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Europe on screen: Issues in the future distribution and exhibition of Europ
2008-04-15 13:35:00 A two day conference at The University of Salford, Greater Manchester, 11th-12th June 2008 The constant expansion of Hollywood into global film markets and the continually shifting notions of what constitutes the new Europe have resulted in increased debate over the future identity of ‘European’ cinema. Alongside these geo-political and economic changes, the rapid development of ... More About: Screen , Event , Future , Distribution
Conference: Integra 2008 - Solving the tensions between musicians and techn
2008-04-14 13:27:00 Integra 2008 Festival and Conference , Birmingham, 5-7th June 2008 http://www.integralive.org/festival-2008 The organisers of Integra 2008 welcome artistic directors, researchers, composers and performers to participate in the Festival and Conference. Integra 2008 is the closing event of “Integra - A European Composition and Performance Environment for Sharing Live Music Technologies”, a 3 year EU-funded project led by ... More About: Integra , Musicians
Postgraduate conference on Austrian literature - London
2008-04-11 20:52:00 The Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in London is playing host to the 5th Postgraduate conference on current research in Austrian literature. The event will be held on 5th and 6th June 2008 and boasts an exciting programme of International speakers covering a range of topics relating to Austrian literature. Included are papers on the father-daughter ... More About: Literature , Event , Conference
CFP - Italian contemporary cinema
2008-04-09 20:01:00 The Department of Italian Studies at the University of Manchester is calling for proposals for its upcoming conference Italian contemporary cinema : Old and new tendencies : An International conference to be held on 13th June 2008. Papers are invited on any aspect of Italian cinema, but particularly on contemporary tendencies, diachronic retrospectives, and comparative ... More About: Cinema , Contemporary
Prokofiev study day
2008-04-08 11:16:00 The Serge Prokofiev Archive and the Royal Musical Association are holding a study day on Prokofiev at Goldsmiths, University of London on the 10th May 2008. The programme is as follows: 10:00 Registration and coffee 10:30 The giant and other animals: Prokofiev’s childhood compositions - Christine Guillaumier (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) 11:00 The fiery angel: Musical ... More About: Study
Interpreting Messiaen?s piano music
2008-04-08 10:28:00 The Royal Academy of Music has announced a call for papers for the Symposium Interpreting Messiaen’s piano music, held in association with Southbank Centre’s Centenary Festival, From the canyons to the stars and in affiliation with the Royal Musical Association. The symposium will be held on Friday 17th October 2008, from 09:30 to 17:00, followed by ... More About: Piano
Conference report: What would a Bronze Age World System look like?
2008-04-08 04:01:00 Last week I have attended the What would a Bronze Age World System look like? World Systems approaches to Europe and Western Asia 4th to 1st millennia BC conference at the University of Sheffield. We announced the conference in this blog. The conference was held in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt and has proved to ... More About: Event , Archaeology , Report
Conference: Protecting Cultural Heritage
2008-04-07 17:45:00 A conference entitled Protecting Cultural Heritage will be held on Monday, 21 April 2008, at 7.00 ? 8.30pm and will be followed by a drinks reception. The conference will be held at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1. The cultural heritage of the world is presently under threat as never before, manifested by ... More About: Event , Archaeology , Conference
Archaeological conferences and other news
2008-04-06 02:36:00 I list here a series of calls for papers, notices of conferences, calls for participants in excavations and mixed news. ICOMOS 16th General Assembly, 29th September to 4th October 2008. The website of the 16th General Assembly has received various updates. It is now possible to register online for the event. A hotel room can be ... More About: News , Conferences
International Conference On Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conse
2008-04-05 04:09:00 The Sixth International Conference on Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation will be held in Rome between the 8th and 14th of December 2008. The conference has been organised under the special patronage of the United Nations World Tourism Organization. The main theme of the 2008 conference will be Documentation and Risk Management of ... More About: Science and Technology
Wanted! Your Moving Images
2008-04-03 10:38:00 exposures ? the UK’s leading competitive festival for student film and moving image ? is looking for the talent of the future. Call for entries is now open for the 2008 edition to be held in November at Cornerhouse and Urbis, two of Manchester’s leading contemporary arts venues, co-hosts of exposures for the first time this ... More About: Event , Images , Moving , Wanted
Oxford DNB hoaxers
2008-04-01 15:02:00 For April Fools Day Michael Moran of The Times newspaper has used the Oxford DNB (dictionary of national biography from the Oxford University Press), reviewed in Intute, to compile the top 10 Historical Hoaxers. A similar list is also available in the Oxford DNB’s online magazine.
Limelight: Fakes and Forgeries
2008-04-01 09:59:00 To coincide with April Fool’s Day the latest Intute Limelight features the fakes and forgeries that have scandalised the arts, museums and archaeology worlds. Plagiarism and intellectual property law (and graffiti) also feature. More About: Archaeology , Fakes
April Fools Day
2008-04-01 03:01:00 Some of the UK’s overseas students may be wondering about April Fools Day. The British Council’s Learn English magazine has a good concise overview of the origin and practice of April Fools Day (also known as All Fool’s Day). For what appears to be the best lengthy scholarly account, see “Purposeful deceptions of the April fool” (full-text ... More About: Event
Archaeology: new excavations at Stonehenge
2008-03-31 15:41:00 Stonehenge has always attracted attention, and we reported the recent archaeological fieldwork at a nearby Neolithic settlement (Durrington Walls) that was probably used by people that built and used Stonehenge. Today archaeologists have announced the start of a new campaign of excavations inside the circle of stones, primarily aimed at applying some scientific techniques such ... More About: Event , Archaeology , Stonehenge
Futuresonic Manchester
2008-03-31 12:50:00 Futuresonic: Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas 1-5 May, Manchester , UK Futuresonic’s 2008 theme is ‘The Social - Social Networking Unplugged’, and is intended to be “the first comprehensive and creative look at social networking by an art festival”. Lasting five days and nights, there will be art premieres, exhibitions, club nights and events featuring 300 ...
Russia on Screen, QMUL
2008-03-30 20:43:00 Registration is now open for the conference Russia on Screen : Identity and Appropriation, an interdisciplinary conference that will consider the depiction of Russia and Russian culture in cinema. It will be held in the Hitchcock Cinema (Arts G.19) at Queen Mary, University of London on 10th May 2008. Following a keynote speech by Professor James ... More About: Event
International Web Archiving Workshop - call for papers
2008-03-28 16:45:00 The 8th International Web Archiving Workshop is calling for papers (submissions of proposals by 19th May 08). The IWAW event has dates ‘pencilled in’ for 18th-19th September 08, in Denmark. The workshop will provide… “a cross domain overview on active research and practice in all domains concerned with the acquisition, maintenance and preservation of digital objects ... More About: Call , Papers
Event: Plate-forme pour le français
2008-03-28 15:43:00 *Plate-forme pour le français* Date: Thursday 22nd May Venue: Institut Français, 17 Queensbury Place, London We would like to invite you to the first event organised jointly between Routes into Languages and the French Embassy. ‘Plate-forme pour le français’ is aimed at lecturers of French working in the English Higher Education sector. The day will consist of a series of ... More About: Event
Personal histories of archaeologists : archaeological theory in memories
2008-03-28 02:43:00 Pamela Jane Smith has organised at the University of Cambridge an interesting series of seminars entitled “Personal histories of archaeologists”. The seminars have been recorded, but unfortunately the resulting files are sparse: hopefully a proper website will be produced to host them. In the meantime, the available seminars page has been inserted in the Intute ... More About: Theory , Memories
British Archaeological Awards 2008 ? ICT Category
2008-03-28 02:00:00 I am happy to announce an award that may interest several readers of this blog. Entries are now being sought for the Best Archaeological ICT Project category of the prestigious British Archaeological Awards . These Awards, made every two years, recognise excellence in advancing public education in the study and practice of archaeology. The ICT Award ... More About: Archaeology , Category , 2008
Teaching medieval and early-modern culture to students of modern languages:
2008-03-26 16:46:00 Forthcoming workshops, organised under the LLAS Subject Centre’s Workshops-to-Go scheme: *Teaching medieval and early-modern culture to students of modern languages* St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 23rd May 2008 University of Leeds, 21st November 2008 More information and registration details are available by clicking on the above links. *Call for contributions* Interested colleagues are invited to contribute a short (15-minute) presentation on their ... More About: Culture , Students , Languages , Modern
New on ICTGuides
2008-03-20 17:15:00 ICT Guides is a service offered by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) at King’s College, London (soon to be the Centre for eResearch CeRch). It seeks to promote the use of ICTs in research and learning through cataloging digital arts and humanities projects along with the tools and methods they employed. A number of ... More About: Humanities Computing
Easter Eggs and Church Ales
2008-03-20 08:40:00 Image of pace eggs. From an original by Andi2 on Flickr, licensed as Creative Commons. Easter festivities in the UK have historically ranged from religious ceremonies to unusual folk customs, a line that can be traced through sites reviewed by Intute. Evidence of early customs can be found on sites such as Virtual Norfolk, ... More About: Church , Eggs , Easter Eggs
Arthur C. Clarke
2008-03-19 14:46:00 British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died at the age of 90. As ever, the BBC news coverage online offers an excellent jumping off point to read and watch the tributes to Clarke, author of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and responsible for so much more. There are a couple of online resources ...
Event: Agendas for research in modern languages
2008-03-19 11:51:00 Conference: Agendas for research in modern languages Date: 25 April 2008 Venue: British Academy, London During 2006 the AHRC commissioned a Review into Modern Language Research undertaken by the Subject Centre for Languages , Linguistics and Area Studies and the University Council of Modern Languages. The Review concluded that research in Modern Languages in UK HEIs is in remarkably ... More About: Event
Sacred Texts in the Limelight
2008-03-19 11:29:00 The latest Intute Limelight features the British Library’s website ‘Sacred ‘, which accompanied an exhibition in 2007 on the common ground of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The online gallery and other online presentations show how the Library brought the world’s greatest collection of Jewish, Christian and Islamic holy texts together side by side for the ...
Call for papers: Warfare and Society in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
2008-03-19 01:28:00 A one-day colloquium entitled Warfare and Society in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean is to be held in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool on Friday 13th June 2008. Papers on any aspect of social approaches to warfare are welcomed, for the period from late Prehistory ... More About: Call
Podcasts on European Studies and Philosophy
2008-03-18 20:20:00 The School of European Culture and Languages (SECL) at the University of Kent has made available online podcasts of lectures held as part of its research seminar series. Lectures cover a wide variety of topics, including: Spanish Anarchism; the affinities between Nietzsche and Yeats; the writing of the abject in Jean Genet; and Keats versus ... More About: Philosophy , Studies , Podcasts
2008 Art Fund Prize
More articles from this author:2008-03-18 19:55:00 Intute has reviewed all of the museums and galleries which have been nominated for this year’s Art Fund Prize, (formerly The Gulbenkian Prize). Details of the nominations can be found on the Prize website and you can read reviews of every nominee’s website below, (written by Intute’s staff and contributors from universities from all round ... More About: 2008 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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