Posts tagged with ‘School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies’
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
Language learning, history and the Germans
In this inaugural lecture, Professor Nicola McLelland, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, will examine the history of teaching and learning languages in Europe since about 1500. Who decides what is ‘correct’, what is not, and how? How have people explained the rules? And how have Europeans taught and learnt their own and others’ languages?
Tags: German, inaugural lecture, language, linguistics, Nicola McLelland, public lecture, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies
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
Welcoming animals: the borders of hospitality
The Travel Cultures Network and Professor Judith Still present ‘Welcoming animals: the borders of hospitality’. This paper will consider the defining of hospitality and inhospitality in more than one language in relation to ‘man’ and his ‘others’.
Tags: hospitality, Judith Still, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, tourism, Travel Cultures Network
‘Weekend’ screening
Join the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies for a screening of ‘Weekend’. This free screening will feature an introduction and Q&A with Dr Hongwei Bao. Part of LGBT History Month.
Tags: film, LGBT, LGBT History Month, Nottingham, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, screening
Happy Together screening
Join the School of Cultures, Languages and Area studies for a screening of ‘Happy Together’. This free screening will feature an introduction and Q&A with Dr Hongwei Bao. Part of LGBT History Month
Tags: film, Hongwei Bao, LGBT, LGBT History Month, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, screening
Brokeback Mountain screening – cancelled
Join the School of Cultures, Languages and Area studies for a screening of Ang Lee’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’. This free screening will feature an introduction and Q&A with Dr Susan Billingham. Part of LGBT History Month.
Tags: film, LGBT, LGBT History Month, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, Susan Billingham
Selling The Hunger Games: the digital infrastructure of blockbuster promotion
Catherine Johnson, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, presents ‘Selling The Hunger Games: the digital infrastructure of blockbuster promotion’. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series.
Tags: Catherine Johnson, film, Popular Culture Lecture Series, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, social media, television
Do you like scary movies? Defining the anatomy of cinematic suspense and viewer anticipatory patterns
Keith Bound, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, gives the lecture ‘Do you like scary movies? Defining the anatomy of cinematic suspense and viewer anticipatory patterns’. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series. Art by Jason Edmiston.
Tags: cinema, film, Keith Bound, Popular Culture Lecture Series, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, television