UWS CREATIVE (on the move)

In line with the up coming renaming of our School to ‘Creative Industries’ and our merger with the Business school, we’re moving our blog to

http://uwscreative.wordpress.com

also, follow us on twiter at

http://twitter.com/uwscreative

New PhD students

I am delighted to welcome

Alessandra Campoli and Marco Federici to the school as our new PhD students. They will each be working with Professor Yvonne Spielmann and Dr David Manderson. More information about their work is available on the MLM research site.

Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance

LAUNCH of new journal:

Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance

- an Intellect journal -
ISSN: 17536421

1pm to 3pm
Atrium
University of Glamorgan
Adam Street, Cardiff, Room CA112

Aims and scope: Adaptation, or the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries. In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries. Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation. As an academic discipline, Adaptation Studies has begun to establish itself in the last few decades as an important area of scholarship and research which continues to make significant contributions to our analysis and understanding of a complex and increasingly diverse world culture.

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance is a new, peer-reviewed journal designed to engage with specific issues relating to performance on stage, film, television, radio and other media. Embracing comfortably these disciplines under the umbrella of adaptation theories and practices, it attempts to challenge widespread views of national cultural histories and global constructions of performance culture by analysing methods, histories and occurrences of adaptation across a range of media.

The launch is linked to a research roundtable discussion between the editorial team of JAFP:

Editors:
Prof. Richard Hand (rhand@glam.ac.uk) <mailto:rhand@glam.ac.uk)>  and
Dr. Katja Krebs (k.krebs@bristol.ac.uk) <mailto:k.krebs@bristol.ac.uk)>

Assistant editor: Dr Márta Minier (mminier@glam.ac.uk) <mailto:mminier@glam.ac.uk)>
Reviews editor: Dr Duška Radosavljević (drxdr@bristol.ac.uk <mailto:drxdr@bristol.ac.uk> )

Chaired by Professor Stephen Lacey (University of Glamorgan)

Our publisher, Intellect, will be represented by Ravi Butalia, the Journals Manager, and Steve Pearce Business Development Manager. Some of our authors and members of our editorial board will also be attending.

The inaugural issue is available for inspection online by registering as a reader on the Intellect website: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17536421 <http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17536421> .

For library and individual subscriptions for JAFP Luke Roberts may be contacted: Luke@intellectbooks.com <mailto:Luke@intellectbooks.com> .

Subscription prices:£33 personal and £210 institutional.

Professor Yvonne Spielmann inaugural lecture (12 Dec, CCA, Glasgow)

Please find below details of Professor Yvonne Spielmann’s inaugural lecture at the University of the West of Scotland.

Inaugural lecture
“Intermediality: Perspectives on Convergent Media”.
Professor Yvonne Spielmann,
Professor of New Media, University of the West of Scotland
Wednesday 12 December, 7.30-8:30pm, refreshments to follow.
CCA (CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS) 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

In her lecture, Professor Spielmann will introduce relevant aspects of the histories and concepts of how interrelationships between different media can function. This will involve the discussion of examples from literature, photography, film and in particular electronic film in order to better understand the larger picture of contemporary fusion that seemingly embraces all media. The lecture identifies a variety of strategies in the media arts where we can see how the separation and the borders between film, video and computer generated images are challenged. These processes are relevant to creative practices that combine and converge elements of the analogue and the digital. Thereby, the lecture will also raise the question how innovation and creativity express technologically and/or aesthetically in the increasingly complex and convergent media practices.

Yvonne joins the University from the Braunschweig School of Art where she was Professor of Visual Media, prior to that Yvonne was Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Siegen, both Germany. She is author of the German language monographs “Eine Pfütze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde” (1991), “Intermedialität. Das System Peter Greenaway” (1998), and “Video. Das reflexive Medium” (2005).

The Lecture will commence at 7.30 pm and last for around one hour.  A buffet reception will take place immediately after the lecture.

The lecture is free and open to all, but requires confirmation of attendance, as numbers are limited.

For more information and to register your interest call 01292 886260 or email

Margaret Gibb at margaret.gibb@uws.ac.uk
http:///www.uws.ac.uk

PhD studentship: New Media at the Beijing Olympics

I would like to inform you of an advertisement for a PhD studentship.
A stipend is attached to the studentship. Please feel welcome to contact me directly in relation to this [preferably by email].

Please note that the deadline for applications is 27 July 2007 and applications canbe sent electronically.

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New Media at the Beijing Olympics
School of Media, Language & Music, University of Paisley, Scotland, UK.
Closing date: 27 July, 2007.

This project investigates the development of new media within China, in
association with the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. In so doing, it responds tonew agendas in media research in three areas: studies of the media in China,studies of new media, and the role of the media in the construction of theOlympic Games to an international audience. In combining these areas, the student will focus on media discourses surrounding the Beijing Olympic Games. The aim will be to consider the ‘external’ impression of the Beijing Olympics, by studying the cultural and political dimensions of the Games. This work will draw on key theoretical insights into international media events and digital culture. It will also theorize the transformation of journalism as a profession in the context of new media publishing and broadcasting.

Key concepts: citizen journalism, social software, media event, Olympics.

This research will draw on collaborative research projects undertaken by Dr Miah with the London School of Economics and the University of East London.Partner institutions also include various Beijing Universities, particularly the Communication University of China, a leading provider of broadcasting expertise in Beijing and China. Collaborations are also underway with the Annenberg School of Communication, various new media organisations and the student will be assisted to attend the Beijing Olympics in August 2008. The student will support the teaching of ‘Sport & Spectacle’, a course directed by Dr Miah focusing on the media, cultural and political aspects of the Olympic Movement. The project also benefits from an External Adviser Charlie Beckett, Director of POLIS at the London School of Economics. There will also be an opportunity to provide Editorial Assistance to the academic magazine ‘Culture at the Olympics’ http://www.culturalolympics.org.uk

POLIS

“POLIS is a joint initiative from LSE and the London College of Communication aimed at working journalists, people in public life and students in the UK and around the world. POLIS is the place where journalists and the wider world can examine and discuss the media and its impact on society.”

The presence of journalism within the School has gone through a second beginning recently and this new initiative looks like an ideal resource for specialists in this area.