In conversation with... is a series of events promoting interdisciplinary conversations among our Doctoral Researchers.
About the event
In this session, join PhD students Ellen Nolan and Jacki Hill-Murphy for an evening of wide-ranging discussion as they present the findings of their Doctoral research. Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A session that explores the questions raised in their work, while also encouraging the speakers and audience to think about approaching research from an interdisciplinary angle.
In conversation with... is open to all University students and colleagues. There is no need to book, just come along on the evening.
External attendees are also welcome. Please email [email protected] to register your attendance.
Presentations
The Nita Harvey archive: femininity, experience and objectification in the 1930s Hollywood star system, by Ellen Nolan (School of Arts)
In this research, Ellen commissioned a fashion atelier to pattern cut two outfits – the 1930s Hollywood Casting Bikini and Two-Piece Skirt Suit – from the archive photographs of actress (and her own great aunt) Nita Harvey. She then wore the outfits to create a series of performance photographs where, dressed as Nita, she visited key Hollywood location sites documented in the archive. Through feminine embodiment of the costumes, Ellen activates the archive through empathic and affectual methodologies to create new discourse on Harvey's lived experience, objectification and hidden history.
Ellen Nolan is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Ravensbourne University, London. She holds a BA in Photography and an MFA. She formally worked as a successful photographer for British Vogue and i-D. Her artwork has been exhibited in Arles, France, The Photographers Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery, London, where it is part of their National Collection.
In the footsteps of: the challenge of recreating and reflecting on the writings and achievements of historic women exploration, by Jacki Hill-Murphy (School of Humanities)
This research centres on bringing female historical journeys to life by recreating the journey and writing the experience in a dual narrative style. There are elements of experiential history to explore and describe in many pieces of auto-ethnographical writing, which Jacki considers along with the Hakluyt collection. If exploration began the travel writing genre, and now travel has been usurped by tourism, can a new trope shift the focus back again?
Jacki Hill-Murphy FRGS, is a teacher, explorer, writer and speaker who has travelled to some of the most inhospitable places on earth to re-create the journeys of daring women adventurers from the past. In tracking valiant women who left inhibition at home and journeyed into the unknown, Jacki pays tribute to their invincible spirits and achievements.
Location
152 Cayley Room, 309 Regent Street, University of Westminster, London, W1B 2HW
