road and on the Rails: Collaborating with Homeless Youth to Document Their Lives
9 May 2016
Virginia Crisp (University of Coventry)
Ecosystems(s) of Media Dissemination: Unravelling the Binary of Pirates vs Professionals
25 April 2016
Alistair Robinson (University of Sunderland)
'Training the Mind of Many': Class, Press and Social Control in 1850s Tyneside
18 April 2016
Sarah Ralph (Northumbria University)
'Like Getting Punched': Audience Memories of the Viscerality of Alien (1979)
11 April 2016
Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University)
What Makes a Publication REF-able?
7 March 2016
Gary Needham (Nottingham Trent University)
Bringing out the Gimp: Filming, Fashioning, Performing SM
22 February 2016
Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland)
Thinking and Planning for Impact in time for REF2020
8 February 2016
Juan Miguel Aguado Terron
Ways of Being Content: Mobile Media and the Performance of the Self as a Consumption Ritual
1 February 2016
Dagmar Brunnow (Linne University, Sweden)
Remembering collective video practice: the audiovisual heritage of participatory media production
25 January 2016
Matthew Linfoot (University of Westminster)
Queer in Your Ear: LGBT Radio in the UK in the 1990s
11 January 2016
Ladan Cockshut (University of Durham/Teeside)
Co-production of meaning in the digital game
30 November 2015
Lance Dann (University of Brighton)
Radio in our Time: Podcasting – the presenters, the producers and their fans
9 November 2015
Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield)
Seeing Data, Feeling Numbers: how people relate to data and why it matters
2 November 2015
Mark McCormack (University of Durham)
'That's so gay': Decreasing homophobia, changing cultural norms, and the politics of language
19 October 2015
Paul Maginn (University of Western Australia)
Move Over Sectarianism! Hello Sextarianism! Religion, Feminism and the Regulation of Commercial Sex in Northern Ireland
12 October 2015
Katie Moylan (University of Leicester)
Complicating Community: An Ecology of New Orleans Community Radio
5 October 2015
Feona Attwood (Middlesex University)
Women and Sex Media
1 June 2015
Caroline Mitchell (University of Sunderland)
Transnational Radio Encounters: Participatory Research with Minority Communities Who Use Radio
18 May 2015
Janet Jones (Middlesex University)
News Discourse as Play: Can games grow-up and enrich our news stories?
11 May 2015
Dr Steve Hanson
Small Towns, Austere Times
20 April 2015
Debra Benita Shaw (University of East London)
Posthumanism and the City
23 March 2015
Simon McKerrell (Newcastle University)
Social Distance and the Multimodal Construction of the Other in Sectarian Song
9 March 2015
Catherine O'Rawe (Bristol University)
Berlusconi, Crisis, Masculinity
23 February 2015
Silvia Caramella (University of Sunderland)
Building National Identities Through Folklore: Touradas, Campinos and Cavaleiros in Portuguese Cinema
9 February 2015
Steve Jones (Northumbria University)
Torture Born: Representing Pregnancy and Abortion in Contemporary Survival-Horror
26 January 2015
John Mercer (Birmingham School of Media)
On 'Bad Acting': Triangulating Film Performances
8 December 2014
Federico Zecca (University of Udine, Italy)
Amateur Pornographies in the Contemporary Pornosphere: Texual Features and Discursive Categories
24 November 2014
Ben Pitcher (University of Westminster)
Race is Everywhere
17 November 2014
Matthew David (University of Durham)
Napster – 15 Years Later
27 October 2014
Karen Ross (Northumbria University)
Women, Men and Media Industries in Europe: Please Adjust Your Sets
20 October 2014
Melanie Hani (Loughborough University) and Elaine Drainville (University of Sunderland)
Animation Therapy: The Work of HEART (Healing, Education, Animation, Research Therapy) – Two case studies
16 June 2014
Dr Melissa Nisbett (King's College London)
New Perspectives on Instrumental Cultural Policies: A Study of Cultural Diplomacy
2 June 2014
Dr Giovanna Maina (University of Sunderland)
Take a walk look on the wild side: (contemporary) porn criticism
12 May 2014
Dr Scott Rodgers (Birkbeck, University of London)
Techlocalities: emergent geographies of location-based media in the UK
31 March 2014
Marianne Damoiseau (Goldsmiths, University of London)
'I didn't know they were a band': band t-shirts and fashion
3 March 2014
Dr Dan Hassler-Forrest (University of Amsterdam)
Zombies in the City: Junk-space, Disposable Labor, and Urban Militarization
17 February 2014
Dr Johnny Walker (University of Northumbria)
Long time dead: the British film industry and the horror genre in the early 2000s
3 February 2014
Dr Pau Obrador (University of Sunderland)
Tourism as media, the art and politics of tourist practices
9 December 2013
Christine Gledhill (University of Sunderland)
Mary Pickford and the Emergence of Film Stardom
2 December 2013
Dr John Clayton (University of Sunderland)
The Place of Multiculturalism
18 November 2013
Lise Dilling-Hansen (Aarhus University)
Crip and Queer Heroine or Maintream Mock? Negotiations of the Performances of Lady Gaga
4 November 2013
Dr Danielle Hipkins (University of Exeter)
Girlpower? Prostitution and Politics in Contemporary Italian Cinema
21 October 2013
Dr Daniel Kilvington (University of Sunderland)
American Sports, Racism and Social Media
7 October 2013
Professor Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland)
'A Nice Girl's Nasty Book': Reading the readers of Fifty Shades of Grey
23 September 2013
Professor Shaun Moores (University of Sunderland)
Digital Orientations: 'Ways of the Hand' in Media Uses and Other Embodied Practices
13 June 2013
Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California)
By Any Media Necessary: Politics and Participation in the Transmedia Generation
10 June 2013
Barbara Sadler (Lincoln University)
The Way We Were: Producing and consuming regional identities
3 June 2013
Dr Amy Holdsworth (University of Glasgow)
French and Saunders are a girl's best friend
13 May 2013
Dr Adrienne Muir (Loughborough University)
Preserving cultural heritage: the copyright challenge?
22 April 2013 - 'CANCELLED'
Dr Kim Allen (London Metropolitan University)
Exploring Celebrity Culture and Young People's Aspirations
11 March 2013
Dr Anna Konig (University of the Arts London)
Hindering the cause? Media constructions of sustainable fashion
4 March 2013 - 'CANCELLED'
Dr Danielle Hipkins (University of Exeter)
Safety in Numbers? Screening Girls and Sexuality in Contemporary Italian Cinema
18 February 2013
Dr Bethany Klein (University of Leeds)
'Isn't It Just A Way to Protect Walt Disney's Rights?' Media User Perspectives on Copyright
4 February 2013
Prof Sarah Niblock (Brunel University)
Media Professionalism in the Age of the Fifth Estate
21 January 2013 - 'CANCELLED'
Dr Melissa Nisbett (University of Leeds)
New Perspectives on Instrumental Cultural Policies: A Study of Cultural Diplomacy
10 December 2012
Lee Hall (University of Sunderland)
The impact of social media on journalism
19 November 2012
Dr Claire Jenkins (Bath Spa University)
'I'm saving the world, I need a decent shirt': Masculinity, sexuality and costume in the new Doctor Who
5 November 2012
Dr Andrew Tolson (De Montfort University)
Why Nick Clegg won the Leader Debates in the UK 2010 General Election
22 October 2012
Dr Andrew Dubber (Birmingham City University)
Radio in the Digital Age
8 October 2012
Dr Jane Dunnett (Swansea Unviersity)
The Irresistible Rise of the Detective Novel in Fascist Italy: Power, Politics and Culture
21 May 2012 - 'CANCELLED'
Dr Avelino Amoedo (University of Navarra, Spain)
Radio in Spain: Identity, Programming and Challenges for Digital Convergence
14 May 2012
Alistair Robinson (University of Sunderland)
Revolutionary Evenings in South Shields, 1855. The Shields Gazette and the birth of the local evening newspaper
23 April 2012
Dr John Price (University of Sunderland)
Race, racism and sports journalism
19 March 2012
Professor Sean Street (Emeritus Professor, University of Bournemouth)
The Poetry of Radio - The Colour of Sound
5 March 2012
Matt Hills (Cardiff University)
'With thanks to Chris Chibnall' (but no thanks to Amos Crumpsall): Torchwood and TV Authorship
13 February 2012
Dr Helen Thornham (University of Leeds)
Articulating technology, imagining the gamer: expertise, agency, and the gendered politics of play
6 February 2012
Professor Guy Austin (Newcastle University)
Beyond the discourse of martyrdom: spaces of the dead in Algerian cinema of the 1970s
16 January 2012
Professor Andrew Crisell (University of Sunderland)
Radio and Pop Music: the end of a beautiful relationship?
12 December 2011
Dr John Richardson (Newcastle University)
Who wants to be a BBC journalist? Reporting Israel/Palestine the BBC way
28 November 2011
Professor Geoff Hare (Newcastle University)
James Gordon Bennett and the OEParis Herald: sports reporting and sports sponsorship in France, 1887-1914
14 November 2011
Dr Susan Smith (University of Sunderland)
From Child to Adult Star: an exploration by video essay of the film career of Elizabeth Taylor
31 October 2011 - CANCELLED
Dr Julie Doyle (University of Brighton)
Imag(in)ing climage change: Negotiating the temporalities of climate through imagery
24 October 2011
Dr John Armitage (University of Northumbria)
The Aesthetics of Disappearance
10 October 2011
Dr Eylem Atakav (University of East Anglia
The Republican Woman is Being Destroyed! Save your Republic! Women and Politics in Turkish Television Adverts
6 June 2011
John-Paul Green (University of Sunderland)
'They don't know Jack': Constructing and Consuming Myths on the Trail of Jack the Ripper
23 May 2011
Dr Susan Smith (University of Sunderland)
Postponed
16 May 2011
Katy McDonald (University of Sunderland)
Not Raoul Moat-ly Funny: Social media vs editorial mediation
9 May 2011
Dr Jason Toynbee (The Open University)
Accessory Beside the Fact? Cultural Studies and Politics Forty Years On
21 March 2011
Julia Knight (University of Sunderland)
How to get published in a journal
7 March 2011
Dr James Ash (Northumbria University)
Technologies of captivation: videogames and the attunement of affect
28 February 2011
William Proctor (University of Sunderland)
From Remakes to Reboots: The Dialectics of 21st Century Franchise Cinema
21 February 2011
Professor Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh)
Do-it-yourself! How 1950s youth culture changed the British live music business; how the British live music business shaped 1960s youth culture
7 February 2011
Dr Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex)
Margaret O'Brien, juvenile performance and the appeal of the war orphan
13 December 2010
Robert Jewitt (University of Sunderland)
Politics, Policy, Piracy and Participation: Assessing the impact of the Digital Economy Bill
29 November 2010
Dr Angela Smith (University of Sunderland)
When the knives are out: Gordon Ramsay as a case study of confrontation and conflict in broadcasting
(Cancelled due to bad weather)
22 November 2010
Dr Caroline Bainbridge (Roehampton University)
Psychotherapy on the Couch: Exploring the Fantasies of In Treatment (HBO 2008)
15 November 2010
Mila Steele (Commissioning Editor, Sage Publications)
How to Get Published
1 November 2010
David Banks (University of Sunderland)
Nicknaming and shaming - tales of Safari Boy, Ratboy and the Shields' Spiderboy: An examination of the newspaper practice of labelling young offenders
18 October 2010
Dr Steven Masters (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle)
Why Goldie Hawn matters: The mutability of star persona and the performance of femininity in the light of post-feminism
11 October 2010
Dr Hillegonda Rietveld (London South Bank University)
NETAUDIO: Heterotopian Activism in Digital Music Distribution
24 May 2010
Dr Elly Bavidge (Queen Mary, University of London)
Heterotopias of Memory: Roadside Memorials and the Transformation of Space
10 May 2010
Dr Mark Glancy (Queen Mary, University of London)
British Audiences and Hollywood's Talkies: Two Countries Divided by a Common Language?
19 April 2010
Professor Jeffrey Richards (University of Lancaster)
Hollywood and Radio: the Lux Radio Theatre 1934-1955
22 March 2010
Jenny Mckay (University of Stirling)
Reportage: Literature's Poor Relation?
8 March 2010
Dr Amir Saeed (University of Sunderland)
Malcolm X, Black Power and the Muslim World: A Personal Reflection
22 February 2010
David Bates, University of Sunderland
British Jobs for British Workers: the media, 'race' and the politics of national identity
8 February 2010
Professor Ruth Holliday (Leeds University)
All Tits and Bums: classing feminist squeamishness and the 'plastic' body
14 December 2009
Dr Sarah Hackett (University of Sunderland)
A Learning Curve: The Education of Immigrants in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Bremen from the 1960s to the 1980s
23 November 2009
Professor Neil Sinyard (University of Hull)
William Wyler: A Revaluation
9 November 2009
Dr Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland)
Do Porn Stars Act?
2 November 2009
Dr Karen Lury (University of Glasgow)
In Tears: Crying on Cue and the 'Impropriety' of the Child Performer in Film
26 October 2009
Dr Christine Cornea (University of East Anglia)
Gender, Genre and National Anxiety in BBC's Survivors (1975-77)
14 September 2009
Andrew Smith (freelance writer & filmmaker, University of Sunderland graduate)
Second Chances - Rod Serling, Redrafting and Adaptation
7 September 2009
Dr Meng Wei (Communication University of China)
Western Influences on Chinese Television
1 June 2009
Professor Andrew Crisell (University of Sunderland)
Food for thought or chewing gum for the eyes? The state of modern television
18 May 2009
Dr Vicky Ball (University of Sunderland)
Postfeminist British television drama and the re-traditionalisation of gender
11 May 2009
Professor Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow)
Foregrounding the media: Atonement (Wright, 2007) as an adaptation
27 April 2009
Dr Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia)
Animated Pirates: Discourses of Media Piracy and the Anime Fan Subtitler
30 March 2009
Professor John Storey (University of Sunderland)
The Woodstock Generation? Forty Years After the Counterculture
23 March 2009
Dr Stephanie Marriott (University of Bangor)
Modes of Undress
16 March 2009
Dr Steve Cannon (University of Sunderland)
The Goya Awards of the Spanish Film Academy, 2003-2004
9 March 2009
Dr Vicky Lowe (University of Manchester)
Voice and the British Film Actor
15 December 2008
Professor Deborah Chambers (University of Newcastle)
Representations of Families, Fertility and Demography
1 December 2008
Dr Melanie Bell (University of Newcastle)
Divergent Femininities in Post-War British Cinema
24 November 2008
Dr Helen Wood (De Montfort University)
Reality TV: The Politics of an Extended Social/Public Realm
10 November 2008
Dr Kath Albury (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Playing by the Rules: Ethical Sexual Behaviour for Professional Atheletes
27 October 2008
Peter Lewis (London Metropolitan University)
'Sexing up' Public and Personal Memory in Research
13 October 2008
Elaine Drainville (University of Sunderland)
WIKI: Ali's Adventures in a Digital Wonderland
6 October 2008
Alex Lockwood (University of Sunderland)
'Environment is not the top story. It's not even one of the top stories': Journalists on Climate Change
21st April 2008
Nick Cope (University of Sunderland)
Electroacoustic Movies.
10th March 2008
Dr Susan Mandala (University of Sunderland)
Future English in Science Fiction: Language Contact and Pidginization in Brian Aldiss' A Spot of Konfrontation.
25th February 2008
Dr Ben Anderson (Durham University)
Affect and the War on Terror.
18th February 2008
Professor Alexis Weedon (University of Bedfordshire)
What are Cross-Media Practices? The Case of Elinor Glyn.
28th January 2008
Dr Dan Laughey (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Uses of Music Media.
10th December 2007
Prof. Ed Buscombe (University of Sunderland)
Mise-en-scene and Nicholas Ray.
26th November 2007
Dr David Hendy (University of Westminster)
An Intimate History of Radio Four.
29th October 2007
Dr Maggie O'Neill (Loughborough University)
Trans-national Refugees and Human Rights: Ethno-Mimesis as Performative Praxis.
15th October 2007
Dr Trish Winter and Dr. Simon Keegan-Phipps (University of Sunderland)
Performing Englishness in New English Folk Music and Dance.
1st October 2007
Prof. Andrew Crisell (University of Sunderland)
Star of Stage, Screen and Page: the Vicissitudes of Shakespeare.
4th June 2007
Prof. Maureen McNeil (Lancaster University)
Cultural roots and routes: feminist cultural studies of science and technology.
21st May 2007
Prof. Shaun Moores (University of Sunderland)
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Media and Senses of Place.
14th May 2007
Dr. Lina Khatib (Royal Holloway)
Men and Masculinity in Lebanese Cinema.
30th April 2007
Prof. Sheila Whiteley (University of Salford)
Popular Music, Popular Culture and Identity.
23rd April 2007
Dr. Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University)
Populism and reaction in current affairs radio, 1928-1970.
26th March 2007
Dr. Michael Higgins (University of Sunderland)
On not trusting the public: media, culture, politics.
12th March 2007
Dr. Sadie Wearing (London School of Economics and Political Science)
'Transformations and rejuvenations: performing the aging subject in 'postfeminist' culture'.
12th February 2007
Prof. Richard Dyer (Kings College London)
'"The Leopard" and "The Godfather": Tales of Plagiarism and Pastiche'.
11th December 2006
Prof. Kevin Hannam (University of Sunderland)
The Cultural Politics of Mobilities: Towards a research agenda.
27th November 2006
Dr. Daniela Wawra (University of Passau)
'What are your strengths and weaknesses?' - Women and men in the job interview.
20th November 2006
Dr. Niall Richardson (University of Sunderland)
'Effeminophobia meets Misogyny: Channel 4's 'Playing it Straight''.
30th October 2006
Ms. Julia Knight (University of Sunderland)
DVD, Video and Reaching Audiences - Experiments in Moving Image Distribution.
16th October 2006
Dr. Juan Perez-Gonzalez (University of Sunderland)
Every Word Counts: The Media in Castro's Cuba.
2nd October 2006
Dr. Andy Ruddock (Liverpool John Moores University)
New Audience Research and Public Health: Thinking about Binge Drinking.
Monday 5th June, 2006
Philip Young (University of Sunderland)
Scoop! Representations of journalism in fiction.
Monday 22nd May, 2006
Professor Mick Temple (University of Staffordshire)
The Democratic Necessity for Dumbing Down.
Monday 15th May, 2006
Dr. Zhengrong Hu (Visiting Professor - University of Westminster)
Media Studies In China.
Monday 8th May, 2006
Dr David Bell (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Winter Wonderlands: Public Outdoor Ice Rinks, Entrepreneurial Display and Festive Socialities in UK Cities.
Monday 3rd April, 2006
Dr Val Reardon (The College of St Marks and St John)
Moustache and Mono-brow: The Cultural Representation of Freda Kahlo.
Monday 20th March, 2006
Professor David Walton (University of Murcia)
Cultural Studies In Spain.
Monday 13th March, 2006
Neil Perryman (University of Sunderland)
Doctor Who and Media Convergence.
Monday 20th February, 2006
Professor Chris Frost (Liverpool John Moores University)
A Statistical Analysis of the Performance of the Press Complaints Commission
Monday 6th February, 2006
Professor Shaun Moores (University of Sunderland)
Media Uses and Everyday Environmental Experiences: A Positive Critique of Phenomenological Geography
Monday 12th December, 2005
Professor Deborah Thomas (University of Sunderland)
Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Monday 5th December 2005
Dr Mary Talbot (University of Sunderland)
Trouble With the Toxic N Word: 'Political Correctness' and Freedom of Speech in the Media.
Monday 28th November 2005
Professor Garry Whannel (University of Luton)
News, Celebrity and the Jackson verdict: a vortextual analysis'
Monday 7th November 2005
Dr Andrew Tolson (De Montfort University)
Political Discourse on TV News; Talk, trust and the end of ideology.
Monday 31st October, 2005
Dr Angela Werndly (University of Sunderland)
Must See TV and the 'F' Word.
Monday 10th October, 2005
Dr Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland)
The Sex Inspectors.
Monday 6 June 2005
Associate Professor Will Brooker
(University of Richmond)
"The Man In The White Suit" Lewis Carroll and Journalism
Wednesday 25th May 2005
Elaine Drainville (University of Sunderland)
Collected Stories of Palestinian People
Monday 23 May 2005
Richard Berry (University of Sunderland)
Podcasting
Monday 9 May 2005
Philip Young (University of Sunderland)
The Impact of Web Logs on PR and Participatory Journalism
Monday 16 May 2005
Dr Paul Taylor (University of Leeds)
Abu Ghraib: the pornographic barbarism of the self-reflecting sign & the poignancy of the pin-strip suit
Monday 25 April 2005
Zhang Gehao (University of Loughborough)
Cultural Studies in China
Monday 18 April 2005
Professor Luo Yicheng et al (Wuhan University, China)
History, Current Situation and Problems of Chinese Media
Monday 7 March 2005
Dr Sara O'Sullivan (University College Dublin)
Radio Audiences and Qualitative Research Methods
Monday 21 February 2005
Dr Amir Saeed (University of Sunderland)
My Jihad: Identity, Politics, Islam and Globalisation - A Personal Perspective.
Monday 7 February 2005
Professor Ulrike Meinhof (University of Southampton)
Can an Audience Become a Public?
'World Music' Audiences in Differentiated Cultural Settings
Monday 10 January 2005
Feona Attwood (Sheffield Hallam University)
Cybersex in Chatrooms
Monday 29 November 2004
Professor John Storey (University of Sunderland)
Inventing Opera in Nineteenth-Century Manchester.
Monday 22 November 2004
Dr Maggie O'Neill (Staffordshire University)
Global Refugees: Exile, Displacement and Belonging
Monday 15 November 2004
Laura Maynard (University of Sunderland)
Who is the Real Xinran? The Myth and Reality in British Media
Monday 1 November 2004
Dr Chris Atton (University of Napier)
A Sociology of the British Alternative Music Press
Monday 11 October 2004
Assistant Professor Elka Huwiler(University of Amsterdam)
Storytelling by Sound
Monday 15th March 2004
Professor Phil Scraton (Queen's University Belfast)
'Beyond September 11: Popularising the 'War on Terror', Promoting the Abuse of State Power'
Monday 22nd March 2004
Lee Grant Barron and Dr Ian Inglis (Northumbria University)
Over the Rainbow? The Myths, Messages and Motives of "The Dark Side of the Moon"
Monday 29 March 2004
Duane Davis(University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Hypochondria: Theatrics of Alienation
Monday 26 April 2004
Philip Young (University of Sunderland)
As Clear as Your Conscience? The practical application of ethics in North East public relations consultancies
Monday 24 May 2004
Neil Perryman (University of Sunderland)
Crackers Do Matter: Science Fiction Fandom in the 21st Century
Monday 7 June 2004
Trevor Hearing (University of Sunderland)
Ambiguity and Film
Monday 26 January 2004
Dr Deborah Thomas (University of Sunderland)
Re-reading the text: Madness, bondage and 'being special' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Monday 8 December 2003
Morteza Rezaee
Letter to the Home Office: Research into Persecution of Homosexuality in Iran
Monday 24 November 2003
Dr Susan Mandala (University of Sunderland)
Positive Politeness and the Scooby Core: An Analysis of the Dialogue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Monday 10 November 2003
Mitzi Waltz (University of Sunderland)
Cultural Representations of Autism and Their Impact on Research and Treatment
Monday 13 October 2003
Nicholas Glean (University of Sunderland)
Do Computer Simulated Games Have Complexity?
Monday 29 September 2003
Simon Kerridge (University of Sunderland)
Applying for External Funding for Research: An overview of University Procedure
Monday 16th June 2003
Trevor Hearing (University of Sunderland)
Fathoming The Deep: first steps on a journey into research by documentary practice
Monday 9 June 2003
Professor Martin Barker (University of Aberystwyth)
Finding the audience all over again: The continuing problems with cultural studies research
Monday 2 June 2003
Nichola Dobson (Queen Margaret's University College)
What Happened to the 80s? The Decline of Prime-time Animation
Monday 28th April 2003
Dr David Miller (University of Stirling)
Media and Culture
Monday 7th April 2003
Alka Kurian (University of Sunderland)
Early Alternative Indian Cinema: From 1970s to 1980s
Monday 10th March 2003
Dr Nick Couldry (London School of Economics)
Understanding Media Power: The Tangled Theoretical Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu
Monday 24th March 2003
Dr Andreas Hepp (Technische Universitat Llmenau, Germany)
Translocal Media Cultures: Connectivity, Deterritorialization and the Globalisation of Media
Monday 24th February 2003
Professor John Storey (University of Sunderland)
"Towards the Door We Never Opened": Memory and Identity
Monday 10th February 2003
Dr Shaun Moores (University of Sunderland)
The Doubling of Place: Electronic Media, Time-Space Arrangements and Social Relationships
Monday 20th May, 2002
Dr Andrew Caine (University of Sunderland)
The Canonisation of Popular Film: The "100 Greatest" Phenomenon
Wednesday 8th May, 2002
Trina Robbins (writer & artist)
Women and Comics
Monday 22nd April, 2002
Dr Richard Butt (Queen Margaret's College)
Commentary, talk and culture: the symbolic violence of 'Test Match Special'
Thursday 11th April, 2002
Dr Mary Bucholtz (Texas A&M University)
Identity and Intertextuality in Live-Action Role Playing Games
Wednesday 20th March, 2002
Dr Amir Saeed (University of Sunderland)
Theorising Scottish Muslim Identities
Wednesday 3rd October, 2001
Stephen Gallagher (Screenwriter & novelist)
A Life in Cult Fiction
Monday 12th February, 2001
Gwyneth Jones (Author)
Writing Teenage Horror Fiction
Monday 11th December, 2000
Mike Presdee (University of Sunderland)
Cultural Criminology: The Carnival of Crime
Monday 20th November, 2000
Amir Saeed (University of Sunderland)
Muhammed Ali
Monday 9th October, 2000
Dr Mary Talbot (University of Sunderland)
It's good to talk? The undermining of feminism in a British Telecom advertisement
Tuesday 16th May, 2000
Professor Paddy Scannell (University of Westminster)
Cultural Studies and the Meaning of Life
Tuesday 21st March, 2000
Professor Ulrike Meinhof (University of Bradford)
Border Identities
Tuesday 7th March, 2000
Dr Bella Adams (University of Sunderland)
A post-colonial aesthetic?
Tuesday 22nd February, 2000
Dr Andrew Tolson (De Montfort University)
Radioland: The 'Virtual Reality' of Zoo Radio