Professor Robert Levine, California State University, Fresno Collingwood College October – December 2012
Professor Robert Levine has been studying “time” as a social psychologist for almost thirty years. His research has combined empirical studies, theoretical writings, books and articles for both academic and popular readers.
Robert Levine grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Following high school he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Florida State University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in personality/social psychology from New York University in 1974. He is a Professor of Psychology and former Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at California State University, Fresno where he has won awards for both his teaching and research. He has also served V isiting Professorships at Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niteroi, Brazil, at Sapporo Medical University in Japan, and at Stockholm University in Sweden.
He has written four books including A Geography of T
imes Magazine. Levine is also the author of The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold. He has published more than 60 articles in professional journals as well as articles in trade periodicals such as Discover, American Demographics, and The New York Times. Professor Levine is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association and is currently President of the Western Psychological Association.
imewhich received the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award. It has been translated into six languages and has been the subject of numerous feature stories, including Newsweek,and The New York T
In Durham Professor Levine will work across a number of sub-themes, and will specifically consider the pace of everyday life in different countries. His research so far has concluded that places differ markedly in their overall speed of life. These differences are to at least some degree predictable by demographic, economic and environmental characteristics. And, these differences have consequences for the wellbeing of individuals.
Dr David Martin-Jones, University of St Andrews Van Mildert College October – December 2012
Dr David Martin-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. His research engages with world cinemas, taking a philosophical approach to the ways in which national and transnational identities are constructed. Originally from a background in literature, which provided his abiding interest in critical and cultural theory, he transferred into Film Studies with master’s and doctoral degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively. He was appointed to the University of St Andrews in 2004, where he helped build the newest Film Studies programme in the UK. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Film Studies, the department’s research arm.
He has explored national and transnational identity construction in a variety of cinemas from across Europe, Asia and the Americas. His research is at the forefront of the emergent international area of film philosophy, his key expertise lying in the interface between the work of twentieth century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and cinema. Uniquely, Dr Martin-Jones has developed a sustained critique of the Eurocentric nature of Deleuze’s philosophy of cinema, by examining the fault lines that emerge when it is considered in conjunction with world cinemas. This was the topic of the closing keynote paper which he gave at the annual Film-Philosophy Conference in 2011.
Dr Martin-Jones is the author of Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts (2006), Deleuze Reframed(with Damian Sutton, 2008), Scotland: Global Cinema(2009), Deleuze and World Cinemas(2011), and co-editor of Cinema at the Periphery (2010) and Deleuze and Film (2012). He is co-editor of the Continuum monograph series, Thinking Cinemaand a member of several editorial boards, including Deleuze Studies, Film-Philosophy and A/V The Journal of Deleuzian Studies.
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Whilst at the IAS, Dr Martin-Jones will be exploring how cinemas from around the world use different philosophical conceptions of time to negotiate varied experiences of modernity. Drawing upon previous work on narrative time, this research will lay the intellectual ground for his next monograph.
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