Monday, November 06, 2006
Marjon conferences
Friday, May 27, 2005
A number of SSPEL staff ( including myself) have participated in sessions organised by other Schools and groups at the College:
Tim May of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Regeneration Futures (SURF) at Salford University led a session organised by SEC on 9th May. The theme was research on urban regeneration as an alternative to RAE-type publication. The organisation and set-up of SURF was also discussed.
David Storey of the University College Worcester talked to us about national identity and football, organised by SDEC on 20th May. His recent published study of the Irish football team was used as an example.
MAVHU (Marjon Audio Visual History Unit) and CAVA (Cornish Audio Visual Archive) ran a day conference on audio-visual narrative on 27th May. External speakers from Plymouth and Leicester Universities and the South-West Film and Television Archive gave short papers on ideas for further projects, involving the neglected oral histories of disabled Cornish people, recent developments in archaeology seeing the Cornish landscape as a narrative, and the role of editing and audio. Other papers focused on the depiction of various events and locations in Devon and Cornwall in film (amateur, professional, documentary and drama). These included a dramatised film about the Cornish clay workers' strike of 1913, and a series of classic films made by the GPO/British documentary movement/Ealing, which showed the interpenetration of genres and personnel as well as recording historical events.The conference included workshops on using digital images (both still and moving) in computer-generated material.It was interesting to see how much Pathe archive material covered Cornish events (including sport and leisure).
I have some additional materials from all three sessions if anyone is interested. College contacts for MAVHU/CAVA are Bob Keys (History) and Tony Atkin (Geography).
Dave Harris
