Apocalypse then: The Salon in September

Hello once more, Salonnieres. I'd traditionally start off with some sort of quip about the holidays but perhaps the less said about the summer weather, the better? Never mind; we'll always have the Salon! And, of course, what does the Salon exist for if not to lighten your heart and ply you with tea and cake and research when times get rough? Hold that thought, gentle reader, because next week's Salon topic is going to be a weeny bit grim: it's the End of the World!

Save us, Dennis Quaid, save us with meteorology! Only kidding; sadly there are no papers on Dennis Quaid and who'd win in a fight between him and a CGI wolf.   

The Salon will be looking varying representations of decline, apocalypse, and yes, the End of the World in the next session on Wednesday 5th September, 13:00-15:00, in ATT LG03 (Attenborough Seminar Block Basement). In a change from the usual Salon format, four postgraduate researchers will be presenting short papers on 'The End of the World', giving us a range of source material, methodologies, and interpretations, and representing the breadth of research ongoing within the Department.

Andrew Croft will be giving a paper titled 'A Sense of the Apocalyptic: Interwar Anti-War Films'. Emma James will be presenting 'Landscape and Identity in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: The Road'. Miriam Cady will look at the end of a world in her paper 'The Decline and Loss of the British Country House', and Victoria Byard will look at representations of apocalypse in British children's television in her paper, 'Noah's Castle: A Very English Apocalypse'.
The Salon is run by postgraduates within the Department but is open to students and staff of any discipline with an interest in the visual arts, so please feel free to forward information about the Salon on to anyone you think might be interested. As ever, tea and cake will be freely available during the session.

We hope to see you there!  

As an addendum: we'll also be announcing a change of management at the next Salon session. Julie Ives and myself have very much enjoyed running the Salon over the last two years and being able to meet all the Salonnieres, but the twilight years of our PhDs are now upon us. It's time to pass the Salon over to postgraduates who have the time to commit to it. I'm happy to announce that Megan Leyland and Emma James have agreed to take over the running of the Salon from November this year. We wish them all the best.