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Postgraduate Training Event at Anglia Ruskin University

20 March 2013 MeCCSA Poster PDF (pdf; 99kb)

You are invited to a MeCCSA training event at Anglia Ruskin University.

The theme is 'participation', so come along to a day full of research talks and discussion groups and let your voice be heard.

Themes addressed during the day will include: Participation in communities and participation as/in spectatorship; social change; participatory media; participation and the common in digital culture; possibilities of agency for the producer, consumer, user, spectator and participant; participatory action research.

Coffee, lunch and wine are provided, no registration fee!

Full programme:

Saturday, April 13th Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Room Lord Ashcroft Building (room 109)

9.30 AM: Registration

10 AM: Welcome

10.15 AM: Key Note: Dr Joss Hands, Reader in Media and Critical Theory at Anglia Ruskin University, 'Digital Media and the Commons'

10.45 AM: Coffee

11 AM: Participation, Public and the State:

  • Agnes Trzak (Anglia Ruskin University)  'The Public Sphere, Mediation and Action'
  • Philippa Law (Queen Mary)   'Designing media to encourage audience participation in Welsh'
  • Adrian Joseph (Southbank University)  'Participatory Culture in the Class Room'

11.45 AM: Breakout Sessions

12.45 PM: Lunch

1.30 PM: Participation in the Audio and Arts Culture:

  • Alex Annetts (Anglia Ruskin University) 'Gendered Participation in Audio Production Print Medi'a
  • Michelle Lewis-King (Anglia Ruskin University) 'Pulse Project'
  • Sebastian Laskowski (Goldsmiths) 'Interdisciplinary Participation in Art'

2.15 PM: Key Note: Dr Richard Rushton, Senior Lecturer at The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster Universit,y 'Hollywood and the Politics of Participation'

2.45 PM: Coffee

3.15 PM: Participation and Spectatorship:

  • James Harvey-Davitt (Anglia Ruskin University) 'New Cinematic Subjectivities'
  • Stephanie Parsons (Anglia Ruskin University) 'The Mediatisation of Suffering'
  • Katrine Pram Nielsen (Goldsmiths) 'Networked Listening: In Between Affective Power and Resistance'

4 PM: Breakout sessions

4.45 PM: Feedback Session with panel of Key Note Speakers and Dr Sophie Hope (Lecturer in Arts Management at Birkbeck)

5.30 PM: Wine reception

For further information, contact:

Agnieszka Trzak: agnes.ziolkowski-trzak@student.anglia.ac.uk