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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
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
Life and work in academia: an event for new staff
2008-03-18 15:46:00 The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) is pleased to announce the following workshop: *Life and work in academia: an event for new staff* Date: 15 April 2008 Venue: Clare College, University of Cambridge Aimed at new teaching staff (less than 2 years experience) in languages, linguistics and area studies, this one-day workshop aims to complement ... More About: Event , Work , Academia , Staff
Egyptology in the Limelight
2008-03-18 13:00:00 An Intute Limelight feature for Egyptology resources is now available. More About: Literature , Classics , Archaeology , Linguistics
DRHA08
2008-03-17 11:13:00 Keynote speakers have been announced for this year’s Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts 2008 conference ‘New Communities of Knowledge and Practice‘, 14?17 September 2008, Cambridge: Sher Doruff, Research Fellow (Art, Research and Theory Lectoraat) and Mentor at the Amsterdam School for the Arts Alan Liu, Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara ...
Luce Irigaray at Queen Mary, University of London
2008-03-16 12:25:00 For the last five years, Luce Irigaray, the French feminist, philosopher, and psychoanalytic theorist has held a week-long series of seminars with PhD students who are incorporating her work into their research. Two years ago I attended the seminars in Nottingham, where I had the chance to present my research to Irigaray, who then provided ... More About: London , University , Mary , Queen
Research into Practice
2008-03-14 10:39:00 The keynote speakers for this year’s Research into Practice conference have now been announced - W.J.T. Mitchell (USA) and Griselda Pollock (UK). Taking place on October 31st, at London’s Royal Society of Arts, the call for papers has begun (with a deadline of 1st May) with selection by double-blind peer-review. The conference focus will be on ... More About: Event
One Night in Bristol
2008-03-14 10:19:00 Exploring the night, twilight and nocturnal worlds, Bristol ’s historic (and recently refurbished and re-energised) Royal West of England Academy is hosting its most prestigious and ambitious exhibtion to date - Night : A Time Between - combining contemporary visual art (the likes of Darren Almond, Kim Seung Yeon and Dan Holdsworth) with historic masterpieces (including works by Samuel Palmer and Henry ...
Let?s do IT right?
2008-03-14 10:02:00 The Museum Computer Network is calling for submissions for its 2008 conference in Washington DC. Conference themes look set to include: Social Networking, Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 Superior Content, Superior Delivery Digital Readiness Museum Information Standards Issues of National Concern for Museums Opportunities for Emerging Professionals Leadership, Sustainability, Accountability Online proposals will be accepted until March 21, 2008
The Tradition of the Actor/Author in Italian Theatre
2008-03-13 14:55:00 The Italian sections of the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde are calling for abstracts for their upcoming conference “The Tradition of the Actor /Author in Italian Theatre ”. To be held on October 17th and 18th, the conference will consider the role of the actor-author in a theatre traditionally based on performance. The organisers invite papers ...
Archaeology: Looking to the Future of Medieval Archaeology workshop
2008-03-12 02:32:00 In 2007 the Society for Medieval Archaeology celebrated its 50th anniversary with a series of events that reflected on progress over that period. Among the events was the publication online of the first fifty volumes of the peer-reviewed Medieval Archaeology journal. The aim of this workshop is to highlight the opportunities and challenges facing medieval ... More About: Event , Future , Workshop , The Future
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
More articles from this author:2008-03-11 02:39:00 A new musical centred on the historical figure of Zenobia Queen of Palmyra is drawing crowds in the Middle East and attracting international attention. Theatrical performances on historical subjects are relatively frequent in both theatre and opera, but not many have been produced lately. A recent Limelight on Archaeology and performance includes a list of ... More About: Event 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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