Links
Conferences
Kate O'R is speaking on 'Mobile Telephony and Wireless Application Protocol
(WAP): Feminising the Object.' (Surrey) and 'New Visions of the Female
Body; The Web Camera' at Surrey and Helsinki.
Sally
Munt is talking about 'Lesbian Technologies' a joint paper with Irmi Karl
(University of Brighton) given at 'Sexualities,
Medias and Technologies: Theorising Old and New Practices' conference
at the University of Surrey.
Andy
and Sally are keynote speakers at the 'Other(ing) England' conference,
University of Buckinghamshire, June 2001.
Caroline is speaking at the ICA on 'Cyber-communism: the re-run' later this summer.
Recent Publications
Andy's book 'A National Joke' (infamous comedy monograph) is finally getting
finished this summer.
Nancy has edited 'Media and Migration: Constructions of Mobility and
Difference' (with Russell King).
Half
the subject group - Caroline, Kate, Michael - have chapters in Sally's
edited collection - 'Technospaces: Inside the New Media'.
(Continuum).
Sally's
up and coming book chapters include:
"The Butch Body" in Ruth Holliday & John Hassard (eds) Contested
Bodies
Routledge. Translated into French & republished as "Le Corps
Butch" in 'Attirances. Lesbiennes Fems, Lesbiennes Butchs Les Editions
Gaies et Lesbiennes', Paris, 2001.
"The Well of Shame" in Laura Doan & Jay Prosser (eds) 'Palatable
Poison:
Critical Perspectives on The Well of Loneliness Past and Present'
Columbia University Press, New York, 2001.
Andy has an essay on 1970s TV series 'Jason King', in Routledge collection
on 'Action TV'.
Kate L has a reprinted version of 'From Plauderei to Propaganda: On women's
radio in Germany' in Women and Radio: Airing Differences (ed. Caroline
Mitchell), Routledge, 2001, and is also preparing
'Radio and the Feminine' for More than a Music Box ed. Andrew Crisell,
Berghahn.
Caroline has produced a vaguely definitive statement on cyber-feminism,
for the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women.
Sally's article "Virtually Belonging: Risk, Connectivity and Coming
Out On-line" (jointly authored with Bassett E. & O'Riordan K.)
will be published in the International Journal of Sexuality and Gender
Studies, Klumer Academic/ Human Sciences Press.
Andy is co-editing (with Joanne Lacey of Brighton University), The
Representation Reader (Sage) and writing Fifty Key Concepts in
Cultural
Studies, textbook for Sage.
Production
Ken's video work recently includes Saving Falmer and The Downs
for Falmer Parish Council. A video about the effects on the Village if
a football stadium is Built.
Ken is also involved in 'Green Gym' a nationwide project on green issues
Susssex students Alice Deady and Nadia Zheni have been involved in this
project. An interactive drama 'Hovepark School' for Brighton Council Education
Dept is also underway. Videoing is complete but the project still needs
editing.
Ken is also involved in discussions on producing a video about a power
station for Scottish Power in Hertfordshire.
Conferences
The Marxist Cultural Network conference was hosted at Sussex this year.
Paul S was conference co-ordinator. Sally, Caroline and Barbara gave papers.
A conference on Film Stars in the Nineties was held at Sussex in April.
Thomas co-organised the weekend with Martin Barker (Aberystwyth), and
they are now planning an edited collection based on the proceedings. Two
well-received papers were given by Sussex DPhils Ian Huffer and Ewan Kirkland.
Kate's
major project at the moment is the Radiodyssey conference
co-organised with colleagues from the steering committee of the Radio
Studies Network, in particular David Hendy (Westminster) and Peter Lewis
(LSE). The best way to find about it (and register for it!) is to go to
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/radiodyssey/index.html
or via the link from the Media Studies home page.
Funding
for the Radio conference includes:
£1600 from the British Academy to fund travel for speakers
£2000 from the ESRC to fund a panel on Radio Futures (as the final
instalment of series of seminars led by Ros Gill at the LSE).
£1000 from the Radio Advertising Bureau to sponsor a panel on Music
and
Radio and fund delegates.
Plus money from the Radio Authority and GWR for general expenses and
delegate packs etc.
There's also a strand on Teaching and Learning Radio which is in part
being
funded by a grant of nearly £5000 that the Network secured from
the ADC LT SN (Art, Design and Communication Learning & Teaching Support
Network) to
conduct a survey of radio teaching in HE, identify best practice and present
findings at the conference. A part-time researcher has been employed to
conduct this research.
Some of the results of that might be fed into an on-line database for
which
the Network has received £3426 from the Radio Academy, with a similar
amount to follow to maintain it.
D.Phil
Activity
Nick Mai, has been appointed Researcher for a Leverhulme-funded
project on Albanian migration to Italy; he has also published a chapter
in Media and Migration.
Grants
Kate is involved with a bid for one of the AHRB's Research
Centres, to be based primarily at the LSE, with Roger Silverstone as Managing
Director. The
summary reads as follows:
"This partnership between the LSE and the Universities of Central
England,
Glasgow Caledonian, Sunderland and Sussex, will support radio-related
research across an existing network of scholarly activity - the Radio
Studies Network - drawing on the interdisciplinary media@lse group to
ensure that radio study is enriched by new ideas, and its value recognised
in
related fields.'
Caroline and Thomas have been advised to resubmit an AHRB bid to research media and transport flows in Brighton Marina with revised timings.
Nancy has applied to the Leverhulme Trust and CNRS (France) for her book on Germaine Tillion. Nancy Paul and Barbara have applied to the AHRB for a conference on 'Gender, Media and Nation' planned for September 2001.
New
Work
Kate is starting new work on the Modernisation of Listening, emerging
from work done during her sabbatical term in Berlin. A paper 'Disciplining
the Listener' to be delivered at the Radiodyssey conference is part of
this wider project.
Wanted
Sall Munt is Series Editor for Critical Research on Visual Culture, and is actively soliciting for book proposals, should you have a burning project up your sleeve.
Caroline always wants people to write book reviews for New Media and Society.
Thomas
is on the Editorial Advisory Board for SCOPE, an on-line film journal
because he's mates with the editor. Material is sought!
The
ClubMed Summer Air Miles Scheme...
Top of the League Paul - (Grant to Harvard/DC)
Runner Up: Michael - (Portugal)
Bottom and proud of it - Thomas 'All air miles are bad miles'