To mark her final seminar as Director of the Centre for Media Research, and also the launch of her new book Children, media and culture (Open University Press/McGraw Hill), Professor Máire Messenger Davies will review the research and some of the academic and public controversies on which the book draws. She will also look back over some of the projects on children, media and culture conducted by the CMR with local children - including the international study on what makes children laugh, 'Is that funny anywhere else?' (2005) and 'What do children want from the BBC?' (2008-9). There will be refreshments, courtesy of the publishers, and also some copies of the book available.

Exhibitions and Audiences in the Post- Broadcast Era

Maeve Connolly, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT), will explores the various ways in which television (specifically public service broadcasting) has been conceptualised by artists and curators since the late 1990s, with particular emphasis on the role of exhibitions, public art works and moving image installations as spaces and sites for
the visualisation of television audiences.

Alan Hook, School of Media Film and Journalism University of Ulster, will consider the use of play in virtual spaces as a continuing thread through his practice based research. These investigations into participatory ludic encounters have seen his work exhibited both in virtual galleries in places such as Second Life but also as part of the permanent collection in The Tech Museum in San Jose (CA). Alan will present a number of projects which will look at play, games and virtual environments which investigates the thin and blurry line between Videogames and Metaverses.

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Programme Medicine, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
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Iain MacPhearson, Academic Fellow, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of Ulster, will talk about his work on the documentary, Bothan air a' Phrèiridh (Cabin on the Prairies). It's a journey of discovery on an emigrant's road to the 'Far West' of Canada and back again, portraying family stories and separations both overseas and at home.

Dear Colleagues

You are invited to the following event which forms part of the Celtic Studies Research Institute Seminar Series.

Professor MacEoin will present a seminar entitled: ‘Saint Patrick: Some Riddles Revisited.’

Everyone is welcome to attend.

For further information tel. 028 7032 4142 or email b.madden@ulster.ac.uk

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