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Inside this issue: CAH’s SUCCESS IN THE REF 2014 News 1 - 2

Project News & 3 - 4 Grant Capture

Invited Talks 5 In the 2014 UK Government's ranked in the UK’s top 30%; for institutions for impact. This REF research ranking Exercise English Language and Literature confirms that research based in Conferences 6 - 7 CAH has scored an average GPA (School of English) in the top the College is of extremely Organized of 3.04 across the four units of 40%; for History (School of high quality and that our assessment – higher than the History, Welsh History and Schools provide a suitable Conference 7 University’s average and above the Archaeology) in the top 50%; and research environment for Papers benchmark for ‘international for Music, Drama, Dance and internationally excellent and External Offices & 8 excellence’. All CAH impact has Performing Art (Schools of world leading traditional, Appointments been rated higher than 3*, and Creative Studies and Media, and interdisciplinary and creative some units have performed Music) in the top 30%. The research. Bangor as a whole has Impact-Generating 9 better than Oxford, Cambridge College did particularly well on performed extremely well in Activities and various Russell Group impact, with two submissions the REF. It is now ranked institutions. Our submission for receiving 100% 3* and 4* ratings. amongst the top 35% of all Cross-Disciplinary 10 Modern Languages and Linguistics Indeed, Bangor’s submission for research institutions in the UK. Activities (Schools of Cymraeg, Linguistics Modern Languages and Linguistics and Modern Languages) was was ranked 2nd out of 57 Forthcoming 11 Publications &

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Contributors’ 13 LEVERHULME MAJOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARD Schools Professor Nancy Edwards has been economy, society and beliefs, and University and the Cambrian awarded a prestigious three year how these changed over time. Archaeological Association. She is Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship Professor Nancy Edwards’ also currently writing up Project to write a book on Life in Early research, much of which is Eliseg, an excavation project to Medieval Wales. This is a prestigious multi-disciplinary, focuses on the examine the archaeological award and the only Leverhulme major archaeology of Britain and Ireland context of the Pillar of Eliseg, a research fellowship awarded to a University in Wales in this round c AD400–1100. She has published ninth-century cross which stands (2014). widely on the archaeology of on a Bronze Age burial cairn near early medieval Wales, particularly Llangollen, Denbighshire. This The period from the collapse of on sculpture and the archaeology project (with Dr Gary Robinson, Roman rule to the coming of the of the church. Bangor University and Professor Normans was formative in the Howard Williams, University of evolution of Wales, its language and Professor Edwards has recently Chester) has been funded by identity. Yet we know less about completed a major research Cadw, the Society of Antiquaries Wales c. AD350–1050 than any other project on the Early Medieval of London, the Universities of part of Britain and Ireland. To enable Inscribed Stones and Stone Wales, Bangor and Chester, the wide-ranging comparison the research Sculpture in Wales. This was in Prehistoric Society and the Cam- will be set within the broader partnership with the Royal brian Archaeological Association. framework of recent developments in Commission on the Ancient and early medieval European archaeology. Historical Monuments of Wales The growing body of archaeological and Amgueddfa Cymru - National evidence for Wales will then be Museum Wales and was funded interrogated alongside the sparse by the British Academy, Arts and written sources in order to analyse Humanities Research Council, how people lived -their settlements, University of Wales, Bangor Page 2 NEWS

CAH CELEBRATORY PRE-CHRISTMAS BOOK LAUNCH

The College's first joint, Narratives 1898-1936: key for CAH's research culture celebratory book launch was held Modernisation, Otherness and Na- and for helping to develop a sense on 17th December in the Library's tion; a collaborative publication of collegiality, mutual support and historic Shankland Reading Room, for the Galician poetry maga- recognition that goes beyond a venue that proved to be an ideal zine Dorna, by Dr David Miranda- School boundaries and allows setting to celebrate monographs, Barreiro, Ms Lorena López staff to discover new links and edited volumes and other major (SoML) and Mr Phil Davies (YyG), affinities between each other's forms of publications that which includes their translations work." appeared in 2014. The event was of Ifor ap Glyn’s Welsh-language very well attended and featured poems into Galician; Dr Helena books and other publications by Miguélez-Carballeira's staff from the Schools of Creative (SoML) Companion to Galician Studies and Media, English, Culture (Tamesis), Prof Astrid Modern Languages and Music: in Ensslin's (SCSM) MIT Press chronological order, the following monograph, Literary Gaming; and outputs were launched: Dr Laura Dr Jochen Eistentraut's new Rorato's (SoML) Legenda Brazilian album, Ritmeloxá, monograph, Caravaggio in Film and produced with Ubiraci Santos. Literature; Prof Helen Wilcox's PVC Research, Prof David (SoE) monograph, 1611: Authority, Shepherd, who attended the Gender and the Word in Early event, emphasised the importance Modern England (Wiley-Blackwell); of these publications and of Arts CONTRACT Dr Maureen McCue's (SoE) and Humanities research at WITH monograph, British Romanticism Bangor University more generally. and the Reception of Italian Old CAH's Director of Research, Prof OXFORD Master Art, 1793- 1840 (Ashgate); Astrid Ensslin, who organised the UNIVERSITY Dr David Miranda-Barreiro's event in collaboration with CAH PRESS (SoML) Legenda mono- Central Administration and ULB, graph, Spanish New York commented: "Events like this are Professor Huw Pryce - HWHA landed a contract with Oxford University Press for Writing Welsh History: Medieval GWYMON IN BRITTANY, FRANCE & LLAWN FESTIVAL, Legacies and Modern LLANDUDNO Narratives (c.140,000 words) Lecturer Kate Lawrence was a Two articles have been Performances of Gwymon in guest artist at Les Rencontres written about the work of Brittany, France (July 2014) and de Danse Aerienne (July 2014) Kate Lawrence in Korean ROUTLEDGE Llawn Festival in Llandudno and European Aerial Dance Dance Magazines (August/ MONO- (Venue Cymru, September Festival (August 2014) September 2014). She has 2014). GRAPHS also been a Feature

BOOK Press coverage of conference performer in the National http:// CONTRACT paper at Royal Geographical Theatre of Wales production www.verticaldancekatelawrence. Society on BBC Radio Wales ‘The Gathering’ (September com/portfolio/gwymon/ Dr. Vian Bakir has (interview on Breakfast Show) 2014) and had extensive

landed a book and articles in Western Mail, national press and media

contract with Wales online and BMC online. coverage including 4* rating

Routledge See BBC Wales Online article in the Guardian. monographs, and British Mountaineerring Cyberculture Council article and Wales series. online article Co-authored (with Dr. A. McStay, SCSM), an 80,000 word monograph on Wearable Media: A Critical Exploration of Social Implications.

PROJECT NEWS & GRANT CAPTURE Page 3 PUBLICATIONS Page 3

DATA - PSST!

Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies and Media Sociology, Criminology, Law, Politics, index.php.en International Relations, Intelligence, Thanks go to our undergraduate (Acting Director of the Network for Business, History, Computer Science students from Media, Journalism and Media & Persuasive Communication) and Philosophy, and on end users from Law who seamlessly kept us supplied (MPC) - report - SCSM media, journalism, law, governing with refreshments throughout the

bodies, regulators, NGOs, business, day in return for plentiful ideas for ESRC Seminar Series 2014-16. security and art. Seminars are to be their dissertations. 4 PhD students DATA-PSST! - Debating Alternative hosted in Bangor, Aberystwyth, from Bangor (Computer Science), Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Sheffield and London, and will be free Aberystwyth (international Security, Surveillance, Trust. to participants. Travel bursaries are Relations), and University of South available for interested parties. Wales (Photography) participated,

and are now writing up the seminar

With the PI Dr Vian Bakir (SCSM), and notes, under the supervision of our The ESRC-funded DATA-PSST! 5 CIs from MPC (Dr Andrew McStay inter-disciplinary seminar series held its seminar leaders, Dr Yvonne (SCSM, Bangor), Dr Martina Feilzer first full-day seminar here at Bangor McDermott (Law) and Dr Martina (Social Sciences, Bangor), Dr Yvonne Feilzer (Social Sciences). These will University on 6th January. Mc Dermott (Law, Bangor), Mr Dyfrig be posted on the project website

Jones (SCSM Bangor), this is a truly within the next few weeks. Our collaborative effort. Our CIs also Called Transparency Today: Exploring the documentary-maker, Dyfrig Jones extend beyond Bangor to comprise Mr Adequacy of Sur/Sous/Veillance Theory (SCSM) is now working out how to Paul Lashmar (Brunel Univ.), Dr Emma and Practice, this seminar saw keynotes translate some of the complex Briant (Sheffield Univ.), Dr Ross Bellaby from Professor Kirstie Ball, The Open themes we discussed into a form of (Sheffield Univ.), Dr Madeline Carr University (world-leading expert in communication that ordinary folk (Aberystwyth Univ.), Dr Claudia organisations and surveillance) and will understand and want to engage Professor Steve Mann, University of Hillebrand (Aberystwyth Univ.), and Dr with.

Clare Birchall (King’s College, Toronto (‘father’ of wearable technology and expert on University of London). This first seminar has started to give ‘sousveillance’, or watching the form to what will be an exciting and watchers). End users attending Our 2-year Seminar Series explores, included PlanetLabs, a San Francisco important new network. It also gives from multi-disciplinary/end user start-up company that sends tiny us great impetus for the next perspectives, how different aspects of satellites into space to take photos of seminar that will be held in Sheffield transparency (whether voluntarily the planet, and digital designer-in- University on Tuesday 24 March entered into, or state/commercially/ residence Ronan Devlin. Academic 2015, 10:00–17:00. The seminar is on peer-imposed) affect questions of attendees came from universities 'Debating the Technical & Ethical privacy, security, surveillance and trust. across the UK. We also attracted staff Limits of Secrecy and Privacy'. Its These areas have been chosen, as from Bangor University (SCSM, Health, seminar leaders are Dr Emma Briant (Journalism) and Dr Ross Bellaby transparency violates privacy; is argued Computer Science, Law, Social as necessary for security; Sciences, Chemistry and Pontio). We (International Relations). See:

Indiscriminately mass surveills; and both had a very lively and insightful debate. http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/ demands and compromises trust. Outcomes and views are posted on events.php.en the project website, and we shall soon To explore these topics, we draw on be compiling policy briefs there: perspectives from Journalism, Media, http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/ Page 4 PROJECT NEWS & GRANT CAPTURE

BLOOMSBURY PRESS ‘A COMPANION TO PROJECT BOOK AWARD GALICIAN CULTURE ‘ ELISEG

Dr Kate Taylor-Jones Dr Helena Miguélez- Prof. Nancy Edwards School of Creative Studies and Carballeira School of History and Welsh Media School of Modern Languages and History Cultures Project Eliseg post-excavation, Dr Kate Tylor has been awarded Cadw, £6k. Nancy Edwards (PI), a book contract with Publication of major edited book: with Dr Gary Robinson (CI) Bloomsbury Press for Divine Miguélez Carballeira, Helena (SHWHA Bangor University) and (2014) A Companion to Galician Work: Japanese Colonial Cinema Professor Howard Williams (CI) Culture, Woodbridge: Tamesis. and its Legacy. (University of Chester). This books offers English-language The first edition of the new East readers a first in-depth Asian Journal of Popular Culture introduction to aspects of (Intellect Press) was launched. Galician culture, language and Kate Taylor-Jones is editor in history, as well as compelling new chief and Dr Yan Ying (SML) is perspectives on Galician cinema, on the advisory board. music, architecture and the city of Santiago de Compostela]. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/ Publication of the Galician- journals/view-issue,id=2778/ Portuguese translation of Miguélez Carballeira’s monograph: Galiza, um povo sentimental? Género, políti- NEW STAFF ca e cultura no imaginário nacional PROFILE galego (Atravès Editora).

Dr. Eirini Sanoudaki - Linguistics and DATA PSST! BEAUMARIS NATIONAL English THEATRE OF WALES Language was PRISON PROJECT appointed LAB AWARD

Dr Vian Bakir Lecturer in Language Mr Geraint Ellis Lecturer Kate Lawrence Acquisition School of Creative Studies and School of Creative Studies & School of Creative Studies and Media Media Media

2014-16. ESRC Seminar Series. Creative Exchange Wales National Theatre of Wales Lab DATA-PSST! - Debating Network have awarded a grant award (approx £2300) for Alternative Transparency of £3,000 to Ffion Haf Jones ‘Moving Rocks’, a research Arrangements - Privacy, Security, and Geraint Ellis of the School project about action and Surveillance, Trust. £30,000. PI. of Creative Studies and Media. interaction with the Dr Vian Bakir. The award was given for a environment, the labour of

2014. College of Arts/ development project in quarrying, repetitive movement partnership between the Humanities Networking Fund and the communal energy university, the television (£420)– to develop created by moving in rhythm company Cwmni Da, and the inter-institutional (Bangor, with others and with the Isle of Anglesey County Sheffield and Leicester) bid to landscape. Using ropes and Council, exploring the use of ESRC Emergency Grants: harnesses, Kate Lawrence will Emergent Information Norms for multi-media materials as an suspend dancers face down on Police and the Public: The privacy attraction for visitors at slabby rock faces of North Beaumaris Prison. and veillance implications of Wales, to explore the actions of wearable technologies. (Value quarrymen who altered the £200,000 – EoI submitted Dec landscape dramatically. 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).

INVITED TALKS Page 5 Page 5 Dr Vian Bakir Prof. Astrid Ensslin Dr. Zoe Skoulding School of Creative Studies and School of Creative Studies and School of English Literature Media Media Dr Zoë Skoulding was invited to Jul 2014. Sousveillance, Media & Keynote lecture at the speak at the University of Agenda-Building. Sheffield International Association of Cambridge on October 11th as University. Arising from her Literary Semantics’ (IALS) part of the Resounding Dylan work on surveillance and annual conference, 3-5 July Thomas symposium. She was 2014, University of Kent. The political communication in the also invited to give a talk about conference theme was ‘Literary digital age, Dr Bakir was one of her own poetry at the five invited speakers on the Semantics: Past - Present – Future?’, and Prof Ensslin’s talk University of Nottingham on theme of Privacy, Surveillance and th focused on ‘Studying the November 14 . Governance in the Digital Society Meanings of Digital Fiction: 4. This day-long event was the Dr Thora Tenbrink Ludostylistics and starting point to develop a multi School of Linguistics & English Psychonarratology’. -institutional, interdisciplinary Literature collaborative research grant Invited research talk in Bangor "Cognitive Discourse Analysis application to ESRC University’s Linguistics Circle for GIScience: What language Emergency Grants. Lecture Series, 10 December use can tell us about spatial 2014, on ‘New Approaches to Dr Eva cognition". Invited talk at the Analyzing Digital Fiction: GIScience colloquium, Bru-Domínguez Ludostylistics, Cognitive Department of Geography, School of Modern Languages & Narratology and Empirical University of Zurich, Switzeland, Cultures Reader Response’. November 11, 2014.

‘El paradigma de la diferència Lecturer Kate "A model of reference frames sexual més enllà del cànon for spatial and temporal lan- patriarcal. Teoria feminista i Lawrence guage". Invited talk at the Sony pràctiques artístiques School of Creative Studies and Computer Science Lab at Paris, contemporànies’, Universitat Media France, November 7, 2014. de Barcelona, Nov 2014 ‘Virtual Founder member of Vertical Invited participation - Active Becomings: Colour, Matter and Dance Forum with artists from discussant at the CDA20+ Sym- Line in the Work of Marcel·lí France (Cie Retouramont), Italy posium organised by the Am- Antúnez’, 6th E. Allison Peers (Il Posto), England (Gravity and sterdam Critical Discourse Symposium, ‘Crossing Borders, Levity), Ireland (Fidget Feet), Community, Amsterdam, 8-9 Crossing Cultures’, University Canada (Aeriosa) and Croatia September 2014. of Liverpool, Oct 2014 (Histeria Nova). Attended and

spoke at first meeting at "A model of reference frames Prof. Nancy Edwards University of Limerick, Ireland. for spatial and temporal lan- School of History and Welsh guage". Invited talk at the work- History shop on ‘Perspectivization in Prof. Huw Pryce Language: Source–Goal Asym- September 2014, ‘Chi-rhos, School of History & Welsh metry in Motion Events, Deixis, Crosses and Pictish Symbols: History Inscribed Stones and Stone and Frames of Reference’ in Sculpture in Early Medieval ‘Dynastic Identity in Twelfth- Berlin on July 25/26, 2014. Wales and Scotland’, and Thirteenth-Century Celto-Slavic Colloquium, invited Wales’ (invited paper) Lecturer Joanna lecture, Bangor University. Conference ‘Imagined Wright Communities: Constructing September 2014, ‘Viking Burial School of Creative Studies and Collective Identities in in Wales’, symposium on Viking Media Medieval Europe’, Marie-Cure Burial, University of Stirling, University, Lublin 15- Chapter Arts Centre, Launch of invited paper. 17.10.2014 Arts Council Wales report on

Sustainability in Arts Practice. Prof. Astrid Ensslin Dr Eirini Sanoudaki School of Creative Studies and School of Linguistics & English Media Language Prof. Astrid Ensslin has been invited to deliver a keynote Dr Eirini Sanoudaki has been lecture at the world’s most invited to deliver a keynote important games studies address at the 12th Generative conference, the 2015 Digital Approaches to Language Games Research Association Acquisition conference (GALA Conference, to be held at 12) at the University of Nantes, Leuphana (Lueneburg, September 10-12 2015, focus- Germany), in May 2015. Her sing on Segments & Interactions talk will address the ‘diversity of in Phonological Acquisition. play’ theme from the angle of

literary gaming. Page 6 CONFERENCES ORGANISED

Political Studies Association annual Media and Politics Group Annual Conference

10-11 Nov 2014 Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies & Media

10-11 Nov 2014 saw the Our Keynote Speakers were best postgraduate paper was Network for Media & inspirational. Prof. Sue Clay- awarded to Mr Khin-Wee Chen Persuasive Communication ton, Professor of Film and (University of Canterbury, New (MPC) hosting the Political Television, Goldsmiths, gave Zealand) for his paper on Studies Association annual an entertaining, insightful and Malaysian Kangkung Politics: Media and Politics Group poignant talk, on Indies and harvesting Internet visual memes Annual Conference themed Interactive: how to build new for rhetorical acts. Two travel on Media, Persuasion and media formats and networks for bursaries (£100 each) were Human Rights at Bangor human rights. This reflected on awarded to delegates for the University. her tribulations over best abstract from a Political postgraduate student: Ruth commissioning, funding and Studies It was attended by 44 formats in producing her indie Garland (LSE) for Beyond the delegates from across documentary Hamedullah: The Narrative of Political Spin: an Association academia internationally Road Home, shot with an empirical analysis of the workings annual Media (Australasia, Europe) and the Afghan teenager, who came to and purposes of UK government and Politics UK as well as from Bangor the UK to seek asylum alone media relations; and Mark Shaw Group Annual University, from diverse as a child, but then was (Durham University) for disciplines (Media, forcibly removed back to Discourses on European Conference Communications, Politics, Kabul. Prof. Jon Silverman, integration and Institutions in the were Sociology, Law, Business, Research Professor Media and UK press: political sponsored by Linguistics), and from all Criminal Justice at University entrepreneurialism at work? BBC career stages. As well as of Bedfordshire, stretched our explorations of human rights We were sponsored by BBC Monitoring and minds concerning the Monitoring and by academic from the perspectives of International Criminal Court, by academic security, privacy, freedom of publishers Peter Lang. publisher and the African Union’s own The conference organising team speech, gender, race, class, Court of Justice and Human labour and religion, we saw were: Dr Vian Bakir (SCSM), Dr Peter Lang Rights, with his talk on The Martina Feilzer (Social papers on propaganda, Justice Conundrum: redressing persuasion and spin across all Sciences), Dyfrig Jones (SCSM), human rights abuses in Africa, Dr. Yvonne McDermott (Law), media forms – from music to reflecting on failures to hold new media, and across a Dr. Andrew McStay (SCSM) and accountable the ‘big men’ Dr Kate Taylor-Jones (SCSM). range of institutional sites while in power. beyond media, such as governments, legislatures and The James Thomas Memorial the judiciary. prizes (£100 cheque) for the

CYFRWNG

Mr. GERAINT ELLIS and Media and the School of School of Creative Studies & Media Welsh, and it was well support- The Cyfrwng conference was held ed by several media sectors. in Bangor in July 2014. Cyfrwng is Echo Chambers, Gender an organisation that promotes School of Creative Studies and Reverberations’, WiSPS collaboration between higher Media guest speaker series education and the media industry A series of varied talks by Annual Conference in Wales and beyond, and their practitioners in the creative

main conference is held biennial- industries was held during the Dr Eva Bru-Domínguez - ly. The theme this year was first semester of 2014-15, Bridging Theory and Practice, School of Modern Languages and including contributions by Ste and there were memorable con- Cultures tributions from a number of Curran, games designer and

speakers, including Joram ten author, Dylan Llewelyn, senior ‘Echo Chambers, Gender Reverberations’, Brink of the University of West- producer at Rondo Media, and WiSPS Annual Conference, University minster, the producer of The Act Osian Williams, a former College Cork (Nov 2014) of Killing, which received an Os- student who founded the oorganised with Dr Helena Buffery car nomination earlier in the multi-media company SSP year. The conference was organ- WiSPS Study Day: Small and Medium Media. ised by Dyfrig Jones, Geraint Ellis Grants, University of Birmingham, and other members of staff from December 2014 the School of Creative Studies CONFERENCES ORGANISED Page 7 Page 7

Seventh Bangor Colloquium on Medieval Wales, Bangor University,

7-9 November 2014

Prof. Huw Pryce School of History & Welsh History

Seventh Bangor Colloquium on Keynote papers were given by;  Prof. Tim Thornton (University of . Medieval Wales, Bangor University, Huddersfield) 7-9 November 2014, organised by  Dr Alex Woolf (St Andrews) The development of early modern Professor Huw Pryce and Dr Euryn ‘Legend and History in Early English historiographies of medieval Wales’ Rhys Roberts (SHWHA), Over 30 Gwynedd’ delegates attended. Funding from CAH, IMEMS, The  Dr Rhian Andrews (Queen’s The Colloquium hosted the J. E. Lloyd University, Belfast) Learned Society of Wales, Lecture (07.11.14) ‘Y Bardd yn Llysgennad: Llywarch SHWHA Dr David Stephenson (Honorary Brydydd y Moch yn Research Fellow, SHWHA, BU) Neheubarth’ (‘The Poet as ‘Empires in Wales: from Gruffudd ap Ambassador: Llywarch Brydydd y Llywelyn to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’ Moch in Deheubarth’)

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Dr Vian Bakir Lecturer Kate Lawrence Dr Rachel Willie School of Creative Studies & Media School of Creative Studies and Media School of English Literature

- Bakir, V. Misdirection as August 2014 Conference paper at ‘"this reading of books is a pernicious Propaganda: We Don’t Torture! Royal Geographical Society Annual thing”: Journeys of the Mind in The Political Studies Association, Media & International Conference: ‘Naming Emperor of the Moon (1687)’. Politics Group Annual Conference - and claiming: marking vertical Prodigious Fish, Vagabonds and Media, Persuasion and Human Rights. landscapes/territory’ Lunatics: Performing Unusual Spaces Bangor University, 10-11 November in Early Modern Drama panel, Society (2014 for Renaissance Studies 6th Biennial Dr Zoe Skoulding Conference, University of School of English Literature Southampton (07/2014) Dr Eva Bru-Domínguez Schoo,l of Modern Languages and Dr Zoë Skoulding gave a practice- 'The past, present and future of Cultures based paper on poetry and sound at Milton studies’, British Milton Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound Seminar, Birmingham (10.2014) ‘Silence, Nature and the Mundane in and Narrative, Paderborn University, Albert Serra’s Honor de Cavalleria September 10th-12th . She presented a (2005)’, XV Annual Anglo-Catalan collaborative paper with Dr Carole

Society, University College Cork, Birkan-Berz on approaches to sound September 2014 in the translation of experimental UK th th poetry into French 17 -18 October ‘Repositories of Memory and Habit: for Orality, Sounds and Sensations in the object in the Artwork of Eulàlia the Translation of Poetry at the Valldosera’, Democray and the Arts in Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. the Contemporary Hispanic World, University of Birmingham, July 2014 EXTERNAL OFFICES AND APPOINTMENTS Page 8

DrDr. Vian BakirBakir - SCSM Dr Helena Miguélez- School of Creative Studies and Media Carballeira · External Examiner for Royal Hol- School of Modern Languages and loway, University of Cultures London.External PhDExaminer viva (Mark for Royal Pope). Holloway, Risk- cosmopolitanism:University of London. How the PhD UK viva Govern- (Mark appointed External Examiner for a mentPope). and Risk news-cosmopolitanism: media structure How the the order PhD thesis in Galician Studies, at ofUK security Government discourse and tonews impede media challenges struc- Queen’s College, University of Ox- onture torture the order and ofabuse security (Nov discourse 2014). to ford. ·impede External challenges Examiner on torturefor and abuse University(Nov 2014). of Plymouth. PHD upgrade External(Diane Derr). Examiner for University of Dr Zoe Skoulding Plymouth.Syncretic Narrative: PHD upgrade Method (Diane for Negotia- Derr). School of English Literature Syncretiction of Power Narrative: and Method for Negotia- tionResistance of Power in Warand Resistanceand in War and appointed External Examiner for the Conflict (Aug 2014). MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield University. She was External Examiner for PhDs at the Dr Eva Bru-Domínguez Universities of Roehampton and SchoolDr. Eva of ModernBru-Domínguez Languages and -Modern Exeter. CulturesLanguages and Cultures

Lec Examination Board Member turer Joanna Wright (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) School of Creative Studies and (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) for PhD thesis: De la bellesa a la convul- Media for PhD thesis: De la bellesa a la convul- sió escènica: Marta Carrasco, Sol Picó i sió escènica: Marta Carrasco, Sol Picó i Angélica Liddell Chair: Dogfen Cymru// Documentary Angélica Liddell Wales

Documentary Wales was founded by a Professor Nancy Nancy Edwards Edwards – group of film professionals and SHWHA academic partners in Wales following School of History and Welsh the successful BFI Documentary Film History Co-option onto the Council and as a Academies in Wales in 2014/15.

CoTrustee-option of ontothe Learned the Council Society and of as a Since that time Dogfen Cymru has TrusteeWales. Also of the elected Learned Learned Society Society of of received funding from the BFI Wales.Wales, AlsoBangor elected University Learned representa- Society Audience Network for a series of oftive. Wales, External Bangor University repre- screenings and Masterclasses in Wales, examiner for and from MEDIADesk Europe for an sentative. research degree, University of Central event focused on European documen- External examiner for research de- Lancashire tary that will take place in summer gree, University of Central Lancashire 2015. The Website is here:

http://www.dogfen.net/ Professor Astrid Astrid Ensslin Ensslin School of Creative Studies and Media Appointed board member of the worldAppointed-leading, board International member of Game the Stud- worldies journal.-leading, international Game Studies journal.

Invited advisor to Innovate UK and Lecturer,RCUK on their Kate Creative Lawrence Content - CreativeIndustries DeliveryStudies Planand forMedia 2015/16

External examiner for MA LecturerChoreography Kate and LawrenceProfessional Practice at Chichester University School of Creative Studies and Media (Sept 2104 – 2018)

1. External examiner for MA National Advisor for Arts Council of Choreography and Professional Wales (November 2014 – 2017) Practice at Chichester University

(Sept 2104 – 2018)

2. National Advisor for Arts Council Dr. Helena Miguélez-Carballeira - of Wales (November 2014 – 2017) IMPACT GENERATING ACTIVITIES Page 9

Dr Vian Bakir Lecturer Kate Lawrence Dr Zoe Skoulding School of Creative Studies and School of Creative Studies and School of English Literature Media Media Sep 2014. Filmed for Lambent Dr Zoë Skoulding organised the TV Productions, 3 seminars on Host of vertical dance Bangor International Poetry risk communication, political workshop led by Lindsey Festival, with a series of public communication, and global events throughout October Butcher of Gravity and Levity news. For Sage online content. featuring poets from eight for 12 international (Australia, different countries translated into Mr Geraint Ellis Greece, Spain and England) and Welsh and English. The event was School of Creative Studies and local participants. funded by the Arts Council of Media Wales in partnership with Arc

Geraint Ellis was chosen as one Photo of Gwymon used in Arts Publications, the Czech Centre and of the academics to take part in Council new strategy document: local businesses. the Creative Provision pilot Inspire… Our Strategy for Creativity and the Arts in Wales programme organised by Lecturer Joanna Wright Creative Skillset Cymru. The School of Creative Studies and Media climax of the project was a one-day conference in Bangor in Screening: Zero Carbon Archive, November 2014 that included Chapter Arts Centre Cinema lectures by himself and Eben Muse, the new Head of the The Screening of Zero Carbon School of Creative Studies and Archive took place at the launch of Arts Council Wales report on Media. sustainability in Creative Practice in

Professor Astrid Ensslin Wales, Culture Shift. Dr Helena Miguélez- School of Creative Studies and Carballeira The report is available to read in Media School of Modern Languages and English Here: http:// Professor Astrid Ensslin Cultures www.emergence-uk.org/wp- co-curated, with Dr Alice Bell content/uploads/CULTURE-SHIFT- Report.pdf and in Welsh (Sheffield Hallam), one of the The Galician-Portuguese translation of my monograph, here: http://www.emergence- UK’s first digital literature Galiza, um povo sentimental? uk.org/wp-content/uploads/ exhibitions. Titled ‘The Future Género, política e cultura (2014) is CULTURE-SHIFT-Report- of Reading? An Exhibition of having a major impact on Welsh.pdf Digital Literature’, was held Galician culture and media. The from 22 October to 14 image below is from its launch November at Sheffield’s Bank at the Galician Arts Fair Culturgal on 6 December 2014: 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 EUROPEAN impressions. CONNECTIONS

Prof Astrid Ensslin hosted a Dr Eirini Sanoudaki second panel discussion with School of Linguistics and the Games Developers North English Language Wales on 11th December, in JP Professor Huw Pryce Dr Eirini Sanoudaki offered Hall. The event, which was School of History and Welsh workshops on Bilingualism as attended by students, academics History part of the Erasmus staff and games industry ‘Expert Comment’ on Owain exchange system at the Faculty representatives, focused on Glyndŵr, BBC History Magazine, of Turkish and Modern Asian questions revolving around September 2014. Studies at the University of ‘Games as Art’. It was led by Interview on Owain Glyndŵr, Athens, July 2014. Sarah Crossman, creator of the BBC Radio Wales, 16.09.14 award-winning Master Reboot ‘The Age of Llywelyn the Great’, game, who delivered a lecture Harlech Historical Society, Har- lech, 09.09.14 on ‘What Makes Master Reboot

Art?’.

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Dr Vian Bakir School of Creative Studies and Media

Nov 2014- Formed a cross- Jul 2014 Formed a Jul 2014 – Formed a propaganda disciplinary research group at cross-disciplinary research research group across Bangor, Bangor University on group (New Media, Journalism, Manchester, Bristol and Bath Sousveillance (with Dr. Andrew Information Science, Sociology, universities, drawing from McStay, SCSM, Dr.Gillian Jein, Criminology, Law) across Politics, International Relations, French, Ronan Devlin, artist-in- Bangor, Sheffield and Leicester Sociology, Media & Journalism. residence Computer Sciences, universities on surveillance & On the topic of organised and Jamie-Like Woodruff privacy. We are working persuasive communication, we (ethical hacker). Submitted towards inter-institutional grant are working towards a £50,000 EoI to The Space (Arts capture from RC-UK (ESRC co-authored journal article and Council, England) to fund a Emergency Grant on Emergent book proposal; on the piece of digital art/mobile app Information Norms for Police and propaganda build-up the 2003 on sousveillance. The group has the Public: The privacy and invasion of Iraq, we are been invited to work up phase 2 veillance implications of wearable developing an AHRC large of the application. technologies. Value £200,000). grant; and on conflict, security propaganda, we are preparing for a conference at Bath University in summer 2015.

Professor Astrid Ensslin Lecturer Joanna Wright School of Creative Studies and School of Creative Studies and Media Media

The interdisciplinary research Documentary Wales Screening team around Prof Astrid Ensslin, and Q&A of Swansea City Football Documentary Jack to a Dr Lyle Skains (both SCSM) and King with producer Mal Pope Dr Sarah Riley (Psychology,

Aberystwyth), held a summer Documentary Wales Screening school on digital fiction and and Q&A of award winning film body image in July/August in Still the Enemy Within with Aberystwyth and submitted a producers Sinead Kirwan and bid on ‘Transforming identity Mark Lacey in partnership with Neuadd Ogwen. through digital fictions: the move from participant to Documentary Wales Screening practitioner’. The project, if of Pretty Village, in partnership funded, will generate a digital with BAFTA Cymru and Chap- fiction to be functionalised as a bibliotherapist tool in young girls’ body image interventions. FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS & EVENTS Page 11

Dr Rachel Willie Dr Vian Bakir School of English Literature School of Creative Studies and Media

Dr Willie currently has two books in Lunch-time "brown bag" Leverhulme production; Seminars in 2015, Trust-funded

Semester 2 one-day workshop The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in England c. 1530-1700, ed. Kevin Decentring Axis cinema – Killeen, Helen Smith and Rachel Wil- In 2015 we will again be offering a Film lie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, line-up of smaller lunchtime "brown bag" making in states allied to August 2015) seminars. These will begin in semester 2 and broach a myriad of topics. They Nazi Germany.

Staging the Revolution: Drama, allow MPC members and colleagues The organisers are Kate Taylor- Reinvention and History, 1647-1672 from the Uni' to get to know each Jones (School of Creative (Manchester: Manchester University, other better, to explore inter Studies and Media), Gábor Press, 2015) disciplinary opportunities with interested colleagues, and to discuss Gergely (University of

topical global and local events involving Manchester) and Gerwyn Owen Gabor Gelleri (European Languages, media and persuasion from a variety of (School of Creative Studies and Aberystwyth); Rhun Emlyn (History, disciplinary perspectives. As well as an Media). The event will take Aberystwyth), Andrew Hiscock opportunity to meet wonderful people, place 2nd-3rd April, 2015 ,in (English Literature, Bangor) and Ra- these will also offer a stimulating place Manchester. chel Willie (English Literature, Ban- to eat a sandwich and drink a coffee. gor) are organising the next IMEMS We're still thinking of topics, so if you The Centre for East Asian conference on ‘Travel and Conflict have anything you'd like to share of Studies has two special speakers in the Medieval and Early Modern media and/or persuasive nature let coming to talk in semester two: World’, to take place in Vian know ([email protected]) Bangor 3-5 September 2015.  Dr Song Lianyi (SOAS) will Keynote speakers are Michal Biran speak at Bangor on the 10th (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Dan- DATA-PSST!’s second full day of February. Dr Song has iel Carey (NUI Galway) and Judith seminar (10-5pm) is at Sheffield been the principal teaching University on 24th Mar 2015. Jesch (Nottingham). Further details, fellow of Chinese at SOAS including the call for papers, are for over ten years. He is available: It is on Debating the Technical & Ethical also the writer of Teaching Limits of Secrecy and Privacy. Led by Yourself Chinese and ex- http:// Information Studies experts to explain tremely popular and influen- travelandconflict.wordpress.com/ what is technically possible regarding https:// secrecy and privacy in the digital age, tial tool in Chinese Langaue teithioagwrthdaro.wordpress.com/ we will then debate what is socially Learning. desirable by bringing in experts in digi- tal and social media, philosophers of  Dr Paul Bowman will also privacy and media and intelligence come to speak to students ethicists and opening up the debate from College of Arts and Humanities. Dr Bowman to end users with different views on will speak on Chinese Ac- the value of secrecy and privacy, or to tion Cinema. Dr Bowman is what these should be applied. Among Reader in Cardiff University the eminent speakers are Prof.Jo and is the Director of the Pierson, Free University of Brussels Race, Representation and (privacy/media/marketing) and Dr.Joss Cultural Politics Research Wright, Oxford Internet Institute Group, Director of Editors: (Computer Science, cryptography, Cardiff University Press, Privacy Enhancing Technologies). End Editor of JOMEC Journal, users include the UK Information Editor: Martial Arts Studies Commissioner's Office (the national and Co-Director of the UK regulator on data), and Birgitta Centre for Interdisciplinary Jónsdóttir (Iceland MP, activist and Film & Visual Culture Chair of International Modern Media Research. Institute). PagePUBLICATIONS 12 Page 12

Professor Astrid Ensslin Dr David Miranda - Dr Kate Taylor-Jones School of Creative Studies and Barreiro School of Creative Studies and Media School of Modern Languages & Media

Krummes, C. & A. Ensslin. Cultures Taylor-Jones, K and Yan. Y (eds) ‘What’s hard in German? (2014) Special Edition: Cultural Miranda-Barreiro, David. Translation and East Asia: Crea- WHiG: a British learner Spanish New York Narratives tivity, Film, Literature and Reli- 1898-1936. Modernization, corpus of German’, Corpora, gion. JOMEC. Issue 6, November 9.2 (2014), 191-205. Otherness and Nation (Oxford: 2014. Legenda, 2014)

Ensslin, A. ‘'"Womping" the Taylor-Jones,K(2014) ‘Kitano’s metazone of Festival Dada: Professor Huw Pryce Self-Reflexive Trilogy’ in Jason Nelson's Evidence of School of History & Welsh Directory of World Cinema: History Japan 3, John Berra (ed), Everything Exploding', in Marcel O’Leary, P. and Pryce, H. London: Intellect Press. Cornis-Pope (ed.) Literature (eds), The Welsh History Re- and Multimedia in late 20th and view, 27.2 (Cardiff: University Dr Thora Tenbrink 21st Century Europe. of Wales Press, 2014) School of Linguistics & English Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Language Pryce, H. and Owen, G., 221-231. Mast, Vivien, Wolter, Diedrich, ‘Medieval Welsh law and the mid-Victorian foreshore’, Jour- Klippel, Alexander, Wallgrün, Professor Nancy nal of Legal History, 35.2 Jan Oliver, and Tenbrink, Thora. Edwards (2014), 172-99 2014. Boundaries and Prototy- pes in Categorizing Direction. In School of History & Welsh History Christian Freksa, Bernhard Ne- Dr Eirini Sanoudaki bel, Mary Hegarty, and Thomas Edwards, N. and Vousdon, N., School of Linguistics & English Barkowsky (Eds.), Spatial Cogniti- ‘A rediscovered piece of early Language on 2014, Bremen, Germany, 15- medieval sculpture from Silian, Sanoudaki, E. & Varlokosta, S. 19 September 2014, pp. 92–107. Ceredigion’, Archaeology in ‘Pronoun comprehension in Wales, 53 (2014), 125–30. individuals with Down syn- Schole, Gesa, Thora Tenbrink, drome: deviance or delay?’, Kenny Coventry, and Elena Edwards, N., Robinson, G. and Journal of Speech, Language and Andonova. 2014. Tailoring Ob- Williams, H., ‘Llantysilio, The Hearing Research, 57 (2014a) ject Orientation Descriptions to Pillar of Eliseg’, Archaeology in 1442-1452 the Dialogue Context. Proceed- Wales, 53 (2014), 186–9. ings of SemDial 2014 - The 18th Sanoudaki, E. & Varlokosta, S. Workshop on the Semantics and ‘Pronoun comprehension in Edwards, N., Review of Wales Pragmatics of Dialogue (DialWatt), individuals with Down syn- and the Britons 350–1064, Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2014. drome: the role of age’, Inter- Thomas Charles-Edwards, national Journal of Language and Welsh History Review 27.2 Tenbrink, Thora, Christoph Communication Disorders, (2014), 368–70. Hölscher, Dido Tsigaridi, and (2014b) Ruth Conroy Dalton. 2014. Edwards, N., Review of Early Sanoudaki, E. & Varlokosta, S. Cognition and Communication Medieval Art and Archaeology in ‘Task effects in the interpreta- in Architectural Design. In Da- the Northern World. Studies in tion of pronouns’, Language niel R. Montello, Karl E. Gross- Honour of James Graham- Acquisition: a Journal of Develop- ner, & Donald G. Janelle (Eds.), Campbell, Andrew Reynolds mental Linguistics, (2014c) Space in mind: Concepts for spa- and Leslie Webster (eds), tial learning and education. Medieval Archaeology, 58 Tamburelli, M., Sanoudaki, E., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. (2014), 397–8. Jones, G., & Sowinska, 263-280. ‘Acceleration in the bilingual Dr Helena Miguélez- acquisition of phonological Carballeira structure: evidence from School of Modern Languages & Polish-English bilingual chil- Cultures dren’. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. (2014) Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena

(2014) A Companion to Galician Dr Anna Saunders Culture, (Woodbridge: School of Modern Languages & Tamesis). Cultures

Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena ‘Memorialising the (2014) Galiza, um povo senti- “Heldenstadt der DDR”’, in mental? Género, política e cultu- Kulturkontakte – Cultures in ra, (Santiago de Compostela: Contact, ed. by Frauke Através Editora). Hofmeister and Dietmar Böhnke (Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 2014), pp. 181-93. KEY TO CONTRIBUTORS’ SCHOOLS

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