ODID’s Trinity Term Roundtable focuses on film, fiction and social change. Led by Jocelyn Alexander, the session brings together researchers who have engaged film, literature and song in their research in different ways, including placing it in conversation with the social sciences, using it as a medium of academic communication, storytelling or knowledge production, and deploying it as evidence of political or social change. This is challenging, collaborative work that crosses disciplinary boundaries and requires methodological innovation.

Speakers:

Tom Scott-Smith, ‘Integrating film in the research process: lessons from Architectures of Displacement’

Jocelyn Alexander, ‘Fiction in History, History in Fiction: Research collaborations with literary scholars’

Dan Hodgkinson, ‘Making The Storytellers: Collaborative filmmaking as research’

John Gledhill, ‘Music as an Instrument: Political Uses of Culture in the Arc of Conflict and Peace’

Raphael Bradenbrink, ‘Refugee Stories: Representative filmmaking in Kakuma’

On the ODID Research Roundtables: the roundtables are intended to create productive conversations around shared intellectual interests, methods, and practices in the department. Each roundtable will cut across the department in terms of the seniority of speakers, disciplines, geography, and degree programmes and research centres. A roundtable lead sets the agenda for each session. We hope all those working on or hoping to work on roundtable topics will attend and ultimately it is hoped that some of these interactions will lead to new research collaborations. The first two roundtables concerned the ethnography of work, led by Max Bolt, and digital methods and sources, led by Corneliu Bjola. If you have a roundtable idea, please contact Jocelyn Alexander.