The Future of Arts Research Royal Holloway, University of London, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in conjunction with The British Library and the Centre for Creative Collaboration Times 9.30 10.00 10.15 10.45 11.15 11.30 to 12.30 Talks will be followed by a short Q&A. Activity Arrivals & coffee Welcome & introductions Guest Speakers: David Cross: Remember imagining, imagine remembering Martin McQuillan: I blame it on the Smiths Q&A Auditorium Brontë A Big Society? Arts and Social Cultural Intervention Reflections Anne Smith QMUL Matt Crowder Drama RHUL The Value of Practice-based Media Arts Research Investigating I Heart the BBC: Reception Participatory Drama Projects research and the emotive case with Refugees, Asylum Seekers for a national broadcaster and Migrants Jonathan Durham University of Warwick Rosanna Irvine University of Northampton French Studies Dance How do you Solve a Problem like Choreography as a Practice of my Career? The current Living Together challenges and future opportunities of Early Modern French Studies 12.30 to 13.30 Gary Butler University of Manchester History Histories of Cultural Value and the Value of Cultural History Matt Cawson RHUL Drama & Theatre Studies Masks & Archetypes: Contemporary humanity through the eyes of ancient masks LUNCH Arts & Humanities Research: Educational Impact & Value Nilou Hawthorne University of Roehampton Sociolinguistics The Discourses of ‘Information’ in Higher Education 13.30 to 15.00 Dickens Cultural Artefacts Deirdre O’Neill University of Ulster Value and Meaning in Abstraction Kelvin Thomson RHUL Music Composition ‘The Box is Only Temporary’: Recycling and Looking at New Musical Ways of Articulating Poetic Meaning Helen Wright Loughborough University Art, History and Social Politics Suparna Banerjee University of Roehampton Dance The Ripple Effect: quest for knowledge and relationships in dance collaboration Nicole Dobianer University of Kent Talks will be followed by a short Q&A. Department of Media, Film & Journalism Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool: The Inside Film Project Keith Ford Kingston University Music A new ‘High School Musical’: remaking cultural learning in performance 15.00 to 15.30 15.30 to 16.30 Talks will be followed by a short Q&A. 16.30 to 17.00 17.00 to 17.30 17.30 to 21.00 English & Drama ‘This is not an empty box’: The Absolute Reality of the Invisible Katja Vaghi University of Roehampton Dance The comic element in Dance Faculty of Humanities The Impact of Esther Tusquets’ Post-Franco Literature on the Notion of Femininity in Spain Rebecca Daker RHUL Drama & Theatre Studies Negative Dialectics in Whitehall: the Frankfurt School and the future of arts subsidy COFFEE BREAK The Arts and Social Cohesion Naomi Kruger Lancaster University English/Creative Writing Consciousness and the Antinovel: Fictional Representations of Dementia in Theory and Praxis Ersin Hussein University of Warwick Classics and Ancient History From Romanization to Creolization: Ancient Dialogues with Sociology Technology, Word and Image A Place for Knowledge. A Space for Discourse. Eliisa Vainikka University of Tampere, Finland Journalism, Communication & Media Consuming Pictures in Social Media Chris Dickenson University of Groningen, the Netherlands Ancient History & Archaeology Rubbing Shoulders with the Ancient Greeks Mathelinda Nabugodi University College London MA Translation Theory A Defence of Translation in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility Plenary Discussion & End Philip Sayer Bristol University Philosophy Philosophy, Social Science and the Arts: The problem with disciplines BREAK AND TRANSFER TO THE CENTRE FOR CREATIVE COLLABORATION ACTON STREET, LONDON Informal reception & Practice-based demonstrations *Programme correct as of 19 October 2011, but subject to alteration. The Future of Arts Research