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2017: A Clarke Odyssey – A Conference Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Canterbury Christ Church University is hosting a conference to mark the centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke

2017: A Clarke Odyssey
A Conference Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
Saturday 9 December 2017

Keynote Speakers:
Stephen Baxter
Professor Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent)

Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most important British sf writers of the twentieth century – novelist, short-story writer, scriptwriter, science populariser, fan, presenter of documentaries on the paranormal, proposer of the uses of the geosynchronous orbit and philanthropist.

We want to celebrate his life, work and influence on science fiction, science and beyond.

Professor Charlotte Sleigh will open proceedings by looking at Clarke as an sf fan in the interwar years in London and how this intersected with his interest in science and its communication. Award-winning author Stephen Baxter will round out the event with an examination of Clarke’s non-fiction and how this positioned him as a significant public figure.

Our international conference speakers will address novels such as Childhood’s End, 2001: A Space Odyssey (book and film) and Imperial Earth, looking as issues such as transhumanism, Buddhism, terraforming and sexual politics. They will make connections to sf writers including Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Olaf Stapledon and Liu Cixin, plus Star Trek. We will also discuss the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Cost: Waged: £65
Unwaged and students £50
(Including lunch and refreshments)

To register please click here.

Conference organisers: Dr Andrew M. Butler (andrewmbutler42@gmail.com) and Dr Paul March-Russell (P.A.March-Russell@kent.ac.uk).

We would like to acknowledge the support of Serendip (https://www.clarkeaward.com/).

For more details see our blog at https://2017aclarkeodyssey.wordpress.com/

Practices, processes, and materials

Registration is open for a symposium by The Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts

Practices, processes, and materials
Thursday 1st June 2017
12.30pm-6pm in Pg09
Powell Building

REGISTRATION OPEN

A symposium organised by the centre for practice based research in the arts
Photography, digital media, electronics, sculpture and medical prosthetics…

Thursday 1 June 2017 12.30pm – 6pm
Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road
Canterbury CT1 1QU
Pg09, Powell Building, School of Media, Art and Design

Register online: https://goo.gl/98PYQc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1953830688169823/

the canary and the hammer
Lisa Barnard, The University of South Wales

wonky shapes and wrong code
Dr. John Richards, Leicester Media School, De Montfort University

temporary implants and the human body
Dr. Phaedra Shanbaum, Digital Arts and Media Education, UCL

shuffled landscapes: game playing sculpture
Dr. Elly Thomas, artist and independent scholar

For further details contact Tim Long

Dialogic Imaginations: Goran Stefanovski

Goran Stefanovski from the School of Media Art and Design is delivering the third event in the Dialogic Imaginations series, curated by Bryan Hawkins for the Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts.

Goran Stefanovski
Hamlet: Live, Die Repeat!
Tuesday 23rd May 2017
5.15-6.45PM.
Room Pf06

 

Goran Stefanovski will be talking about his radical dramaturgical approach to Hamlet for the highly successful and critically acclaimed production by the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade. Directed by Aleksandar Popovski, it opened in September 2016 and is currently on tour in major European cities.

In the production the action of Hamlet is treated as a case of Nietzchean “eternal recurrence” and it is directed as an “emergent narrative”.

Emergent gameplay is a recent game design term that refers to mechanics that change according to the player’s actions. Emergent gameplay includes a number of relatively simple decisions that a player must make, the sum of which lead to more complex outcomes.

Symposium: Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century

Dr James Newton is organising a one day symposium exploring the individual films, cycles, genres and traditions of exploitation cinema since the turn of the century in the School of Media Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church University.

Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century

For more information email james.newton@canterbury.ac.uk.

To register for the event please visit http://shop.canterbury.ac.uk/product-catalogue/media-art-and-design/media-art-and-design/exploitation-cinema-in-the-21st-century-symposium