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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
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
Videogames in the Limelight
2008-04-24 17:34:00 The latest Limelight feature from Intute: Arts and Humanities is about “Researching videogames with Intute”. This provides an extensive view of the study of videogames using sources found freely on the Internet, including sample chapters from a number of books. YouTube videos are also mentioned, and here in the blog we are able to link ... More About: Videogames
Researching videogames with Intute / Children in Virtual Worlds
2008-04-24 15:18:00 A BBC and AHRC-sponsored conference is happening soon in London, titled Children in Virtual Worlds (22nd May 2008, University of Westminster)… “BBC Children?s and the University of Westminster invite you to the first conference in the UK to draw together producers and researchers working on virtual worlds and immersive gaming environments for children aged 7-11 online.” It ... More About: Videogames
1,000 years since the world?s first novel
2008-04-23 13:29:00 The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari), the story of the life and loves of Prince Genji and his descendants, written by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, is thought to have appeared in 1008 and is widely recognised as the world’s first novel and the greatest classic of Japanese literature. This anniversary is being celebrated in various ways: ... More About: World , The World , Years
New Scottish CILT website
2008-04-18 13:03:00 The Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (Scottish CILT) launched its new website at the beginning of April after several months of redesign, reorganisation and professional consultation. Scottish CILT is a national languages centre established in 1991 “to provide information about languages for students and teachers, opinion formers and policy makers; to ... More About: Website
Maintenance Work Tues April 22nd
2008-04-18 09:18:00 On Tues 22nd April some searches may not work in Intute between 0700-0900 (BST). We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Minor maintenance work will be carried out on the Intute database during the JANET “at risk” period. More About: Work , Maintenance
New microsite promotes innovation in languages at 14-19
2008-04-17 16:16:00 CILT, the National Centre for Languages , has released a new microsite, Reshaping Languages, designed to promote innovative teaching in languages to the 14-19 age group. The site is illustrated with a wide range of videos and case studies “highlighting how new approaches to language provision can re-engage learners, inspire enjoyment and increase take-up of languages”. ... More About: Innovation
Conference: Languages of the wider world: valuing diversity
2008-04-16 10:54:00 A conference on Languages of the wider world: valuing diversity will be held at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) 15-16 September 2008. The conference “aims to identify common issues in order to facilitate collaboration, raise the profile, and make the case for increased HE provision of languages of the wider world” and ... More About: Event , World , Diversity , Conference
Italian Academies Project Presentation
2008-04-16 10:35:00 The Department of Italian at Royal Holloway, London is currently compiling an online catalogue of books held in the British Library published by Italian Academies between 1530 and 1700. At 2.30pm on April 29th, the researchers working on this AHRC-funded project will present an update of the project’s progress. There will also be a demonstration of the online ... More About: Event , Project , Presentation
Limelight: History of Modern Terrorism in the West
2008-04-16 01:59:00 April 16, anniversary of the killing by Red Brigades of Senator Roberto Ruffilli in Forlì, Italy, (an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita), 1988 April 18, anniversary of the suicide bombing of the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people, 1983 April 19, anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, USA, 168 killed, 1995 (see ... More About: Terrorism , History , West , Modern , Limelight
Archaeology: update on Stonehenge
More articles from this author:2008-04-15 18:46:00 I am reluctant in writing something on Stonehenge again partly because I do not want to overstate the current research and partly because preliminary results are still unknown. However, the interest is high, and it might time to publish a short update. First of all, there are two excavations that have been carried out recently, ... More About: Archaeology , Update 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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