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Archaeology: The Inclusive and Contentious Museum
2008-01-04 15:25:00 A series of international events centred on the definition and role of the museum will take place during 2008. The first is a conference entitled The Inclusive Museum that will be held at the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands, on the 8-11 June 2008, when The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum ... More About: Archaeology
British visual culture in the 1970s
2008-01-03 13:51:00 There’s to be an interdisciplinary “1970s Culture Conference“, 1st to 3rd July 08 in Portsmouth (UK). The organisers write that they have… “a large grant from AHRC to write the history of British visual culture in the 1970s.” Proposals for papers are due in by 31st January 08. This follows earlier conferences such as: The Feminist ... More About: Visual
New Year in Japan
2008-01-02 14:27:00 New Year (o-sh?gatsu) is the most important celebration of the year in Japan . Until the adoption of the western calendar in the late 19th century, Japan followed the Chinese solilunar calendar, but the New Year is now celebrated over the first three days of January. December is always busy with b?nenkai (literally ‘forget the year ... More About: New Year
Exhibition: Wrapping Japan
2007-12-30 16:33:00 The Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, London is holding an exhibition called Wrap ping Japan . The museum’s website shows some of the beautiful objects featured in the exhibition, including kimono, masks and wrapping cloths, and describes the significance of wrapping in Japanese culture: “In Japan, as in many other cultures, textiles are used to wrap people ... More About: Event , Exhibition
Anthony McCall
2007-12-30 12:12:00 Anthony McCall: 30th November 2007 ? 3rd February 2008, Serpentine Gallery, London. “One of the most sublime experiences of the year…You will never see anything like this again” Daily Telegraph. Currently at the Serpentine Gallery, London (see the Intute full record) is British artist Anthony McCall (born 1946). McCall was a key figure in the avant-garde London ... More About: Anthony
Dinner for One? Prosit Neujahr!
2007-12-26 21:28:00 British visitors to Germany at New Year may be a little surprised by the very British flavour to the country’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. For it has become a tradition for families to sit around the television and watch a British cabaret sketch from the 1920s. Although “Dinner for One” is virtually unknown in its home country, it ...
Last Advent calendar door opens
2007-12-24 09:45:00 The last posting in the Intute Advent Calendar is available for you to read today. It is a reflective piece about tracking the Intute: Arts and Humanities blog during December… don’t worry you can also read about the online Advent Calendar s we’ve enjoyed, and find out how to track Santa in 3-D tonight! Merry Christmas ... More About: Door
Advent calendar - tracking Santa
2007-12-24 03:19:00 Firstly, thank you for reading the Intute Advent Calendar . We have enjoyed writing these posts and have been surprised and pleased by the response. For those who just want to skip this serious post about our blog please click on Father Christmas to find out our final tip for festive online resources! Tracking this Blog Intute: Arts ... More About: Santa , Advent Calendar
Advent Calendar - Good King Wenceslas
2007-12-23 17:08:00 Most people in the English-speaking world recognise the popular carol, Good King Wenceslas at Christmastime: ?Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen.? (Lyrics are at Christmas-carols.net, a resource reviewed by Intute.) Image of Wenceslas and servant, used by kind permission of St. Wenceslaus Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA The lyrics describe a Czech ... More About: Calendar , Advent , Advent Calendar
Advent Calendar - Yule
2007-12-22 01:01:00 The winter solstice - which falls on December 22nd this year - is the date of the pagan festival Yule . The festival marked the point at which the sun was believed to be reborn: after the solstice, the days would once again begin to lengthen, and the earth would be seen to gradually come back ... More About: Calendar , Advent , Advent Calendar
Advent Calendar - Visit churches
2007-12-21 01:33:00 In this Advent Calendar you may have read about visiting the monastery of San Francesco in Umbria (and in Second Life), Christmas celebrations in churches in Sweden and in Canada, and about visiting World Heritage sites. Image of the Sound II sculpture by Antony Gormley in the seasonally flooded Crypt beneath Winchester Cathederal. From an original ... More About: Churches , Visit , Advent Calendar
Advent Calendar - the fascination for ancient Egypt
2007-12-20 04:47:00 Modern fascination for ancient Egypt remains high. In spite of some disappointment for the absence of the funerary mask (video below: slow motion video of the mask taken in the Cairo museum by Morganiser) in the current Tutankhamun’s exhibition in London, king Tut is a familiar name and still draws the crowds. YouTube DirektLink Finding the tomb ... More About: Archaeology , Calendar , Ancient , Advent
10th Conference of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosa
2007-12-19 14:11:00 The Centro Regionale per la Progettazione e il Restauro of Palermo announces the 10th Conference of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics, which will take place in Palermo on the 20-26 October 2008. The organisers have issued a call for papers. I would like to draw the attention of those interested on mosaics to ... More About: The International
Advent Calendar - twinkle, twinkle, little star
2007-12-19 07:01:00 Four years ago today saw the beginning of the ascent of British built space probe, Beagle 2, which aimed to search for life on Mars. Something failed, however, and the barbecue-sized space craft never phoned home, as intended, on Christmas Day. As well as clever instruments, designed to test for the signature of life, Beagle 2 ... More About: Star , Calendar , Twinkle , Advent , Advent Calendar
Archaeology: 12th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar
2007-12-19 02:16:00 The 12th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR2008) will be held on 15-19 June 2008 at the University of Birmingham, UK. Participants may enjoy an exciting journey through the wide range of applications, beginning at their front door with utility detection, moving through many infrastructure areas including roads, railways and structures to the environment, both ... More About: Archaeology
Advent Calendar - Canadian Christmas in Quebec
2007-12-18 01:05:00 When I think of Christmas time in Quebec , the first thing that comes to mind is the snowbound cities and the countryside, lit up with lights. Few people can celebrate Christmas like the Québecois. And few people can match the colour and exuberant and sometimes garish beauty of neighborhood light displays. Photograph of Gatineau Christmas ... More About: Canadian , Calendar , Advent
International Summer School on Late Antique Art and Archaeology
2007-12-17 19:39:00 The Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Aarhus is organising an international summer school in 2008 on the topic of Constantine the Great and the Making of Late Antiquity. It will be held between 25 and 30 August 2008. The summer school is part of the research programme Art and Social Identities in ... More About: International , Summer , School , Summer School
Advent Calendar - support for Italian Studies librarians
2007-12-17 11:31:00 YouTube DirektLink The video clip from YouTube embedded above shows some footage from “Bicycle thieves” (1948), directed by Vittorio De Sica. A true masterpiece of Italian “Neorealismo” set in post-war Rome, a city in desperate straits which appears almost hostile to its inhabitants. A noticeable diminution in the teaching of foreign languages within UK Higher Education Institutions ... More About: Studies , Support , Calendar , Advent
Advent Calendar - New discoveries from the Roman world
2007-12-16 01:01:00 The Romans can still surprise us. It is rare that some new archaeological discovery in Rome really attracts attention of its citizens, but this is exactly what happened in the past few weeks. Archaeologists may have found the Lupercal, the place where the Romans believed the she-wolf nursed Romulus and Remus. The she-wolf venerated by ... More About: Literature , World , Classics , Archaeology , Linguistics
Archaeology: ?The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage? conference
2007-12-15 19:04:00 The International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums (CIDOC) annual meeting 2008 will be held in Athens, Greece from the 15th to 18th of September 2008 and will be organised by the Hellenic Committee of ICOM and the Benaki Museum. The theme of the 2008 conference is The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage . ... More About: Archaeology , Conference
Graduate conference in Italian Studies - Cork
2007-12-15 11:17:00 University College Cork is organising an Italian Studies conference for Graduate students on Saturday, 1st March 2008. It invites graduate students to submit a 300 word abstract by 15th January 2008 on any aspect of Italian Studies, including literature, film, linguistics, history, and art history. For more information please contact Dr Silvia Ross. Italian Studies records ... More About: Conference
Advent Calendar - A Second Life for Education?
2007-12-15 11:16:00 In the run up to the first Intute Staff Conference in Nov 2007 the teams were asked to put together a presentation explaining who they were and what they did. The request came with a rather worrying stipulation; ‘no powerpoint’. A presentation without Powerpoint? What could we do? For my part I decided to make ... More About: Education , Life , Second Life , Calendar , Advent
Women in Art
2007-12-14 12:54:00 We’ve just been told about this video by Philip Scott Johnson on YouTube, also embedded below: YouTube DirektLink The morphing animation covers ‘500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art‘ to the music of Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Intute has reviewed countless records on ... More About: Women
Conference on Coastal Fortification: from the beginning to the modern times
2007-12-14 02:34:00 The Portuguese Association of the Castle’s Friends is organising together with the University of the Algarve an International Conference on Coastal Fortresses. The conference is entitled Coastal Fortification: from the beginning to the modern times and will be held on 27-29 November 2008 at Faro, Portugal. The organisers are inviting proposals for papers or communications to ... More About: Times , Modern , Modern Times
Advent Calendar - Theatres and theatre collections
2007-12-14 02:16:00 St. James’s Theatre in King Street, London was opened on 14th December 1835 with a performance of the comic opera, Agnes Sorel. Running parallel with Pall Mall, and situated close to St. James’s Square and the Haymarket, St. James’s Theatre was in the heart of London’s theatreland. It was designed by London architect Samuel Beazley, ... More About: Collections , Calendar , Advent , Advent Calendar
Electronic Visualisation in the Arts
2007-12-13 12:57:00 EVA London 2008 is calling for papers. The conference, co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society is looking for offers of paper in subjects including: visualising ideas and concepts in museums and galleries, digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, the European Digital Library, social media for museums, heritage and fine art ... More About: Electronic , Humanities Computing , The Arts
Advent Calendar - Sankta Lucia
2007-12-13 10:33:00 YouTube DirektLink 13 December is a very special day in Sweden. In the cold, dark mid-winter, the everyday chores are lightened up by a celebration of light. The light is brought by Sankta Lucia , St Lucy. Clad in white and with a crown of candles, Lucia and her retinue fill schools, homes, offices, shopping centres, nurseries, ... More About: Calendar , Advent , Advent Calendar
International Conference on Paphlagonia and Pontus
2007-12-13 01:35:00 An international conference on Paphlagonia and Pontus in antiquity and the early Byzantine period (7th c. BC-7th c. AD) will take place between the 31st of May and the 4th of June 2008 at the Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey. The organisers invite papers from scholars and graduate students on any aspect of Paphlagonia and ... More About: International , Conference
Institute of Field Archaeologists Annual Conference 2008
2007-12-13 01:13:00 The 2008 Annual Conference of The Institute of Field Archaeologists will be held at the University of Swansea from 18-20 March 2008. The Provisional Programme (PDF file) is now available and conference bookings can be made by sending a copy of the booking form to the IFA office or booking online via the CBA website ... More About: Event , Archaeology
Damage to Westminster Abbey?s treasures
More articles from this author:2007-12-12 19:04:00 The damage caused to some of Westminster Abbey’s most precious treasures by central heating is in the news. Central heating is essential to keep visitors warm, but it causes the humidity inside the Abbey to fluctuate, damaging the artefacts that people come to see. This raises the question of what the Abbey is for: place ... More About: Damage , Treasures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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