History Research seminar,

Guilt, Shame and Duty: Imperial Island and writing British history in public

speaker: Charlotte Lydia Riley, University of Southampton

Abstract

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Job Letter Workshop

• read and analyse successful job letters
• workshop your current job letter with peers

‘Achilles has too much gender. A trans studies perspective on the Iliad’.

Guest lecture: Professor Geoffrey Rhodes (SJTU) and Dr Jianhua Yang (WMG)

'A 'Gene Ontology' of Immersive Media for Museums'Link opens in a new window

In this short talk, Professor Geoffrey Rhodes (Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) will review his own broad experience in art with new technologies, from experimental digital video, to early AR and VR, app publications, and work with immersive displays for museum collections. Rhodes has worked as a creative producer, as well as researcher and educator, with long term partnerships with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, and now Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In Shanghai, he leads the Future Museum Media Innovation Studio which has hosted multiple symposia on the subject of museums' digital futures, and new methods for the display of collections. As part of a special SJTU-Warwick seed fund, Rhodes is currently working with Associate Professor Jianhua Yang at Warwick University to experiment with new models for performing audience analysis for new immersive media exhibitions.

WMG Researcher Forum- 7th February 2024, 15.00-16.00- IMC 002

Wednesday 7 February, 4:00-5:00 pm (UK time) - Hybrid

Dr Xiaochun Zhang (UCL). AD4Games: Can an audio describer be a gaming buddy?

This event is set up as a reading group led by Dr Ash Kayte Stokoe from the University of Birmingham. We will be exploring trans representations in contemporary comics, questioning their role in sustaining or disrupting the idea of the good trans object, one that 'fold[s] transness into the visual economy of existing normative media', 'minimizing the threat that transgender embodiment poses to the dominant models of gender and sex upon which realist, mediated worlds rely' (Cáel M. Keegan, 2022). We will be looking at specific comics examples. Links to extracts to these will be circulated upon expression of interest. For that reason, we kindly ask you to please send us an email to sign up to the event sex.queer.research@gmail.com. 

The event is open to students, PGRs and staff of all levels. No prior knowledge of comic books or trans studies is required, just curiosity and enthusiasm!

This event aims to be an inclusive space and no transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic, ableist, racist or xenophobic discussions will be tolerated.