Creative Writing to be offered at AS and A-level in the UK.
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Creative Writing A-levels
19 Feb 2013 at 13:53
David Haden
Creative industries, Reading, Teaching
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Roboteachers
Emote. Er, no. Just no… “A €2.9m Emote project at the University of Birmingham is seeking to develop robotic classroom tutors, with human empathic capabilities.”
CREATe
New £5m UK research centre for CREATe, based in Glasgow… “CREATe is the RCUK research centre for copyright and new business models in the creative economy”.
Visualising the Rural
Visualising the Rural is a photography conference set for 4th-5th July 2013 in Cumbria. It will look at the growing neglect of the countryside in terms of its visual representation in serious photography, struggling amid waves of slanted imagery from tourist boards and eco-worriers alike.
Map of the digital humanities
I made a map of the digital humanities…
New issue of JoIF
New issue of my ‘overlay’ ejournal, Journal of the Imaginary and Fantastic, on the novel and movie of Cloud Atlas.
PhD Studentship in the History of Photography
02 Jan 2013 at 22:37
David Haden
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A rare PhD Studentship is on offer in the History of Photography, in Leicester.
Rust, Regeneration and Romance
02 Jan 2013 at 18:00
David Haden
Birmingham, Regeneration, Stoke-on-Trent, Teaching
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Interesting Midlands conference set for 10th to 14th July 2013, at Ironbridge in Shropshire. Rust, Regeneration and Romance: Iron and Steel Landscapes and Cultures… “This conference seeks to engage in an open multi-disciplinary analysis of iron and steel landscapes and cultures, from the ancient to the modern.”
Iterations
Eno’s Oblique Strategies (and other systems), re-imagined for product design and similar creative conceptual tasks: Iterations…
JURN checked for linkrot and updated
14 Dec 2012 at 09:21
David Haden
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My JURN search-engine has had its full six-monthly check and update, via my repurposing some handy ‘dark side’ SEO software, with linkrot fully repaired. JURN searches and retrieves the full-text of over 4,400 free ejournals in the arts & humanities, 3,000 of which are in English.
Now ear this…
One of the most important TED talks of 2012…
Photography & Narrative
04 Dec 2012 at 06:25
David Haden
Birmingham, Photographers, Teaching
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Third-year undergraduate course in Photography & Narrative from Coventry University… “Photography and Narrative is a B.A. Hons. third-year undergraduate class […] ten weeks of practical study” But it’s also JISC-funded to run online as a free open course.
The Birmingham Girls
16 Nov 2012 at 00:23
David Haden
Artist(s), Birmingham, Teaching
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A talk on “The Birmingham Girls: Women Designers of the Arts and Crafts Movement” on 11th December 2012, at The Open University in the West Midlands, 66 High Street, Harborne, Birmingham.
Library of Birmingham call
09 Nov 2012 at 21:36
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Reading, Teaching
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The new Library of Birmingham is seeking proposals via the RGF for new digital products and services which are focused on… * developing audiences * opening up digital access to the Library’s services and collections * bridging the gap between digital channels and the physical building * exploring new business models Individual projects should last […]
Make Space
03 Nov 2012 at 12:33
David Haden
Artist(s), Creative industries, Teaching
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Running an arts conference or a creative thinking event? Thinking about how best to tweak and twist the spaces available to you? Make Space.
Curatorship workshop at the Barber
21 Oct 2012 at 17:26
David Haden
Artist(s), Birmingham, Teaching
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An interesting free art history curatorship workshop at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham. The date is Thursday 1st November 2012, and the workshop will discuss: the perceived loss of independent curatorial expertise and salaried posts in Britain’s major regional arts collections and museums; and the rise of new University research partnerships […]
History of the Necronomicon, annotated
20 Sep 2012 at 13:56
David Haden
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H.P. Lovecraft’s “The History of the Necronomicon“, annotated by myself with 7,000 words of scholarly footnotes. I also have a new 25,000 word collection of essays on Lovecraft, available now…
“Igor, prepare ze serum!”
31 May 2012 at 22:37
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Teaching
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A researcher at Birmingham City University, investigating the audience experience of suspense thriller movies, needs survey respondents. To be followed by Stage 2… “The experiment will be approximately 1 hour and takes place at Birmingham City University during May-July 2012.” Crackling electrodes optional, I’d hope… 😉
Wolvo Uni Animation Showreel
24 May 2012 at 07:19
David Haden
Creative industries, Entertainment, Teaching
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Wolverhampton University Animation Showreel, class of 2012…
A date with Jurn
The search results on my academic search-engine JURN can now be re-sorted by date…