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Call for papers: New Views 2 - Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Desig
2008-01-11 11:30:00 An international symposium defining graphic design for the future 9-11 July 2008, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London New Views 2 seeks to look in depth at the broader questions that graphic designers are facing today in terms of the profession and educational practices. At the same time, the symposium is meant to generate ... More About: Call , Graphic , Papers , Dial
Open meeting on less widely taught languages: projects and resources for te
2008-01-11 11:01:00 Date: Tuesday 15th January Venue: University of London, Senate House, Room N336 Time: 13.30-15.30 This event, organised by the Subject Centre for Languages , Linguistics and Area Studies, is open to anyone interested in less widely taught languages in higher education. Resource developers and representatives from key projects and initiatives will give short presentations about their work and discuss ... More About: Projects , Resources , Open , Meeting
CFP : Graft and Transplant - Identities in Question
2008-01-10 22:01:00 The University of Kent’s School of European Culture and Languages is calling on postgraduates to submit abstracts for its upcoming conference “Graft and Transplant - Identities in Question ” to be held on 24th May 2008. The interdisciplinary conference proposes to examine closely the process of becoming “other” or (re-)building an identity which the graft and ...
Archaeology: 1st Annual Antiquist Workshop
2008-01-09 18:09:00 Antiquist has issued a call for postgraduate students to attend the forthcoming workshop on 21-23 April 2008 at the Department of Archaeology , Southampton University. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The 1st Annual Antiquist Workshop will be hosted at Southampton University Archaeology Department in April 2008. The purpose of the Workshop is to provide postgraduate students in Archaeological Informatics and ...
CAAUK 2008 York
2008-01-09 11:21:00 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology UK Conference 1-2 February 2008 - King’s Manor, The University of York A message from the organisers: Just a little reminder to all those who are hoping to attend the CAA UK conference in February who haven’t yet registered. You can make your booking by completing and returning (with payment) the ... More About: Event
Epiphany in Veneto
2008-01-06 20:12:00 Today’s post about Italy and Epiphany has prompted me to write some more about one region in particular, the Veneto . Italy hosts a diversity of cultures within its borders and this has resulted in different traditions being developed for the same occasion. The Befana, the old lady bringing sweets and gifts to children during the ... More About: Archaeology
Miyazaki Studies
2008-01-06 19:40:00 I’m supervising a student who’s doing her dissertation about a particular theme in some of the key films (Kiki, Totoro, Spirited Away) of Hayao Miyazaki, and it’s been an uphill struggle to find full-text serious online articles in English. So, for the sake of others in the same predicament, here are links to some free ... More About: Studies
Archaeology: Web-based resources presented at AIA meeting
2008-01-06 12:53:00 The annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is taking place in Chicago. Of particular interest to Intute users may be workshop 5I, entitled Web-Based Research Tools for Mediterranean Archaeology , which will take place today, January 6, between 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM in the Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency ... More About: Event , Resources , Meeting , Resent
La Befana - Italy and Epiphany
2008-01-05 21:59:00 Epiphany heralds a time of great excitement for Italian children, since it is when La Befana visits them. According to Italian folklore, La Befana is an old lady dressed in black robes and an apron who visits Italian children by broomstick on the eve of 6th January, bringing candy for the good children and coal ... More About: Italy , Epiphany
Call for posters: 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology
2008-01-04 17:53:00 The International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) announces the 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology that will be held in Rome on 22-26 September 2008 and invites submissions of poster proposals. The theme of the conference will be Meetings between Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean. I also remind blog readers that Intute has recently catalogued ... More About: Posters
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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