Wednesday 5th July 2023
Speakers
Jacob Browne
Jacob Browne is a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, whose research examines the visual presentation of sound in silent cinema, or ‘phantacusis,’ especially in relation to the depiction of auditory hallucinations. He has previously completed an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Cambridge and a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Oxford. His current work is funded by the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities.
Jasmine Croll
I am a Graduate Researcher at La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. My prior study includes a Master of Arts (Distinction) in Global Film in Television Studies at Hertfordshire University, UK. My MA thesis focused on: Stories that Linger: Love and Resonance in the films of Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years and Lean on Pete). I gained my Bachelor of Arts and Graduate Diploma of Education at Monash University, Australia.
Angela English
Angela English was awarded her PhD from Birmingham City University in July 2020 for a project entitled 'On the periphery: archive film, public history and memory in places and spaces on the borders of London'. Her PhD was funded by the Midlands 3 Cities Consortium and the AHRC. Her research focused on how film archives play a role in public history practice and audience engagement.
She has had a long career working in arts and education and the film archive sector. From 2000-2003 she was Head of the Education Projects Development Unit at the British Film Institute. From 2006-2015 she was the Research and Development Officer for the London Screen Study Collection at Birkbeck College, University of London where she was also an Associate Lecturer in film and media.
Júlia Durand
Júlia Durand is a musicology researcher at the NOVA University of Lisbon. She is a member of the Center of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM) and takes part in the activities of its Group for Studies in Sociology of Music (SociMus) and Music and Cyberculture (CysMus). In addition to several papers on music and audiovisuals presented at international conferences such as Music and the Moving Image, her research has been published in edited volumes and in the journals Music, Sound and the Moving Image and Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia. Her PhD focused on the production and use of library music in online videos.
Toby Huelin
Toby Huelin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities Research Institute at the University of Leeds. His PhD research (also University of Leeds) examined the use of library music in contemporary British television production and was fully funded by the AHRC via the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRocAH). Toby is the author of journal articles for Music and the Moving Image, Critical Studies in Television, and the European Journal of American Culture, and has contributed chapters to several edited volumes (Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury). Also a media composer, Toby's music features in the Emmy Award-winning series United Shades of America (CNN), the Grierson award-nominated documentary Subnormal: A British Scandal (BBC One) and an international advertising campaign for internet brand Honey.
Carolin Geyer
Carolin Geyer is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and works as a scientific assistant at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). Her research focuses mainly on qualitative approaches to media and technology such as practices of engaging and producing audiovisual media artefacts. Therefore, she uses theory and methods of interdisciplinary music video analysis in combination with qualitative interviews. In further research projects at the HSLU she investigates the musical fit of audio-visual content within TikTok and explores the projected and perceived destination image of the lake lucerne region on Instagram.
Inka-Maria Nyman
MA Inka-Maria Nyman is a doctoral researcher in musicology and university teacher in arts management at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. Before her PhD studies, she worked as PR and marketing manager for Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and as PR and sales manager for Turku Music Festival. In her PhD thesis, Nyman focuses on the cultural meaning of opera in contemporary society, combining theories from musicology, sociology, and digitalization studies. Her most recent article “Democratizing Opera. Accessibility to opera in the digital age among Swedish-speaking Finns” (2022) can be freely accessed online in the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Keynote Speaker: Nick Reyland
Peter Adams
Peter Adams is a PhD candidate at Cambridge University, jointly supervised in the Music Faculty and the Centre for Film and Screen. His research interests are situated at the intersection of musicology, sound studies, and screen studies. His thesis focuses on the selective omission of diegetic sound in contemporary cinema, television, and video games, and the development of an audiovisual aesthetic known as “neo-silence”. Alongside his PhD research, Peter supervises undergraduate students for several colleges across the university, particularly focusing on visual culture, popular music, and ethnomusicology. Before studying at Cambridge, Peter completed a Masters in Musicology at Oxford University, where his research also centred on music and the moving image.
James McGlynn
James Denis Mc Glynn is a scholar of music in screen media and an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Music, University College Cork. His doctoral thesis, completed in 2020, explores the rearrangement of pre-existing music in recent film and television scores. His writing has been published in Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Media, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, Music and the Moving Image, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, and the anthology After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen. He is currently completing invited contributions for several publications, including The Oxford Handbook of Music And Television.
Sophia Wetzel
Sophia Wetzel is currently a master’s student in Music Theory at Washington University in Saint Louis. She previously received her bachelor’s degree in music theory and composition, with an emphasis in theory, from Arizona State University. Her master’s thesis, titled “Musical Mind Games: Genre as Mental Illness in the Psychonauts Series,” examines the relationship between depictions of mental illness and trauma and the use of musical genres and styles in the Psychonauts games. Sophia’s research interests include ludomusicology, disability studies, music as a narrative device, timbre, and contemporary uses of topic theory.