BCMCR Theme Launch – Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities
Date & Time:
9th October, 16:00
Location:
Parkside P131 / Online via MS Teams
BCMCR invites you to the research event ‘BCMCR Theme Launch – Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities’.
Date: 9 October 2024 | Time: 16:00PM – 17:30PM UK TIME
Place: Parkside Building, P131 / Online via MS Teams
Tickets Available: Internal Event
Please note: MS Teams room link will be sent out shortly as a calendar invite in a separate email. Please ensure to keep a look out for this email in your inboxes or check “junk” folders in case the email is sent there.
Event Bio:
This internal event will launch the BCMCR Theme for 2024-2026, “Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities”, run by Dr Matt Grimes and Dr Poppy Wilde. The event will begin with a broad overview of the theme from Matt and Poppy, and we will then invite each of the clusters to share a brief 5 minute reflection on what this theme might mean for them. We will then share upcoming plans for the 24-26 period, and open a discussion to what else members of BCMCR would like to see us do with this theme over the next 2 years. Following the event at 5.30pm we invite anyone who would like to head to The Woodman, to celebrate its reopening.
Speaker Bios:
Dr Poppy Wilde is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) at Birmingham City University, UK. She is the author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023) and has published extensively on critical posthumanism and game studies. She is also co-editor of Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Her research explores how posthuman subjectivities are enabled and embodied in a variety of contexts, particularly through gaming, zombie studies, and affective and autoethnographic methodologies. She is Assistant Editor for the Journal of Posthumanism.
Dr Matt Grimes is Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio at Birmingham City University, UK. Matt’s doctorate explored ageing, identity and the ideological significance of anarchism in the life courses of ageing adherents of anarcho-punk. He is currently writing up this research for his forthcoming monograph, Ageing, Identity, Memory and British Anarcho-Punk: ‘Life We Make’ (Palgrave Macmillan). He is also co-editor of Punk, Ageing and Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). He has published on the subjects of anarcho-punk, anarcho-punk ‘zines, punk pedagogy, popular music and spirituality, DIY/Underground music cultures/subcultures, counter-cultural movements, and radio for social change. He is the Punk Scholars Network’s general secretary and associate editor for Punk & Post-Punk journal.