Peace and Justice? Participatory Research in the Global South, 14 December
Digital Literacy in Oaxaca – a transversal feminist approach
You can view and join the upcoming events for our British Academy Innovation Fellowship here:-
18 May 2022 British Academy, DMU, & MeCCSA Disability Studies Network and Practice Network
Workshop 1
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-the-screenwriting-skills-gap-mental-health-disability-equality-tickets-331415702287
March 2020 to August 2021
Virtual events and presentations include work highlighted by galleries such as Open Space ref. 189
https://www.openspacegallery.co.uk/drawings
Plus radio and TV interviews with the BBC and Belarus networks.
13 January 2020 The Ethics of Journalism
12 December Professor Jake Lynch University of Sydney Media Discourse
Please register here
On October 9 2019 we are holding the 5th Shared Solidarities Conference
Mental Health and Austerity Conference
Please register:
On 1 March 2019 I convened the media studies panel at the annual Sexual Violence and Domestic Violence Research Conference, some details can be seen here:- http://www.svdv.org.uk
2019 The Transgression International Research Network in collaboration with the Media Health Society section of Media Discourse Centre presents
Media Discourse Centre: four events in Cultural Exchanges, 2019
Symposium on the Environment – Documentary Film Screening – Will Self – Mark Griffiths
Advance, pre-brochure notice – some events may require early booking
MDC events 2019 … Degradation – Profiting from Environmental Catastrophe
Date and time: 27 February 2019 – 12 noon
Location: Clephan Building, 3.01
Speakers: Dr Nicholas Beuret (University of Essex), Ali Hines (MDC Research Associate and Land Campaigner, Global Witness), Dr Beverly Geesin (York St John), Richard Fern (Sheffield University)
Registration Information: staff, contact Stuart Price and visit Cultural Exchanges website: http://dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/index.aspx
Key contact details: mdcevent@dmu.ac.uk
Event Information: The theme of the afternoon will cover the mechanisms used to exploit natural resources, the profits accrued, the rhetorical explanation for such actions, the oversight, surveillance and violence used to reduce the effects of protest, and the forms of resistance taken up by those who object to the process.
MDC events 2019 … Generation Revolution: documentary and panel discussion
£3 (£2 conc)
Date and time: 28 February 2019 – 1pm
Location: Clephan Building, 3.01
Speakers: Beverely Cooper-Chambers (MDC) and an invited panel
Registration Information: staff, contact Stuart Price and visit Cultural Exchanges website: http://dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/index.aspx
Key contact details: mdcevent@dmu.ac.uk
Event Information: The Media Discourse Centre presents a screening of ‘Generation Revolution’, the acclaimed documentary that, in the words of its creators, tells ‘the powerful story of a new generation of black and brown activists who are changing the social and political landscape in London and beyond’. The event is introduced by Stuart Price and chaired by MDC doctoral candidate and film-maker Beverley Cooper-Chambers. After the screening, a Q&A will follow, directed at a panel that includes a number of activists and artists.
MDC events 2019 … Author Will Self introduced by Prof Jason Lee
The philosophical elements of constructions of psychopathology
Date and time: 6.30pm-7.30pm, Clephan 2.13
£3 (£2 conc)
Location: Clephan Building 2.13
Speakers: Will Self
Registration Information: staff contact – Jason Lee, and visit Cultural Exchanges website: http://dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/index.aspx
Key contact details: see above
Event Information: Cultural eXchanges is thrilled to be joined by distinguished author, journalist, and broadcaster, Will Self. He is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, The Book of Dave, How the Dead Live (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002), The Butt (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008), Umbrella (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012), and Shark. A significant voice across a number of fields and Professor of Contemporary Thought at Brunel, Will Self’s talk addresses constructions of psychopathology with reference to philosophy and culture. This event is introduced by Professor Jason Lee, Director of Partnerships for the Leicester Media School, Media Health Society/Media Discourse Centre.
Early booking recommended.
MDC events 2019 … Mark Griffiths, introduced by Prof Jason Lee
Technological addictions: do they really exist?
Date and time: Friday 1st March, 5-6pm
Location: Clephan 0.01
Speakers: Mark Griffiths
Registration Information: staff contact, Jason Lee – and visit Cultural Exchanges website: http://dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/index.aspx
Key contact details: see above
Event Information: Dr Mark Griffiths is a Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Addiction at Nottingham Trent University. Internationally known for his research on technological addictions, he has published over 1000 papers and book chapters and five books. Mark has won 20 national and international awards and has appeared throughout the media, writing numerous articles for national and international newspapers and magazines. Here he provides the reasons on how and why individuals can be genuinely addicted to behaviours such as gambling, gaming and social media. His talk is introduced by Professor Rusi Jaspal (DMU) PVC Research.
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2018 Previous Events
The Black Experience in the Film and Media Industries
10 October 4pm to 5.15pm Mill Studios 0.25
Beverley Cooper-Chambers & Yvonne Connikie explore the experience of black professionals working in the film and media industries. They work in the media and film industries and are PhD researchers in film.
Beyond Transgression – In Theory Practice Follows Theory but In Practice Theory Follows Practice?
31 October 4pm to 5.15pm Mill Studios 0.25
TIRN/IOCT Professors Jason Lee & Martin Richardson examine synergies in theory and creative practice, see https://cjplee.com/ & http://www.martin-richardson.com/
MDC Latin America and Labour Event
13 November – Room and Time TBC
– Dr Adam Fishwick, De Montfort, Dr Fabrizio Poltronieri, De Montfort, and Caroline Amadeu, Birkbeck School of Law, University of London
LMS Industry and Employability Day
14 November Mill Studios contact david.hayward@dmu.ac.uk
Many speakers, including Commissioners from Channel 4
The DocHub@DMU presents: She Should Have Gone To The Moon (dir. Ulrike Kubatta)
15th November 2018 6.30pm Phoenix Cinema
Screening followed by Q&A with the director and special guests, including Dr Suzanne Imber, Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Leicester
MDC The Pains and Pleasures of Publishing
21 November 4pm to 5.15pm Mill Studios 0.25
Professors Jason Lee and Stuart Price on publishing contracts see https://cjplee.com/
Killing the Story – The Art of Being a Police Press Officer
12 December Mill Studios 4pm to 5.15pm Mill Studios 0.25
Will Goddard will give a frank insight into the work of a police press officer. He was employed by the Met Police as a Media and Communications Manager/Press Officer between 2005 and 2016, covering numerous operations, including Yewtree.
10 October 4pm Mill Studios
Organising faculty/school/research group:
Media Discourse Centre/Leicester Media Productions & Leicester Media School/Transgression International Research Network
Event name: The Black Experience in the Film and Media Industries
Date and time (include start and finish times): 10 October 4pm to 5.15pm
Location/Venue: Mill Studios 0.20
Presenter(s): Beverley Cooper-Chambers & Yvonne Connikie
Registration information: you are welcome to just turn up and/or please contact jason.lee@dmu.ac.uk to register attendance
Key contact details: see above
Event information/details (include a link to any relevant web pages):
The Black Experience in the Film and Media Industries
This seminar explores the experience of black professionals working in the film and media industries.
The two speakers work in the media and film industries. They are also PhD researchers in film and media.
Speaker 1
Beverley Cooper-Chambers [PhD researcher DMU]
How working in the media can change the perspective of Caribbean Families in British Television Drama
In my research to understand why British Caribbean families are represented in such a stereotypical manner in television drama I came to two conclusions. One is the impact slavery still has, and two, the subtle influence of television and social engineering. The invalidation of the Caribbean family began with the transatlantic slave trade and the subsequent ravaging of our ancestors, and the dismemberment of the tribe. As a people, we have little memory of our heritage beyond the slave trade and the African people have little memory of us. During the slave trade era every attempt to form a family was thwarted by force, sexual aggression, and economic gain. Today a remnant of that assault on the Caribbean family powerfully plays out through political manipulation ‘Windrush’, financial bribery, cultural or spiritual misinformation, and television content lies at the centre. For screenwriters, endorsement by major broadcasters requires compliance with the gatekeepers’ developmental narrative, either by choice, by political correctness or out of financial necessity. This replicates the continued control social engineering has on Caribbean family life; the same power, corporate and government, that has systematically destroyed Caribbean peoples’ attempts at fictive kin, over the years by regurgitating stereotypical images as the norm can change. The television industry’s drama slate can, and should, reflect the truth about fictive kin and provide uncontaminated narratives, which can enable generations going forward.
Speaker 2 Yvonne Connikie [PhD researcher University of South Wales]
Title: Finding Your Way – A Black Experience in the Film and Media Industries
Yvonne is a programmer specialising in Black British independent film and founder of the Black Film Festival Wales and founder member of the The New Black Film Collective. Yvonne worked as an assistant curator on ‘Big City Stories’, the first compilation of Black presence in London on film.
She ran the Pop Up Cinema from 2013 to 2016 and recently worked with the Independent Cinema Office touring the Black Britain on Film archive.
Yvonne was Curator and Project Manager for the Charlie Phillips Photography Project 2017. Yvonne is a PhD candidate with the University of South Wales, exploring the leisure spaces of aged Caribbean’s in Bluetown, Cardiff.
24-25 October Surveillance, Social Media, and Identity, Media Discourse Centre Conference
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surveillance-social-media-identity-tickets-48037364049
Screenwriting Event Phoenix Cinema Festival of Teaching and Learning
http://www.seven-five.co.uk/schedule/146/screenwriting-with-prof-jason-lee-from-dmu/
13 January Keynote Lecture Too Much Too Young – Woody Allen and Women, York St John University
2017 Previous Events
13 December Transnationalism and Neo-Nazism, Leicester Media School Research Seminar
26 May Echoes of Fascism in Contemporary Culture, Politics and Society, Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies
17 March Launch of Burning Box (Eyewear) poetry collection, London Review Bookshop
27 February Welcome to Leicester Anthology Reading, Cultural Exchanges
The Leicester Media School Presents
Dorothy Byrne, Head of New and Current Affairs, Channel 4
Dorothy Byrne, Visiting Professor at DMU, 25 January 2017, will be be speaking on the media industry and issues of truth.
Consuming Witchcraft in the 20th Century: history, film and media* 8th November 2016
Professor David Nash, Oxford Brookes, Tuesday, 8th November, Clephan 0.17, 1-2pm
*David Nash’s guest ‘Paranormal Media’ research seminar at DMU examines how the phenomenon of witchcraft and its history has been portrayed in Twentieth Century history/historiography, in film and other media. David Nash is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. He has published widely on the history of atheism, blasphemy, religion, secularisation and aspects of crime history including shame and witchcraft. He has given expert advice on blasphemy to governments and agencies in Europe, the United States, Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom. His latest book is (with Anne-Marie Kilday) Shame and Modernity (2016) with Palgrave Macmillan.
Sustaining Colonial Hegemony in a British Territory: race and censorship in Bermudian media*
Dana Selassie, 16th November
*If there was ever a period in Bermuda’s history that so clearly demonstrated contestations of race and identity within colonial newspapers, radio and television, it would be in the 1950s. Racial ideology had been deeply imbedded into the structure of the island’s daily newspaper since its inception in the early 1800s, and throughout the1950s the national radio broadcasting service supported institutionalized racism while censoring any radio programme that promoted black progressiveness.
This is Not a Coup: documentary film and discussion*
Aris Chatzistefanou, Journalist & film-maker, in Documentary Media Month – organised by Andreas Anastasiou
(Sponsored by MDG, the Documentary Media Centre, the Radical Film Network, Leicester People’s University,
and the Digital Networks and Communication Research Cluster, University of Leicester)
Wednesday, 23rd November, Clephan 2.13, 6pm
Tickets available from Andreas Anastasiou
*Screening and Discussion – in this is not a coup, journalist Aris Chatzistefanou follows the «coup d’état» interventions of the European Union and European Central Bank in countries such as Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece and speaks with former heads of states and politicians who determined the developments in front of and behind the lights of publicity.
Bailouts, Brexit and Political Insurgencies: the mediated articulation of dissent*
Professor Dominic Wring and Professor David Deacon, Loughborough University
Thursday, 8th December, 2016, 12 noon, De Montfort University, Edith Murphy, 0.28
All Welcome
*KEYNOTE – Leave it Out: British print and broadcast news media reporting of the Brexit Referendum, with papers on the ‘Corbyn Phenomenon’, European perspectives on Brexit, the state and surveillance, and European law
2016 Previous Events
Child Sexual Abuse and Ideology 10th May 2016
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/events/events-calendar/2016/march/a-conversation-with-jason-lee.aspx
In this lecture Professor Jason Lee examines the relationship between child sexual abuse, culture, and ideology. How has child sexual abuse been constructed in the media and culture and what is the significance of our belief systems? From the novel and two film adaptations of Lolita to the 2016 film Spotlight, paedophilia and child sexual abuse are continually reworked in culture. Beginning with events in the 1980s in America, with satanic abuse panics, moving through scandals concerning celebrities such as Jimmy Savile, Lee explores this contentious issue, with reference to a wide range of sources, including his own books.
13th April 2016: 4.15-5.30pm Economics and Child Sexual Abuse, University of Lincoln
Professor Jason Lee presents at the University of Lincoln’s 21st Century Research Group, delivering the paper: “The Economics of Perversion: child sexual abuse and contemporary culture”. See previous work of Lincoln group here: https://21cresearchgroup.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk
2nd March 2016: 1pm Theatre and Child Sexual Abuse, De Montfort University
Professor Jason Lee co-hosts a research seminar with DMU’s Media Discourse Group of the Leicester Media School and the Faculty of Health and Life Science’s Sexual and Domestic Violence Research Group. The presentation focuses on selected plays to establish their important contribution to the topical debate of child sexual abuse. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe Professor of Drama at the Lincoln School of Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, is founding editor of the peer-reviewed web-journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts which has published Jason Lee’s poetry, editor of the book series of the same title with Brill.
2013
http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2013/speaker_detail/8125/
Jason Lee 