CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP


2012-01-23 17:00: Screenwriting from a practical perspective: some myths debunked (Clare Foster, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-06 17:00: La Place de la Bastille and the place of cultural topography (Prof. Keith Reader, University of Glasgow)

2012-02-20 17:00: Computer gaming and the art of narrative (Dr. Astrid Ensslin, Bangor University)

2012-03-05 17:00: Graduate work in progress: Screen Media seminar with Lauri Kitsnik and Alice Allen (Lauri Kitsnik and Alice Allen (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-06 17:00: Telescopic Urbanism (Professor Ash Amin, 1931 Chair in Geography, University of Cambridge)

2012-04-30 17:00: Teorema (Pasolini, 1968): A Roundtable on Film and Literature with Ali Smith, Robert Gordon and Lucia Yandoli (Ali Smith, novelist; Prof. Robert Gordon and Lucia Yandoli (Department of Italian, University of Cambridge))

2012-05-14 17:00: Presentations on Work in Progress in Screen Media (Chris O'Rourke (University of Cambridge) and Henry K. Miller (Birkbeck, University of London))

2012-05-16 17:15: The Role of Documenting Semantics and Pragmatics in Understudied Languages (Tyler R.G. Peterson (Leiden))

2012-05-28 17:00: Adaptation in Theory and in Practice (Clare Foster, University of Cambridge)

2012-06-08 17:00: Literature, Cinema, Television - Almodóvar and Bresson: Launch Event for the Legenda 'Moving Image' Series (Paul Julian Smith (Distinguished Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, CUNY) and Laura McMahon (Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen))

2012-06-11 17:00: Putting Machinima in (or out of) Cinema: A Roundtable on Films made in Virtual Worlds (Dr Jenna Ng (University of Cambridge), Dr William Brown (University of Roehampton), Prof. Sarah Higley (University of Rochester, NY) and Prof. Lev Manovich (University of California - San Diego))

2012-07-06 08:45: Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges (Plenaries by Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endangered Languages) and Tjeerd de Graaf (Frisian Academy))

2012-10-09 17:00: The First Turns of an Embodied Cinema: 'Duncan Grant’s Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting with Sound' (Professor Chris Townsend, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2012-10-23 17:00: Beyond film. The many birthdays of the digital age: scanning, 3D and Klimt's 'Nuda Veritas' remixed (Dr Frederick Baker, Cambridge University & Institute of Creative Media Technology, St Pölten)

2012-11-06 17:00: Two-step, Nerve-tap, Tanglefoot: Tapdance Typologies in Cinema (Professor Steven Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English, University of Cambridge.)

2012-11-20 17:00: A screening of filmmaker Lucia Yandoli's new short, 'Love Letter', with Q&A (Lucia Yandoli, filmmaker and PhD Student, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-27 17:00: Kevin Brownlow: Adventures in Film History (Kevin Brownlow, film historian and documentary-maker)

2013-01-22 17:00:  An evening with cameraman Ray Andrew (Ray Andrew, camera operator)

2013-02-05 17:00: Joint screening: Réponse de Femmes (Agnès Varda) and Quand les femmes s’en mêlent (Paule Zajdermann) (University of Cambridge)

2013-02-19 17:00: STELARC - MEAT, METAL & CODE: THE CADAVER, THE COMATOSE & THE CHIMERA (STELARC, Performance Artist, Chair In Performance Art, School of Arts, Brunel University, London)

2013-03-05 17:00: Arrival, Settlement and Relationality: the Child in Film (Prof. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, University of New South Wales)

2013-04-30 17:00: Filmmaker Phillip Warnell: ‘The beast with two backs: mutuality, exchange and transfiguration between animals’ (Phillip Warnell, filmmaker)

2013-05-14 17:00: ‘Performance’ (presentations followed by a panel discussion) (Clare Foster, Prof. Andrew Webber, Dr. Michael Hrebeniak (University of Cambridge))

2013-06-11 17:00: Loving Theory: two talks on film and television (Alison Fornell (Screen Media and Cultures MPhil student, University of Cambridge) and Amelie Hastie (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, Amherst College))

2013-10-15 17:15: Night Life: Derek Jarman and the 80's New Underground Film Scene (William Fowler (BFI))

2013-10-29 17:15: Screen Media Group presents: Prof. Zyg Baranski on Roberto Rossellini's 'Un Pilota Ritorno' (University of Notre Dame, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-12 17:15: Screen Media Group presents: Sarah Wood's 'Forgetting Forgetting', a talk on found footage (Unruly Media)

2014-01-21 17:15: Screen Media Group Presents: Night Life: Derek Jarman and the 80's New Underground Film Scene (William Fowler (BFI))

2014-02-04 17:15: Screen Media Group Presents: Georges Perec's 'Scene of a Flight' (Mark Goodall (University of Bradford))

2014-02-18 17:15: Screen Media Group Presents: The False Archive: Unbearable and Impossible Images in Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Virgin Suicides’ (Anna Backman Rogers (University of Stockholm))

2014-03-04 17:15: Screen Media Group Presents: Dr. Rod Mengham and Marc Atkins on 'The Sounding Pole Films' (Dr. Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge), Marc Atkins)

2014-04-01 09:00: Writing Itself (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-05-13 17:15: Screen Media Group Presents: Redell Olsen ‘To Quill At Film’ : A Talk on ‘Film Poems’  (Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2014-07-10 09:00: ‘Bread, Freedom and Social Justice’: Organised Workers and Mass Mobilizations in the Arab World, Europe and Latin America (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-12-08 09:00: The Politics of Framing and Staging: Performance as Paradigm II (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-12-12 09:00: Does the Museum Just Preserve the Museum? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-02-06 09:00: Grasping ‘Everyday Justice’: An Ethnographic Approach (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-03-17 17:15: Cosmopolitanism - Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah in conversation with Ash Amin (Kwame Anthony Appiah - CRASSH Mellon CDI Visiting Professor )

2015-03-19 09:00: The Total Archive: Dreams of Universal Knowledge from the Encyclopaedia to Big Data (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-03-23 09:00: The Places of Early Modern Criticism (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-03-27 09:00: Pursuing Justice in Africa (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-04-16 09:00: Print Media in the Colonial World (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-05-15 09:00: African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-05-29 09:00: The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Ideas (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-06-18 09:00: Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-06-23 09:00: Sonorous Sublimes: Music and Sound 1670–1850 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-06-29 09:00: Erotic Literature: Adaptation and Translation in Europe and Asia (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-07-08 09:00: Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics (Keynote: Steven Connor (University of Cambridge))

2015-07-16 09:00: Counting the Cost of Drink in Britain, 1830-1918 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-07-23 09:00: The Making of Measurement (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-09-10 09:00: Sovereignty and Imperialism: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-09-28 09:00: Sex, Disease and Fertility in History (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-10-09 09:00: Moral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-11-20 09:00: Leadership, Authority and Legitimation in South Asia (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-12-10 09:00: Why We Disagree about Human Nature (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-12-17 09:00: The Matter of Mimesis (Speaker to be confirmed)