Posts tagged with ‘Popular Culture Lecture Series’
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
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate? Taylor Swift’s Deleuzean repetition and affirmation of love
This lecture offers an interpretation of Taylor Swift’s music through the theme of ‘repetition’, and using Swift’s work to introduce Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of repetition and difference. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series.
Tags: culture, Department of Theology, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King-Ho Leung, music, philosophy, pop culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, public lecture, Taylor Swift
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
Designer dragons and transgenic triffids, or, the power of the (genetic) imagination
In this lecture, Sean May, School of Biosciences, will explore the evolution of genetic engineering technology. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series.
Tags: biology, Biosciences, dinosaur, genetics, lecture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, School of Biosciences, science fiction, Sean May
“My name is…” James Bond, masculinity and the Mother Land
Dr Nathan Waddell, School of English, discusses masculinity in the James Bond spy thriller series – with a look at Skyfall (2012) and new film Spectre (2015). For more background to the lecture, read Dr Waddell’s blog post ‘James Bond’s ghosts’. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series.
Tags: film, James Bond, lecture, Nathan Waddell, Popular Culture Lecture Series, School of English