Slightly last minute here, but if anyone is interested in hearing about an alternative assessment technique in media/urban studies, I have just the thing for you. Tomorrow (1 March 2017) I will be giving a 4pm talk at Birkbeck’s Centre for Transformative Practice in Learning and Teaching, around the ‘urban media inventory’ assessment that I … Continue Reading
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New academic posts announced at Birkbeck
Today a series of new academic posts at Birkbeck have been advertised, on the Birkbeck jobs website (which is due for an upgrade, don’t be put off!) and elsewhere, such as the Times Higher Education website. These look to be a great set of positions, many focusing on globalisation and the transnational, very apropos of … Continue Reading
Politicians and other performers: forthcoming presentation
In just a few weeks I will be presenting a paper at what looks like a very interesting symposium here at Birkbeck considering the increasingly important relationships between politicians and performance. I have pasted the programme, as well as my own abstract, below. Many of the other contributors will be drawing centrally on practices and … Continue Reading
Bloomsbury’s Gordon Square: Workplace becomes media production space
[Note: this post has been edited to remove details of the specific production in question. I’m being cautious as a colleague reminded me of a non-disclosure agreement to which I am indirectly a party. However I have decided not to remove the entire post, since the rest pertains to observations made in outdoor public space, … Continue Reading
Birkbeck announces Stuart Hall PhD scholarship
This has caught me by surprise, but I’ve just learned that my institution Birkbeck is offering a Stuart Hall PhD Scholarship for 2017-18, in partnership with the Stuart Hall Foundation. Some great news, making me proud to work at the institution (as, by the way, did the College’s recently-announced Bridges to Study programme for asylum … Continue Reading
The media-urban nexus: histories, stakes, possibilities (text of keynote paper)
Below is the text of a keynote paper given on Sunday 29 May 2016 for the ‘Mediating cityscapes’ symposium, held as part of the Artists’ Film Biennial at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. It was an informal paper, in which I mainly was asked to open out some issues for the symposium. So I deliberately … Continue Reading
Yuk Hui at Birkbeck on ‘For a Realism of Relations: The Case of Digital Objects’
Very unfortunately I won’t be able to attend this seminar at Birkbeck (though, fortunately, it’s because I will be talking in my first visit to Japan). Looks like an excellent discussion will be had. Full details are below. Yuk Hui – For a Realism of Relations: The Case of Digital Objects The Vasari Research Centre … Continue Reading
Event: What things are, what things do
Next week, on Friday 27 May, Güneş Tavmen and Hannah Barton are organising what looks to be an interesting interdisciplinary seminar titled ‘What things are, what things do’. The event – sponsored by Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture – will host a set of debates around the ‘structuring structures’ of media culture: in … Continue Reading
Event: Digital Us: Are We ‘Together’ in a Networked Culture?
At the very beginning of Birkbeck Arts Week 2016, on 16 May 2016, I will be taking part in an event which touches on familiar themes, but perhaps from new angles and through a juxtaposition of fairly different contributors. While I am going to draw upon some recent small-scale qualitative research I’ve undertaken on the … Continue Reading
Urban media tour: 18 May 2016
After a two-year hiatus, Joel McKim and I are pleased to again lead our (evidently) popular urban media tour of West End London, this year as part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2016. As always, we’ll be not only visiting a range of buildings and neighbourhoods associated with major media industries, but also we’ll be discussing … Continue Reading