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Creativity and Walking: an interdisciplinary colloquium
2008-03-01 20:33:00 Creativity and Walking : an interdisciplinary colloquium. University of Leeds, 7th March 2008… Click on the image for a large version of the flyer. More About: Event , Archaeology , Creativity
No Do: Contemporary Studio Jewellery Practice in Japan
2008-03-01 13:41:00 The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japan ese Arts and Cultures hosts evening lectures on the third Thursday of each month. The lecture on Thursday 20 March is entitled No Do: Contemporary Studio Jewellery Practice in Japan, and will be at the Refectory, Norwich Cathedral, starting at 6pm. Admission is free but seats must ...
Web Curator Tool 1.3.0
2008-02-29 18:55:00 Web Curator Tool version 1.3.0 has just been released. Web Curator Tool is free open source software for ‘web harvesting’ (aka ’site ripping’), and is provided by the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library. It differs from common free desktop software for archiving websites ? such as HTTrack+ProxyHTTrack ? because it integrates ... More About: Humanities Computing
Disclosures: 27th ? 30th March 2008
2008-02-29 11:27:00 The Gasworks Gallery (their website is here) in London is supporting an event called Disclosures. ?Disclosures seeks to scrutinise the notion of openness across fields of cultural production at large?, says the Disclosures statement. There will be several days of debates, activities, screenings and other events exploring the theme of openness at a number ... More About: Event , March , March 2008 , 2008
Small press events in 2008
2008-02-28 18:23:00 I’ve only just heard about the International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, from Artists Newsletter magazine ? with just over one week to go until the event. I thought I’d mention it here, and add similar forthcoming UK events, for those interested in paper fanzines, contemporary short-run pamphlets and chapbooks, and artist-made books:? The 11th International Contemporary ... More About: Events , Event , Press , Small , 2008
Journal: Electronic Games and Virtual Environments
2008-02-28 15:26:00 Dr Astrid Ensslin and Dr Eben Muse at Bangor University are seeking Co-editors for the new academic journal on videogames, Electronic Games and Virtual Environments (Intellect, from 2009). The ECVE journal aims to… “…integrate theoretical and critical approaches to computer game studies, studies on virtual environments and online communities as well as commercial, industrial, design and ... More About: Journal
Sitting Pretty: Reading Gender in Early Japanese Photography
2008-02-28 15:15:00 On Friday 7 March, Karen Fraser, Robert & Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, 2007-08, will give a lecture entitled Sitting Pretty: Reading Gender in Early Japanese Photography , on 19th century Japanese portrait photographs from the Tomishige Studio, the subject of her current book project. The lecture will start at 3.15p.m. and is part of the SOAS ... More About: Event
Hamlet on Second Life
2008-02-28 12:38:00 In Second Life , the SLShakespeare company will be performing Act1 Scene1 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the SLGlobe on Sliterary from this Thursday. If you have the Second Life software installed, and an avatar, (all freely available) you can visit the Globe Theatre on Second Life by clicking on the ‘SURL’ http://slurl.com/secondlife/sLiterary/27/ 32/21/ From Joff Fassnacht - ... More About: Literature , Event , Linguistics
Rome and the Barbarians
2008-02-28 03:03:00 At Palazzo Grassi in Venice a new exhibition on late European antiquity has opened. The exhibition, entitled Rome and the Barbarians , follows several other major archaeological exhibitions at the same venue, but this is the first exhibition of the new management. The exhibition brings together a variety of artefacts, remains, paintings and manuscripts, among which are ... More About: Event , Archaeology
Intelligent podcasts
2008-02-28 00:58:00 Many museums offer some podcast audio files for download, but many seem to offer a curate’s egg of mixed features in a single file ? harking back to the mass broadcast model of ‘take what you’re given’. I’ve been looking for intelligent single-topic / single-file / in-depth interviews on photography, collecting, curating, contemporary artists, and ... More About: Podcasts , Intelligent
Conserving and using parks and cemeteries
2008-02-27 23:23:00 Landscape designers, conservationists, historians, artists and public arts professionals alike may be interested in these events in Birmingham… Urban Parks : Developing Education & Community Use. Birmingham, 4th March 08… ?Many of Britain?s urban parks no longer meet the needs of the current generation and/or have suffered from years of under-investment […] This event will review recent research ... More About: Event
Stanley Kubrick Archive
2008-02-27 11:46:00 It is the 80th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick ’s birth this year - and the 40th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey. To celebrate, the Barbican has been running a programme of Kubrick’s films over the last week, which presents all twelve feature films of the highly influential film director. The season is accompanied by an exhibition ... More About: Event , Archive , Stanley Kubrick
Melodrama, Exorcism, Mimicry: Japan and the Colonial Past in the New Korean
2008-02-25 14:33:00 The Europe-Japan Research Centre at Oxford Brookes University will be hosting a lecture entitled Melodrama, Exorcism , Mimicry: Japan and the Colonial Past in the New Korean Cinema on Wednesday 5 March. The speaker is Mark Morris, University Lecturer in East Asian Cultural History at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. The lecture ... More About: Event
E-pisteme : CFP for e-journal?s inaugural issue
2008-02-22 17:45:00 The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University is inviting postgraduates and postdoctorates to submit articles for the inaugural issue of its peer-reviewed e-journal E-pisteme. The theme of the first issue will be the Voice, and suggestions for contributions include: Voice and identity; marginalized voices; censorship; translating voices; e-voices; and Voice and power. ... More About: Journal , Inaugural , Issue
Conference: Music and Machines VIII
2008-02-22 15:26:00 Culture Lab at AV Festival ‘08 Music & Machines VIII: Broadcast 29th February and 1st March, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne This international two day conference will present different ways that artists and musicians engage with radio and broadcast technologies. Part of Newcastle University’s Music and Machines seminar and performance series, which critically examines relationships ... More About: Event , Conference
Learning Cornish
2008-02-22 12:27:00 The Cornish Language Partnership is running a Cornish language taster day at Truro Library on Saturday 1 March, part of efforts to revive the Celtic language that almost died out in the late 19th century. Cornish was formally recognised under Part II of the Council of Europe’s Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in 2002. The ... More About: Learning
Kimono Mackintosh ?08
2008-02-21 15:24:00 Under the banner Kimono Mackintosh ‘08 - Celebrating Movement and Art of the Kimono, the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society and the Scottish Japanese Residents Association are holding a series of events related to traditional Japanese arts and culture between 24 February and 2 March at the Mackintosh Church at Queen’s Cross in Glasgow. There ... More About: Event
Laban conference: call for papers
2008-02-19 12:16:00 Laban International conference - the Dynamic Body in space: developing Rudolf Laban’s ideas for performance, research and dance scholarship in the 21st century 24th-26th October 2008 Many of the seminal ideas relating to the practice, research and performance of the dynamic body in space derive from the work of Rudolf Laban. His work and ideas have been ... More About: Call , Conference Call , Papers , Conference
The end of the oral?
2008-02-18 18:47:00 This week has seen the debate surrounding language teaching in schools heat up with the news that the old-style oral exam suffered by generations of GCSE students is to be replaced by continuous assessment, as it is “too stressful”. And stressful is certainly how I remember it, sitting outside the exam room wondering if I ... More About: Oral
British Library?s Archival Sound Recordings
2008-02-18 11:48:00 The British Library ’s Archival Sound Recordings is a JISC funded project to make selected material from the Sound Archive available online to Higher and Further Education institutions. The project will be holding a User Community event on 11th March at the British Library, St Pancras, for academics and postgraduate students who would like to become more ... More About: Event
Cool or not Cool? Do some categories have global significance?
2008-02-15 16:26:00 The Europe-Japan Research Centre at Oxford Brookes University will be hosting a lecture entitled Cool or not Cool? Do some categories have global significance? on Wednesday 20 February. The speaker is Noriaki Hashimoto of NHK Enterprises in London. The lecture will take place in Gibbs 117, Oxford Brookes University, 5-6.30pm, and will be followed by ... More About: Event , Global , Categories , Significance
Folk Song in Japan: the heart?s home town - presentation and music performa
2008-02-14 23:24:00 The Daiwa Anglo-Japan ese Foundation is hosting ‘Folk Song in Japan: the heart?s home town‘, a presentation and music performance by Dr David Hughes, from 6pm on Tuesday 4 March at Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP. The presentation is to launch his new book, Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan ... More About: Music , Event , Home
Harvard Arts & Sciences to embrace open access
2008-02-14 22:55:00 Ars Technica reported yesterday that… “Harvard ’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to require faculty to make copies of their research freely available through the Office of Scholarly Communications. … Authors will be able to request an exemption in writing, but the default state will be for new research to be made available to all.” More About: Open , Access , Embrace
Fantasy and the fantastic imagination in the visual arts
2008-02-14 12:36:00 Just added to the range of Limelight guidance articles at Intute: arts & humanities ? a new article titled “Internet and other resources for the study of fantasy and the fantastic imagination in the visual arts”. There is also a short ’starter’ bibliography. More About: Literature , Fantasy , Arts , Linguistics , Visual
Buon San Valentino!!
2008-02-14 02:29:00 Saint Valentine - from an original by Orchard Lake on Flickr licensed under Creative Commons Saint Valentine’s Day is once again upon us and like all good traditions the day’s origin is steeped in mystery and confusion. There are several theories as to who the Saint Valentine of 14th February really was. The origin of ... More About: Valentino
Buon San Valentino!!
2008-02-13 14:29:00 Saint Valentine - from an original by Orchard Lake on Flickr licensed under Creative Commons Saint Valentine’s Day is once again upon us and like all good traditions the day’s origin is steeped in mystery and confusion. There are several theories as to who the Saint Valentine of 14th February really was. The origin of Valentine’s Day ... More About: Valentino
Postgraduate symposium: Violence in the reception of Greek and Roman drama
2008-02-13 13:27:00 The Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London, and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford are pleased to announce the 8th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the reception of Greek and Roman Drama, with the focus of the 2008 symposium being Violence . This two-day event will take ...
Workshop on employability and professional learning
2008-02-13 10:08:00 Date: 25th April 2008 Venue: Sheffield Hallam University Organised by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS), this workshop will showcase projects undertaken by different Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) relating to student employability and professional learning. The workshop is free to attend. More information and registration details are available here. More About: Workshop , Professional
?Becoming Blake? conference
2008-02-12 16:15:00 The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester - 22nd February 2008, 9.30am - 5.30pm Blake , more than any other figure in British culture, is constantly recast and reformed in high and popular culture. This conference will identify the contexts in which such revisions happen, and it will explore the different critical, cultural and historical encounters with ... More About: Event , Conference
Subject booklets online
More articles from this author:2008-02-12 13:40:00 Four of Intute: Arts and Humanities’ subject booklets have been made available to view online, with clickable links. They are Internet resources for fashion and beauty, archaeology, the visual arts and religion and theology. There is also a Limelight feature for Egyptology resources now available. All our booklets can be downloaded in PDF from this Web page. Next month ... More About: Online , Subject 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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