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Enchantments and Attachments: Surviving and Coping in the First World War (2016)
Digital Artefact
Frayn, A. (2016). Enchantments and Attachments: Surviving and Coping in the First World War. [Podcast]

A talk to the department of English at University College Dublin, in the Wartime Attachments series, organised by Dr Barry Shiels. The series was funded by the Irish Research Council. D. H. Lawrence described his poetry collection 'Bay', publishe... Read More about Enchantments and Attachments: Surviving and Coping in the First World War.

In search of community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). In search of community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (vii-xiii). Brill Academic Publishers

Community derives from the Latin root word communis (common), which itself breaks down into two possible derivations [...]. The first, com plus munis (what is indebted, bound, or obligated together), is thought to be more philologically accurate, whi... Read More about In search of community.

Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (82-102). Brill Academic Publishers

This chapter suggests two main related points. The overarching contention is that Hugh MacDiarmid was a poetic, political, polemical, and metaphysical impossibilist (rather than merely the extremist of caricature). More particularly, in an attempt to... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community.

The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry (2016)
Book Chapter
Community in Modern Scottish Literature (214-234). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_013

This chapter examines the poetry of Scottish South Asians, the "New Scots" who bring a whole history of displacement, dislocation and relocation with them, as their memory of the "elsewhere" enters their writing. Their voices are significant as they... Read More about The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry.

The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2016, May). The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture. Paper presented at Time and Myth: the Temporal and the Eternal. 10th Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Brno, Czech Republic

Ancient and tribal cultures perceive and describe the function of dreaming in distinctive ways. This paper examines theories of mind in ancient northern, Classical and tribal cultures in terms of the imagery used to describe the self and its faculty... Read More about The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture.

Defamiliarisation, Brecht and Criticality in Graphic Design (2016)
Book Chapter
Buwert, P. (2016). Defamiliarisation, Brecht and Criticality in Graphic Design. In Modes of Criticism 2: Critique of Method, 25-38

Our lives are habitual. We habitualise what is familiar in order to be able to function day to day, and through this a vast chunk of our living becomes automatic. The process makes life easier by decreasing the confusion and tension of having to cons... Read More about Defamiliarisation, Brecht and Criticality in Graphic Design.

Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black (2016)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2016). Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black. Television and New Media, 17(6), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476416647497

This article argues that Netflix’s original series Orange is the New Black (2013-), based on Piper Kerman’s memoir (2010), uses postfeminist strategies to covertly promote prison reform and exercise a subtle critique of (female) mass incarceration wh... Read More about Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black.

Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016. (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Macleod, K. Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016. Exhibited at Govan, Glasgow. 2 May 2016 - 2 May 2016. (Unpublished)

Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening at Pearce Institute of films I have produced with Plantation Productions. This event was part of the 2016 Radical Film Network Festival. Plantation Productions have been making films with, by and about t... Read More about Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016..

Data Visualisation and the Humanities (2016)
Book Chapter
Otty, L., & Thomson, T. (2016). Data Visualisation and the Humanities. In M. Hayler, & G. Griffin (Eds.), Research Methods for Creating and Curating Data in the Digital HumanitiesEdinburgh University Press

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‘A very mistaken identification’: the ‘sultana’ or ‘cither viol’ and its links to the bowed psaltery, viola d’amore and guittar (2016)
Journal Article
Poulopoulos, P., & Durkin, R. (2016). ‘A very mistaken identification’: the ‘sultana’ or ‘cither viol’ and its links to the bowed psaltery, viola d’amore and guittar. Early Music, 44(2), 307-331. https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caw047

The origins and development of the ‘sultana’ or ‘cither viol’ constitute an organological enigma.1 So far the research concerning this instrument has been rather limited, and apart from a few dictionary entries and minor references in books, journal... Read More about ‘A very mistaken identification’: the ‘sultana’ or ‘cither viol’ and its links to the bowed psaltery, viola d’amore and guittar.

What will designers do when everyone can be a designer? (2016)
Book Chapter
Sinclair, M. (2016). What will designers do when everyone can be a designer?. In I. Kuksa, & T. Fisher (Eds.), Design for Personalisation (91-112). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576633-6

In this chapter, the author writes from the position that there is no fundamental difference between the design practised by professionals and that undertaken by amateurs. Much of the literature dealing with personalisation and the involvement of the... Read More about What will designers do when everyone can be a designer?.

The complete organ sonatas of August Ritter. (2016)
Digital Artefact
Harris, M. (2016). The complete organ sonatas of August Ritter. [Audio CD]

CD recording - Priory CD PRCD1162 - of the complete organ sonatas of August Gottfried Ritter (1811-1885) recorded on the Ladegast organ of the Kirche Altleisnig, Polditz, Germany

Composing Festival Timescapes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2016, April). Composing Festival Timescapes. Paper presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston

Composing Festival Timescapes is as the title suggests, a way of approaching the city as a space of composition. The paper develops the subject of urban atmosphere and affective urban planning through an analysis of two discourses that mine the tempo... Read More about Composing Festival Timescapes.

Outside the Box. In Azimuth Sound/Image (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Holmes, P. Outside the Box. In Azimuth Sound/Image. Exhibited at TMU and Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan. 21 April 2016 - 28 August 2016. (Unpublished)

A group exhibition of Japanese and Scottish artists, featuring video work "Outside the Box". Curated by Katarzyna Kosmala and Kumiko Kushiyama.

Nine for ones in nine: a schizophrenic cyborg love story. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hails, J. (2016, April). Nine for ones in nine: a schizophrenic cyborg love story. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Staff Conference

By appropriating the images of the schizophrenic and the cyborg from Deleuze and Guattari, and from Donna Haraway respectively, this paper seeks to discuss the relationship between human and computer, composer and performer in a way that undermines a... Read More about Nine for ones in nine: a schizophrenic cyborg love story..