I am presenting a guest lecture on (self)-management in the music sector. The talk highlights the many and diverse skills at play in navigating a sustainable music career in increasingly challenging economic circumstances. In exploding myths around the industries of music, novel and dynamic approaches to creation and dissemination are proposed in which the individual is agent of their own destiny and empowered to engage ethically with the conditions of the sector.
Let’s get together and listen to colleagues working on gender and sexuality! And then let’s talk about their fascinating ideas, and how they relate to our own work and topics! This event is envisaged as informal and friendly gathering, following the success of similar gathering in 2023. We want to continue on this good tradition, and build new connections, learn about inspiring research we are doing across the university, feel inspired and nurtured.
Please send any queries to: Dr Roberto Kulpa (r.kulpa@napier.ac.uk)
SCHEDULE
14:00-14:10
Welcome (Roberto Kulpa)
14:10-15:00 TRANS LIVES
GUEST: Gina Gwenffrewi (University of Edinburgh) will start with an input about trans* people's cultural production online (i.e. YouTube, Twitter/X), framing the moral panic, and its impact on the trans* communities.
Rob Clucas (Law) will speak to the latest ‘gender critical’ challenge to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in the appeal to the Supreme Court in the For Women Scotland case. He suggests that a solution to the current poisonous polemic around trans* rights can usefully be sought in the dialogic theory of Martin Buber (Buber 1958).
Toni Kania (Social Sciences) will introduce their PhD project about conceptualising bodily autonomy and sovereignty of trans* people – and from trans* peoples’ perspective – in Poland.
15:00-15:10 Coffee and pastries break
15:10-16:00 GENDERED VIOLENCE
Amy Beddows (Counselling) will speak about the potential of horror texts as tools for survivors processing the experiences of gendered violence.
Anne Schwan (English) will reflect on femicide, perpetrator narratives and the challenge of restorative justice, drawing from her analysis of Em Strang's novel “Quinn” (2023).
Fiona McQueen (Social Sciences) will conclude this section pondering on her project on Scottish young men’s attitudes towards prevention messages on violence against women, incl. queer & trans men’s accounts and insights.
16:00-16:10 Coffee and pastries break
16:10-17:00 REPRESENTATIONS
Yen Nee Wong (Social Sciences) will introduce us to queer cultures of ballroom dancing and the role of Strictly Come Dancing’s representations and mainstreaming.
David Bishop (Creative Writing) will speak about his creative writing PhD, instigation into the scarcity of queer sleuths in historical mystery fiction set before the Victorian era, and the politics of outing and authorship.
Phiona Stanley (Tourism) will talk about labels – ‘spinsters’, ‘crazy cat ladies’, ‘witches’. It is also, in theoretical terms, about queering queerness by negotiating the queer and deeply gendered queerness of spinsterhood.
17:00-17:10 Coffee and pastries break
17:10-17:45 POP!
Ashley Stein (Music) will introduce their PhD project on how hyperpop and other electronic music practices can be used to destabilise gender binaries.
Frederik Byrn Køhlert (English, Visual Cultures) will close this input section with a reflection on the representation of gender and sexuality in comics & graphic novels, incl. examples from work as editor of a Routledge series on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics.
17:45-onwards: Post-Event Drinks & Food at nearby The Golf Tavern
30-31 Wright's Houses, Bruntsfield, EH10 4HR
Event Organisation:
Dr Roberto Kulpa
School of Applied Sciences: Deputy Research Degrees Lead
Co-Director: MSc Applied Social Research
Co-Investigator: (2022-2026) ‘RESIST. Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’ (EU Horizon Europe grant no. 101060749).
Lions' Gate Garden free event as part of the Climate Fringe and the Great Big Green Week, supported by the Permaculture Association.
At 3.30pm influential, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Aberdeen University Tim Ingold, presented his latest work ‘Generation Now‘ from our Storytelling Chair.
Tim has made a huge impact on design philosophy, and was a favourite of Edinburgh Napier’s late, great Prof. David Benyon, whose own design work on Blended Spaces has fundamentally informed The Lions’ Gate.
Other wholesome and life-affirming activities of the day included:
Holistic Therapies by Emma J @ Blue Butterfly Therapies
Student exhibits from the School of Arts and Creative Industries
Campus-grown food
Cocktails and drinks
Music, including DJ Someone’s Dad and Blue Heron
Garden tours
On 19th October, Dr Bill Bruford (Earthworks, King Crimson, Yes) will be coming to Edinburgh Napier University to deliver a guest lecture as part of our Music Research Seminar Series. His lecture, Give the drummer some: Distributed creativity in popular music performance, focuses on the relationship between creativity and popular music instrumental performance. Other lectures on the night come from two staff from the Tomlin Centre for Music at Edinburgh Napier. Dr Katrina Burton will be presenting on her research and professional practice that explores the links between composition, architecture and site-specific performance. Dave Hook will be presenting on his recent PhD submission: An autoethnography of Scottish hip-hop: identity, locality, outsiderdom and social commentary.
This event is a research seminar and therefore we respectfully ask that questions are related to the content of the presentations only, not the wider careers of our presenters (unless relevant).
Tickets for this event are free, but limited to 125, so book now to avoid disappointment!
Gareth Dylan Smith, president of the Association of Popular Music Education, will be sharing his experience of Embodiment and Drumming Eudaimonia as part of a Music Pedagogies and Practice event, at which staff from the music department will also be presenting on their current teaching and practice based research activities. This event will begin at 18:30pm and will finish by 9:00pm. Confirmed presenters from the Music team are: Renee Stefanie, Paul Ferguson, Zack Moir and Bryden Stillie.
The programme for the evening event will be:
18:30 Keynote: Dr Gareth Dylan Smith - “Embodiment and Drumming Eudaimonia”
19:10 Dr Zack Moir and Mr Bryden Stillie - “Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula Design”
19:35: 10 minute break
19:45 Ms Renée Stefanie - “Analogies and Skill Transfers"
20:15 Dr Paul Ferguson , Dr Zack Moir and Dr Gareth Dylan Smith - “Jamming in the 3rd Room: Experiences of remote 'virtual' real-time performance and recording"
20:45 Close
