The University of Sheffield
School of Languages and Cultures

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Centre for Visual Studies

The Centre for Visual Studies, founded in 2012, promotes research in Visual Studies at the University of Sheffield.

This interdisciplinary research centre supports and encourages a variety of different approaches to Visual Studies. It brings together internationally recognized researchers from departments, faculties and disciplines across the university: those who are concerned with the analysis and history of visual and material artefacts and practices; those who seek to understand the nature of the visual, visual representation and perception; and those who use visual sources and visual methodologies.

Drawing together and building this rich scope of research activity, the Centre fosters both individual and collaborative work in the area of Visual Studies. It promotes a range of types of events, both academic and for wider audiences. The Centre seeks to enable collaboration and exchange across the University, with the city and region, and with the wider academic community, developing new and exciting ways to conceptualise and present research in Visual Studies.'

Program of Events
Date and time CVS Research Seminars, Spring Semester, 2013

Weds 23rd Jan 16:00-17:00

Brian Whalley (Geography), ‘Landscape: geology, painting and metadata’
Thurs 7th Mar 12:15-13:15

Florian Kossak (Architecture), ‘Experimental Exhibition Praxis in Architecture’
Mon 15th April 12.15-13.15

Matthew Cartmell (Mechanical Engineering), 'Visualisation of mathematical processes within analytical modelling techniques'

Weds 10th Apr 16:00-17:00   

Amanda Crawley Jackson (French), ‘Unmapping the urban: contemporary art from France and insurgent public space’

Mon 22nd Apr 12:15-13:15    

Lorna Warren (Sociology), ‘Look at Me: Images of Women and Ageing’

Thurs 9th May 16:00-17:00   

Prue Chiles (Architecture), ‘Inhabiting Space - homemaking and the visual’

Tues 14th May 16:00-17:00   

Dylan Yamada Rice (Education), ‘An Enquiry into Young Children's Interaction with and Comprehension of the Visual Mode in Japan’

Tues 21st May 12:15-13:15   

Matt Cheeseman (English), ‘Observations on working with cancer survivors, doctors, artists and academics to understand graphic medicine.’

Seminars take place in the Humanities Research Institute. All titles are provisional. Questions should be addressed to the convener, Tim Shephard (Music) and Marta Herrero (Management). All welcome!

For further information or to join the Centre please contact its Director: Susan E. Reid, School of Languages and Cultures, s.e.reid@shef.ac.uk or a member of the steering group: