HRC Seminar - Landscape and Meaning: Context for a global discourse on cultural landscapes and intangible values with some thoughts on Asia
Seminar
‘Our human landscape is our unwitting biography, reflecting our tastes, our values, our aspirations, and even our fears in tangible visible form.’ (Lewis) Cultural landscapes categories for World Heritage purposes were (still are) intended to increase awareness that heritage places (sites)…
HRC Seminar - The Rovers’ Return: the books of travel and the ways of worldmaking
Seminar
This paper will sketch a brief dramatis personae of the public drama of travel, and go on to offer an even sketchier account of the making of the ardent sensibility which even the armchair traveller spontaneously acquires from history , art and their narratives. It will reject the too-…
A Roundtable on ‘The Fate of Disciplines’
Seminar
Panellists Include Dr Fiona Jenkins, Philosophy, RSSS Professor Paul Pickering, History, RSHA Moderated By Dr Debjani Ganguly In 2009, Professor Chandler edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry entitled ‘The Fate of Disciplines’. In a series of illuminating essays, this…
Writing a Biography of John Keats
Seminar
In this talk, Professor Nicholas Roe will discuss his new biography on the Romantic poet John Keats. Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, founding editor of the journal Romanticism, and the author of several other books that have helped shape the…
The 6th Anthony Forge Memorial Lecture - Art that is not language: Anthony Forge and Kamasan painting
Lecture
This lecture will discuss the work of Professor Anthony Forge in the field of Balinese painting. Anthony Forge argued that art has a visual quality, summed up by a quoted line from dancer Isadore Duncan who said ‘If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it’. His…
Iconic songs - performance & book launch
Performance
In an absolutely unmissable session, singers Neil Murray and Shane Howard describe the amazing process of committing these songs to a series of newly published books. The musicians will perform, describe their experiences and underline the massive cultural significance of the iconic songs they…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Exploring International Disability Culture: A fictocritical/performative approach to visiting Australia
Seminar
In this presentation, Petra Kuppers will share some of her current work-in-progress. The material develops through practice-led research in creative/critical methodologies, in particular Petra's exploration of fictocritical approaches, a newly energetic genre in Australia. The body of work she is…