Category Archives: School of the Arts
School of the Arts Research Seminar Update
The University of Northampton School of the Arts ‘Acts of Remembrance’ Research Seminar with Dr Sonya Andermahr, Dr Larissa Allwork and Dr Esther Jilovsky will be starting at 12.00 as opposed to 12.30 on Wednesday 10th July in MY120, Avenue Campus.
All welcome.
“Such a Long Journey”: New radio play recording and call for feedback
The rehearsed reading for the first act of Oladipo Agboluaje’s Such a Long Journey is now available to listen to online via Research Support Hub. See below for the recording and further details.
Rehearsed reading of Such A Long Journey at Northampton’s Doddridge Centre
Update: the rehearsed recording of Act I can now be listened to online.
On 19 June 2013, Dr Victor Ukaegbu, Dr Jumai Ewu and Richard Hollingum were joined by five performers (Original Who Can Tell?…! lead actress, Myrle Roach and four undergraduate drama students from the University of Northampton) to rehearse the first episode of Oladipo Agboluaje’s new radio play, Such A Long Journey.
School of the Arts summer show successes and Angry Planet commemorative booklet
Beginning on Tuesday 11th June, English and Creative Writing at the University of Northampton School of the Arts hosted three special events as part of the School of the Arts Summer Show. All of these events were well attended by individuals from both within and outside of the School of the Arts.
Dr Lorna Jowett’s TV Fangdom impresses scholar at Spain’s University of Oviedo
Dr Lorna Jowett, Dr Stacey Abbott (The University of Roehampton) and Dr Mike Starr’s recent success with the TV Fangdom conference on Television Vampires (The University of Northampton, 7-8 June 2013), which featured key scholars Brigid Cherry and Marcus Recht as well as an outstanding presentation on often forgotten British TV vampires by BFI Television curator, Lisa Kerrigan has just welcomed a further success. Dr María Mariño Faza, a lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain could not attend the conference but was so impressed by news of the scholars involved that she has decided to spend time researching representations of vampires and the supernatural at The University of Northampton School of the Arts this summer.
Psyche in the Arts Research Network announce symposium on 3 July 2013
Submitted by Dr Patrick Campbell.
The Psyche in the Arts Research Network presents:
Creative Encounters: Arts as Culture / Arts as Therapy?
Wednesday 3rd July 2013, 9.30am-5pm
The University of Northampton School of the Arts, Avenue Campus
Updated Itinerary: The School of the Arts research seminar series 2013
The itinerary for the remaining events in the School of the Arts research seminar series has been updated. Please see the original post for the revised details:
Call For Papers: The SOTA annual postgraduate conference 2013
On the 19 – 20 September 2013, the University of Northampton School of the Arts will be holding its annual postgraduate conference. All students registered for PhDs at the School of the Arts are expected to submit twenty minute papers on their research areas, while Masters and MPhil students are strongly encouraged to do so.
From Who Can Tell?…! to Such A Long Journey: New Radio Play Rehearsals Announced
On the evening of 5th June 2013, Dr Victor Ukaegbu and Dr Jumai Ewu hosted a very special re-union of the production team and cast members behind the 2008 JAWI Theatre collective production, Who Can Tell?…!.
This community based play was based on material from the oral history archives of the Northamptonshire Black History Association (NBHA) and gave theatrical voice to black people’s experiences of living and growing up in 1960s Northampton.
Event report: The Personal is Political Revisited
Submitted by Lisa Robertson.
The Personal is Political Revisited: Investigating Notions of Place and Space
An Interdisciplinary Symposium hosted by the School of the Arts, The University of Northampton
Saturday October 6, 2012
This one-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the School of the Arts brought together scholars from around the globe to revisit the concept of the personal as political and consider its effect on the perception and experience of space and place.
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