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The Non-Identity Problem: thought experiments in the ethics of designing for future people (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buwert, P., & Sinclair, M. (2024, June). The Non-Identity Problem: thought experiments in the ethics of designing for future people. Presented at DRS 2024, Boston, USA

The Non-Identity Problem (NIP) is a philosophical puzzle which challenges our intuitive assumptions and reasoning around the question of our moral obligations towards ‘future people’. This paper explores the significance of the NIP for design, an act... Read More about The Non-Identity Problem: thought experiments in the ethics of designing for future people.

A Divine Fury (2024)
Book
Bishop, D. (2024). A Divine Fury. (Hardback). Pan MacMillan

A religious serial killer is haunting Florence and only Cesare Aldo can stop them. A Divine Fury is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy.

'Full of dash and atmosphere' - The Times

'Fast becoming a serious... Read More about A Divine Fury.

A Comparative Study on the Representation of Confucian family and Image of Father in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hulk (2024)
Book Chapter
Li, Q. (2024). A Comparative Study on the Representation of Confucian family and Image of Father in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hulk. In The Asian Family in Literature and Film (149-167). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2500-7_7

This chapter conducts a case study on Ang Lee’s internationally acclaimed academy award winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and his Hollywood blockbuster Hulk, and investigates the ways that his transnational/global filmmaking intersects with Chin... Read More about A Comparative Study on the Representation of Confucian family and Image of Father in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hulk.

The Industrialisation of the Nightmare in Modernity (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2024, June). The Industrialisation of the Nightmare in Modernity. Paper presented at 19th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research: Folk Narratives in the Changing World, Riga, Latvia

In the first decades of the 20th century, patients admitted to asylums produced visual and verbal accounts of bad dreams unlike any previously recorded. These representations and narrative include traditional folkloric elements (witches, mermaids, mo... Read More about The Industrialisation of the Nightmare in Modernity.

‘Have you tried fixing it?’ Repairing (and not Repairing) the Fairlight CMI (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2024, June). ‘Have you tried fixing it?’ Repairing (and not Repairing) the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Innovation in Music Conference, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway

In his study about the continued importance of old technologies, David Edgerton writes that ‘the majority [of scientists and engineers] have always been mainly concerned with the operation and maintenance of things and processes; with the use of thin... Read More about ‘Have you tried fixing it?’ Repairing (and not Repairing) the Fairlight CMI.

South Asian Women in Scottish Cinema (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bilgrami, S. (2024, June). South Asian Women in Scottish Cinema. Paper presented at Scottish Film and TV: Where Are We Now?, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

South Asian communities appear on the periphery of Scottish cinema where films have predominantly explored narratives about white masculinity. In a cinema where female voices often struggle to be heard, South Asian women are virtually invisible excep... Read More about South Asian Women in Scottish Cinema.

From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz (2024)
Book Chapter
Raine, S., & Medbøe, H. (2024). From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz. In R. Prokop, & R. Reitsamer (Eds.), Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World. Bloomsbury Publishing

As evidenced from the festival stage and behind the scenes (Raine, 2020), the UK jazz scene continues to be male-dominated and middle-class (Umney and Kretsos, 2015; Umney, 2016). Drawing upon interviews and focus groups with jazz musicians, educator... Read More about From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz.

Career Development Strategies in the Scottish Screen Sector: From Film Bang to Filming Boom (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Correia, N. (2024, June). Career Development Strategies in the Scottish Screen Sector: From Film Bang to Filming Boom. Paper presented at Scottish Film and TV: Where are we now? Symposium, Edinburgh

This paper examines the evolution of the freelance screen workforce in Scotland over the last half-century and reflects on career sustainability strategies in the Scottish screen production sector, based on the experiences of freelancers. Drawing on... Read More about Career Development Strategies in the Scottish Screen Sector: From Film Bang to Filming Boom.

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works (2024)
Book Chapter
Scott, A. (2024). Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works. In Franki Raffles: Photographs, Activism, Campaign Works [Exhibition programme] (6-11). Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Essay on the Franki Raffles Archive Research project in the publication to accompany the exhibition at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Why I Love Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Bishop, D. (2024). Why I Love Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks. London

David Bishop examines the formative impact on his writer made by Terrance Dicks' novelisation Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks.

The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920 (2024)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2024). The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920. Humanities, 13(3), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13030086

This article analyses together, for the first time, Ford Madox Ford’s short stories about the First World War. A surprisingly unfamiliar form for Ford, who valued allusion, subtlety, and omission as narrative devices, we see in these stories his firs... Read More about The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920.

Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, May). Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies. Paper presented at Emerging Perspectives in H.D.’s Hellenic Modernity and the Future of New Modernist Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece [online]

Contribution to roundtable on ‘H.D. and Richard Aldington: “It was you who taught me to love those things…”.’
Other participants: Prof Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College, USA), Dr Caroline Zilboorg (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
Conference: Emerging Per... Read More about Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies.

Against Dystopias with Ecological Literacy (2024)
Journal Article
Boehnert, J., Alexander, A., & Sinclair, M. (2024). Against Dystopias with Ecological Literacy. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación, 222(27), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi222.11202

The longstanding dismissal of the ecological in civilisations that have developed dramatic ecology-altering and planetary boundary crossing technologies is at the crux of contemporary planetary polycrisis. Desirable and even viable futures depend on... Read More about Against Dystopias with Ecological Literacy.

'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry. In Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions & Revisions. Brill Academic Publishers

Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve) considered himself an atheist, but his poetry attends to religious and spiritual themes and concerns. This chapter sets MacDiarmid’s work in the context of New Modernist Studies’ approaches to literature a... Read More about 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry.

Norman Nicholson and rural wartime (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, May). Norman Nicholson and rural wartime. Presented at Cultural Landscapes, University of Cumbria, Ambleside

A different version of this paper is published as ‘Rural modernity and wartime in Norman Nicholson’s poetry.’ Modernist Cultures. See corresponding entry.

Gender (2024)
Book Chapter
Aske, . K. (2024). Gender. In J. Hone, & P. Rogers (Eds.), Jonathan Swift in Context. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108917254

Swift has often been labelled an outright misogynist. This chapter focuses on how several of Swift’s most misogynistic poems spoke to wider ideas about gender circulating in the early eighteenth century: in particular, the widespread concern that the... Read More about Gender.

"Proved Dead . . . Proved Dead . . .”: Ellipsis, elision and expurgation in interwar First World War prose (2024)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (in press). "Proved Dead . . . Proved Dead . . .”: Ellipsis, elision and expurgation in interwar First World War prose. In A History of Punctuation in English Literature. Cambridge University Press

This chapter addresses the use of various forms of typographical ellipsis. In it I argue that ellipses represent failures of communication which are characteristic of early-twentieth-century writing, pointing to limit experiences which could be desc... Read More about "Proved Dead . . . Proved Dead . . .”: Ellipsis, elision and expurgation in interwar First World War prose.