UGRE 2021
UGRE 2021 Conference Programme
Monday 22 February 2021
Session One:
Welcome from Professor Andrew Thorpe, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures
Hugo Knowles, PCI
Parkour - The Nature of Challenge
Roxanna Zoughi, English
Remembering Kevin Carter: The Ethics of Immortalising Human Suffering in Photography
Mia Windsor, Music
Using Genetic Algorithms to Compose Microtonal Music
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Session Two:
Marjolaine Marsile, Media & Communication
Everybody is clever
Will Hazelwood, English
Depoliticising Literary Studies
Eve Macdonald, FAHACS
Friends to family in lockdown
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Laidlaw Scholarship Information Panel:
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Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Session Three: Art & Design in the Time of COVID Panel
Join us as students share how their creative practice has responded to the global pandemic. Chaired by Deborah Gardner, Programme Lead BA Art & Design
Megan Peat, Infected
Alice Chen, Podcast and the future for student community
India Martin, Light and living: the role of illumination in Hyde Park's urban space
Josie Espinosa, Student Street- using photography to depict the relationship between students and their domestic spaces during the pandemic, reflecting on the shift in our human connection with the outdoors
Daisy Church, Everyday life in isolation, explored through paint and print
Lizzie Peers, Design and Objects of Desire in times of COVID
Madeleine Knight, Information Overload
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Session Four:
Maria Dumitrascu, FAHACS
Attention Anaemics: a short film
Cara Bews, Design
Exploring the impact of the Women's Liberation Movement on Fashion During the 1960s
Nathania Ewruje, Design
The Silenced black body: How the experience of Blacks in post-war Britain influenced their fashion and style
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Q Step Summer Research Internship Information Panel
Find out more about this fantastic opportunity to get PAID research work experience. Not only do you get paid for carrying out research, but you also receive a week's intensive quantitative analysis research training. Come along and hear from previous AHC Q Step participants, Oliver Winstanley-Ramos and Isabel Ralphs. We are delighted that this session will be hosted by Andrea Denny, Leeds Q Step Project Manager, all of them will be able answer questions about the scheme and share their top tips for applications, interviews and getting the most out of this brilliant scheme.
Berkofsky Arts Award Information Panel
Join us as we find out about the impact of the Berkofsky Arts Award has had on former recipients, find out about the breadth of work supported and top tips on how to apply and get the most out of the £2000 funding! There are FIVE awarded each year.
Our panel includes:
Ed Cooper, Music 2019
Callum Isaac, Media & Communication 2018
Katherine James, Design 2020
Poppy Jones-Little, FAHACS 2020
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Wednesday 24th February 2021
Session Five:
Ruby Fatimilehin, English
Rude girls: Black women and the Rock Against Racism movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s
Dominick Haider, PCI
The Meaning of Translating the Arts
Isobel Aylmer, Design
The impact of World War Two on British Fashion Consumption
Jennifer McIlwrath Hurst, PRHS
An Icon of 'Irishness'? The Tara Brooch and Constructions of Irish Identity
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Session Six: HIST2505 Showcase
Isabel Edwards, History
Mary Astell: the first feminist?
Selina Rees, History
Secrecy and the STASI
Samantha Welsford, History
Leonard Wragby’s Letters: Looking at Masculinity & Morale in the Trenches of WW1
Victoria Beningfield, History
A Year in the Life: Lady Elizabeth Ingilby
Max Woodroff, History
Captain C A Milward: The Experiences of an Indian Soldier at the Gallipoli Campaign
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Thursday 25th February 2021
Session Seven:
Estelle Uba, English
The Hybrid Self: Self-Conflict & Self Hatred as a Product of Colonialism
Adam Abdalla, LCS
The Challenge of Hebraization: Israel’s Language Policy as Incompatible with Democracy
Harriet Purbrick, History
Lives and Legacies of German POWs at Raikeswood Camp in the First World War
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Session Eight:
Michelle Chirwa, PRHS
"These women, they force us to rape them"
Jake Ferguson, English
Queerness (and the postcolonial potential) of gender in an Old English poem
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Friday 26th February 2021
FOAH2001 Poster Presentation Session:
Featuring presentations about:
The English Education System
19th-century Leeds: Political Cartoons
Changing the Story
Food, Glorious Food: What the Victorians Ate
Registrar Training for the Future: Evaluating Impact
Waking Wakefield
Yorkshire & the Basque Child Refugees
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Session Nine: HIST2505 Showcase
Ella Holmes Cowan, History
The Caribbean Carnival in Leeds
Harry Tolmie-Thomson, FAHACS
Florence Mattison's Visit to Russia, 1929
Areej Shah, History
The Colonial Kitchen: British Perceptions of Indian Cuisine in the Later 19th Century & its Symbolic Significance to British Rule in the Subcontinent
Thomas Carter, History
Captain Cook's first voyage to Australia
Tara Lee, History
What does it mean to be a revolutionary? Alexis de Tocqueville & the 1848 French Revolution
Annabelle Slatter, History
Sir James Roberts, the Saltaire Mills and Anglo-Russian trade on the eve of the First World War
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Session Ten:
Kristina Bratkova, Music
Harmonic Analysis of Music through Rubato and Chordify software
Charlotte Durham, Media & Communication
'Ratatouille: The Musical'?: Confronting the challenges of common conceptualisations of audiences
Hugo Knowles, PCI
Concrete Jungles: Exploring The City Through Parkour
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