This year we are introducing a new type of event where three postgraduate researchers will present their work. These talks will be shorter than usual; about 15 minutes each, allowing new members of BVI to showcase their research.
For the first session (Friday 5th December) we have selected the following three speakers:
- Elizabeth Bratton (School of Modern Languages), who will be talking about how medieval / early modern theorists understood the physical workings of optic science and the sense of sight, expanding upon this to explore the important role of this shared sense for them in creating a feeling of community
- Lyn Li (School of Computer Science), who will be talking about low-light video enhancement using the Retinex theory
- Danlu Chen (School of Modern Languages), who will be talking about the visual perception of the first-person narrator in Rhoda Broughton's short-form sensation fiction 'Under the Cloak' (1873) as she recounts her unsettling experience of being drugged and robbed by two male passengers during an overnight train journey