New Connections
​Schedule 2023

Information about research talks in 2023 is given below. We would like to thank our ECR members for applying to take part and colleagues at the various host universities for being so welcoming.

Thursday 9th March 2023, 2pm, Monica Partridge Building, room C15 (online)

• Dr Sophie Swoffer, ‘It’s Us!’  Reconsidering the Male Gaze in Feminist Performance and Film’
• Dr Swoffer’s talk was hosted by the University of Nottingham. 

Friday 24th March 2023, 3.30-5pm, Roborough Studios RS2 (hybrid)

• Dr Alice Pember, ‘New Girls on the Block: Music and Dance as Spaces of Aesthetic Politics in Fish Tank (2009) and Rocks (2020)’
• Dr Pember’s talk was hosted by the Department of Communities, Drama and Film in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter, as part of the Screen Studies Centre Research seminar series. 
  A recording of the talk can be accessed here. 

 
Wednesday 26th April 2023, 5-6pm, Shilling Lecture Theatre (in-person)

• Dr Jules O’Dwyer, ‘Cinemas' Hotels: From Postcolonial Hospitality to the Paris Syndrome’
• Dr O’Dwyer’s talk was hosted by the Centre for Visual Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London.

 
Thursday 4th May 2023, 1pm, Lecture Theatre 4, School of Music, 12 Cavendish Road, Leeds, LS2 9JT (hybrid)

• Dr Dan White - ‘There and Back Again: Music as Suture and Desuture in the Fantasy Film Franchise’
• Dr White’s talk was hosted by the University of Leeds, as part of the Leeds Music Research Colloquia. 

 
Thursday 4th May 2023, 6pm (in-person)

• Dr Thirza Wakefield, ‘Televisual seriality, and the dramatisation of working-class community in Shane Meadows’s works for television (2010–2023)’
• Dr Wakefield’s talk was hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University College London.

Wednesday 17th May 2023, 2-4pm, Bloc Arts One, Mile End Road (in-person)

• Dr Christina Wilkins, ‘Explanation/exploration: masculinity and mental illness in contemporary film’
• Dr Wilkins’s talk is hosted by Queen Mary University London.
• For more information, please contact Dr Wilkins (c.wilkins@bham.ac.uk) and Dr Lucy Bolton (l.c.bolton@qmul.ac.uk).

 
Tuesday 13th June 2023, 4.30-6pm, FAB cinema, Room 0.21, Faculty of Arts Building (in-person)

• Dr Dominic Lash, ‘What happens in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (1997)?’
• Dr Lash’s talk is hosted by the University of Warwick, as part of the Film and Television Studies Research Seminars.
• For more information, please contact Dr Lash (domlash@hotmail.com) and Dr Matt Denny (m.denny@warwick.ac.uk).

 
Wednesday 1st November 2023, 4.15pm, Richard Steinitz Building, Room G/01 (in-person)

• Dr Elsa Marshall, ‘Building a Public Appreciation of Film Music in the USA in the First Decade of Film Music Notes (1941-1951)’
• Dr Marshall’s talk is hosted by the University of Huddersfield.
• For more information, please contact Dr Marshall (emars094@gmail.com) and Catherine Haworth (C.M.Haworth@hud.ac.uk).

New Connections
​Schedule 2022

Information about research talks in 2022 is given below. We would like to thank our ECR members for applying to take part and colleagues at the various host universities for being so welcoming.

Images and videos from the below presentations, where available, can be accessed via the New Connections Archive.

Wednesday 15th June 2022, 5pm (online, via Zoom)

• Dr Lisa Duffy – ‘“You Can’t Stop the Beat”: John Travolta as an Ageing Dancer’
• Dr Duffy’s talk was hosted by the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, in association with the BAFTSS Performance & Stardom SIG.
• A recording of the talk can be accessed here.

 
Wednesday 15th June 2022, 3pm (online)

• Dr Abigail Whittall – ‘“New Nazisploitation”: Nazi Monsters on 21st Century Screens’
• Dr Whittall’s talk was hosted by the Faculty of Media and Communication and the History Research Group at Bournemouth University.

Tuesday 18th October 2022, University of East Anglia (in-person)

• Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos – ‘Female Warriors: Action Women in Contemporary Colombian Cinema’
• Dr Valderrama-Burgos’s talk was hosted by the Department of Film, Television and Media, and the Latin American Studies Network at the University of East Anglia. It was part of the UEA Media Research Seminar Series and the UEA Latin American Studies Network Research Seminar Series. 

Friday 28th October 2022, 4-5.30pm, University of Westminster, Regent Street Campus 152-153 - Cayley (in-person)

• Dr Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz – ‘Punk Aesthetics on Screen: The Intersections of Punk, Queer and Trash Cinema’
• Dr Gürbüz’s talk was presented by the University of Westminster's Film TV and Moving Image MA and Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM).​

New Connections
​Schedule 2021

Information about research talks in 2021 is given below. We would like to thank our ECR members for applying to take part, colleagues at the various host universities for being so welcoming, and our sponsor Edinburgh University Press.

Wednesday 17th February 2021, 1pm-2.30pm (online)

• Dr Craig Ian Mann – ‘Take Me to Your Leader: Alien Invasion Films in the Reagan Era’ 
• Dr Mann’s online talk was hosted by the University of Hertfordshire’s Media Research Group (School of Creative Arts).
• To access the talk, please click on the following link: https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/groups-and-units/media-research-group/research-talks-video-resources

Friday 23rd April 2021, 2pm (online)

• Dr Hanja Dämon – ‘A Failed Film Project in Austria: Interwar Star Franziska Gaal’s Unmade Post-War Comeback’
• Dr Dämon’s talk was hosted by the Culture, Media, and Society Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.
• To access the talk, please click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/552804954/85eac8723f

Wednesday 5th May 2021, 1pm-2.30pm (online)

• Dr Kieran Foster – ‘Shadow Cinema: Unmade Films and the Archive’
• Dr Foster’s talk was hosted by the University of Hertfordshire’s Media Research Group (School of Creative Arts).
• To access the talk, please click on the following link: https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/groups-and-units/media-research-group/media-research-group-videos/media-research-group-seminar-videos

Wednesday 11th May 2021, 4pm (online)

• Dr Ozge Ozduzen – ‘Online Radical Right Activity in Turkey and Britain’
• Dr Ozduzen’s talk was part of the Visiting Speaker Seminars hosted by the Centre for International Film Research at the University of Southampton.
• Access the talk here.

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Wednesday 16th June 2021, 4.30-6pm (online)

• Dr Laurence Kent and Liam Rogers – Posthumanism(s) Roundtable: ‘Cinematic Sapience and the Rethinking of Rationality in Contemporary Science Fiction’
• This roundtable, chaired by Professor Catherine Constable, was part of the Film and Television Research Seminar Series, hosted by the University of Warwick.
• To access the talk, please click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/564211674

Thursday 28 October 2021, 4-6pm (online)

• Dr Llewella Chapman – ‘Bond Undressed: Researching Costume in the James Bond Films Through Archives’
• Dr Chapman’s talk was hosted by the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. The talk was not recorded.

New Connections
​Schedule 2019/20

Wednesday October 30th 2019, 2 – 5pm

• Dr Matthew Robinson: ‘An “Emotional Moment”: The Execution of Ruth Ellis in Pierrepoint (2005)
• Dr. Robinson’s talk is hosted by the Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture, Faculty of Arts, University of Wolverhampton (Location: Room  MC226, Millennium City Building, City Campus). For further details please contact Dr Benjamin Halligan (B.Halligan@wlv.ac.uk) Director of the Doctoral College, or Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly, (f.e.pheasant-kelly@wlv.ac.uk), Director Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture.

Wednesday 13th November 2019, 6 – 7pm

• Dr Eve Benhamou: “An Expanding Cinematic Universe: Contemporary Disney Animation and Genre in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)"
• ​Dr Benhamou’s talk is part of the ‘Film, Media and Global Culture Seminar Series’ at the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (CMII), University College London (Location: Room 111, Foster Court, Malet Place). For further details please contact Dr Keith B. Wagner (k.wagner@ucl.ac.uk) or Dr Benhamou (e.m.a.benhamou@swansea.ac.uk). 

Monday 17th February 2020, 5pm

• Dr Oliver Kenny: ‘Brits can't do erotica: the impact of nationality on British attitudes towards sexual imagery.’
• Dr Kenny’s talk is hosted by the History Research Group,  Bournemouth University (Location: Room W240, Weymouth House). (For further details please contact Dr Austin Fisher afisher@bournemouth.ac.uk), or Dr Oliver Kenny (oliver.kenny@univ-lille.fr) 

April 2020 (date to be confirmed)

• Dr Stella Gaynor: 'Horror According to Netflix: A carefully curated exploration of genre.'
• Dr Gaynor’s talk is hosted by the Department of Media, Journalism and Film, The University of Huddersfield. Her paper will explore a selection of horror original series on Netflix, and unlock through industrial analysis the methods, models, and strategies used by Netflix to make and promote a horror series. Using textual analysis of Hemlock Grove, Haunting of Hill House, Black Summer, Kingdom and Chambers, this paper will ask what the model of Netflix means for the development of serialized horror.
• For more information, please contact Professor Catherine Johnson (C.Johnson2@hud.ac.uk) at the University of Huddersfield.