School of Arts, Media, and Communication
School Research Seminars
Semester 1, 2025/26
All seminars take place 1.00pm - 2.00pm in Attenborough Seminar Block, Room 208.
| Title and speaker | Date | Research area |
| Boredom, Extractivism and the Regenerative Potential of Coal Mining Imaginaries in Northwest Leicestershire Maisie Ridgway |
22 October (this session will take place in Att 206) | Creative Writing |
| Eton and Empire: Rethinking 'Eminence' in Memoirs by Dillebe Onyeama and Musa Okwonga Lucy Evans |
29 October | English |
| Amplifying Solidarities: U.S. Community and Public Radio in Crisis (Times) Katie Moylan |
12 November | Media and Communications |
| COP30 and Sustainability Horizons at Mid-Decade Tim Neff |
26 November | Research Policy |
| Contesting Dichotomous Femininity in Mao's Film Industry: Female Stars and Representation of the New China Lin Feng |
10 December | Film Studies |
Semester 2, 2024/25
All seminars take place 1.00pm - 2.00pm.
| Title and speaker | Date | Research area |
| Research Cluster Showcase Claire Jenkins, Tim Neff and Victoria O’Meara |
19 March | Arts, Media and Communication |
| Creative Approaches to Empathic Healthcare Felicity James |
5 March | English |
| Creative Health Network and Institute for Precision Health Nuala Morse and Lynne Howells |
26 February | Research Policy |
| School Postgraduate Research Showcase | 12 February | Arts, Media and Communication |
| Music, Adaptation and the Palimpsest in Kubrick's Dr Strangelove and The Shining Anna Claydon |
29 January | Media and Communication |
Semester 1, 2024/25
All seminars take place 1.00pm - 2.00pm in the Attenborough Tower Slide Room, Floor 17.
| Title and speaker | Date | Research area |
| Researching Creative Writing Kit de Waal in conversation with Zalfa Feghali |
4 December | Creative Writing |
| James Bond Revisited: Reflections on Developing and Updating Your Own Previous Research James Chapman |
20 November | Film Studies |
| Translating the 400th Anniversary of Tainin in City Museums Yan Ying |
13 November | Translation Studies |
| Hastow nat Herd at Parlement? Chaucer in the House of Commons, 1837 - 2022 Ben Parsons |
30 October | English |
| How Media Ownership Matters Rodney Benson (New York University) and Tim Neff |
16 October | Media and Communication |