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(Dis)locating Democratisation: Grime, Digitalisation, and ‘The PlayStation Generation’
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2020, May). (Dis)locating Democratisation: Grime, Digitalisation, and ‘The PlayStation Generation’. Paper presented at London Calling IASPM UK & Ireland Conference, Online/University of West London

For many commentators over the last two decades, digitisation represents nothing short of a watershed moment in how music is produced, stored, and consumed. Just as the era of the fluid, non-degradable perfect digital copy has undermined the ability... Read More about (Dis)locating Democratisation: Grime, Digitalisation, and ‘The PlayStation Generation’.

Nan Shepherd, or the Troublesome Nature of Scottish Modernism
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2019, June). Nan Shepherd, or the Troublesome Nature of Scottish Modernism. Paper presented at Troublesome Modernisms: British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference, Kings College, London

'Need we Say More': Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2020, December). 'Need we Say More': Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, National Science & Media Museum, Bradford/Online

Often described as the first digital sampler, the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (CMI) was primarily a digital synthesizer and computer workstation. Launched in 1979, it was one of the technologies that were used to re-shape the practices of m... Read More about 'Need we Say More': Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI.

Modernist Cosmopolitanism: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and James Joyce
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2009, June). Modernist Cosmopolitanism: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and James Joyce. Paper presented at Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Scottish and International Modernism Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland

Dreams and Andrei Tarkovsky, The Varieties of Dreaming
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2014, November). Dreams and Andrei Tarkovsky, The Varieties of Dreaming. Paper presented at 5th European Regional, International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), Rome, Italy

(Dis)locating Democratisation: Grime, Digitalisation, and 'The PlayStation Generation'
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2021, May). (Dis)locating Democratisation: Grime, Digitalisation, and 'The PlayStation Generation'. Paper presented at Annual Symposium of Music Scholars in Finland, Online

For many commentators over the last two decades, digitisation represents nothing short of a watershed moment in how music is produced, stored, and consumed. In this paper, I address claims around the democratisation of music making with the advent of... Read More about (Dis)locating Democratisation: Grime, Digitalisation, and 'The PlayStation Generation'.

Advocacy in Action: How a university shared reading project reaches homeless readers in Scotland
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2021, March). Advocacy in Action: How a university shared reading project reaches homeless readers in Scotland. Paper presented at AdvanceHE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference, Online

This paper provides genuine insight into the rationale for an approach to inclusivity that penetrates to the very edges of society. It underpins the need to find better methods to reach readers beyond the boundaries, for whom “books are more importan... Read More about Advocacy in Action: How a university shared reading project reaches homeless readers in Scotland.

The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2021, July). The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic. Paper presented at 2021 MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium, Solent University, Southampton

The presentation will discuss initial reflections on a UKRI funded impact and engagement project in the Pacific, aimed at addressing community based and participatory media production as a development methodology to tackle gender inequality and speci... Read More about The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic.

The Language of Scent in Real and Constructed Languages
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gawne, L., & Freestone, P. M. (2020, December). The Language of Scent in Real and Constructed Languages. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, Online

An examination of the linguistics of scent in real-word languages and in Aramteskan, the linguist-constructed language of the Shadowscent duology by P. M. Freestone.

A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Freestone, P. (2021, December). A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF. Paper presented at Concepts in Popular Genre Fiction Symposium, Deakin University / Online

The rose has been valued, revered, and infused with meaning across time and cultures—from the earliest chemists to appear in the historical record to today's mass-market perfumes, from the religious festivals of ancient Rome to the works of the Roman... Read More about A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF.