Girl with all the Gifts = Pandora? Greek mythology in Mike Carey’s Melanie-stories

Dr Lynn Fotheringham, Department of Classics and part of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, gives this talk exploring the link between the Pandora figure in Greek mythology and upcoming film The Girl with all the Gifts, based on the novel by MR Carey.

Tags: CADRE, Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, classics, culture, Department of classics, Drama, film, Lynn Fotheringham, popular culture, public lecture, theatre

A hard road: the craftmanship of heavy metal

Dr Stephen Timmons (Nottingham University Business School) and Dr Andy Meal (School of Health Sciences) present the lecture, ‘A hard road: the craftmanship of heavy metal’.

Tags: Andy Meal, heavy metal, music, Nottingham University Business School, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, public lecture, School of Health Sciences, Stephen Timmons

Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling

Dr Claire Warden, De Montfort University, presents the lecture, ‘Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling’.

Tags: culture, De Montfort University, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, public lecture, sport, television, wrestling

Am I the only person on the team who’s straight? Queer voices in Young Avengers

The politics of LGBTQ+ discourse has had a significant paradigm shift over the last few decades. With this change has come a deeper critique of queer representation and a focus towards intersectionality, with the goal of understanding notions of multiple identities and forms of oppression. Using the characters of Marvel’s Young Avengers as reference points, Ibtisam Ahmed (School of Politics and International Relations) proposes to examine four distinct questions of intersectionality currently facing the queer community.

Tags: comics, culture, Ibtisam Ahmed, LGBT, LGBT History Month, LGBT History Month 2016, lieterature, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series

Caroline Lawrence and the power of sadness – or, Virgil for reluctant readers

This lecture from Dr Helen Lovatt focuses on This lecture focuses on Lawrence’s adventurous choices in adapting the Aeneid for young readers. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series.

Tags: children, classics, Department of classics, family, Greek, Helen Lovatt, lieterature, mythology, poetry, pop culture, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series

Bunker mentality: the family fallout shelter in US thought and culture

Tom Bishop, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies presents this lecture. Although now the subject of satirical retro-futuristic depictions in video games and TV shows, the family fallout shelter and the question of ‘to dig or not to dig’ once occupied a central and very serious place in U.S. culture. With the release of Bethesda’s Fallout 4 set to bring these debates back to the forefront of US popular culture the time seems right to re-examine the origins of shelter culture and its depictions in film, literature and on screen.

Tags: fiction, nuclear, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, Tom Bishop, war

He says he’s innocent… The podcast as popular culture: perspectives on ‘Serial’

Join this round table discussion on the American podcast ‘Serial’ with Joshua Giltrap, Dr Rachel Sykes, and Dr Katie McGettigan, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies.

Tags: Katie McGettigan, podcast, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, public lecture, Rachel Sykes, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies

Science fiction vs science facts: imagining the future of genetics

This talk will explore how much of this science fiction has, or will, become fact. Where does the future lie with genetics and what does this mean for us and the next generations? Do we have a voice and opinion in how these technologies are used and does this voice come out through literature? Can we control the technology and what regulations are in place? Will humans benefit from genomics? Did a book written 2000 years ago really hint at epigenetics?

Tags: Catrin Rutland, genetics, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, public lecture, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science

Underground resistance – afrofuturism and the technonarrative of blackness

Patrick Henderson, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, gives this lecture on ‘Underground resistance – afrofuturism and the technonarrative of blackness’.

Tags: american, culture, music, Patrick Henderson, popular culture, Populat Culture Lecture Series, race, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies

Exploring TV, film, comics and more – the Popular Culture Lecture Series strikes back

This November marks the return of the free public lecture series with a twist. From Taylor […]

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