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This workshop will bring together researchers, curators and practitioners to launch Film Costumes in Action. This AHRC-funded project investigates how costumes have been designed, made and used in British film from the 1960s onwards. Costume plays a central role in film imagery and is fundamental to understandings of character, atmosphere and setting. Yet little is known...
Please note that this is an in-person event. If you are interested in being involved in future discussions but can’t attend the event, please contact Emily Payne ([email protected]). Please RSVP to [email protected] How do DJs ‘read the room’ during a set? How does crowd behaviour impact on sportspeople? What does it mean to be able to...
Professor Melanie Bell, LAHRI Deputy Director, will give her inaugural professorial lecture on 28th February. She will be speaking on Labours of Love: the Feminist Work of Doing Women’s Film History To read all about Professor Melanie Bell's Inaugural Lecture – Labours of Love: the Feminist Work of Doing Women’s Film History | Faculty of...
You're warmly invited to the third LAHRI Sadler event on comics and interdisciplinarity, hosted by Miriam Kent, Eirini Boukla and Rik Worth. It features Neil Cohn (Tilburg University) and Nick Sousanis (San Francisco State University) in conversation on the topic of comics, cognition and visual thinking. Booking is essential. This conversational talk will draw from...
Performing Gender as You See Fit: Contested Bodies Panel Date: Wednesday 21 February 2024, 18:00 – 19:15 Location: stage@leeds Cost: Free. Join this fascinating discussion around art and how gender is performed with artists and co-curator of our Contested Bodies exhibition. Explore further the concept of gender as a social construct. Delve into the practice...
Title: “Comics and Cognition: The Power of Visual Thinking” Description: Cohn and Sousanis explore the concept of visual thinking through their respective backgrounds in cognitive science, linguistics, and epistemology while discussing the cognitive processes involved in interpreting sequential art. In this event, they will showcase the capacity of comics to convey complex ideas through the combination of...
The Leeds Centre for Dante Studies is delighted to announce its forthcoming Annual Lecture. Dante Annual Lecture 1st February 2024, 4pm Roger Stevens LT 16 (12.16), University of Leeds Dennis Looney University of Pittsburgh (retired)/Modern Language Association (retired) Dante from the Deep South to the Global South
Are you interested in how Corpus tools can be deployed to answer questions using historical, cultural and literary materials? Do you ever wonder how corpus tools help scholars approach extremely large databases or databases which are less amenable to traditional forms of close reading? LAHRI invite researchers from across the University to join in with...
Join us to celebrate the launch of the online catalogue of the Martin Bell papers held in Special Collections. The archive at Leeds is the single largest collection of Bell’s manuscripts and correspondence. Manuscripts offer unprecedented insight into Bell’s later years, and the wealth of correspondence charts the trajectory of his life in Leeds. Throughout...
Title: “Threads: Comics Storytelling, Activism, and the Refugee Crisis” Description: Graphic novelist Kate Evans discusses her groundbreaking non-fiction graphic work Threads from the Refugee Crisis (Verso, 2017) in conversation with Harriet Earle. She explores the comic's use of lace as a recurring motif, which aids readers in empathising with the stories it tells while critiquing European colonialism, postcolonial...