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Arts and humanities events calendar launched
2008-05-20 17:29:00 Intute: Arts and Humanities launched its new events calendar today, providing a database of upcoming conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and other events that you might be interested in: http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities /conferences.html If you’ve used the Intute: Social Sciences section before you may have already come across the calendar, but it’s coverage has now been extended to include arts and ... More About: Events , Event , Calendar
Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat
2008-05-19 11:46:00 “And strange to tell, among that earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried - Who is the Potter, pray, and who the pot?“ Leyden, Netherlands, 6th and 7th July, 2009 Cambridge, England, 9th and 10th July, 2009 This week-long conference running consecutively in Leyden and Cambridge, will celebrate the the 200th anniversary of of the ... More About: Edward , Omar
Butterfingers!
2008-05-16 10:48:00 It’s always satisfying to hear about other people’s botched jobs, but the news today that highly trained art handlers at London’s National Gallery broke a valuable (and publicly owned) Sienese Renaissance panel painting by Domenico Beccafumi is perhaps not that funny - certainly for whoever was unfortunate to have been taking it down from the wall. ...
Her Make is Perfect
2008-05-15 18:12:00 A seminar interrogating women’s dramatic writing, text and performance (1600-1830) is planned for September 2008, at the University of Surrey. Elizabeth Hartley (1751-1824) image from the conference website Friday 5th September at Chawton House Library and Saturday 6th September at the University of Surrey. Keynote speakers: Professor Alison Findlay Professor Fiona Ritchie and Professor Gweno Williams Further conference details see the ... More About: Literature , Event , Classics , Linguistics , Make
Limelight: Castles in Wales
2008-05-14 23:40:00 Intute’s latest Limelight provides links to valuable Internet resources about castles built in Wales during the rule of the English king Edward I. Image of Rhuddlan Castle, North Wales, from original photograph by ‘Deathwaves’, some rights reserved under Creative Commons. More About: Castles
Seminar on Sir Thomas Blake Glover, Aberdeen
2008-05-14 16:01:00 A major seminar on the 19th century Scottish trader and entrepreneur, Sir Thomas Blake Glover , will be held at Robert Gordon University’s Aberdeen Business School, 5.30-7.30p.m. on Tuesday 10 June. There will be two presentations: Professor Brian Burke-Gaffney of Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, on “Thomas Blake Glover: Entrepreneur extraordinary and his influence ... More About: Event , Seminar
Turner prize nominees
2008-05-14 11:17:00 The Turner Prize nominations have been released. Awarded to a British-based artist under the age of 50 for a work that was created in the last twelve months, this year the list is dominated by women. The artists are: film and video artist Runa Islam, multimedia artist Mark Leckey, who uses performance and sculpture in his work, ... More About: Event
Dating the human colonisation of America
2008-05-13 05:37:00 In the latest issue of Science (5877) there are two important articles on Pre-Clovis dates obtained in America . The first article by Dillehay et al. focuses on Monte Verde, Chile, and the recent discovery of nine species of algae in the archaeological record (sediment from hearths and sediment attached to stone tools). The ... More About: Dating , Archaeology , Human
Call for papers: MindTrek conference 2008
2008-05-12 15:41:00 11th MindTrek conference 2008 : Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era, October 7th-9th, 2008 Tampere, Finland MindTrek, a leading Northern new media festival and conference series, is running a three day conference to explore current and emerging topics of social media, ubimedia and games. It includes a workshop day, three main tracks, plenary sessions and invited ... More About: Call , Papers , Conference
Experimental Archaeology conference
2008-05-10 15:11:00 The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Experimental Archaeology. The conference will be held over the weekend of 15th-16th November 2008 and will comprise a day of papers and discussions at the Archaeology building on Saturday followed, on Sunday, by a trip ... More About: Conference
International symposium about ?Holistic Archaeology?
2008-05-07 18:17:00 An international symposium on Holistic Archaeology will be held on 2nd - 4th June 2008 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. The symposium focuses on multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary projects in the archaeology of Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean region. A poster (PDF file) announcing the symposium is available. The topics deal with a “holistic approach” to ... More About: International , Event , Symposium
Archaeology: American TAG 2009 and AAA 2008 conferences
2008-05-07 14:55:00 I am pleased to announce two important conferences in different continents: the American Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2009 and the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) Conference 2008 . Calls for papers and sessions are open. Stanford Archaeology Center is pleased to announce the second American meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG), May 1-3, 2009, at Stanford University, ... More About: Conferences
World Premiere London - Io, sola, ho visto
2008-05-07 10:07:00 The Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith are hosting the World Premiere production of the contemporary Italian playwright Giorgio Taffon’s production Io, sola, ho visto (I, only, saw). The play starts at 8pm on Monday 19th May and is directed by Mariano D’Amora. According to its writer, the play is a monologue in verses that recalls the metric ... More About: Event , London , Visto
Call for papers: Victorian provincial architects
2008-05-06 13:33:00 A one-day colloquium to be held at the University of Liverpool, 28th November 2008. Famous names, many of them London-based, tend to dominate the history of nineteenth-century British architecture. Lesser-known figures in the regions, however, were largely responsible for building Victorian Britain. In Liverpool, the local architects William Culshaw (1806/7-1874) and Henry Sumners (1825/6-1895) were prolific designers ... More About: Call , Architects , Papers , Provincial
Conference: Slovakia 15 Years on
2008-05-03 20:46:00 The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies is organising a one day conference on Saturday, May 10, with Slovakia as the focus. The title refers to the exciting transition period from communism to democracy and to independence: the conference will bring to light the troubled political years of the 1990s followed by the economic ... More About: Years , Conference
Endangered languages in the Limelight
2008-05-02 17:20:00 The latest Limelight feature from Intute: Arts and Humanities is about “Endangered languages”. The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London is currently holding its annual Endangered Languages week (30 April - 7 May 2008), with seminars, workshops, film screenings and an open day. It’s estimated ... More About: Literature , Event , Classics , Linguistics
Event: E-learning and educational technologies
2008-05-02 15:44:00 Workshop: E-learning and educational technologies Date: 9th June 2008 Venue: University of Bristol Organised by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, this workshop will showcase current projects and initiatives undertaken by Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) relating to e-learning and educational technologies. The programme and registration details are here: http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventite m.aspx?resourceid=2918 The workshop is FREE ... More About: Event , Educational , Technologies
Imaging War
2008-05-02 11:11:00 We have entered a time of highly technological warfare, where over half of the world?s research and development is now military and an ongoing revolution in military affairs (RMA) is changing the rules and weapons that will be used to define our common futures in a global society. Yet most of the public are getting ... More About: Event , Imaging
Conference: Archaeologies of the Everyday
2008-05-02 02:41:00 The Centre for Historical Archaeology, University of Sheffield, has organised a conference entitled Archaeologies of the Everyday - questioning the ‘transparency of the daily’, which will be held in Sheffield on 3?5 June 2008. The conference will be organised around 5 related themes: The Historicity of the Senses ? exploring the ways in which peoples? engagement with ... More About: Conference
Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
2008-05-01 22:20:00 Dan Dare was a staunchly British comics / science-fiction hero from long before my own childhood, so has almost no emotional resonance for me. But those who cherish memories of Dan and The Eagle comic might wish to visit the new free exhibition:? Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain . It opened yesterday at the ... More About: Event , Hi Tech
The Web?s 15th birthday
2008-05-01 14:35:00 Happy birthday, World Wide Web! It’s 15 years old… Above is a copy of the letter (dated 30th April, click for large version) in which CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web invention to be free for anyone to use, with no fees due. People also began to install the world’s first Web browser at about ... More About: Event , Birthday
May Day
2008-05-01 11:30:00 Image of a maypole. From an original by CRASH-candy on Flickr, licensed as Creative Commons. The first of May has long been an important date in the British calendar, marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Many of the country’s May customs have grown out of pagan traditions - the Celts celebrated Beltane ...
Touching the void
2008-05-01 09:54:00 ?Marble comes doubly alive for me then, as I ponder, comparing, / Seeing with vision that feels, feeling with fingers that see?. (Goethe, Roman Elegies) Since the Renaissance, at least, the medium of sculpture has been linked explicitly to the sense of touch. Sculptors, philosophers and art historians have all related the two, often in strikingly ... More About: Event
Reforming the European State System in the Long Eighteenth Century
2008-05-01 09:44:00 An interesting looking conference for those interested in European political history, to be held at Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden, 10 - 14 September 2008 and chaired by Professor Juha Sihvola, University of Helsinki and Dr. Koen Stapelbroek, Erasmus University Rotterdam. More information at http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=4543 More About: Event , System , State , Long
Photography, Ethnography and the City
2008-04-30 21:46:00 There will be a two-day conference on Urban Encounters: Photography , Ethnography and the City , at Goldsmiths in London. It’s on 16th-17th May 2008, when… “six panels will explore the nature of past and contemporary photographic approaches to the representation and evocation of city life [ … ] The panel themes will include: urban landscapes: from theory ... More About: Event
Workshop: Teaching medieval and early-modern culture to students of modern
2008-04-30 17:23:00 Places are still available on the following workshop, organised under the LLAS Subject Centre’s Workshop s-to-go scheme: *Teaching medieval and early-modern culture to students of modern languages* 23rd May 2008, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge Repeated on: 21st November 2008, University of Leeds This workshop aims to support the teaching of medieval and early-modern culture in modern languages - an area which ... More About: Culture , Students , Modern
Call for papers: Languages of the Wider World conference
2008-04-30 17:13:00 *Call for papers - Deadline: Friday 2nd May 2008* Languages of the Wider World : Valuing Diversity 15th - 16th September 2008, SOAS Conference website: http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventite m.aspx?resourceid=2936 Organised jointly by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and the SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Languages of the Wider World (LWW-CETL), this conference will bring together ... More About: Papers
Archaeology: conference on burial mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages
2008-04-30 14:58:00 An international conference entitled Ancestral Landscapes: Burial mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Central and Eastern Europe - Balkans - Adriatic - Aegean, 4th-2nd millennium BC) will be held at Udine, Italy, on 15-18 May 2008. This seems a very interesting conference for specialists. Abstracts (PDF file) can be accessed from the conference website. Here ... More About: Event , Archaeology , Conference
VADS re-launch: free copyright-cleared images for academic use
2008-04-25 15:13:00 Students and academics looking for visual arts images now have online access to a stunning collection of over 100,000 images with the re-launch of www.vads.ac.uk. The website has been developed by VADS (the Visual Arts Data Service), which re-branded and re-launched itself earlier this month and contains collections as diverse as the National Inventory of ... More About: Academic , Images , Free , Launch , Copyright
Call for papers: Society for Minimalist Music colloquium
More articles from this author:2008-04-25 13:41:00 The Society for Minimalist Music is to hold a one-day colloquium at Goldsmiths College, University of London, on Saturday 13th September 2008. Papers on all topics relating to music and minimalism are invited. The subjects of ‘post-opera’ and ‘biography’ have both been suggested by members, so these are particularly encouraged. Paper contributions from composers on ‘minimalist ... More About: Call 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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