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For PGRs in all faculties

With a drive towards interdisciplinary research, who can you collaborate with? Whose work compliments yours and how can you increase the impact of your work? Run in collaboration with the HRC our 'speed' networking event will provide you the opportunity to meet other researchers and briefly share your research ideas to find matches. We will be serving lunch and wine - come and join us to find your match!

BOOKING ESSENTIAL

LLTA will host a talk by Dr Glenn Fulcher (Leicester), about 'Language Assessment Literacy & Language Testing Pedagogy'.

Emmy Stavropoulou: 'Metals and the Mind of Eteocles in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes'

Denise Wilding: 'Roman Tokens in Britain'

Visiting Speaker, Dr Rebecca Harrison, University of Glasgow - ‘Rethinking the Panicking Audience: Class, Urbanism and the Train Effect in Early British Cinema’

One of the enduring stories about early cinema is that of the ‘panicking audience,’ who, on seeing films featuring locomotives moving toward the screen, would cry out, jump from their seats, or rush for the exits, fearing that the vehicle would enter the auditorium. Scholars including Tom Gunning, Stephen Bottomore and Martin Loiperdinger all suggest that while contemporary reports exaggerated the ‘train effect’, audiences did, on occasion, physically react to filmic trains rushing toward them. However, scholarship tends to reinforce, rather than dismantle, assumptions about class, imperialism and proximity to the urban environment that underpin narratives about early film spectators. Consequently, this paper both expands on, and challenges, literature about the panicking audience to reveal how class and geography were implicated in narratives about film going at the turn of the nineteenth century.

‘Writing a Biography of Chaucer’

Gerhild Krebs (University of ÌÇÐÄTV): Exile Films from 1930s Britain as a Transnational Issue
Pia Deutsch (University of ÌÇÐÄTV): Mediating Identities – Negitioating the Truth. Germany’s National Radio 1989-1995

Marion Turner (Oxford), ‘Writing a Biography of Chaucer’