Arts Lab

The Co-Directors of the EDI Lab are involved in organising several events at the upcoming Being Human Festival:

Please also see our "Women in African Cinema" podcast links: video versions are linked in the block below right. For more information, see Africa in Motion Festival.

Travel on Film / Films on travel

Fri 27 Sept 2019, Riverside Museum

Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow present aspects of their research related to travel and mobility as represented on screen. Newsreels, clips and short films will play on a loop in the small Victorian cinema in Riverside Museum, covering different perspectives on travel. At 8pm in the café upstairs we will screen the short documentary The Boy on the Bicycle (dir. Stefanie Buonajuti, 28m), in which Ahmed, a 16-year-old Syrian boy, takes us on a bicycle tour through one of the biggest refugee camps in the world, Zaatari in Jordan. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion in which we will address some of the issues represented in the newsreels and short films. We will think about the development of rail and other forms of travel in Britain; the role of travel and exploration in colonialism and the building of the British Empire; women and public transport; disability and mobility; and the politics of travel and migration in the contemporary era, including the plight of asylum seekers and refugees. We will discuss the question: Who gets to travel and who stays at home, and how have these journeys been represented on screen? 

In collaboration with EDI Lab, Explorathon, Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, and the Africa in Motion Film Festival.

Event by the "Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity" theme

When: June 11th 2019, 11am to 1pm

Where: St Andrew's Building room 211 (wheelchair accessible room with hearing induction loop)

Description: Planning meeting for staff and postgraduate students, with the aim of establishing an Arts Lab-supported "Lab". The discussion will address these topics: 1. what we mean by EDI and intersectionality; 2. the Lab's structure and objectives; and 3. people's potential contributions from across the College. 

Event by the "Decolonising the Curriculum" Theme

When: Tuesday 26 March, 10:00-17:00

Where: Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls

Description: This one-day symposium and workshop will draw on recent debates focused on decolonising the academy, such as #WhyIsMyCurriculumWhite and #RhodesMustFall, to offer a platform for proactively critiquing Eurocentric teaching and research methodologies within the arts and humanities and establishing strategies for decolonised teaching and research.

Event: Sex, Gender and Power in a Post-Weinstein World

Where: Andrew Stewart Cinema

When: January 24 2018, 17:30-19:00

Discussing the 'sex' of sexual violence and media coverage of #MeToo in the wake of Weinstein, feminist scholars and activists ask 'are we listening now?' With Professor Karen Boyle (University of Strathclyde), Dr Vikki Turbine (University of Glasgow), Alys Mumford (Engender) and Lydia House (Zero Tolerance). Introduced and Chaired by Dr Lisa Kelly (University of Glasgow). 

In collaboration with Screen Seminars at Glasgow. 

Event: Diversity and Inclusion in Scotland's Cultural Industries

When: December 7 2017, 10:00-16:00 

Where: Room 408, Gimorehill Halls 

This one day workshop for academics, policymakers and cultural practitioners takes the form of two roundtables focusing on 'Curation and the Archive' and 'Performance and Production' to discuss key challenges relating to the above theme. How do the Scottish cultural industries seek to emphasise/limit issues of diversity and inclusivity? Can we identify examples of best practice and shared challenges? What impact do these have on the overall cultural environment in Scotland? 

In collaboration with Arts Lab and Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. 

Event: Diversity on Screen

Where: Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls

When: September 29 2017, 19:00-21:30 

In cult film Get Out (Jordan Peel 2017), African-American photographer Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) heads for a weekend in the country with his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) to meet her parents for the first time. What follows is a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries that reveal the horror of casual racism in liberal society. This screening is accompanied by a panel discussion with Melanie Hoyes, UK Filmography Researcher at the British Film Institute, and researchers in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.

In collaboration with Explorathon and Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow