RESEARCH BULLETIN

College of Arts and Humanities

NEWS

Inside this issue:

News 1 - 2

Grant Capture 2

Invited Talks 3 - 4

Conferences

Organized

5

Conference

Papers

6

External Offices &

Appointments

7

Impact-Generating

Activities

8 - 10

Cross-Disciplinary

Activities 10 - 11

Publications &

Forthcoming

Publications

12 - 13

Contributors’

Schools

14

Dr Jonathan Ervine,

promoted to

Senior Lecturer

April 2015

Dr Jonathan Ervine gave an interview about attacks on

Charlie Hebdo offices in

Paris, Good Evening Wales,

Radio Cymru, 7th January

2015.

ISSUE 8

Prof Nathan Abrams – School of Creative Studies and Media Prof Nathan Abrams submitted his edited collection, Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture to Northwestern UP.

He was invited to participate in the

Institute for the Study of Global

Antisemitism and Policy Summer

Institute on Curriculum

Development for Critical

Antisemitism Studies, which took

place at Hertford College, Oxford

from July 26 to August 7, 2015.

He was also invited to review for Northwestern UP, as well as the journal Adaptations.

Prof Vyv Evans - School of Linguistics & English Language Trade paperback book, published October 2014, ‘The Language Myth’, has become the best-selling linguistics book published by Cambridge University Press. It will be published as a Turkish language edition in 2015. Since publication, Vyv has given multiple interviews in the broadcast media on topics covered in the book including radio broadcasts on Australian, Irish and American radio networks. The book has also been covered widely in the popular press, including this recent piece in The Conversation: http://theconversation.com/how-a-phd-in-linguistics-prepared-me-for-motherhood-39499 The book will also be featured in a special multi-review issue of ‘Language’ the flagship journal of

the field of linguistics. This is the first such multiple-review event in the journal’s history.

Book blurb “Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language is related to other animal forms of communication; that languages exhibit staggering diversity; that we learn our mother tongue drawing on general properties and abilities of the human mind, rather than an inborn ‘universal’ grammar; that language is not autonomous but is closely related to other aspects of our mental lives; and that, ultimately, language and the mind reflect and draw upon the way we interact with others in the world.”

Vyv Evans appeared at the 2015 month-long Edinburgh International Science Festival, in April, in discussion with Linguistic anthropologist Thom Scott-Phillips, language processing expert Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha and primatologist Klaus Zuberbuehler - the event, ‘Speaking our minds’ was a sell-out: http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/speaking-our-minds

New Book under contract with Cambridge University Press, to be published December 2015: ‘The Crucible of Language’. In The Crucible of Language Vyvyan Evans explains what we know, and what we do, when we communicate using language; he shows how linguistic meaning arises, where it comes from, and the way language enables us to

convey the meanings that can move us to tears, bore us to death, or make us dizzy with delight. Meaning is, he argues, one of the final frontiers in the mapping of the human mind. Written for general readers and to be published as a trade paperback.

Second edition of best-selling

textbook, ‘Cognitive Linguistics: An

Introduction’ has gone under contract,

to be published March 2016.

Vyv’s expertise on language has been called upon regarding the new visual language of emojis, in digital communication. He published an article on emojis in The Guardian newspaper in February: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/02/can-emojis-really-be-used-to-make-terror-threats

Vyv Evans is also the face and

academic lead for a national

educational campaign by the

telecommunications company TalkTalk

on how to use emojis online. The

campaign features a video guide with

Vyv, and radio, and print interviews.

NEWS / GRANT CAPTURE Page 2

Dr Vian Bakir – School of Creative Studies and Media April 2015. £25,000 Arts Council Wales. Veillance. Investigators: Ronan Devlin (Pontio designer in residence, Vian Bakir (SCSM), Andrew McStay (SCSM), Gillian Jein, (Modern Languages), Jamie-Luke Woodruff (Computer Science) April 2015. £500 ESRC Global

Uncertainties Leadership award

recipient. To attend 3-day work-

shop at University of Bath to

progress collaborative grant bid

on propaganda and 2003 Iraq

War, co-authored journal paper,

and to co-organise ESRC -

sponsored conference

Understanding Conflict.

Dr Andrew McStay - School of Creative Stud-ies and Media AHRC, £166,718, Empathic media: theory-building and knowledge-exchange with industry, regulators and NGOs, The project will investigate the social, political, legal and industrial consequences of media and technology companies that collect electronic data about our emotions. They do this to: understand mediated responses to brands/political messages; to target advertising; to create biometrically engaging games; to understand audience behaviour (neuroscience and facial recognition in labs for example); in the home via smart-televisions; and through not just what we say, but how we say it (through smartphone voice analysis). How comfortable are we with having emotions “mined”, even if they are not personally identifiable? The Fellowship win was the profiled “In Detail” grant for Times Higher Education (16/04/15). On the basis of my work in digital advertising and privacy I am mentoring a project led by Ronan Devlin (artist in residence for Pontio), Gillian Jein (Modern Languages), Vian Bakir (SCSM) and Jamie Woodruff (ethical

Dr Helena Miguelez-

Carballeira – School of

Modern Languages and

Cultures

Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to carry out a research project entitled: “Towards a Postcolonial Spain: History, Political Cultures and Materialities”. The award is worth almost £90,000 and will enable Dr Miguélez-Carballeira to embark on a project that will make a case for studying contemporary Spanish culture and politics from a postcolonial perspective.

Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira’s

success has come in the face of

very strong competition: 323

applications were submitted and

the British Academy has been

able to make just 35 offers of

award, giving a success rate of

under 11% overall.

Dr Thora Tenbrink - School of Linguistics and English Language

Thora Tenbrink (as Chair),

Christopher Shank, and Alan

Wallington are organising the 6th

UK-Cognitive Linguistics

Conference, to be held at Bangor

University from 19 - 22 July 2016.

This well-established bi-annual

conference generally attracts

several hundreds of researchers

and postgraduate students

from the UK and overseas. Six

world-leading keynote speakers

from the USA, Belgium, the

Netherlands, and the UK have

been secured for this conference;

For further information -

http://ukclc2016.bangor.ac.uk

Contact ukclc2016@bangor.ac.uk

for any queries.

hacker, Computer Science) to develop software that makes artwork out of the data that people unknowingly share from their mobile phones. We have won £25,000 from Arts Council Wales.

Dr Sue Niebrzydowski – School of English Literature Co-investigator on Leverhulme

Trust Networks Grant, ‘Women’s

Literary Culture and the Medieval

Canon’ (PI Professor Diane Watt,

University of Surrey), April 2015.

Dr Kate Olson - School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology The David Walker Memorial Fellowship in Early Modern History (for the study of English Renaissance books), Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, Oxford University (2 months).

Prof Huw Pryce - School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology £2,430: History Research Wales, in

order to develop an application for

a large grant for a project on

‘Rediscovery and Revival:

Medievalism in Wales, c.1750–

1900’.

Dr Rachel Willie – School of English Literature £905 from Modern Humanities

Research Association and £250

from the Society for Renaissance

Studies towards keynote speakers’

expenses and student bursaries for

attending the IMEMS conference

on Travel and Conflict in the

Medieval and Early Modern World

in September 2015, co-organised

with Andrew Hiscock (Bangor) and

Gabor Gelleri and Rhun Emlyn

(Aberystwyth).

Dr Maureen

McCue – School

of English

Literature

Maureen McCue’s

monograph British

Romanticism and the

Reception of Italian

Old Master Art, 1793-

1840 (Ashgate, 2014)

has recently been

shortlisted for the

2015 British

Association of

Romantic Studies First

Book Prize.

http://

www.bars.ac.uk/

blog/?p=681

INVITED TALKS

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Dr Andrew McStay - School of Creative Studies and Media

VIP invitation: Wearables Europe business seminar, London

Marriott.

By invitation: Google/Internet

Advertising Bureau seminar on social media, Google HQ

London.

By invitation: DATAPSST! Lessons so far, Digital Citizenship and

Surveillance Society, Cardiff University (Vian Bakir

co-presenter).

By invitation: Internet Advertising Bureau seminar on future of

data, IAB HQ London.

By invitation: What of Consent in an Age of Empathic Media,

Meaningful Consent workshop, University of Southampton.

By invitation: Towards an Understanding of Emotional

Analytics, Marketing Communications Society, University of

Greenwich, London.

By invitation: Exploring the Pharmacology of Empathic Media,

Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination, University of

Westminster, London.

Dr Helena Miguelez-Carballeira – School of Modern Languages and Cultures Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira was invited to speak at the event “Peninsular Nationalisms” organised by the British Library on 16 March 2015. Tickets for the event were sold out. Details here: http://www.bl.uk/events/peninsular-nationalisms-contrasted. Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira was invited by the International Association of Galician Studies to deliver a talk on the state of the field of Galician Studies in the UK, at the Association's 11th triannual Conference (held in April 2015 in Buenos Aires). Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira was one of the invited keynote

speakers at the 11th Conference of the International

Association of Galician Studies, held in Buenos Aires between

6-8 April 2015. Dr Miguélez-Carballeiras’ talk was part of the

discussion event “New Horizons for Galician Studies in a

Globalised World”, where three internationally renowned

scholars in the field of Galician Studies discussed the discipline

and its future development. Research carried out at the

Centre for Galician Studies in Wales (based at Bangor’s School

of Modern Languages and Cultures) was also represented by

the PhD student Ms Lorena Lopez, who was awarded a

Postgraduate Conference Travel Bursary by the International

Association of Galician Studies and presented her own

research on contemporary Galician writers.

Prof Nathan Abrams – School of Creative Studies and Media Professor Nathan Abrams delivered the annual Joan Goodman Memorial Lecture at Norwich Synagogue, entitled, ‘Hidden in Plain View: Jews and Jewishness in British Film and Television’ (15 January 2015). He was invited to speak at a workshop on the Bible and Film at the University of Exeter entitled, ‘Exodus and the 21st Century Bible Film’ (26-27 March 2015)

Dr Vian Bakir – School of Creative Studies and Media Bakir, V. & McStay, A. June 2015. DATA-PSST! Evaluating perspectives on surveillance in the post-Snowden leak era. Surveillance & Citizenship. Univ. of Cardiff. 18-19 June.

Bakir, V. 2015. Deceptive Organised Persuasive Communication: Misdirection and Secretly Altering Reality to Fit the Lie you want to Tell. The Politics and Practices of Secrecy. Kings College London. 14-15 May.

Bakir, V. March 2015. Too much secrecy and lies … again.

DATA-PSST! Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of

Secrecy and Privacy. University of Sheffield. 24 March.

Prof Nancy Edwards – School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology February 2015, ‘Early medieval Sculpture in Wales’ St Asaph Archaeology Group.

Prof Astrid Ensslin – School of Creative Studies and Media Videogames as Unnatural Narratives at DiGRA 2015. Prof Astrid Ensslin delivered a keynote at DiGRA 2015,

which is the world’s most important games studies

conference and is held annually under the aegis of the

global Digital Games Research Association. The event was

held at Leuphana University (Lueneburg, Germany) from

14th to 17th May 2015. Ensslin spoke about ‘Videogames

as Unnatural Narratives’, and a prime time radio

interview with her on literary gaming was broadcast on

the occasion by Berlin-based Deutschlandradio Kultur

(half a million listeners per day).

Prof Astrid Ensslin has been invited to deliver a keynote

at the forthcoming LEXESP ‘Videogames and Language’

conference at the University of Alicante, Spain, to be held

in November this year.

Dr Christian Leitmeir – School of Music ‘Mapping the post-Tridentine motet (c.1560-c.1610): Text, style and performance’, University of Nottingham, 17-19 April 2015. Beyond the confessionalisation pardigm: The motet as

denominationalpractice in the late 16th century

(keynote address).

The Council of Trent and the motet (roundtable, led with Professor Noel O’Regan)

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Dr Sue Niebrzydowski – School of English Literature Invited speaker, ‘Ye know eek that in forme of speche is change withinne a thousand yeer’: Chaucer, Henryson and the Welsh Troelus a Chresyd’, Contest & Collaboration: Chester Conference on the March of Wales, 11 April, 2015.

Dr Kate Olson - School of History,

Welsh History and

Archaeology Invited Keynote Lecture, 'All Christendom's

Saints: The Cult of Saints, Manuscript Culture,

and Catholicism in the Sixteenth Century,'

international conference on 'The Cult of

Saints in Wales: Sources and Contexts,' for

the AHRC-funded project on the 'Cult of

Saints in Wales' (Centre for Advanced Welsh

and Celtic Studies), Carmarthen, September

2014.

Prof Angharad Price -

School of Welsh

CFP A Century On: Modernist Studies in

Wales The Inaugural Modernist Network

Cymru Conference Research Institute for the

Arts and Humanities, Swansea University,

Monday 7 September

Keynote speaker: Professor Angharad Price .

This interdisciplinary conference brought

together scholars to reflect upon the past,

present and future of both modernism and

modernist studies in Wales. We welcome

proposals on any aspect of modernism, as

defined in the widest sense, but we

particularly welcome proposals relating to

Welsh modernist writers and artists, as well

as modernist art and writing in Wales.

To download the full call for papers in English

and Welsh, please visit:

http://modernistnetworkcymru.org/

Prof Huw Pryce – School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology ‘Gerald of Wales and the Welsh Past’,

Keynote Lecture, Conference ‘New

Perspectives on Gerald of Wales: Texts and

Contexts’, Harvard University, UDA, April

2015.

Prof Raluca Radulescu – School of

English Literature February. 2015 - ‘The Politics of Emotion in Fifteenth-century England: the Case of Malory’s Morte Darthur’, invited seminar paper at the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. June 2015 ‘Henry Lovelich, citizen and skinner, and the production of Arthurian romance in fifteenth-century London’, London Medieval and Tudor seminar, Institute for Historical Research.

Dr Lowri Ann Rees – School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology Invited to present a paper at the Yorkshire

Country House Partnership 6th politics, issues

and research seminar: the Country House and

National Identity. The University of York (6-7

February 2015). Part of panel focusing on

Wales and national identity. Title of paper:

‘Writing the history of landed estates and

country houses in Wales: myths and realities’

Dr Eirini Sanoudaki – School of

Linguistics and English

Language ‘Issues in the interpretation of pronouns: typical and atypical development.’ Developmental Science Seminar Series, UCL, 23 March 2015. ‘Bilingual acquisition: interactions in the domain of phonological structure.’ Linguistic Seminar Series, University of Essex, 5 March 2015.

Dr Thora Tenbrink – School of Linguistics and English Language

Tenbrink, Thora. 2015. Cognitive Discourse Analysis: What language use can reveal about mental representations and concepts. Invited talk, Middlesex University, Hendon (UK), January 13, 2015 (Prof. Simon Attfield).

INVITED TALKS

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Prof Nathan Abrams – School of Creative Studies and Media Prof Nathan Abrams organised a conference entitled ‘The Promised Land: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British-Jewish Culture’, held on 23 July at the Open University Regional Centre, Camden, London, in conjunction with Dr. Peter Lawson (OU) and Dr. Ruth Gilbert (Winchester).

http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/

postcolonial/events/the-promised-land

Dr Vian Bakir - School of Creative Studies and Media

Co-organised and curated the Propaganda & Persuasion strand of a 4 day ESRC-sponsored conference at University of Bath (10-14 June) on Understanding Conflict: Research, ideas and responses to security threats. 100 attendees.

Co-organised seminar 2 of DATA-PSST: Technical and Ethical Limits of Secrecy & Privacy (with Emma and Ross Bellaby, Briant, Univ of Sheffield ). 30 attendees. 24 March 2015.

Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland - School of Modern Languages and Cultures Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland co-organised with Dr Marc Ripley from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leicester, a one-day conference on ‘Comics & Adaptation in the European Context’, which took place on 10 April in Leicester. This conference was attended by around 20 people from the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, France and the USA. It was funded thanks to the generous support of the Society for French Studies, the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, Intellect, and Berghahn. The keynote speaker was Dr Alain Boillat, from the University of Lausanne. Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of peer-reviewed journal European Comic Art.

Dr Jonathan Ervine - School of Modern Languages and Cultures French and Francophone Computer/Video games, French Media Research Group Annual Conference 2015, University of Newcastle, 23rd October 2015. Co-organising with Dr. Hugh Dauncey (Newcastle) and Dr. Chris Tinker (Herriot Watt).

Dr Christian Leitmeir – School of Music Words and Music symposium (Bangor, 2 May 2015), featuring Professor and Dr Harald Sharon Krebs (University of Victoria, Canada) and internal speakers from the Words and Music study group.

Prof Raluca Radulescu – School of English Literature Organiser of the public lecture ‘Arthur: the King Who Never Left Us’, delivered by guest Dr Roger Simpson, as part of the launch of the Flintshire Harries Arthurian Collection, 16 April 2015. Over 75 attended the conference.

Dr Sue Niebrzydowski – School of English Literature

IOrganiser of the International, annual conference of the Gender and Medieval Studies research group, 7-9 January, 2015. Theme, ‘Women, Dirt and Taboo.’ Keynote speaker, Dr Kate Rudy, University of St Andrews, ‘Gender, dirt, religious orders and manuscripts.’ Delegates (25) heard thirteen speakers, in addition to the keynote, from around the UK and abroad. The event was sponsored by Ashgate Publishing.

Dr Lowri Ann Rees - School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE) day school ‘The South Wales Squires’, at the National Botanic Garden of Wales (27 June 2015)

The ISWE day school was attended by 25 members of the public. The keynote address was delivered by Tom Lloyd, author of The Lost Houses of Wales, who spoke of ‘The Importance of the Historic Houses, Estates and Families of Wales’. Papers were given by: • Jeff Childs (Glamorgan History Society), ‘Landownership changes in a Glamorganshire parish 1750-1850: the case of Llangyfelach’ • John Davies (former Archivist, Carmarthenshire Archives) ‘Where was the Cawdor Estate?’ • Lowri Ann Rees (Bangor University), ‘"An upstart nabob"? Sir William Paxton at Middleton Hall, c.1789-1824’ • Sally Anne Shearn (Borthwick Institute for Archives, York) ‘Advice from a Welsh landowner: Sir William Vaughan of Tor y Coed’ • Rob Thomas (National Botanic Garden of Wales), ‘The Regency Restoration project: restoring the Middleton Hall parkland’ Funding from Bangor University Alumni Fund.

CONFERENCES ORGANISED

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Dr Vian Bakir – School of Creative Studies and Media Bakir, V. 2015. The Veillant Panoptic Assemblage: Critically Interrogating Power, Resistance and Intelligence Accountability through a Case Study of the Snowden Leaks. Data Power. University of Sheffield. 22-23 June 2015.

Bakir, V. 2015. Intelligence Agencies, Public Oversight Mechanisms and Accountability Demands: The Torture-Intelligence Policy and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Executive Summary (2014). Understanding Conflict: Research, ideas and responses to security threats. University of Bath 10 – 14 June 2015.

Bakir, V., Herring, E., Miller, D. & Robinson, P. 2015. Rethinking organised Persuasive Communication. Understanding Conflict: Research, ideas and responses to security threats. University of Bath. 10-14 June 2015.

Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland - School of Modern Languages and Cultures ‘Adapting Brittany: Deschamps and Auclair’s Bran Ruz’, Comics & Adaptation in the European Context, University of Leicester, April 2015‘Towards a Definition of Francophone Breton Comic Art: Travelling to Penn-ar-bed in Bruno Le Floc’h’s Trois éclats blancs’, International Bande Dessinée Society, University of London in Paris, June 2015.

Prof Astrid Ensslin – School of Creative Studies and Media Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell, ‘Studying “Readers” of Digital Fiction’, Experimental Narratives: From the Novel to Digital Storytelling conference, Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, 27 Feb 2015.

Dr Andrew McStay - School of Creative Studies and Media Conceiving Empathic Media and Outlining Stakeholder Interests, DATAPOWER conference, University of Sheffield.

CONFERNCE PAPERS

Dr David Miranda-Barreiro – School of Modern Languages and Cultures ‘Glocal Spaces, Translocated Cultures: Bringing Galicia to New York’, Galician Studies Panel (10th Anniversary), AHGBI Annual Conference, Exeter, 14th April, 2015.

Prof Huw Pryce – School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology ‘British Identity in Nineteenth-Century Wales: A Medieval Legacy?’, Conference ‘Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood before Modernity: Old Debates and New Perspectives’, Rhydychen University, April 2015.

Prof Raluca Radulescu – School of English Literature May 2015 ‘Duke Humphrey and John Rylands manuscript French 54: Lancastrian Uses of Space in Propaganda’, 50th Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo.

Dr Rachel Willie – School of English Literature ‘Reading, Writing, Singing Psalms in Early Modern England’ Words and Music Study Day, Bangor University, May 2015 ‘Re/De-polluting the Body Politic: Ballads on the Page and Stage’, Ballads and Shakespeare seminar, Shakespeare Association of America 43rd Annual Conference, Vancouver, April 2015.

‘Old/New World Immunity: Mediating Kingship in The Histo-ry of Sir Francis Drake (1659)’, Immune Space in Early Mod-ern Theater seminar, Renaissance Society of America 61st Annual Conference, Berlin, March 2015.

‘Lunar Travel and Lunacy: Reading the Early Modern Moon’,

School of English Literature Research Seminar, Bangor

University, March 2015.

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Dr Christian Leitmeir – School of Music

January 2015: Elected into the section committee A5 Musicology & History of Art & Architecture of the Academia Europaea. January 2015: appointment as Associate Director of DIAMM (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) (www.diamm.ac.uk)

Dr Andrew McStay - School of Creative Studies and Media

New external examining: Falmouth University, BA Creative Advertising.

Dr Helena Miguelez-Carballeira – School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira was appointed External Examiner for a PhD thesis in Hispanic Studies at Oxford University (The Queen’s College) on 6 February 2015.

Prof Raluca Radulescu – School of English Literature

From this academic year, Dr Radulescu has started a 3-year appointment as External examiner at the National University of Ireland, Galway, for UG programmes in medieval and early modern literature.

Prof Nathan Abrams – School of Creative Studies and Media Prof Nathan Abrams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Dr Vian Bakir – School of Creative Studies and Media

By invitation, joined ESRC Peer review panel (4 year appointment). External examiner – PhD: Roy Revie - Contemporary Conflict and the Online Information Environment: An Examination of American military engagement with Web 2.0. University of Bath - March 2015. By invitation, contributor to HEI overview of the academy (Marketing) workshop. Regents University (May 2015) By invitation, I joined the newly-established Information Rights research network coordinated by The Policy Delivery department at the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The network is privy to consultations, research tenders and general advice-seeking from the ICO, and is also a forum for the exchange of ideas and the posting of relevant content. (June 2015).

Prof Astrid Ensslin – School of Creative Studies and Media

Evaluator for EU’s Horizon2020 Societal Challenge 6 scheme (June-September 2015). External examiner for PhD thesis,

University of Manchester, since May

2015.

Dr Lowri Ann Rees – School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology

Appointed editor of the Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society.

Dr Eirini Sanoudaki – School of Linguistics and English Language

External examiner for MA Linguistics, University of Kent.

Dr ThoraTenbrink – School of Linguistics and English Language

Thora Tenbrink was asked to assess a grant proposal at the Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Science (CABCS) at Tufts University, Medford, MA. Thora Tenbrink was invited to join the

Editorial Board of the journal Frontiers in

Cognitive Science.

EXTERNAL OFFICES & APPOINTMENTS

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Prof Nathan Abrams – School

of Creative Studies and

Media Prof Nathan Abrams continued to

publish a series of non-academic

articles in The Jewish Quarterly (UK)

and Ha’aretz (Israel).

He was elected the treasurer of Y Felin

Sgwrsio, a former café-cum-

community centre in Y Felinheli.

Dr Vian Bakir – School of Creative Studies and Media Vian Bakir & Andrew McStay, Privacy and Intelligence Agencies: Introduction to Citizen Four (Laura Poitras, Dir 2014). Galeri Caernarfon. January 2015. (Pre-screening and post-screening talk)

Co-created 2 Policy Briefs arising from Seminars 1 and 2 (DATA-PSST). Posted on DATA-PSST blog. Vian Bakir -

Strategic political communication': the

Bush administration torture-

intelligence policy and the US Senate

Intelligence Committee report Spinwatch.

Discussant in 2 day industry conference, Wearables Europe with Andrew McStay - London, May 2015.

Participated in F-Secure Cyber-security event with Andrew McStay - London, May 2015.

Prof Astrid Ensslin – School

of Creative Studies and

Media Library workshop at Sheffield City

Library for family engagement with

children’s digital fiction (24 April 2015)

Deutschlandradio Kultur Interview

(12th May 2015)

Dr Jonathan Ervine - School

of Modern Languages and

Cultures Interview about attacks on Charlie

Hebdo offices in Paris, Good Evening Wales, Radio Cymru, 7th January 2015. Articles written for The Conversation ‘French grief reflects respect for a cer-tain kind of athlete’, The Conversation, 10th March 2015. Available online at: https://theconversation.com/french-grief-reflects-respect-for-a-certain-kind-of-athlete-38617 ‘Lack of female players in football video

gam es is an own goal’, The Conversa-

tion, 1st June 2015. Available online at:

https://theconversation.com/lack-of-

female-players-in-football-video-games-

is-an-own-goal-42527

Prof Vyv Evans - School of Linguistics and English Language Discussions on some of Prof Vyv Evans’ work - http://theconversation.com/how-

a-phd-in-linguistics-prepared-me-for-

motherhood-39499

IMPACT GENERATING ACTIVITIES

Lecturer Ffion Jones – School of Creative Studies and Media

Ffion Haf is a lecturer in theatre and performance at the School of Creative Studies and Media and has recently been appointed associate director of theatre company Fran Wen and has been developing the artistic programme for the company whilst Artistic Director, Iola Ynyr, has been away on maternity leave during 2015.

(production ‘dim diolch’) Ffion is currently working with international renowned theatre artist Andy Manley, on a new visual performance for young children in creative partnership with Pontio that will be shared Autumn 2015, called 'Saer y Ser'. The development has received additional funding from the Arts Council of Wales to tour nationally after the companies

critically acclaimed production 'Gwyn' in 2014. The production will work closely with young children, teachers and families from Llanfairfechan primary school as well as local Bangor families.

(Ffion Haf) Her direction was awarded funding from the Arts Council of Wales last year to represent Wales at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and was nominated for best play. Since 2011, Ffion has established a 'young people's theatre company' (Brain) with Fran Wen where emerging artists and young talents get the chance to develop their abilities in the industry. In 2012 she established a new writers programme 'O Sgript i Lwyfan' with one of Wales's leading dramatists,

'Aled Jones Williams' which has received national recognition and is growing from strength to strength with national young writers taking part. Llyr Titus, an M.A. student at the School of Welsh has currently been mentored as an emerging dramatist on the programme and Ffion will be directing his new play, 'Drych' in September 2015 that will tour nationally across Wales. Support from Galeri Caernarfon and Theatr Genedlaethol has been implemented with popular Welsh actors, Bryn Fon and Gwenno Hodgkins performing.

(‘Drych’) (Production 'White' with

Andy Manley)

.

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Dr Andrew McStay - School of Creative Studies and Media

My privacy and philosophy work has resulted in me being invited in June 2015 to be an advisor and network member for the Policy Delivery department at the UKs Information Commissioner’s Office for consultations, research tenders and general advice seeking. Also as a result of my privacy and philosophy work, in May 2015 I joined a global Working Group to design web-based technologies that help people easily manage what information they consent to sharing with companies. This operates under the Kantara IPR Policy - Option Patent & Copyright: Reciprocal Royalty Free with Opt-Out to Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory (RAND). My role is to elucidate on the nature of consent (that derives liberal philosophy and autonomy), how these norms should be embedded into

software and to contribute to the user’s experience of privacy-friendly data-sharing. This is a global initiative comprising business figures, policy-makers and privacy campaigners.

My work on what I term empathic

media has led joint to projects with

Drive Productions (a world-leading

experiential marketer) and Stanford

University’s MediaX (its start-up

incubator). This serves two purposes:

first to offer better Return on

Investment (ROI); and second to

enhance creative opportunities within

the event itself. Drive Production’s

business is established on constructing

and managing one-off events for

clients such as Tour De France, Audi,

Ralph Lauren and many more well-

known organisations.

Release of films made with SAGE and

Lambent Productions who make

factual and educational content for TV

(BBC, C4, Open University, Teachers

TV and online). I was interviewed

about study of advertising, digital

culture and the future of media.

ABC Australia to discuss Apple’s

Watch.

One ‘Conversation’ articles - “Soon

smartwatches will listen to your body

to work out how you’re feeling”.

Dr Sue Niebrzydowski – School of English Literature Invited speaker: public talk, 11 May and 18 June, 2015. ‘Death and Everyman’ as part of the ‘In Context: Everyman and Medieval Theatre’ at the Clore Learning Centre, National Theatre, London. The talks accompany the current production of Everyman at the National Theatre.

Dr Kate Olson - School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology '10 Dangers of the Medieval Period,'

BBC History Magazine History Extra,

November 2014.

http://www.historyextra.com/feature/

medieval/10-dangers-medieval-period

A revised version was selected for

their printed commemorative edition

Aimee Pritchard - College of

Arts and Humanities

In Conversation with CAH!

In the last six months The

Conversation has published 13

articles from staff in the College on a

range of topics including the world’s

most expensive painting, King Arthur,

the rise of Emoji , Plaid Cymru and the

lack of female players in football

video games. At least three pieces

were chosen as the headlining top

stories over three separate weekends

which is no mean feat when you

consider that The Conversation

features articles from experts at 1233

universities and research institutes

worldwide.

So far in ‘Bangor’s rankings’, the College has six colleagues in the top ten most read authors and, altogether, the College’s articles have been read by nearly 200,000 people. The College is keen to encourage all colleagues to get involved, so if you want to find out more, visit here: https://theconversation.com/uk Or Contact Aimee Pritchard and Hazel

Robbins

Prof Huw Pryce – School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology Discussed ‘Magna Carta’ on a programme called ‘Dan yr Wyneb’ with Dylan Iorwerth, BBC Radio Cymru, 9th March 2015. ‘Gerald of Wales’, lecture for the

friends of ‘Amgueddfa Cymru’,

Cardiff, 21st March 2015.

magazine on medieval life. This was

published in April 2015.

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Prof Raluca Radulescu – School of English Literature 1. Prof Raluca Radulescu facilitated and was part of the working group, along with Bangor University Library, which enabled the transfer to Bangor University Library, of the Flintshire Harries Arthurian collection, a collection of over 2,000 items of great interest to scholars and the public. As part of the launch, which

was a ‘Celebration of Arthurian Stud-ies at Bangor’, Raluca organised a public lecture, ‘Arthur: the King Who never Left Us’, given by guest lecturer Dr Roger Simpson (16.04.2015), now available on the micro site for the collection as a podcast. The lecture was full - over 75 people attended. 2. Raluca also curated a public exhibition of rare books from the Bangor and Flintshire collections, under the title ‘The Arthurian Legend: Past and Present in conversation the Bangor Rare Books Collection and the

Flintshire Harries Arthurian collection’ (13 April-7 May) and guided tours of the exhibition. 3. Iinterviewed by ABC National radio (Australia) on the overnight programme in April 2015. 4. Iinterviewed by BBC Radio Wales on the Today programme in April 2015. 5. Raluca gave interviews for the Welsh magazine ‘Golwg’ and other local newspapers. 6. Co-organised a family and community event ‘King Arthur Fun Day’, on 27 June, in collaboration with Bangor University Library, BEDS and the Widening Access Centre and supported by CAH. 7. O organised a guided visit of the Arthurian collections for the University of the 3rd Age (June 2015).

IMPACT GENERATING ACTIVITIES

Dr Lowri Ann Rees – School of

History, Welsh History and

Archaeology

‘Expert comment’ on the last invasion

of mainland Britain in 1797, BBC

History Magazine, February 2015.

Dr Marco Tamburelli – School

of Linguistics and English

Language Invited talk at the workshop “Our Multilingual Schools: Opportunities And Challenges”. Event aimed at teach-ers and parents of bi- and multi-lingual children, held in Monza (Milan, Italy) on 13-14 March 2015 http://bsmconference.weebly.com/ The event attracted a good amount of

interest from the local and regional

Italian media.

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES

Dr Vian Bakir – School of Creative Studies and Media With Ronan Devlin (Pontio artist-in residence, Jamie Woodruff, Gillian Jein, Andy McStay) – made two grant applications for digital art on Veillance (to The Space and Arts Council Wales). (Jan 2015) Joined MPC- Risk Communication & flooding group. Submitted grant application on Development of long term, strategic risk communication on flooding to Welsh Government, Environment & Sustainable Development Directorate – Core Funding Proposal Jun 2015 (£382,266 ).

Dr Andrew McStay - School of Creative Studies and Media

Report from the Network for Media and Persuasive Communications (MPC): DATA-PSST! The second full-day seminar of ESRC-funded DATA-PSST! (Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements: Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust) was held at Sheffield University in March 2015. Bangor participants were Vian Bakir, Andrew McStay and Dyfrig Jones. This

seminar was on the technical and ethical limits of secrecy and privacy. It attracted over 30 participants from diverse disciplines (journalism, media, computer science, sociology, management, religion, cultural studies, popular music,, international relations and politics) and universities (Free University of Brussels, Oxford, Kings College London, Southampton, Open University, Aberystwth, Brunel, Birmingham City University, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, de Montfort, Leeds Beckett). End users included Birgittir Jonsdottir (Icelandic MP (Pirate Party) and Chair of the International Modern Media Institute), Iain Bourne (Chief policy maker at the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office), Allen Scott (Managing Director of F-Secure) and Col Ian Tunnicliffe (defence consultant). After an opening address by Vian Bakir, panel discussions followed on the ethical limits to secrecy and privacy, followed by their technical limits. Our participating PhD students have written up summaries of the seminar’s proceedings, and Sheffield’s seminar leaders (Emma

Briant and Ross Bellaby) have written up the policy briefs that have emerged from the discussion. Participants’ Position Statements are on the blog. Grant Win. Apr 2015. £25,000 Arts Council Wales. Veillance. Investigators: Ronan Devlin (Pontio designer in residence, Vian Bakir (SCSM), Andrew McStay (SCSM), Gillian Jein, (Modern Languages), Jamie-Luke Woodruff (Computer Science). Risk Communication & flooding group (SCSM, Linguistics, Social Sciences, SENERGY, Ocean Sciences, Psychology) held several workshops and submitted a grant application on Development of long term, strategic risk communication on flooding to Welsh Government, Environment & Sustainable Development Directorate – Core Funding Proposal in Jun 2015 (£382,266).

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Dr Kate Olson - School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology

Advisory Board Member, AHRC-funded interdisciplinary project on 'The Cult of Saints in Wales: Medieval Welsh-Language Sources and Their Transmission,' Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies

Prof Huw Pryce – School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology

Contributing (with Prof Peredur Lynch) a work package on ‘Welsh Urban Perspectives’ to an application by Bangor, Edinburgh, West Brittany (Brest), Heidelberg and Ulster Universities, and Polish Science Academy (Warsaw) for a grant for the ‘Endangered European Minorities: Cultural Past, Linguistic Present and Evolving Identities’, European Union Horizon Programme 2020, Reflective 2-2015: Emergence and transmission of European cultural heritage and Europeanisation (May 2015)

Prof Raluca Radulescu –

School of English Literature

As invited co-editor of the English and comparative literature section of the LATE Arthur project (an international funded project led by University of Rennes and University of Connecticut), Prof Raluca Radulescu started commissioning chapters on genealogical chronicles, heraldry, manuscript and printed books and cross-linguistic exchanges for the 5-volumes series generated by this large research group.

Dr Thora Tenbrink – School of Linguistics and English Language

Thora Tenbrink and Lynda Yorke (Geography) organised an interdisciplinary seminar on "Flooding and risk communication" as part of the MPC Media and Persuasive Communication Network seminar series at Bangor University, Jan 28, 2015. The 17 participants engaged in lively discussions, resulting in the decision to initiate a joint grant proposal on the seminar topic. To start this off, a grant-writing "Workshop on Flooding and Risk Communication" took place on May 12, 10am-5pm at Bangor University (organised by Thora Tenbrink, Lynda Yorke, Saskia Pagella, and David Jones). A grant proposal spanning the disciplines Geography, Ocean Science, Linguistics, Psychology, and Creative Studies and Media was subsequently submitted to the Welsh Government.

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES

Page 12 PUBLICATIONS

Prof Astrid Ensslin – School of Creative Studies and Media Ensslin, Astrid (2015) ‘Discourse of Games’, in Cornelia Ilie & Karen Tracy (eds) International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Hobo-ken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Prof Vyv Evans - School of

Linguistics & English

Language

Trade paperback book, published

October 2014, ‘The Language Myth’,

has become the best-selling linguistics

book published by Cambridge

University Press.

(See further details on page 9)

Dr Anouschka Foltz - School of Linguistics and English Language Foltz, A., Gaspers, J., Thiele, K., Stenneken, P., & Cimiano, P. ‘Lexical alignment in triadic communication’, Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sci-ences, 6.127 (2015), 1–10. Foltz, A., Thiele, K., Kahsnitz, D., & Stenneken, P. ‘Children's syntactic-priming magnitude: lexical factors and participant characteristics’. Journal of Child Language, 42 (2015), 932-945.

Speer, S. R., & Foltz, A. ‘The implicit prosody of corrective contrast primes appropriately intonated probes (for some readers)’, in: L. Frazier & E. Gib-son (eds.), Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, pp. 263-286 (Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2015).

Prof Nathan Abrams –

School of Creative Studies

and Media Abrams, N. ‘Becoming a Macho

Mensch: Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus

and 1950s Jewish Masculinity’, Adap-

tations. Published online.

Abams, N. ‘A Jewish American Mon-

ster: Stanley Kubrick, Emotions,

Antisemitism and Lolita (1962)’, Jour-

nal of American Studies. Published

online.

Dr Vian Bakir – School of Creative Studies and Media Bakir, V. Guest editor. Intelligence Agencies & Agenda-Building. Special Issue of International Journal of Press/Politics, April (2015).

Bakir, V. News, Agenda-Building & Intelligence Agencies: A Systematic Review of the Field from the Disci-pline of Journalism, Media and Com-munications. International Journal of

Press/Politics, 20(2) (2015), 131–144.

Prof Nancy Edwards – School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology Edwards, N. The Early Medieval Sculpture of Wales: Text Pattern and Image, Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lectures 13 (Cambridge: Hughes Hall and Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cam-bridge, 2015) Tong, J., Evans, S., Williams, H. Ed-wards, N. and Robinson, G., ‘Vlog to death: Project Eliseg’s video-blogging’, Internet Archaeology, 39 (2015) http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue39/index.html

Dr Craig Owen Jones – School of Music Jones, C. O. ‘Welsh-language popular music at the 1969 National Eisteddfod’, Flintshire Historical Society Journal 40 (April 2015), 201-12.

Dr Christian Leitmeir – School of Music Christian Thomas Leitmeir, ‘Die

Wandlungen kirchenmusikalische

Berufe im Refomationsjahrhundert’,

Kirchenmusikalische Berufe,

Instittionen, Wirkungsfelder –

Geschichliche Dimension und

Aktualität, edited by Joachim Kremer

und Franz Körndle, Enzyklopädie der

Kirchenmusik, 3 (Laaber, 2015), 14

–157

Christian Thomas Leitmeir,

Totengedenken und Wohltat: Ignaz

Lachners Prolog zur Vorstellung zu

Gunsten der Hinterbliebenen des

weiland Kapellmeisters Albert

Lortzng’, Lortzing und Leipzig:

Musikleben zwischen Öffentlichkeit,

Bürgerlic keit und Privatheit. …,

Hochschule für Musik und Theater

‘Felix Me delssohn Bartholdy’ Leipzig:

Schrifen, 9, edited by Thomas

Schiperges (Hildesheim-Zürich-New

York, 2015), 397-439.

Dr Kate Olson - School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology · Olson, K.K. ' "Slow and cold in the true service of God": Negotiating Popular Beliefs and Practices, Confessional Identity, and Experiences of Reformation' in Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World, ed. Robert Armstrong and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (London, Palgrave, 2014), 92-107. · Olson, K.K. Review of James Muldoon, ed. Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide: Medieval Themes in the World of the Reformation. In Renaissance Quarterly 67:1 (Spring 2014), 279-80.

Prof Huw Pryce – School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology O’Leary, P. a Pryce, H. (goln), Welsh History Review/Cylchgrawn Hanes Cym-ru, 27, 3 (Mehefin 2015).

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Prof Vyv Evans - School

of Linguistics & English

Language

New Book under contract with

Cambridge University Press, to

be published December 2015:

‘The Crucible of Language’. In

The Crucible of Language

Vyvyan Evans explains what we

know, and what we do, when

we communicate using lan-

guage; he shows how linguistic

meaning arises, where it comes

from, and the way language

enables us to convey the mean-

Dr Eirini Sanoudaki – School of Linguistics and English Language Sanoudaki, E. & Thierry, G. (2015)

Language non-selective syntactic

activation in early bilinguals; the role of

verbal fluency. International Journal of

Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

http:/

dx.doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2015.102

7143

Dr Thora Tenbrink – School of Linguistics and English Language Tenbrink, Thora. 2015. Cognitive Discourse Analysis: Accessing cognitive representations and processes through language data. Language and Cognition 7:1, 98 – 137. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=LCO Available on CJO 2014 doi:10.1017/langcog.2014.19 Tenbrink, Thora and Holly A. Taylor (2015). Conceptual transformation and cognitive processes in Origami paper folding. Journal of Problem Solving 8:1.

Prof Raluca Radulescu – School of English Literature

1. Major edited collection of essays, on a pioneering topic: Insular Books: Vernacular Manuscript Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain, co-ed. with Margaret Connolly from the University of St Andrews. This is a 150,000 word collection, bringing together selected proceedings of the inaugural confer-ence of the international network with the same title (part of the IMEMS strand Cultures of the Written Artefact, a conference funded and hosted by the British Academy (Oxford: Oxford Uni-versity Press for the British Academy, 2015), vol. 201 of British Academy Pro-ceedings, 330p. Contains co-written introduction and own chapter (see below). 2. ‘Robert of Sicily: Text(s) and Manu-script Context(s)’, in Material Romance, Material Contexts, ed. Nicholas Perkins (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 189-201. 3. ‘Vying for Attention: the Contents of Trinity College Dublin MS 432’ in Insular Books: Vernacular Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain, ed. Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radulescu (see above), pp. 121-42, and co-written Introduction, pp. 1-30.

PUBLICATIONS

ings that can move us to tears,

bore us to death, or make us dizzy

with delight. Meaning is, he ar-

gues, one of the final frontiers in

the mapping of the human

mind. Written for general readers

and to be published as a trade

paperback.

Second edition of best-selling text-

book, ‘Cognitive Linguistics: An Intro-

duction’ has gone under contract, to

be published March 2016.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

(http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/

viewcontent.cgi?

article=1154&context=jps)

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