SALC Research Showcase 2026: Bodies, Communities, Environments

Event Schedule (provisional):

12.00 – 12.45 Lunch

12.45 – 1.00 Welcome (Stuart Jones)

1.00 – 1.30 Panel 1: Bodies and/in Motion (Chair: Kostas Arvanitis)

Caroline Bithell (Music): 'The dancing body: environmental influences on dance aesthetics and longevity in highland Achara'

Patrycja Strycharczuk (LEL), 'Speech as body movement: between individuality and community practice'

Alison Jeffers (Drama), 'Crafting Change: performance, boundaries and repair'

1.30 – 2.10 Panel 2: Knowing and Imagining Environments (Chair: Alex Samely)

Felicia Chan (Drama), 'Screen iterations of Singapore in films before and after independence'

Maria Christou (EACW), 'Discounting the Future in Environmental Fiction'

Richard Whalley (Music), 'Composing nature: translating textures and processes from the natural world into instrumental composition'

Jenny Bryan (CAHAE), 'Knowing what you’re like: Empedocles of Acragas on understanding your environment'

2.10 – 2.40 Break and refreshments

2.40 – 3.10 Panel 3: Sensing and Performing Bodies (Chair: Noelle Gallagher)

Manos Tsakiris (CAHAE), 'Touching Argonautica: Ancient Greek Epic and the Haptics'

Matthew Jefferies (MLC), 'Hands Up? Chiromancy and chirology in Weimar photobooks'

Sharon Kinsella (MLC), 'Cute male style, flexibility, charm and performance and social media subculture in the 21st century: generating exchangeable cultural capital to gain traction in a depleted labour market and society'

3.20 - 4.00 Panel 4: Communities, Environments, and Health (Chair: Jenny Hughes)

Jenna Ashton (AHCP), 'Embodied Environmental Knowledge and the Role of Arts Practice Research'

Sasha Handley (History), 'History, heritage and wellbeing'

Peter Scott (R&T) Ecotheology and Climate Mitigation

4.00 – 4.30 Closing Discussion: Accelerating Impact (led by Emma Martin)

4.30 - 5.30 – Drinks Reception