The Salon in March and 2012 schedule

So, Salonnieres, we meet again! (Every first Wednesday of the month, to be exact.)

Many thanks to those of you who turned out last month for Professor David Ekserdjian's informative and fascinating lecture on getting published, and many thanks to Professor Ekserdjian himself.

Next week's Salon will perhaps be a little less prestigious, but will return to one of The Salon’s main objectives, to act as a forum for ongoing research within the department. In ‘Screen Test Salon’ next Wednesday, Victoria Byard will present an early version of her upcoming paper for the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts:  "There is always strangeness in things": the Monstrous in Russell T. Davies's Dark Season and Century Falls.


                              


This is part of Victoria’s ongoing thesis research on British children’s television fantasy between 1955 and 1994.

The Salon will take place on Wednesday 7^th March from 13:00 to 15:00 in ATT LG02 (Attenborough Seminar Block Basement). All are welcome!

In further news, we are also happy to announce that the schedule for the rest of the year has now been finalised, and can be found below.

We would particularly like to draw your attention to The Salon in April. The Salon, in association with IDeoGRAMS, the Interdepartmental Group for Research into the Arts, Media and Society, will be holding a joint research seminar on  April 4^th 2-5pm, Bankfield House (132 New Walk) Room 0.02, looking at visual culture, academic practice and ethics. This promises to be an exciting and potentially productive afternoon of research, involving colleges across the University of Leicester. This event has come from the shared belief that discussion about academic practices surrounding visual culture, its sources and ethics is timely, relevant and perhaps necessary. The proliferation of new media platforms and relationships over the last thirty years has contributed to ongoing changes in research practices and publishing, as well as international, and institutional, policy and legislation. The dynamic and unpredictable cultures which these platforms and their uses have nurtured, and which have ongoing effects upon academic research, suggest that an interdisciplinary examination would prove profitable.

We are interested in addressing the ongoing issues and tensions surrounding the use of visual images and material across the disciplines, with particular attention paid to such issues as

•         visual culture and copyright: using visual material in published research and theses

•         the ethics of using visual culture: provenance, ownership, and pragmatism

•         the impact of the internet upon the use of visual sources in academia

•         'legitimate' material: media property, file sharing, and quality

•         visual sources as documentary evidence: privacy and permission

The Salon believe that these issues are particularly relevant to the study of History of Art and Film, and the wider University of Leicester community, given the current institutional policy of publishing  theses in e-form. We would invite all those with an interest to attend, and we would encourage you to disseminate this information to anyone you think might be interested.

In addition, we would like to draw your attention to The Salon in June. This will be a session of mini-presentations based loosely around the theme of ‘The End of the World’.

The literal translation of apocalypse is ‘revelation’ or ‘a lifting of the veil’; consequently we are looking for submissions for ten-minute presentations, looking at representations of change and revelation as much as more commonly understood conceptions of apocalypse and post-apocalypse. If you want to practice giving research presentations, this could be an enjoyable and easy way to do so! Please contact us at vrb3@le.ac.uk with your proposals. 

You can also keep up to date with what's going on at The Salon on Twitter @thesalon_haf, or join the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/155452421216246/. If you would like to contribute to the blog with posts about ongoing research, issues that you've come across as a postgraduate student or even just interesting links, then we would be happy to have you! You'll need a Googlemail account to be able to post, so if you forward your details to vrb3@le.ac.uk, we will be able to add you as a blogger.

Hope to see you next week, and at the following events!

                                             The Salon: schedule for 2012

7^th March, 13:00-15:00

ATT LG02

‘Screen Test Salon’

Victoria Byard - "There is always strangeness in things": the Monstrous in Russell T. Davies's Dark Season and Century Falls

4^th April, 14:00-17:00

Bankfield House (132 New Walk) Room 0.02

Visual Culture and Research Ethics joint seminar with IDeoGRAMS

2^nd May, 13:00-15:00

ATT LG02

Megan Leyland – paper title TBA

6^th June, 13:00-15:00

ATT LG02

The End of the World interdisciplinary mini-presentations (proposals now being accepted)

1^st August, 13:00

Library Café

Informal Summer session

5^th September, 13:00-15:00

Room TBC

I Know What You Did Last Summer: Academic Edition