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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 ... More About: Archaeology , Conference
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: ... More About: Literature , Classics
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 ... More About: Event
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 - More About: University , Lectures , Online , Leeds
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... More About: Pancakes
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... More About: April 2
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 ... More About: Film , Film Noir , Twilight
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 More About: Culture , Visual
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... More About: Play , Online , Papers , Conference
Green Evolution: Wall-mounted Tableaux by Kazuhito Takadoi
2008-01-31 16:02:00 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London is currently holding an exhibition of the work of artist Kazuhito Takadoi, titled Green Evolution at Daiwa Foundation Japan House. The exhibition is open Monday-Friday 9.30am-5.00pm until 6 March 2008, with late-night openings until 8pm on 22 January and 7 February. Kazuhito Takadoi Image copyright Kazuhito Takadoi “Inspired by the rich woodland surrounding his birthplace of Nagoya, Japan, Kazuhito Takadoi creates ‘organic art’ using materials he has grown and selected in his own garden.” He describes the making of his unique work as ‘showing a very tight discipline in the Japanese tradition’, but, in contrast, describes this finished work as ‘a western abstract’. “He likens the slow aging process and subtle colour changes in his organic art to that of aging tatami mats or the changes apparent in a lacquer bowl, which in time reveal the colour of its base coat. Ea... More About: Wall
Del.icio.us and MyIntute
2008-01-30 16:45:00 The First World War Poetry Digital Archive have been collecting useful Internet links and organising them using Del.icio.us (Delicious) and the MyIntute personalisation service. The MyIntute presentation will follow soon. In the meantime here is the first attempt at exporting Del.icio.us bookmarks (or ‘tagroll’) using a ‘widget’: Get great free widgets at Widgetbox! If you would like to see more tags from the project’s Del.icio.us bookmarks please follow this link http://del.icio.us/oxfordww1
Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 – 1
2008-01-30 13:19:00 British Library, 9 November 2007 – 30 March 2008 Breaking the Rules explores the early 20th century creative revolution in Europe, the effects of which are still experienced today. Focussing on the medium of print, Breaking the Rules throws new light on the movements that dominated the start of the last century: Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Surrealism, and others. Famous but hard to find works are on display. For instance, there is Marinetti’s futurist experiment with print, Zang Tumb Tuum and the notebooks and proofs of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. There are books and manifestos, as well as important films (Leger, Man Ray) and rare audio recordings from the British Library’s collection (such as one of the poet Tristan Tzara), which you are likely to hear nowhere else. The curator is Dr Stephen Bury. Stephen I know from Chelsea College of Art and Design. As well as being a scholar and multi-linguist, he is a writer and ... More About: European , Avant-Garde , Face
The Whiteness of paper
2008-01-30 10:07:00 An interesting looking show from the Centre for Drawing, at Wimbledon College of Art, to celebrate its emergence as a fully fledged research centre at the University of the Arts, London. Selected by Stephen Farthing RA, Rootstein Hopkins Professor of Drawing at the University of the Arts London, and Nick Savage, Head of Collections at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the exhibition is taken from the collections of the Royal Academy and features drawings by Frederic Lord Leighton, Sir George Clausen, Sir John Everett Millais, Dame Laura Knight, George Stubbs ARA, Sir Frank Brangwyn, and the architects C. R. Cockerell and T. G. Jackson. The Whiteness of Paper Drawings from the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, London Friday 1st February - Friday 15th February 2008 Monday - Friday 2 - 7pm Saturdays 11am - 4pm Closed on Sundays Talks and Educational Events Agendas, Agendas, Agendas, A Symposium: ‘The value of teaching collections in draw...
Archaeology: conference updates
2008-01-29 17:42:00 I list some updates referring to previous announcements in this blog. The EAA 14th Annual Meeting will be held in Valletta, Malta, on 16-21 September 2008. A call for papers and sessions has been issued. The World Archaeological Congress invites papers and posters to be submitted by the 22nd of February for the Sixth World Archaeological Congress. ... More About: Archaeology , Updates , Conference
Archaeology: ?First contact, Rome and Northern Britain? conference
2008-01-29 17:16:00 The Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee has organised a special conference entitled First Contact : Rome and Northern Britain in which key invited speakers will gather to debate the timetable, nature and significance of Rome’s first contact with Scotland, particularly in the context of contact with Northern Britain. The conference will be held at the Dewar’s ... More About: Event , Archaeology
The Global Parade (including the Japanese) at Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
2008-01-28 18:29:00 The Europe-Japan Research Centre at Oxford Brookes University will be hosting a lecture on Wednesday 6 February on The Global Parade (including the Japanese ) at Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong . The lecturer is Gordon Mathews, Professor of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The lecture will take place in Gibbs 117, Oxford Brookes University, ... More About: Event
Archaeological exhibitions in London
2008-01-28 15:29:00 In a previous post several exhibitions were mentioned, and I decided to take a day off in London to see some of them. I have been at the Tutankhamun and the golden age of the Pharaohs at the O2 millennium Dome and the First Emperor as well as Divine Cat exhibitions at the British Museum. ... More About: Event , Archaeology , Exhibitions
Japanese films in Edinburgh and Glasgow
2008-01-27 11:32:00 February and March 2008 see screenings of several contemporary Japanese films in Glasgow and Edinburgh . The Japan Foundation touring film programme returns with six contemporary Japanese films for 2008, under the banner “A Life More Ordinary: A Portrait of Contemporary Japanese People on Film”. The movies are showing at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh, 29 February ... More About: Event , Films
Art?s most polish?d blaze
2008-01-25 11:35:00 Tonight, I’ll be celebrating the (presumed) birthdate of Scotland’s National Poet, Robert Burns. I’ll be doing this in the time honoured fashion: a plate of steaming haggis,neeps and tatties, all washed down with a fine Jura single malt, all by the sound of Bagpipes. I’ll be wearing a kilt too. Actually, I’m probably making pasta, but with ... More About: Event , Blaze , Polish
Ruhleben Remembered
2008-01-24 17:04:00 During the First World War, thousands of British civilians were held at Ruhleben civilian internment camp in Germany. The prominence of some of these men (including England and Scotland international footballers) and the events and conditions at the camp ensured that Ruhleben was well-known to those back in Britain. Unable to escape, the thousands of men organised entertainment ...
Ry?nosuke Akutagawa and Rash?mon
2008-01-23 19:02:00 Working at home much of the time, more often than not, I have the radio on. If it gets too distracting, I have to switch off, but there are often programmes or items that send me scurrying through the byways of the internet to track down resources for inclusion in Intute. Such was the case ...
Creative Enterprise Conference 2008
2008-01-20 17:31:00 The Creative Enterprise Conference 2008 , to be held at Birmingham City University?s School of Jewellery, 12th March 08 (£90), will… “…explore current debates and practice in enterprise education for Art, Design and Media courses.” [and] “…give delegates an overview of enterprise curriculum development through practical demonstrations, networking opportunities and a showcase of the teaching models currently ... More About: Event
Call for papers: International aerial archaeology conference
2008-01-18 22:18:00 I am glad to announce that the International aerial archaeology conference of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG 2008) willbe held at Ljubljana on 9 - 11 September 2008. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts University of Ljubljana . Proposals for sessions, papers and posters are invited. Closing ... More About: Call , Papers , Conference
Pantomime dames, principal boys, kabuki and musicals Japanese-style
2008-01-18 17:17:00 Cataloguing records for Intute on the all-female Japanese musical revue company, Takarazuka Revue, at the end of the British pantomime season got me musing on the theatrical traditions of men playing women and women playing men. Pantomimes have gender reversal both ways, with ugly pantomime dames in garish makeup and costumes providing the laughs ... More About: Style , Principal , Musicals , Boys
Single, likes Sudoku*
2008-01-18 11:04:00 This morning (following a news item in the Guardian’s technology supplement I read on the train home yesterday) I’ve been playing with the latest ‘Web 2.0′ service to cause a stir - Spock. It’s a kind of shotgun marriage of a specific web search - for people (Spock reckons about a third of all searches ... More About: Humanities Computing , Single , Sudoku
Conference: Texts in Translation
2008-01-16 12:28:00 Registration is still open for the following one-day conference, organised by the UK Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and the English Subject Centre: *Texts in Translation * Date: 31st January 2008 Venue: University of Sheffield, UK Of interest to colleagues from Modern Languages and English Studies in particular, this event will focus on ... More About: Literature , Classics , Conference
TOOLKIT launch event
2008-01-15 11:59:00 The launch event for TOOLKIT - a practical guide for work placements in the arts and cultural sector. Monday 4th February 2008 2pm-5pm Stratford Circus No fee, but advanced booking required. TOOLKIT has been commissioned by ACE and developed by LCACE in collaboration with a research team of Professor Mustafa Ozbilgin (University of East Anglia) and Dr. Ahu ... More About: Event , Launch , Toolkit
CollectingLiveArt symposium
2008-01-14 11:05:00 Saturday 26th January 2008 10am-6pm Club Row, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2 7ES This one-day symposium will include speakers and open panel discussions that will explore ways to sustain and ensure a legacy of Live Art practice. The symposium will be followed by a launch event for CollectingLiveArt 6-9pm, at the Rochelle School, with a programme of ... More About: Event , Symposium
British Sign Language Science Glossary launch
More articles from this author:2008-01-12 12:23:00 A British Sign Language (BSL) Science Glossary launch event will be held on Friday 18 January 2008 at the Scottish Sensory Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ. Professor Marc Marschark, Honorary Professor in Deaf Education at Moray House School of Education, will provide the opening address. There will also be a presentation and ... More About: Event 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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