Sophie Swoffer

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2021

Swoffer, S., 2021. It’s Big Mouth!. Body, Space & Technology, 20(1), pp.116–118. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/bst.360

2020

I have guest edited a special issue in the International Journal of Creative Media Research, on the conference that I organised Cracking the Established Order: Practice-based research in Academia. You can find this here Issue 4 | May 2020 | IJCMR (creativemediaresearch.org)

2016:

Me, Myself and I: Exploring The Live Presence and Embodiment of The Femme in Mediatized Performance, Sapienza University; Italy, Dance and Performance Post-Graduate Conference, 7-8^th April 2016.
Look into her eyes and Watch yourself turn to stone, De Montfort University, Borderlineds IV- Resisting, Persisting, Performing, 22 June 2016.

2017:

Have Your Cake and I'll Eat it For You, De Montfort University, Tonite Lets all Make Love in Leicester, Peter Whitehead and the Swinging Sixties, 3 March 2017.

'It would have been quicker to just hire a stripper' The Body of The Female Artist and Its Challenge to The Misogynistic Gaze, Chelsea College of Arts, University of Arts London, Revisiting The Gaze: Feminism, Fashion and The Female Body Conference, 28th-29th of June 2017.

2018:

‘Learning From and Moving Beyond Hollywood: Reconsidering the Underground Career of Bettie Page Through a Live Art Perspective’,Women in Hollywood symposium, hosted by De Montfort University, 28^th May 2018.
It’s Sophie! De Montfort University, Leicester, Borderlines VI: Performing Across the Frontiers of Fear, the sixth annual interdisciplinary conference on performance hosted by De Montfort University's the Drama Research Group and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance (CIRID), 21st June 2018.

2019:

Posing, pouting and pretence: Re-envisaging Mulvey's theory of the male gaze and the hyper-feminine body, Leeds University, The Lived Female Body in Performance conference, hosted by the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, on the 3rd of April 2019.
It's Sophie! - film screening - at Per/Forming Futures: Investigating Artistic Doctorates in Dance and Performance, hosted at Middlesex University, London, 11th-13th of April.
From Parody to Monstrosity: Re-envisaging the overlooked starlet figure through a Feminist Practice-Based Perspective, De Montfort University, Leicester, CATHIconference hosted by the Cinema and Television History Institute, 14th June 2019.
Posing, Parody and Penetrative Potential: Revising Mulvey's theory of the male gaze through a hyper-feminine performance perspective, University of Calgary, Canada, Performance Studies International conference, on the 4th-7th of July 2019.

2016

Performer in immersive cinema going event A Night at the Cinema in the 1960s - One Million Years B.C, London. Organised by De Montfort University.

2017
Co founder and organiser of interdisciplinary art event Fried Rice Jams. Events hosted between Leicester and Loughborough.

2018
Performed PhD performance It's Sophie! at performance festival SLAP, at Rough Trade, Nottingham.

2019
Founder and lead of the conference Cracking the established order: practice-based research in academia that took place on the 27th and 28th of June at De Montfort University. Funded by M4C CDF,