Intute Arts and Humanities Blog

RSS Feed Homepage

Articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

And the award for best?
2008-06-05 16:20:00
“Mother! Look! I’ve got it! Look, Mother, look! The last Golden Ticket! It’s mine! I found some money in the street and I bought two bars of chocolate and the second one had the Golden Ticket and there were crowds of people all around me wanting to see it and the shopkeeper rescued me and ...
More About: Award

Survey on use of online and print resources for philosophy and religious st
2008-06-04 18:13:00
Are you: A UK further or higher education student? Studying philosophy, theology, or religious studies? If so, Intute: Arts and Humanities needs your help! If you’re doing an AS/A level (or a Higher, or another similar qualification) or a degree in one or more of these subjects, we’d really appreciate it if you’d take a few minutes to fill ...
More About: Philosophy , Resources , Survey , Print , Online

Reith Lectures 2008 - Chinese vistas
2008-06-04 17:18:00
The Beijing Olympics are looming and one frequently hears that the 21st century will be the Chinese century, so it is not surprising that the 2008 BBC Reith Lectures by the eminent historian Professor Jonathan Spence are on the theme ‘Chinese vistas’. The first lecture, ‘Confucian Ways’, was broadcast on 3 June and can be ...
More About: Event

Observatori
2008-06-03 17:08:00
We?re all off to Valencia. Famous place ? known for its oranges. But there is more to it than that. When I say ?all?, it?s only a few of us really. But all are welcome. It?s Observatori 2008! Observatori is an arts festival, and there are artists, concerts, and workshops. This is an opportunity for me to ...
More About: Event

Photographybook Now
2008-05-31 19:03:00
Vendors of print-on-demand books Blurb have launched the website for their Photographybook Now: International Salon & Symposium. This will be in London on 10th October 2008… “…a half-day program of panels and presentations exploring the modern photography book movement. You’ll hear working photographers talk about their books, hear industry practitioners discuss how to curate and design ...
More About: Event

Tiger Far East Film Festival
2008-05-28 14:38:00
The Tiger Far East Film Festival opens in London and Brighton on 29 May, showing some of the latest movies from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. East Asian cinema has become popular and influential in the West over the last couple of decades, and many excellent online resources, ranging ...
More About: Event , Film Festival

Workshop - German-speaking refugees of 1930s
2008-05-26 13:28:00
The British Academy, London is hosting a workshop entitled “Reconstituting a Traumatized Community: the German -speaking refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy to Britain” on Tuesday 24th June. Convened by Professor Edward Timms and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, the workshop hopes to re-assess the legacy of the refugees who fled to ...
More About: Event , Workshop , Refugees , Speaking

How do women write space?
2008-05-23 14:08:00
“In the second half of the 20th century space has become a reference point of cultural debates. Feminist critics have been particularly receptive to the new findings in this field, and set out to explore the specificity of the relationship between gendered subjects and the spaces they inhabit”. A one day conference on 7th March 2009 ...
More About: Literature , Women , Event , Space , Classics

Survey of digital audio recorders
2008-05-22 06:50:00
Many researchers and academics will want to purchase a good small digital audio recorder, for a variety of purposes. Departments may also be considering buying one, so they can podcast public talks and symposiums. So the new B&H audio recorder guide may help in choosing one of the confusing range of sixteen makes and models. Bear ...
More About: Audio , Survey , Digital Audio , Digital , Recorders

Conference: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Early Medieval Europe AD 400-
2008-05-21 11:58:00
Intute has launched a new events calendar that should reduce posts about events in this blog. However, some major or interdisciplinary conferences might still be worth mentioning here. One of these is entitled Disease , Disability & Medicine in Early Medieval Europe AD 400-1200 and will be held in Oxford on 5-6 July 2008. A call ...

Arts and humanities events calendar launched
2008-05-20 17:29:00
Intute: Arts and Humanities launched its new events calendar today, providing a database of upcoming conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and other events that you might be interested in: http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities /conferences.html If you’ve used the Intute: Social Sciences section before you may have already come across the calendar, but it’s coverage has now been extended to include arts and ...
More About: Events , Event , Calendar

Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat
2008-05-19 11:46:00
“And strange to tell, among that earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried - Who is the Potter, pray, and who the pot?“ Leyden, Netherlands, 6th and 7th July, 2009 Cambridge, England, 9th and 10th July, 2009 This week-long conference running consecutively in Leyden and Cambridge, will celebrate the the 200th anniversary of of the ...
More About: Edward , Omar

Butterfingers!
2008-05-16 10:48:00
It’s always satisfying to hear about other people’s botched jobs, but the news today that highly trained art handlers at London’s National Gallery broke a valuable (and publicly owned) Sienese Renaissance panel painting by Domenico Beccafumi is perhaps not that funny - certainly for whoever was unfortunate to have been taking it down from the wall. ...

Her Make is Perfect
2008-05-15 18:12:00
A seminar interrogating women’s dramatic writing, text and performance (1600-1830) is planned for September 2008, at the University of Surrey. Elizabeth Hartley (1751-1824) image from the conference website Friday 5th September at Chawton House Library and Saturday 6th September at the University of Surrey. Keynote speakers: Professor Alison Findlay Professor Fiona Ritchie and Professor Gweno Williams Further conference details see the ...
More About: Literature , Event , Classics , Linguistics , Make

Limelight: Castles in Wales
2008-05-14 23:40:00
Intute’s latest Limelight provides links to valuable Internet resources about castles built in Wales during the rule of the English king Edward I. Image of Rhuddlan Castle, North Wales, from original photograph by ‘Deathwaves’, some rights reserved under Creative Commons.
More About: Castles

Seminar on Sir Thomas Blake Glover, Aberdeen
2008-05-14 16:01:00
A major seminar on the 19th century Scottish trader and entrepreneur, Sir Thomas Blake Glover , will be held at Robert Gordon University’s Aberdeen Business School, 5.30-7.30p.m. on Tuesday 10 June. There will be two presentations: Professor Brian Burke-Gaffney of Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, on “Thomas Blake Glover: Entrepreneur extraordinary and his influence ...
More About: Event , Seminar

Turner prize nominees
2008-05-14 11:17:00
The Turner Prize nominations have been released. Awarded to a British-based artist under the age of 50 for a work that was created in the last twelve months, this year the list is dominated by women. The artists are: film and video artist Runa Islam, multimedia artist Mark Leckey, who uses performance and sculpture in his work, ...
More About: Event

Dating the human colonisation of America
2008-05-13 05:37:00
In the latest issue of Science (5877) there are two important articles on Pre-Clovis dates obtained in America . The first article by Dillehay et al. focuses on Monte Verde, Chile, and the recent discovery of nine species of algae in the archaeological record (sediment from hearths and sediment attached to stone tools). The ...
More About: Dating , Archaeology , Human

Call for papers: MindTrek conference 2008
2008-05-12 15:41:00
11th MindTrek conference 2008 : Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era, October 7th-9th, 2008 Tampere, Finland MindTrek, a leading Northern new media festival and conference series, is running a three day conference to explore current and emerging topics of social media, ubimedia and games.  It includes a workshop day, three main tracks, plenary sessions and invited ...
More About: Call , Papers , Conference

Experimental Archaeology conference
2008-05-10 15:11:00
The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Experimental Archaeology. The conference will be held over the weekend of 15th-16th November 2008 and will comprise a day of papers and discussions at the Archaeology building on Saturday followed, on Sunday, by a trip ...
More About: Conference

International symposium about ?Holistic Archaeology?
2008-05-07 18:17:00
An international symposium on Holistic Archaeology will be held on 2nd - 4th June 2008 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. The symposium focuses on multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary projects in the archaeology of Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean region. A poster (PDF file) announcing the symposium is available. The topics deal with a “holistic approach” to ...
More About: International , Event , Symposium

Archaeology: American TAG 2009 and AAA 2008 conferences
2008-05-07 14:55:00
I am pleased to announce two important conferences in different continents: the American Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2009 and the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) Conference 2008 . Calls for papers and sessions are open. Stanford Archaeology Center is pleased to announce the second American meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG), May 1-3, 2009, at Stanford University, ...
More About: Conferences

World Premiere London - Io, sola, ho visto
2008-05-07 10:07:00
The Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith are hosting the World Premiere production of the contemporary Italian playwright Giorgio Taffon’s production Io, sola, ho visto (I, only, saw). The play starts at 8pm on Monday 19th May and is directed by Mariano D’Amora. According to its writer, the play is a monologue in verses that recalls the metric ...
More About: Event , London , Visto

Call for papers: Victorian provincial architects
2008-05-06 13:33:00
A one-day colloquium to be held at the University of Liverpool, 28th November 2008. Famous names, many of them London-based, tend to dominate the history of nineteenth-century British architecture.  Lesser-known figures in the regions, however, were largely responsible for building Victorian Britain. In Liverpool, the local architects William Culshaw (1806/7-1874) and Henry Sumners (1825/6-1895) were prolific designers ...
More About: Call , Architects , Papers , Provincial

Conference: Slovakia 15 Years on
2008-05-03 20:46:00
The  UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies is organising a one day conference on Saturday, May 10, with Slovakia as the focus. The title refers to the exciting transition period from communism to democracy and to independence: the conference will bring to light the troubled political years of the 1990s followed by the economic ...
More About: Years , Conference

Endangered languages in the Limelight
2008-05-02 17:20:00
The latest Limelight feature from Intute: Arts and Humanities is about “Endangered languages”. The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London is currently holding its annual Endangered Languages week (30 April - 7 May 2008), with seminars, workshops, film screenings and an open day. It’s estimated ...
More About: Literature , Event , Classics , Linguistics

Event: E-learning and educational technologies
2008-05-02 15:44:00
Workshop: E-learning and educational technologies Date: 9th June 2008 Venue: University of Bristol Organised by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, this workshop will showcase current projects and initiatives undertaken by Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) relating to e-learning and educational technologies. The programme and registration details are here: http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventite m.aspx?resourceid=2918 The workshop is FREE ...
More About: Event , Educational , Technologies

Imaging War
2008-05-02 11:11:00
We have entered a time of highly technological warfare, where over half of the world?s research and development is now military and an ongoing revolution in military affairs (RMA) is changing the rules and weapons that will be used to define our common futures in a global society. Yet most of the public are getting ...
More About: Event , Imaging

Conference: Archaeologies of the Everyday
2008-05-02 02:41:00
The Centre for Historical Archaeology, University of Sheffield, has organised a conference entitled Archaeologies of the Everyday - questioning the ‘transparency of the daily’, which will be held in Sheffield on 3?5 June 2008. The conference will be organised around 5 related themes: The Historicity of the Senses ? exploring the ways in which peoples? engagement with ...
More About: Conference

Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
2008-05-01 22:20:00
Dan Dare was a staunchly British comics / science-fiction hero from long before my own childhood, so has almost no emotional resonance for me. But those who cherish memories of Dan and The Eagle comic might wish to visit the new free exhibition:? Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain .  It opened yesterday at the ...
More About: Event , Hi Tech