Workshop ‘Intermediality in the City’, led by Dr François Giraud

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 10.00am – 3.00pm

This workshop observes intermedial connections within a specific urban environment, using different mediums (including photo, video, sketching, and writing) to record our impressions and thoughts.  In doing so, we observe and experience the city as an intermedial space, and reflect on the differences and commonalities between mediums from a practice-based perspective. We will meet in front of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two) at 10 am and work on site until 11.00am. Students will continue their exploration of the city on their own until 1.00pm, with a lunch break from 1.00pm – 2.00pm. The workshop will close with a debrief session on campus (50 George Square Project Room 1.06), ending at 3.00pm.

Workshop: Intercultural Transfers and Translations Across Media

Friday 10 March 2023, 10.15am – 3.30pm

The Third Workshop of the University of Edinburgh-Meiji University Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies, featuring panels on aesthetic transfers between image and text, intercultural media mutations and adaptations, and Shakespearean adaptations in painting and queer cinema.

Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Davide Messina on Changing Perspectives in Early Modern Visual Culture

Wednesday 8 March 2023, 5.15pm

For his inaugural lecture as Professor Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies, Davide Messina explores how debates about the stars’ apparent movement influenced early-modern astronomy and visual arts, revealing how images began to move and gain self-awareness—a largely overlooked topic in scholarship.

Workshop: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Roland Barthes and the Arts

Friday 3 March 2023, 5.15pm – 7.00pm 

This workshop features presentations from Prof. Barnaby Ralph (Seikei University, Tokyo), ‘Reading the Arts Rhetorically: Bacon, Barthes and the Transformation of the Oratorical Metaphor’, and Prof. Fuhito Endo (Seikei University, Tokyo), ‘Psychoanalysis of an Imaginary Closet: Leonardo da Vinci and Roland Barthes’. Discussants: Dr Fabien Arribert-Narce (University of Edinburgh); Ann Dai, Wen-Chieh Hsu, Altoria Lin, Jiaheng Lu and Liz Yun (MSc Intermediality students, Univ. of Edinburgh).

Lecture: Intermedial Journey in Search of the Bounty Mutineers

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 5.15pm – 6.00pm

French writer, actor, and artist, Sébastien Laurier, shares his intermedial journey from book to theatre to graphic novel, based on his travels to the Pitcairn Islands in search of the legacy of the Bounty mutineers. Organised by the Intermediality Research Strand in partnership with the Institut Français d’Écosse.

Lecture: Architects of Modernism – The Case of Proust

Wednesday 9 November 2022, 5.15pm

In this lecture, Professor O’Donovan (University College Cork) explores how architecture shapes both the substance and structure of modernist fiction in the work of Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, touching on urban growth, modern design, and the literary space of the city.

Lecture: Pasolini and Mizoguchi

Tuesday 20 September 2022, 4.30pm – 6.00pm 

In this lecture, Dr Hideyuki Doi (University of Tokyo) explores the overlooked connections between Pasolini and Japanese cinema, especially Kenji Mizoguchi, highlighting their shared mythic vision and aesthetic parallels. Part of the event series, Pasolini and the Classics, organised by Emanuela Patti for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 100th anniversary.

Jul 10, 2025