The New London Graduate School (consortium of the universities of East London, Greenwich, London South Bank and Middlesex) will be awarding a number of AHRC Masters studentships for 2012/13. The MA Media & Communication, MA Creative Writing, MA English: Literary London and MA Theatre Practices are all eligible for the award. Full details about the [...]
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Happy new year, everyone. The course outlines have been updated for this term’s MA Media & Communication core courses: MEDS1054 Research Practice Method (30 cr., Terms 1, 2 and 3, 30 cr.) MEDS 1121 Media Work (15 cr.) MEDS1115 Digital Poetics (15 cr.) For those who haven’t chosen an option for this term, now is [...]
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Our neighbours at Ravensbourne will be hosting an evening of short presentations by businesses housed at the new Mitre Passage hub, on Thu 10 Nov, at 7pm. Titled Digital Futures, this will undoubtedly appeal to some of our more business-oriented MA students. Register at their Eventbrite site if you’re interested.
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Internet Week Europe is about to kick off for its second year of workshops, presentations and seminars. Held around central London, mainly in Covent Garden, Soho and Clerkenwell, the focus will be on marketing, digital media, PR, and creative uses of the internet in business. There’s a broad range of events and exhibits, many of [...]
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We’ve mentioned UbuWeb in seminars. It’s a fantastic resource for documentaries and audiovisual source materials on artists and thinkers. For those who are a little frightened of the sheer quantity of good stuff on the site, here’s a fine documentary to get you started: Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan (1999).
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We’re about to get back in gear for autumn term. For new students on the programme we’ll have an orientation meeting and registration session at 5pm on Monday 26 September, with seminars starting in full from Monday 3 October onwards. Here’s the seminars schedule for the coming year, and a list of courses with links [...]
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An exhibition of postgraduate Media and Communication coursework. Opening at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, 6-8pm tomorrow (Wednesday). Download the PDF flyer here.
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There’s a new video out on media programmes at the University of Greenwich. More videos, featuring some of our very own lecturers, are on the University of Greenwich YouTube channel.
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Term ends this week, and students in Research Methods are getting ready for the break. I asked everyone to name one book they are planning to read over the break, for their various projects. I added one as well. It makes for an interesting, combined snapshot of what we’re up to right now. Here’s the [...]
On Sunday March 13th (2-4 pm) , the author Will Self will talk with academic Matthew Beaumont (UCL) and exhibitors John Timberlake and Joy Sleeman, about apocalyptic landscapes in literature, art and film. This event is part of the After London exhibition, now on at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery. The gallery’s curator, of course, is [...]
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