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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.”
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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?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 ...
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Subject booklets online
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 ...
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Archaeology: ?Dawn of Etruria? conference
2008-02-11 17:24:00
The 9th Incontro di Studi su Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria will be held at Valentano and Pitigliano (Italy) on 12-14 September 2008. The meeting is entitled L?alba dell?Etruria. Fenomeni di continuità e trasformazione nei secoli XII-VIII [Dawn of Etruria. Phenomena of continuity and transformation between the 12th and 8th centuries BC]. The organiser invites ...
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Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies - ebulletin
2008-02-10 13:42:00
The February 2008 monthly ebulletin of the Subject Centre for Languages , Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) is now available. It provides information on events run by LLAS and other organisations, projects, news items, and newly available resources relating to the teaching of these subjects at university level. Forthcoming events featured in this month’s bulletin include: ...
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Transmissions and Transformations in Italian Culture
2008-02-09 19:51:00
 Florence, Ponte Vecchio from an original by Egold on Flickr licensed under Creative Commons The Society for Italian Studies is hosting its interim conference on 25th and 26th April 2008 at the Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies in London. Entitled Transmissions and Transformations in Italian Culture , the conference aims to consider the ways in which literary ...
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Derek
2008-02-09 11:44:00
There’s to be a one-day conference about Derek Jarman, to be held at Birkbeck College, London. Against the Grain: Learning from Derek Jarman’s Cinema is on Friday 7th March 08, from 10.30am. The cost is £10… “This conference explores how Jarman synthesised radically different practices, reinvigorated stale genres and became an inspiration to younger artists.” Jarman’s last ...

Online Lectures from Leeds University
2008-02-08 11:13:00
Siena?s Capitoline Wolf -
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Pancakes and penitence
2008-02-05 19:32:00
Today is Shrove Tuesday - or, to give it its secular name, Pancake Day - traditionally the last day of indulgence before Lent, the forty day season of fasting which leads up to Easter. Although the name is rarely heard these days, the day before Shrove Tuesday is Collop Monday. ‘Collops’ are slices of meat, particularly bacon, and Collop Monday was the last day before Lent on which meat was cooked. The fat from the bacon would be used to cook the following day’s pancakes, which were made to use up the eggs, cream, and milk before the start of the Lenten fast. Photograph of pancakes from an original by Kostika, on Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons. The word ‘Shrove’ itself is a past participle of the verb ’shrive’, meaning to obtain absolution for sins by means of confession and penance. From at least Anglo-Saxon times onwards, it was customary for the faithful to visit their priest and make a full confession at this time of year, e...
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Britten Study Day - 4th April 2008 Norwich
2008-02-05 11:16:00
The Britten-Pears Foundation, in collaboration with the University of East Anglia, will be holding a Britten Study Day on Friday 4th April 2008 at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. The event will be hosted by the Britten Thematic Catalogue Project, and will include several papers from researchers currently working on Britten as well as a demonstration of the online catalogue’s progress.  There will also be a concert in the evening of Britten works, including first performances of some of his juvenilia, performed by Chamber Orchestra Anglia. To book your place please go to http://www.brittenpears.org and click the link on the front page to Britten Study Day 2008, download the booking form and return to the Britten-Pears Foundation by 7th March 2008.  Please book ASAP to ensure your place as space is limited to 50 people.  Further instructions are attached to the booking form. For more information, please contact: Dr. Lucy Walker  l.walker@brittenpears.org    Jonathan Man...
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Twilight and treachery: the postwar European film noir
2008-02-04 12:42:00
To coincide with the BFI release of Bertolucci’s The Conformist (Il Conformista, 1970), BFI Southbank will be screening a selection of titles surrounding the concept of European  film noir throughout March, including Jules Dassin’s Night and the City (1950) and the rarely seen The Lost One (Der Verleone, 1951), starring Peter Lorre in a story about a doctor manipulated by the Nazis.  The BFI will also be addressing the question of “What exactly is film noir?” The press release for the season states that the term was first used in 1946 by French critics, familiar with crime novels published under the moniker of Série Noir e. However, the term is probably more often associated with a certain kind of Hollywood film, which probably began with The Maltese Falcon (1941) and grew in prominance throughout the 1940s. It refers to a style of filmmaking - bathing the film in black shadows, using narrative flashbacks and including a femme fatale character. The BFI ...
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Cultural Memory and Visual Culture - IGRS, London
2008-02-01 11:20:00
Intute : Arts and Humanities would like to draw your attention to the second event in a special seminar series on Cultural Memory being held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in London on Saturday 23rd February. There will be three speakers, followed by a general discussion. Professor Annette Kuhn will look at performances of memory in and with visual media, whilst Professor John Long will focus on the photographic representation of Berlin. Professor Andrea Noble covers memory and photographic icons of the Mexican Revolution. Intute has a rich section bringing together Web resources dealing with photography, as well as covering various aspects of media and culture , such as advertising, film, journalism, and new media. The day will last from 11am until 4pm and is free to attend. For more information contact Rick Crownshaw at r.crownshaw@gold.ac.uk
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DIGRA’s Situated Play conference papers are now online.
2008-02-01 00:01:00
I’m about to start teaching my all-lectures module on videogames and also the creative possibilities of real-world interactive cities, The Visual Imagination in Interactive Spaces. So I was pleased to hear about a new full-text paper “From Gamers to Scholars: Challenges of Teaching Game Studies” (direct PDF link, 600kb)… “… we interviewed twelve professors and instructors of game studies courses […] an extensive prior videogame experience often interferes with students’ abilities to reason critically and analytically about games. They also have difficulties articulating their experiences and observations. The medium itself also presents obstacles in access. Students must be skilled at games in order to fully experience them and technological barriers make it difficult to provide older games for students to experience. The article describes many of the solutions that instructors are adopting […] “ The flipside of having...
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