PhD student Shailini Vinod talks with linguistics PhD research student Ekiyokere Ekiye about her studies in literature and linguistics and her various roles as a lecturer and communications instructor in Nigeria and Scotland.
6 Sept 2023
An Interview with Shane Strachan
PhD students Ian Grosz and Shailini Vinod talk with Scots Scriever and newly appointed lecturer at the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture Dr Shane Strachan about his journey from PhD to his appointment as lecturer, about his use of Doric and Scots as a creative platform, and about his role as current Scots Scriever. Shane also reads his poem Doric Dwams, discussing the inspiration for it and his collaboration with composer Emily de Simone and cellist Aileen Sweeney.
8 Jun 2023
Art and Science at the George Washington Wilson Centre
PhD students Ian Grosz and Shailini Vinod talk with the directors of the George Washington Wilson Centre for Art and Visual Culture, Drs Silvia Cassini and Hans Hones, about how they are bringing the arts and sciences together through the activities of the centre.
The George Washington Wilson Centre brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines. Its members share a common concern in investigating art and visual culture: what it is; how it functions across different times, places and contexts; how we encounter or understand it. The Centre facilitates a range of activities fostering collaborative research into art and visual culture, including a regular seminar series; an interdisciplinary reading group; international conferences; and public engagement events.
The Centre takes its name from George Washington Wilson, the renowned Aberdeen-based Victorian photographer. The entire collection of George Washington Wilson’s photographic plates is held by the University Library.
See https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/gww-centre-2169.php (https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/gww-centre-2169.php)
4 Apr 2023
Fields of Meaning – An Interview with Eden Unger Bowditch
Third Year PhD researcher Eden Unger Bowditch reads from her novel in progress Two-Hundred-and-Fifty Years at Home, and discusses the nature of ambiguity in the literary text.
18 Nov 2022
Brian Keeley – Visual artist and heart transplant recipient
Brian Keeley is a final year PhD student within the Dept. of Film & Visual Culture of the University of Aberdeen. His research focusses on myths and misrepresentations in portrayals of heart transplantation in contemporary art and visual culture. It is a practice-based thesis and draws upon his own experience as a visual artist and filmmaker, and as a heart transplant recipient.
27 Oct 2022
The Work of the Walter Scott Research Centre
In this episode members of the Walter Scott Research Centre discuss their work on the AHRC funded project The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry: Engaging New Audiences. The project’s research fellows provide an insight into their work and how the journey from completing their doctorates to starting work at the Centre.
22 Sept 2022
Life Writing with Jane Hughes
Co-hosts Ian Grosz and Shailini Vinod, both PhD students in Creative Writing, explore creative approaches to contemporary life writing with fellow PhD student and psychotherapist Jane Hughes. Jane draws on her experience as a funeral celebrant to write about bereavement and loss, with a strong element of humour.
25 Aug 2022
WayWORD Festival in 2022
From the Old Brewery is a podcast that highlights the research of students and staff at the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. In this first episode Ian Grosz, second-year PhD student in Creative Writing, invites Dr Helen Lynch, director of the WORD Centre for Creative Writing, and Bea Livesey-Stephens, a recent graduate in Linguistics and one of the interns at the WORD Centre, to talk about their research, and in particular, the WayWORD Festival: a student and youth-led cross-arts literary festival that explores unconventional forms of expression, taking place between September 20 and 25 this year.
23 Jun 2022
Scientific Travel Writing and the Environmental Imagination by Isabella Engberg
Ian Grosz, second-year PhD student in Creative Writing, and Lise Olsen, second-year PhD student in Sonic Arts, invite Isabella Maria Engberg, a second year PhD student in Comparative Literature to discuss environmental portrayals in travel writing, nineteenth century culture, and the relationship between science and literature.
23 May 2022
Literary Adaptation and Representation by May Toudic
Ian Grosz, second-year PhD student in Creative Writing, and Marianne Fossaluzza, second-year PhD student in Film and Visual Culture, invite May Toudic, a second year PhD student specialising in adaptation theory to discuss adaptation, modernisation and the relationship between 19th-century novels and 21st-century media.
14 Apr 2022
We Must Walk: A conversation with Lise Olsen on her 12-month artist in residency with The Moray Way Association
Ian Grosz, second-year PhD student in Creative Writing, and Marianne Fossaluzza, second-year PhD student in Film and Visual Culture, invite Lise Olsen, PhD student in Sonic Arts and discuss Lise’s one-year artist-in-residency project with The Moray Way Association titled We Must Walk.
24 Mar 2022
Pilots in Pyjamas (1968), a four-part documentary on the Vietnam War by GDR filmmakers Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann by Lauren Cuthbert
Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Director of Postgraduate Research at LLMVC, and Ian Grosz, second-year PhD student in Creative Writing, invite Lauren Cuthbert, PhD student at LLMVC who discusses her research on the films by GDR documentary filmmakers Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann.
25 Feb 2022
‘Bears Meddling in Human Politics’: Ecologising Democracy in Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Ines Kirschner
Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Director of Postgraduate Research at LLMVC, and Isabella Engberg, second-year PhD student in Comparative Literature, invite Ines Kirschner, a PhD student at LLMVC whose research explores nature and wildlife conservation in twenty-first-century fiction.
28 Jan 2022
Echoes of War: Fiction of Traumatic Memories in the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War by Libertad Ansola-Palazuelos
Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Director of Postgraduate Research at LLMVC, and Ian Grosz, second-year PhD student in Creative Writing invite Libertad Ansola-Palazuelos, a PhD student at LLMVC who researches Spanish literature in the context of Francoist Span from a gender perspective.
14 Jan 2022
Representations of autism and place in 21st Century: Sarinah O’Donoghue
Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Director of Postgraduate Research at LLMVC, and Ian Grosz, second-year PhD student in Creative Writing invite Sarinah O’Donoghue, a PhD student at LLMVC, exploring narrative representations of autism.
10 Dec 2021
E. A. Hornel: A Painter Behind the Camera
Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Director of Postgraduate Research at LLMVC, invites Marianne Fossaluzza, a PhD student at LLMVC, researching the photographic collection of Edward Atkinson Hornel in the care of the National Trust for Scotland.
3 Dec 2021
Open discussion with LLMVC PG Reps
Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Director of Postgraduate Research at LLMVC, invites two PG Reps, Matthew Lee and Samuel Weaver to discuss the life of a PGR student at LLMVC.
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