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One and Three Discs (after Kosuth) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2018, September). One and Three Discs (after Kosuth). Presented at Creative Legacies: Collaborative Practices for Digital Cultural Heritage

It is over 50 years since Joseph Kosuth’s conceptual work One and Three Chairs (1965) challenged its viewer to locate the “real” by choosing between an object & its visual or textual representations (Juzefovic, 2013). Replacing Kosuth’s chair with a... Read More about One and Three Discs (after Kosuth).

“The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, September). “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war. Paper presented at 1918-2018: The End of the War & the Reshaping of a Century, University of Wolverhampton

Andrew Frayn’s paper focuses on the post-war moment, examining the novelist, poet and philosopher May Sinclair’s post-war work. Sinclair volunteered for the Munro Ambulance Corps in 1914, and her experience of the war stimulated a sustained burst of... Read More about “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war.

Cross Campus Shared Reading – Staff / Student Collaboration under Scrutiny (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2018, September). Cross Campus Shared Reading – Staff / Student Collaboration under Scrutiny. Paper presented at RAISE Conference 2018: Working better together: collaborations in student engagement, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

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Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and the Selling of Musical Instruments. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2018, September). Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and the Selling of Musical Instruments. Paper presented at Art of Record Production (ARP)/International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) UK & Ireland Branch Conference, University of Huddersfield, UK

Since the 1980s and 1990s, scholars in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and, more specifically, those adopting the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach have been investigating ‘the user-technology nexus’. This continued a shift in th... Read More about Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and the Selling of Musical Instruments..

‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2018, August). ‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global. Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS)

Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS), Lead Panel on Anniversary Capital, Bangor, Wales

Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’ (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, July). Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’. Paper presented at 14th Conference of the IGA 'Gothic Hybridities', Manchester Metropolitan University

For most of the long nineteenth century, the apparently hybrid biological workings and the unstable taxonomical status of moulds and fungi puzzled and fascinated scientists. Their ubiquity, plasticity, and position in what Ernst Haeckel termed a ‘bou... Read More about Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’.

“They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, July). “They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body. Paper presented at International Richard Aldington Society Conference, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France

Richard Aldington’s poems in Images of War (1919) return insistently to the impact of the First World War on the male body. Drawing on theoretical work about bodies in war such as Joanna Bourke’s Dismembering the Male (1996), I argue that Aldington’s... Read More about “They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body.

Rewriting and remembering: R.H. Mottram and the First World War, 1914-1971 (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, July). Rewriting and remembering: R.H. Mottram and the First World War, 1914-1971. Paper presented at Recording, Narrating and Archiving the First World War: International Society for First World War Studies Conference, Deakin University,

In this paper I examine the ways in which R.H. Mottram continued to rewrite the First World War throughout his literary career. The Spanish Farm Trilogy is deservedly a canonical text of that conflict, and the success of those first three novels enab... Read More about Rewriting and remembering: R.H. Mottram and the First World War, 1914-1971.

Becoming a User? Science & Technology Studies (STS) and the Design/Use of Digital Synthesizer/Sampling Instruments (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2018, June). Becoming a User? Science & Technology Studies (STS) and the Design/Use of Digital Synthesizer/Sampling Instruments. Presented at Workshop on Objects of Electronic Sound & Music in Museums

This provocation will give an overview of a research project about the historical and contemporary uses of digital synthesizer/sampling instruments. One of the problems I faced when developing a theoretical and conceptual framework was that the field... Read More about Becoming a User? Science & Technology Studies (STS) and the Design/Use of Digital Synthesizer/Sampling Instruments.

Examining the Professional Codes of Design Organisations (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buwert, P. (2018). Examining the Professional Codes of Design Organisations. In C. Storni, K. Leahy, M. McMahon, P. Lloyd, & E. Bohemia (Eds.), Proceedings of the Design Research Society 2018: Catalyst (172-186). https://doi.org/10.21606/dma.2018.493

Many of the professional organisations within the various fields of design activity publish professional codes of ethics in one form or another. This paper opens up a discussion of the role which professional codes might play in relation to the ethic... Read More about Examining the Professional Codes of Design Organisations.

Documentary Practice as Research Methodology (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2018, June). Documentary Practice as Research Methodology. Paper presented at Meccsa Practice as Research Network Symposium, University of Lincoln

This paper proposes documentary filmmaking as creative practice and as a methodological approach to research. This is relevant to the specific research contexts in which documentary production is situated, as well as to a broader critique of the vali... Read More about Documentary Practice as Research Methodology.

A Book is More Important than Food (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2018, June). A Book is More Important than Food. Paper presented at International Publishing By the Book 5, Florence

A Book is more important than food: collaboration with Streetreads, a charity working with homeless readers in Edinburgh.

From the Coffin to the Rowan Tree (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lam, L. (2018, June). From the Coffin to the Rowan Tree. Paper presented at International Vampire Film and Arts Festival, Sighișoara, Romania

After the glut of YA novels featuring vampires after Twilight, vampires are currently back in the coffin and publishers are still largely avoiding novels that feature them. Paranormal romance has waned, but in this paper, I argue that the love intere... Read More about From the Coffin to the Rowan Tree.

The University as a Community: Cross-Campus Shared Reading (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2018, June). The University as a Community: Cross-Campus Shared Reading. Paper presented at QAA 15th Enhancement Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University

As part of a shared reading scheme – the #NapierBigRead – the Publishing staff and Postgraduate students at Edinburgh Napier University are working together to encourage a sense of community and belonging that transcends disciplines and year groups.... Read More about The University as a Community: Cross-Campus Shared Reading.

Northernness, rurality and modernity in the works of Norman Nicholson (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, May). Northernness, rurality and modernity in the works of Norman Nicholson. Paper presented at Orientations: A Conference of Narrative and Place, University of Nottingham

In the introduction to the Collected Poems of Norman Nicholson (1914-87), Neil Curry highlights the systematic denigration of writers from the north of England by metropolitan literary networks. The Times obituary described Nicholson as ‘the most gif... Read More about Northernness, rurality and modernity in the works of Norman Nicholson.