RESEARCH BULLETIN

College of Arts and Humanities

PUBLICATIONS

institutions for impact. This

confirms that research based in

the College is of extremely

high quality and that our

Schools provide a suitable

research environment for

internationally excellent and

world leading traditional,

interdisciplinary and creative

research. Bangor as a whole has performed extremely well in

the REF. It is now ranked

amongst the top 35% of all

research institutions in the UK.

In the 2014 UK Government's

REF research ranking Exercise

CAH has scored an average GPA

of 3.04 across the four units of

assessment – higher than the

University’s average and above the

benchmark for ‘international

excellence’. All CAH impact has

been rated higher than 3*, and

some units have performed better than Oxford, Cambridge

and various Russell Group

institutions. Our submission for

Modern Languages and Linguistics

(Schools of Cymraeg, Linguistics

and Modern Languages) was

ranked in the UK’s top 30%; for

English Language and Literature

(School of English) in the top

40%; for History (School of

History, Welsh History and

Archaeology) in the top 50%; and

for Music, Drama, Dance and

Performing Art (Schools of

Creative Studies and Media, and

Music) in the top 30%. The College did particularly well on

impact, with two submissions

receiving 100% 3* and 4* ratings.

Indeed, Bangor’s submission for

Modern Languages and Linguistics

was ranked 2nd out of 57

NEWS

Professor Nancy Edwards has been awarded a prestigious three year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to write a book on Life in Early Medieval Wales. This is a prestigious award and the only Leverhulme major research fellowship awarded to a University in Wales in this round (2014).

The period from the collapse of

Roman rule to the coming of the

Normans was formative in the

evolution of Wales, its language and

identity. Yet we know less about

Wales c. AD350–1050 than any other

part of Britain and Ireland. To enable

wide-ranging comparison the research

will be set within the broader

framework of recent developments in

early medieval European archaeology.

The growing body of archaeological

evidence for Wales will then be

interrogated alongside the sparse

written sources in order to analyse

how people lived -their settlements,

economy, society and beliefs, and

how these changed over time.

Professor Nancy Edwards’

research, much of which is

multi-disciplinary, focuses on the

archaeology of Britain and Ireland

c AD400–1100. She has published

widely on the archaeology of

early medieval Wales, particularly

on sculpture and the archaeology of the church.

Professor Edwards has recently

completed a major research

project on the Early Medieval

Inscribed Stones and Stone

Sculpture in Wales. This was in

partnership with the Royal

Commission on the Ancient and

Historical Monuments of Wales

and Amgueddfa Cymru - National

Museum Wales and was funded

by the British Academy, Arts and

Humanities Research Council,

University of Wales, Bangor

University and the Cambrian

Archaeological Association. She is

also currently writing up Project

Eliseg, an excavation project to

examine the archaeological

context of the Pillar of Eliseg, a

ninth-century cross which stands

on a Bronze Age burial cairn near

Llangollen, Denbighshire. This

project (with Dr Gary Robinson, Bangor University and Professor

Howard Williams, University of

Chester) has been funded by

Cadw, the Society of Antiquaries

of London, the Universities of

Wales, Bangor and Chester, the

Prehistoric Society and the Cam-

brian Archaeological Association.

Inside this issue:

News 1 - 2

Project News &

Grant Capture

3 - 4

Invited Talks 5

Conferences

Organized

6 - 7

Conference

Papers

7

External Offices &

Appointments

8

Impact-Generating

Activities

9

Cross-Disciplinary

Activities 10

Forthcoming Publications &

11

Publications 12

Contributors’

Schools

13

CAH’s SUCCESS IN THE REF 2014

LEVERHULME MAJOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARD

Two articles have been

written about the work of

Kate Lawrence in Korean

Dance Magazines (August/

September 2014). She has

also been a Feature

performer in the National

Theatre of Wales production

‘The Gathering’ (September

2014) and had extensive national press and media

coverage including 4* rating

in the Guardian.

NEWS

Performances of Gwymon in

Brittany, France (July 2014) and

Llawn Festival in Llandudno

(Venue Cymru, September

2014).

http://

www.verticaldancekatelawrence.

com/portfolio/gwymon/

Lecturer Kate Lawrence was a

guest artist at Les Rencontres

de Danse Aerienne (July 2014)

and European Aerial Dance

Festival (August 2014)

Press coverage of conference

paper at Royal Geographical

Society on BBC Radio Wales

(interview on Breakfast Show) and articles in Western Mail,

Wales online and BMC online.

See BBC Wales Online article

and British Mountaineerring

Council article and Wales

online article

CONTRACT

WITH

OXFORD

UNIVERSITY

PRESS

Professor Huw Pryce -

HWHA landed a

contract with Oxford

University Press for

Writing Welsh

History: Medieval

Legacies and Modern

Narratives (c.140,000

words)

Narratives 1898-1936:

Modernisation, Otherness and Na-

tion; a collaborative publication

for the Galician poetry maga-

zine Dorna, by Dr David Miranda-

Barreiro, Ms Lorena López

(SoML) and Mr Phil Davies (YyG),

which includes their translations

of Ifor ap Glyn’s Welsh-language

poems into Galician; Dr Helena

Miguélez-Carballeira's

(SoML) Companion to Galician

Culture (Tamesis), Prof Astrid

Ensslin's (SCSM) MIT Press

monograph, Literary Gaming; and

Dr Jochen Eistentraut's new

Brazilian album, Ritmeloxá,

produced with Ubiraci Santos.

PVC Research, Prof David

Shepherd, who attended the event, emphasised the importance

of these publications and of Arts

and Humanities research at

Bangor University more generally.

CAH's Director of Research, Prof

Astrid Ensslin, who organised the

event in collaboration with CAH

Central Administration and ULB,

commented: "Events like this are

key for CAH's research culture

and for helping to develop a sense

of collegiality, mutual support and

recognition that goes beyond

School boundaries and allows

staff to discover new links and

affinities between each other's

work."

CAH CELEBRATORY PRE-CHRISTMAS BOOK LAUNCH

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GWYMON IN BRITTANY, FRANCE & LLAWN FESTIVAL,

LLANDUDNO

ROUTLEDGE

MONO-

GRAPHS

BOOK

CONTRACT

Dr. Vian Bakir has

landed a book

contract with

Routledge

monographs,

Cyberculture

series.

Co-authored (with

Dr. A. McStay,

SCSM), an 80,000

word monograph

on Wearable Media:

A Critical Exploration

of Social

Implications.

The College's first joint,

celebratory book launch was held

on 17th December in the Library's

historic Shankland Reading Room,

a venue that proved to be an ideal

setting to celebrate monographs,

edited volumes and other major

forms of publications that

appeared in 2014. The event was

very well attended and featured

books and other publications by

staff from the Schools of Creative

Studies and Media, English,

Modern Languages and Music: in

chronological order, the following

outputs were launched: Dr Laura

Rorato's (SoML) Legenda

monograph, Caravaggio in Film and

Literature; Prof Helen Wilcox's

(SoE) monograph, 1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early

Modern England (Wiley-Blackwell);

Dr Maureen McCue's (SoE)

monograph, British Romanticism

and the Reception of Italian Old

Master Art, 1793- 1840 (Ashgate);

Dr David Miranda-Barreiro's

(SoML) Legenda mono-

graph, Spanish New York

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index.php.en Thanks go to our undergraduate

students from Media, Journalism and

Law who seamlessly kept us supplied

with refreshments throughout the

day in return for plentiful ideas for

their dissertations. 4 PhD students

from Bangor (Computer Science),

Aberystwyth (international Relations), and University of South

Wales (Photography) participated,

and are now writing up the seminar

notes, under the supervision of our

seminar leaders, Dr Yvonne McDermott (Law) and Dr Martina

Feilzer (Social Sciences). These will

be posted on the project website

within the next few weeks. Our

documentary-maker, Dyfrig Jones

(SCSM) is now working out how to

translate some of the complex

themes we discussed into a form of

communication that ordinary folk

will understand and want to engage

with.

This first seminar has started to give

form to what will be an exciting and

important new network. It also gives

us great impetus for the next seminar that will be held in Sheffield University on Tuesday 24 March

2015, 10:00–17:00. The seminar is on

'Debating the Technical & Ethical

Limits of Secrecy and Privacy'. Its

seminar leaders are Dr Emma Briant

(Journalism) and Dr Ross Bellaby

(International Relations). See:

http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/

events.php.en

Dr Vian Bakir

School of Creative Studies and Media

(Acting Director of the Network for

Media & Persuasive Communication)

(MPC) - report - SCSM

ESRC Seminar Series 2014-16.

DATA-PSST! - Debating Alternative

Transparency Arrangements - Privacy,

Security, Surveillance, Trust.

With the PI Dr Vian Bakir (SCSM), and

5 CIs from MPC (Dr Andrew McStay

(SCSM, Bangor), Dr Martina Feilzer

(Social Sciences, Bangor), Dr Yvonne

Mc Dermott (Law, Bangor), Mr Dyfrig

Jones (SCSM Bangor), this is a truly

collaborative effort. Our CIs also

extend beyond Bangor to comprise Mr

Paul Lashmar (Brunel Univ.), Dr Emma

Briant (Sheffield Univ.), Dr Ross Bellaby

(Sheffield Univ.), Dr Madeline Carr

(Aberystwyth Univ.), Dr Claudia

Hillebrand (Aberystwyth Univ.), and Dr

Clare Birchall (King’s College,

University of London).

Our 2-year Seminar Series explores,

from multi-disciplinary/end user

perspectives, how different aspects of

transparency (whether voluntarily

entered into, or state/commercially/

peer-imposed) affect questions of

privacy, security, surveillance and trust.

These areas have been chosen, as

transparency violates privacy; is argued

as necessary for security;

Indiscriminately mass surveills; and both

demands and compromises trust.

To explore these topics, we draw on

perspectives from Journalism, Media,

Sociology, Criminology, Law, Politics,

International Relations, Intelligence,

Business, History, Computer Science

and Philosophy, and on end users from

media, journalism, law, governing

bodies, regulators, NGOs, business,

security and art. Seminars are to be

hosted in Bangor, Aberystwyth,

Sheffield and London, and will be free

to participants. Travel bursaries are available for interested parties.

The ESRC-funded DATA-PSST! inter-disciplinary seminar series held its

first full-day seminar here at Bangor

University on 6th January.

Called Transparency Today: Exploring the

Adequacy of Sur/Sous/Veillance Theory

and Practice, this seminar saw keynotes

from Professor Kirstie Ball, The Open

University (world-leading expert in

organisations and surveillance) and

Professor Steve Mann, University of

Toronto (‘father’ of wearable technology and expert on

‘sousveillance’, or watching the

watchers). End users attending included PlanetLabs, a San Francisco

start-up company that sends tiny satellites into space to take photos of

the planet, and digital designer-in-

residence Ronan Devlin. Academic

attendees came from universities

across the UK. We also attracted staff

from Bangor University (SCSM, Health,

Computer Science, Law, Social Sciences, Chemistry and Pontio). We

had a very lively and insightful debate.

Outcomes and views are posted on

the project website, and we shall soon

be compiling policy briefs there: http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/

PROJECT NEWS & GRANT CAPTURE

DATA - PSST!

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NATIONAL

THEATRE OF WALES

LAB AWARD

Lecturer Kate Lawrence

School of Creative Studies and

Media National Theatre of Wales Lab

award (approx £2300) for

‘Moving Rocks’, a research

project about action and

interaction with the environment, the labour of

quarrying, repetitive movement

and the communal energy created by moving in rhythm

with others and with the

landscape. Using ropes and harnesses, Kate Lawrence will

suspend dancers face down on

slabby rock faces of North

Wales, to explore the actions of

quarrymen who altered the

landscape dramatically.

PROJECT NEWS & GRANT CAPTURE

DATA PSST!

Dr Vian Bakir

School of Creative Studies and

Media

2014-16. ESRC Seminar Series.

DATA-PSST! - Debating

Alternative Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security,

Surveillance, Trust. £30,000. PI.

Dr Vian Bakir.

2014. College of Arts/

Humanities Networking Fund

(£420)– to develop

inter-institutional (Bangor, Sheffield and Leicester) bid to

ESRC Emergency Grants: Emergent Information Norms for

Police and the Public: The privacy

and veillance implications of wearable technologies. (Value

£200,000 – EoI submitted Dec

2014)

ESRC/AHRC Global Uncertainties 2 day workshop

(£250) on Contemporary

Propaganda and Organised

Persuasive Communication, University of Bath (to progress

collaborative journal article and

AHRC Large Grants proposal).

BEAUMARIS

PRISON PROJECT

Mr Geraint Ellis

School of Creative Studies &

Media

Creative Exchange Wales

Network have awarded a grant

of £3,000 to Ffion Haf Jones

and Geraint Ellis of the School

of Creative Studies and Media.

The award was given for a

development project in

partnership between the

university, the television

company Cwmni Da, and the

Isle of Anglesey County

Council, exploring the use of

multi-media materials as an

attraction for visitors at

Beaumaris Prison.

NEW STAFF

PROFILE

Dr. Eirini

Sanoudaki -

Linguistics and

English

Language was

appointed

Lecturer in Language

Acquisition

BLOOMSBURY PRESS

BOOK AWARD

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Dr Kate Taylor-Jones

School of Creative Studies and

Media

Dr Kate Tylor has been awarded

a book contract with

Bloomsbury Press for Divine

Work: Japanese Colonial Cinema

and its Legacy.

The first edition of the new East

Asian Journal of Popular Culture

(Intellect Press) was launched.

Kate Taylor-Jones is editor in

chief and Dr Yan Ying (SML) is

on the advisory board.

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/

journals/view-issue,id=2778/

‘A COMPANION TO

GALICIAN CULTURE ‘

Dr Helena Miguélez-

Carballeira

School of Modern Languages and

Cultures

Publication of major edited book:

Miguélez Carballeira, Helena

(2014) A Companion to Galician

Culture, Woodbridge: Tamesis.

This books offers English-language

readers a first in-depth

introduction to aspects of

Galician culture, language and

history, as well as compelling new

perspectives on Galician cinema, music, architecture and the city of

Santiago de Compostela].

Publication of the Galician-

Portuguese translation of Miguélez

Carballeira’s monograph: Galiza,

um povo sentimental? Género, políti-

ca e cultura no imaginário nacional

galego (Atravès Editora).

PROJECT

ELISEG

Prof. Nancy Edwards

School of History and Welsh

History

Project Eliseg post-excavation,

Cadw, £6k. Nancy Edwards (PI),

with Dr Gary Robinson (CI)

(SHWHA Bangor University) and

Professor Howard Williams (CI)

(University of Chester).

Page 5 Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies and

Media

Jul 2014. Sousveillance, Media &

Agenda-Building. Sheffield

University. Arising from her

work on surveillance and

political communication in the

digital age, Dr Bakir was one of

five invited speakers on the

theme of Privacy, Surveillance and

Governance in the Digital Society

4. This day-long event was the

starting point to develop a multi

-institutional, interdisciplinary

collaborative research grant

application to ESRC

Emergency Grants.

Dr Eva

Bru-Domínguez School of Modern Languages &

Cultures

‘El paradigma de la diferència

sexual més enllà del cànon

patriarcal. Teoria feminista i

pràctiques artístiques

contemporànies’, Universitat

de Barcelona, Nov 2014 ‘Virtual

Becomings: Colour, Matter and

Line in the Work of Marcel·lí

Antúnez’, 6th E. Allison Peers

Symposium, ‘Crossing Borders,

Crossing Cultures’, University

of Liverpool, Oct 2014

Prof. Nancy Edwards School of History and Welsh

History

September 2014, ‘Chi-rhos,

Crosses and Pictish Symbols:

Inscribed Stones and Stone

Sculpture in Early Medieval

Wales and Scotland’,

Celto-Slavic Colloquium, invited

lecture, Bangor University.

September 2014, ‘Viking Burial

in Wales’, symposium on Viking

Burial, University of Stirling,

invited paper.

Prof. Astrid Ensslin School of Creative Studies and

Media

Prof. Astrid Ensslin has been

invited to deliver a keynote

lecture at the world’s most

important games studies

conference, the 2015 Digital

Games Research Association

Conference, to be held at

Leuphana (Lueneburg,

Germany), in May 2015. Her

talk will address the ‘diversity of

play’ theme from the angle of

literary gaming.

Page 5 INVITED TALKS

Prof. Astrid Ensslin School of Creative Studies and

Media

Keynote lecture at the

International Association of

Literary Semantics’ (IALS)

annual conference, 3-5 July

2014, University of Kent. The

conference theme was ‘Literary

Semantics: Past - Present –

Future?’, and Prof Ensslin’s talk

focused on ‘Studying the

Meanings of Digital Fiction:

Ludostylistics and

Psychonarratology’.

Invited research talk in Bangor

University’s Linguistics Circle

Lecture Series, 10 December

2014, on ‘New Approaches to

Analyzing Digital Fiction:

Ludostylistics, Cognitive

Narratology and Empirical Reader Response’.

Lecturer Kate

Lawrence School of Creative Studies and

Media

Founder member of Vertical

Dance Forum with artists from

France (Cie Retouramont), Italy

(Il Posto), England (Gravity and

Levity), Ireland (Fidget Feet),

Canada (Aeriosa) and Croatia

(Histeria Nova). Attended and spoke at first meeting at

University of Limerick, Ireland.

Prof. Huw Pryce

School of History & Welsh

History

‘Dynastic Identity in Twelfth-

and Thirteenth-Century

Wales’ (invited paper)

Conference ‘Imagined

Communities: Constructing

Collective Identities in

Medieval Europe’, Marie-Cure

University, Lublin 15-

17.10.2014

Dr Eirini Sanoudaki School of Linguistics & English

Language

Dr Eirini Sanoudaki has been

invited to deliver a keynote

address at the 12th Generative

Approaches to Language

Acquisition conference (GALA

12) at the University of Nantes,

September 10-12 2015, focus-

sing on Segments & Interactions

in Phonological Acquisition.

Dr. Zoe Skoulding School of English Literature

Dr Zoë Skoulding was invited to

speak at the University of

Cambridge on October 11th as

part of the Resounding Dylan

Thomas symposium. She was

also invited to give a talk about

her own poetry at the

University of Nottingham on

November 14th.

Dr Thora Tenbrink School of Linguistics & English

Literature

"Cognitive Discourse Analysis

for GIScience: What language

use can tell us about spatial

cognition". Invited talk at the

GIScience colloquium,

Department of Geography,

University of Zurich, Switzeland,

November 11, 2014.

"A model of reference frames

for spatial and temporal lan-

guage". Invited talk at the Sony

Computer Science Lab at Paris,

France, November 7, 2014. Invited participation - Active

discussant at the CDA20+ Sym-

posium organised by the Am-

sterdam Critical Discourse

Community, Amsterdam, 8-9

September 2014.

"A model of reference frames

for spatial and temporal lan-

guage". Invited talk at the work-

shop on ‘Perspectivization in

Language: Source–Goal Asym-

metry in Motion Events, Deixis,

and Frames of Reference’ in

Berlin on July 25/26, 2014.

Lecturer Joanna

Wright School of Creative Studies and

Media

Chapter Arts Centre, Launch of

Arts Council Wales report on

Sustainability in Arts Practice.

Our Keynote Speakers were

inspirational. Prof. Sue Clay-

ton, Professor of Film and

Television, Goldsmiths, gave

an entertaining, insightful and

poignant talk, on Indies and

Interactive: how to build new

media formats and networks for

human rights. This reflected on

her tribulations over commissioning, funding and

formats in producing her indie

documentary Hamedullah: The

Road Home, shot with an

Afghan teenager, who came to

the UK to seek asylum alone

as a child, but then was

forcibly removed back to

Kabul. Prof. Jon Silverman,

Research Professor Media and

Criminal Justice at University

of Bedfordshire, stretched our

minds concerning the

International Criminal Court,

and the African Union’s own

Court of Justice and Human

Rights, with his talk on The

Justice Conundrum: redressing

human rights abuses in Africa,

reflecting on failures to hold

accountable the ‘big men’

while in power.

The James Thomas Memorial

prizes (£100 cheque) for the

Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies &

Media

10-11 Nov 2014 saw the

Network for Media &

Persuasive Communication

(MPC) hosting the Political

Studies Association annual

Media and Politics Group

Annual Conference themed on Media, Persuasion and

Human Rights at Bangor

University.

It was attended by 44

delegates from across

academia internationally

(Australasia, Europe) and the

UK as well as from Bangor

University, from diverse

disciplines (Media,

Communications, Politics,

Sociology, Law, Business,

Linguistics), and from all career stages. As well as

explorations of human rights

from the perspectives of

security, privacy, freedom of

speech, gender, race, class,

labour and religion, we saw

papers on propaganda,

persuasion and spin across all

media forms – from music to

new media, and across a

range of institutional sites

beyond media, such as

governments, legislatures and

the judiciary.

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Political Studies Association annual Media and Politics Group Annual Conference

10-11 Nov 2014

best postgraduate paper was

awarded to Mr Khin-Wee Chen

(University of Canterbury, New

Zealand) for his paper on

Malaysian Kangkung Politics:

harvesting Internet visual memes

for rhetorical acts. Two travel

bursaries (£100 each) were

awarded to delegates for the

best abstract from a postgraduate student: Ruth

Garland (LSE) for Beyond the

Narrative of Political Spin: an

empirical analysis of the workings

and purposes of UK government

media relations; and Mark Shaw

(Durham University) for

Discourses on European

integration and Institutions in the

UK press: political

entrepreneurialism at work?

We were sponsored by BBC Monitoring and by academic

publishers Peter Lang.

The conference organising team

were: Dr Vian Bakir (SCSM), Dr

Martina Feilzer (Social

Sciences), Dyfrig Jones (SCSM),

Dr. Yvonne McDermott (Law),

Dr. Andrew McStay (SCSM) and

Dr Kate Taylor-Jones (SCSM).

Political

Studies

Association

annual Media

and Politics

Group Annual

Conference

were

sponsored by

BBC

Monitoring and

by academic

publisher

Peter Lang

Mr. GERAINT ELLIS

School of Creative Studies & Media

The Cyfrwng conference was held

in Bangor in July 2014. Cyfrwng is

an organisation that promotes

collaboration between higher education and the media industry

in Wales and beyond, and their

main conference is held biennial-

ly. The theme this year was

Bridging Theory and Practice,

and there were memorable con-

tributions from a number of

speakers, including Joram ten

Brink of the University of West-

minster, the producer of The Act

of Killing, which received an Os-

car nomination earlier in the

year. The conference was organ-

ised by Dyfrig Jones, Geraint Ellis

and other members of staff from

the School of Creative Studies

and Media and the School of

Welsh, and it was well support-

ed by several media sectors.

School of Creative Studies and

Media guest speaker series

A series of varied talks by

practitioners in the creative

industries was held during the

first semester of 2014-15,

including contributions by Ste

Curran, games designer and

author, Dylan Llewelyn, senior

producer at Rondo Media, and

Osian Williams, a former

student who founded the

multi-media company SSP

Media.

CYFRWNG

Echo Chambers, Gender

Reverberations’, WiSPS

Annual Conference

Dr Eva Bru-Domínguez -

School of Modern Languages and

Cultures

‘Echo Chambers, Gender Reverberations’,

WiSPS Annual Conference, University

College Cork (Nov 2014)

oorganised with Dr Helena Buffery

WiSPS Study Day: Small and Medium

Grants, University of Birmingham,

December 2014

CONFERENCES ORGANISED

.

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Prof. Huw Pryce

School of History & Welsh History

Seventh Bangor Colloquium on

Medieval Wales, Bangor University,

7-9 November 2014, organised by

Professor Huw Pryce and Dr Euryn

Rhys Roberts (SHWHA), Over 30

delegates attended.

The Colloquium hosted the J. E. Lloyd

Lecture (07.11.14)

Dr David Stephenson (Honorary

Research Fellow, SHWHA, BU)

‘Empires in Wales: from Gruffudd ap Llywelyn to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’

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Seventh Bangor Colloquium on Medieval Wales, Bangor University,

7-9 November 2014

Keynote papers were given by;

Dr Alex Woolf (St Andrews)

‘Legend and History in Early

Gwynedd’

Dr Rhian Andrews (Queen’s

University, Belfast)

‘Y Bardd yn Llysgennad: Llywarch

Brydydd y Moch yn

Neheubarth’ (‘The Poet as

Ambassador: Llywarch Brydydd y

Moch in Deheubarth’)

Prof. Tim Thornton (University of

Huddersfield)

The development of early modern

English historiographies of

medieval Wales’

Funding from CAH, IMEMS, The

Learned Society of Wales,

SHWHA

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies & Media

- Bakir, V. Misdirection as

Propaganda: We Don’t Torture!

Political Studies Association, Media &

Politics Group Annual Conference -

Media, Persuasion and Human Rights.

Bangor University, 10-11 November

(2014

Dr Eva Bru-Domínguez Schoo,l of Modern Languages and

Cultures

‘Silence, Nature and the Mundane in

Albert Serra’s Honor de Cavalleria

(2005)’, XV Annual Anglo-Catalan

Society, University College Cork,

September 2014

‘Repositories of Memory and Habit:

the object in the Artwork of Eulàlia

Valldosera’, Democray and the Arts in

the Contemporary Hispanic World,

University of Birmingham, July 2014

Dr Rachel Willie School of English Literature

‘"this reading of books is a pernicious

thing”: Journeys of the Mind in The

Emperor of the Moon (1687)’.

Prodigious Fish, Vagabonds and Lunatics: Performing Unusual Spaces

in Early Modern Drama panel, Society

for Renaissance Studies 6th Biennial

Conference, University of

Southampton (07/2014)

'The past, present and future of

Milton studies’, British Milton

Seminar, Birmingham (10.2014)

Lecturer Kate Lawrence School of Creative Studies and Media

August 2014 Conference paper at

Royal Geographical Society Annual

International Conference: ‘Naming

and claiming: marking vertical

landscapes/territory’

Dr Zoe Skoulding School of English Literature

Dr Zoë Skoulding gave a practice-

based paper on poetry and sound at

Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound

and Narrative, Paderborn University,

September 10th-12th . She presented a

collaborative paper with Dr Carole

Birkan-Berz on approaches to sound

in the translation of experimental UK

poetry into French 17th-18th October

for Orality, Sounds and Sensations in

the Translation of Poetry at the

Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.

CONFERENCES ORGANISED

Dr. Vian Bakir - SCSM

· External Examiner for Royal Hol-

loway, University of

London. PhD viva (Mark Pope). Risk-

cosmopolitanism: How the UK Govern-

ment and news media structure the order

of security discourse to impede challenges

on torture and abuse (Nov 2014).

· External Examiner for University of Plymouth. PHD upgrade

(Diane Derr).

Syncretic Narrative: Method for Negotia-

tion of Power and

Resistance in War and

Conflict (Aug 2014).

Dr. Eva Bru-Domínguez -Modern Languages and Cultures

Examination Board Member

(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

for PhD thesis: De la bellesa a la convul-

sió escènica: Marta Carrasco, Sol Picó i

Angélica Liddell

Professor Nancy Edwards –

SHWHA

Co-option onto the Council and as a

Trustee of the Learned Society of

Wales. Also elected Learned Society of

Wales, Bangor University representa-

tive. External

examiner for

research degree, University of Central

Lancashire

Professor Astrid Ensslin

Appointed board member of the

world-leading, International Game Stud-

ies journal.

Lecturer, Kate Lawrence -

Creative Studies and Media

External examiner for MA

Choreography and Professional

Practice at Chichester University

(Sept 2104 – 2018)

National Advisor for Arts Council of

Wales (November 2014 – 2017)

Dr. Helena Miguélez-Carballeira -

EXTERNAL OFFICES AND APPOINTMENTS Page 8

Dr Helena Miguélez-

Carballeira School of Modern Languages and

Cultures

appointed External Examiner for a

PhD thesis in Galician Studies, at

Queen’s College, University of Ox-

ford.

Dr Zoe Skoulding School of English Literature

appointed External Examiner for the

MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield

University. She was External

Examiner for PhDs at the

Universities of Roehampton and

Exeter.

Lecturer Joanna Wright School of Creative Studies and

Media

Chair: Dogfen Cymru// Documentary

Wales

Documentary Wales was founded by a

group of film professionals and

academic partners in Wales following

the successful BFI Documentary Film

Academies in Wales in 2014/15.

Since that time Dogfen Cymru has

received funding from the BFI

Audience Network for a series of

screenings and Masterclasses in Wales,

and from MEDIADesk Europe for an

event focused on European documen-

tary that will take place in summer

2015. The Website is here:

http://www.dogfen.net/

Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies and Media

External Examiner for Royal Holloway,

University of London. PhD viva (Mark

Pope). Risk-cosmopolitanism: How the

UK Government and news media struc-

ture the order of security discourse to

impede challenges on torture and abuse

(Nov 2014).

External Examiner for University of

Plymouth. PHD upgrade (Diane Derr).

Syncretic Narrative: Method for Negotia-

tion of Power and Resistance in War and

Conflict (Aug 2014).

Dr Eva Bru-Domínguez School of Modern Languages and

Cultures

Examination Board Member

(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

for PhD thesis: De la bellesa a la convul-

sió escènica: Marta Carrasco, Sol Picó i

Angélica Liddell

Professor Nancy Edwards School of History and Welsh

History

Co-option onto the Council and as a

Trustee of the Learned Society of

Wales. Also elected Learned Society

of Wales, Bangor University repre-

sentative.

External examiner for research de-

gree, University of Central Lancashire

Professor Astrid Ensslin School of Creative Studies and Media

Appointed board member of the

world-leading, international Game

Studies journal.

Invited advisor to Innovate UK and

RCUK on their Creative Content

Industries Delivery Plan for 2015/16

Lecturer Kate Lawrence School of Creative Studies and Media

1. External examiner for MA

Choreography and Professional

Practice at Chichester University

(Sept 2104 – 2018)

2. National Advisor for Arts Council

of Wales (November 2014 – 2017)

Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies and

Media Sep 2014. Filmed for Lambent

TV Productions, 3 seminars on

risk communication, political

communication, and global

news. For Sage online content.

Mr Geraint Ellis School of Creative Studies and

Media

Geraint Ellis was chosen as one

of the academics to take part in

the Creative Provision pilot

programme organised by

Creative Skillset Cymru. The

climax of the project was a

one-day conference in Bangor in

November 2014 that included

lectures by himself and Eben

Muse, the new Head of the

School of Creative Studies and

Media.

Professor Astrid Ensslin School of Creative Studies and

Media

Professor Astrid Ensslin

co-curated, with Dr Alice Bell

(Sheffield Hallam), one of the

UK’s first digital literature

exhibitions. Titled ‘The Future

of Reading? An Exhibition of

Digital Literature’, was held

from 22 October to 14

November at Sheffield’s Bank

Street Arts gallery. The launch

itself attracted 80 people, and

during the first week of the

event another 200 visitors were

recorded (further data to

follow). The tweet announcing

the exhibition had 943

impressions.

Prof Astrid Ensslin hosted a

second panel discussion with

the Games Developers North

Wales on 11th December, in JP

Hall. The event, which was

attended by students, academics

and games industry

representatives, focused on

questions revolving around

‘Games as Art’. It was led by

Sarah Crossman, creator of the

award-winning Master Reboot

game, who delivered a lecture

on ‘What Makes Master Reboot

Art?’.

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Lecturer Kate Lawrence

School of Creative Studies and

Media

Host of vertical dance

workshop led by Lindsey

Butcher of Gravity and Levity

for 12 international (Australia,

Greece, Spain and England) and

local participants.

Photo of Gwymon used in Arts

Council new strategy document:

Inspire… Our Strategy for

Creativity and the Arts in Wales

Dr Helena Miguélez-

Carballeira School of Modern Languages and

Cultures

The Galician-Portuguese

translation of my monograph,

Galiza, um povo sentimental?

Género, política e cultura (2014) is

having a major impact on

Galician culture and media. The

image below is from its launch

at the Galician Arts Fair

Culturgal on 6 December 2014:

Professor Huw Pryce

School of History and Welsh

History

‘Expert Comment’ on Owain

Glyndŵr, BBC History Magazine,

September 2014.

Interview on Owain Glyndŵr,

BBC Radio Wales, 16.09.14

‘The Age of Llywelyn the Great’,

Harlech Historical Society, Har-

lech, 09.09.14

Dr Zoe Skoulding School of English Literature

Dr Zoë Skoulding organised the

Bangor International Poetry

Festival, with a series of public

events throughout October

featuring poets from eight

different countries translated into

Welsh and English. The event was

funded by the Arts Council of

Wales in partnership with Arc

Publications, the Czech Centre and

local businesses.

Lecturer Joanna Wright School of Creative Studies and Media

Screening: Zero Carbon Archive,

Chapter Arts Centre Cinema

The Screening of Zero Carbon

Archive took place at the launch of

Arts Council Wales report on

sustainability in Creative Practice in

Wales, Culture Shift.

The report is available to read in

English Here: http://

www.emergence-uk.org/wp-

content/uploads/CULTURE-SHIFT-

Report.pdf and in Welsh

here: http://www.emergence-

uk.org/wp-content/uploads/

CULTURE-SHIFT-Report-

Welsh.pdf

IMPACT GENERATING ACTIVITIES

EUROPEAN

CONNECTIONS

Dr Eirini Sanoudaki School of Linguistics and

English Language

Dr Eirini Sanoudaki offered

workshops on Bilingualism as

part of the Erasmus staff

exchange system at the Faculty

of Turkish and Modern Asian

Studies at the University of

Athens, July 2014.

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Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies and

Media

Nov 2014- Formed a cross-

disciplinary research group at

Bangor University on

Sousveillance (with Dr. Andrew

McStay, SCSM, Dr.Gillian Jein,

French, Ronan Devlin, artist-in-

residence Computer Sciences, and Jamie-Like Woodruff

(ethical hacker). Submitted

£50,000 EoI to The Space (Arts

Council, England) to fund a

piece of digital art/mobile app

on sousveillance. The group has

been invited to work up phase 2

of the application.

Jul 2014 Formed a

cross-disciplinary research

group (New Media, Journalism,

Information Science, Sociology,

Criminology, Law) across

Bangor, Sheffield and Leicester

universities on surveillance &

privacy. We are working

towards inter-institutional grant

capture from RC-UK (ESRC Emergency Grant on Emergent

Information Norms for Police and

the Public: The privacy and

veillance implications of wearable

technologies. Value £200,000).

Jul 2014 – Formed a propaganda

research group across Bangor,

Manchester, Bristol and Bath

universities, drawing from

Politics, International Relations,

Sociology, Media & Journalism.

On the topic of organised

persuasive communication, we

are working towards a

co-authored journal article and book proposal; on the

propaganda build-up the 2003

invasion of Iraq, we are

developing an AHRC large

grant; and on conflict, security

propaganda, we are preparing

for a conference at Bath

University in summer 2015.

Professor Astrid Ensslin School of Creative Studies and

Media

The interdisciplinary research

team around Prof Astrid Ensslin,

Dr Lyle Skains (both SCSM) and

Dr Sarah Riley (Psychology,

Aberystwyth), held a summer

school on digital fiction and

body image in July/August in

Aberystwyth and submitted a

bid on ‘Transforming identity

through digital fictions: the

move from participant to

practitioner’. The project, if

funded, will generate a digital

fiction to be functionalised as a

bibliotherapist tool in young

girls’ body image interventions.

Lecturer Joanna Wright

School of Creative Studies and

Media

Documentary Wales Screening

and Q&A of Swansea City

Football Documentary Jack to a

King with producer Mal Pope

Documentary Wales Screening

and Q&A of award winning film

Still the Enemy Within with

producers Sinead Kirwan and

Mark Lacey in partnership with

Neuadd Ogwen.

Documentary Wales Screening

of Pretty Village, in partnership

with BAFTA Cymru and Chap-

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS & EVENTS Page 11

Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies and Media

Lunch-time "brown bag"

Seminars in 2015,

Semester 2

In 2015 we will again be offering a

line-up of smaller lunchtime "brown bag"

seminars. These will begin in semester

2 and broach a myriad of topics. They

allow MPC members and colleagues

from the Uni' to get to know each

other better, to explore inter

disciplinary opportunities with

interested colleagues, and to discuss

topical global and local events involving

media and persuasion from a variety of

disciplinary perspectives. As well as an

opportunity to meet wonderful people,

these will also offer a stimulating place

to eat a sandwich and drink a coffee.

We're still thinking of topics, so if you

have anything you'd like to share of

media and/or persuasive nature let

Vian know (v.bakir@bangor.ac.uk)

DATA-PSST!’s second full day

seminar (10-5pm) is at Sheffield

University on 24th Mar 2015.

It is on Debating the Technical & Ethical

Limits of Secrecy and Privacy. Led by

Information Studies experts to explain

what is technically possible regarding

secrecy and privacy in the digital age,

we will then debate what is socially

desirable by bringing in experts in digi-

tal and social media, philosophers of

privacy and media and intelligence

ethicists and opening up the debate

to end users with different views on

the value of secrecy and privacy, or to

what these should be applied. Among

the eminent speakers are Prof.Jo

Pierson, Free University of Brussels

(privacy/media/marketing) and Dr.Joss

Wright, Oxford Internet Institute

(Computer Science, cryptography,

Privacy Enhancing Technologies). End

users include the UK Information

Commissioner's Office (the national

UK regulator on data), and Birgitta

Jónsdóttir (Iceland MP, activist and

Chair of International Modern Media

Institute).

Dr Rachel Willie

School of English Literature

Dr Willie currently has two books in

production;

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in

England c. 1530-1700, ed. Kevin

Killeen, Helen Smith and Rachel Wil-

lie (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

August 2015)

Staging the Revolution: Drama,

Reinvention and History, 1647-1672

(Manchester: Manchester University,

Press, 2015)

Gabor Gelleri (European Languages,

Aberystwyth); Rhun Emlyn (History,

Aberystwyth), Andrew Hiscock

(English Literature, Bangor) and Ra-

chel Willie (English Literature, Ban-

gor) are organising the next IMEMS

conference on ‘Travel and Conflict

in the Medieval and Early Modern

World’, to take place in

Bangor 3-5 September 2015.

Keynote speakers are Michal Biran

(Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Dan-

iel Carey (NUI Galway) and Judith

Jesch (Nottingham). Further details,

including the call for papers, are

available:

http://

travelandconflict.wordpress.com/

https://

teithioagwrthdaro.wordpress.com/

Leverhulme

Trust-funded

one-day workshop

Decentring Axis cinema –

Film

making in states allied to

Nazi Germany.

The organisers are Kate Taylor-

Jones (School of Creative

Studies and Media), Gábor

Gergely (University of

Manchester) and Gerwyn Owen

(School of Creative Studies and

Media). The event will take

place 2nd-3rd April, 2015 ,in

Manchester.

The Centre for East Asian

Studies has two special speakers

coming to talk in semester two:

Dr Song Lianyi (SOAS) will

speak at Bangor on the 10th

of February. Dr Song has

been the principal teaching

fellow of Chinese at SOAS

for over ten years. He is

also the writer of Teaching

Yourself Chinese and ex-

tremely popular and influen-

tial tool in Chinese Langaue

Learning.

Dr Paul Bowman will also

come to speak to students

from College of Arts and

Humanities. Dr Bowman

will speak on Chinese Ac-

tion Cinema. Dr Bowman is

Reader in Cardiff University

and is the Director of the

Race, Representation and

Cultural Politics Research

Group, Director of Editors:

Cardiff University Press,

Editor of JOMEC Journal,

Editor: Martial Arts Studies

and Co-Director of the

Centre for Interdisciplinary

Film & Visual Culture

Research.

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Dr David Miranda -

Barreiro School of Modern Languages &

Cultures

Miranda-Barreiro, David.

Spanish New York Narratives

1898-1936. Modernization,

Otherness and Nation (Oxford:

Legenda, 2014)

Professor Huw Pryce

School of History & Welsh

History

O’Leary, P. and Pryce, H.

(eds), The Welsh History Re-

view, 27.2 (Cardiff: University

of Wales Press, 2014)

Pryce, H. and Owen, G.,

‘Medieval Welsh law and the

mid-Victorian foreshore’, Jour-

nal of Legal History, 35.2

(2014), 172-99

Dr Eirini Sanoudaki School of Linguistics & English

Language

Sanoudaki, E. & Varlokosta, S.

‘Pronoun comprehension in

individuals with Down syn-

drome: deviance or delay?’, Journal of Speech, Language and

Hearing Research, 57 (2014a)

1442-1452

Sanoudaki, E. & Varlokosta, S.

‘Pronoun comprehension in

individuals with Down syn-

drome: the role of age’, Inter-

national Journal of Language and

Communication Disorders,

(2014b)

Sanoudaki, E. & Varlokosta, S.

‘Task effects in the interpreta-

tion of pronouns’, Language

Acquisition: a Journal of Develop-

mental Linguistics, (2014c)

Tamburelli, M., Sanoudaki, E.,

Jones, G., & Sowinska,

‘Acceleration in the bilingual

acquisition of phonological

structure: evidence from

Polish-English bilingual chil-

dren’. Bilingualism: Language

and Cognition. (2014)

Dr Anna Saunders School of Modern Languages &

Cultures ‘Memorialising the

“Heldenstadt der DDR”’, in

Kulturkontakte – Cultures in

Contact, ed. by Frauke

Hofmeister and Dietmar

Böhnke (Leipzig: Edition

Hamouda, 2014), pp. 181-93.

Dr Kate Taylor-Jones School of Creative Studies and

Media

Taylor-Jones, K and Yan. Y (eds)

(2014) Special Edition: Cultural

Translation and East Asia: Crea-

tivity, Film, Literature and Reli-

gion. JOMEC. Issue 6, November

2014.

Taylor-Jones,K(2014) ‘Kitano’s

Self-Reflexive Trilogy’ in

Directory of World Cinema:

Japan 3, John Berra (ed),

London: Intellect Press.

Dr Thora Tenbrink School of Linguistics & English

Language

Mast, Vivien, Wolter, Diedrich,

Klippel, Alexander, Wallgrün,

Jan Oliver, and Tenbrink, Thora.

2014. Boundaries and Prototy-

pes in Categorizing Direction. In

Christian Freksa, Bernhard Ne-

bel, Mary Hegarty, and Thomas

Barkowsky (Eds.), Spatial Cogniti-

on 2014, Bremen, Germany, 15-

19 September 2014, pp. 92–107.

Schole, Gesa, Thora Tenbrink,

Kenny Coventry, and Elena

Andonova. 2014. Tailoring Ob-

ject Orientation Descriptions to

the Dialogue Context. Proceed-ings of SemDial 2014 - The 18th

Workshop on the Semantics and

Pragmatics of Dialogue (DialWatt),

Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2014.

Tenbrink, Thora, Christoph

Hölscher, Dido Tsigaridi, and

Ruth Conroy Dalton. 2014.

Cognition and Communication

in Architectural Design. In Da-

niel R. Montello, Karl E. Gross-

ner, & Donald G. Janelle (Eds.),

Space in mind: Concepts for spa-

tial learning and education.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp.

263-280.

Professor Astrid Ensslin School of Creative Studies and

Media

Krummes, C. & A. Ensslin.

‘What’s hard in German?

WHiG: a British learner

corpus of German’, Corpora,

9.2 (2014), 191-205.

Ensslin, A. ‘'"Womping" the

metazone of Festival Dada:

Jason Nelson's Evidence of

Everything Exploding', in Marcel

Cornis-Pope (ed.) Literature

and Multimedia in late 20th and

21st Century Europe.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins,

221-231.

Professor Nancy

Edwards School of History & Welsh

History

Edwards, N. and Vousdon, N.,

‘A rediscovered piece of early

medieval sculpture from Silian,

Ceredigion’, Archaeology in

Wales, 53 (2014), 125–30.

Edwards, N., Robinson, G. and

Williams, H., ‘Llantysilio, The

Pillar of Eliseg’, Archaeology in

Wales, 53 (2014), 186–9.

Edwards, N., Review of Wales

and the Britons 350–1064,

Thomas Charles-Edwards,

Welsh History Review 27.2

(2014), 368–70.

Edwards, N., Review of Early

Medieval Art and Archaeology in

the Northern World. Studies in

Honour of James Graham-

Campbell, Andrew Reynolds

and Leslie Webster (eds),

Medieval Archaeology, 58

(2014), 397–8.

Dr Helena Miguélez-

Carballeira School of Modern Languages &

Cultures

Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena

(2014) A Companion to Galician

Culture, (Woodbridge:

Tamesis).

Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena

(2014) Galiza, um povo senti-

mental? Género, política e cultu-

ra, (Santiago de Compostela:

Através Editora).

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