Nature’s saviours: contemporary celebrity conservationists in a media age
Seminar
In this seminar Graham Huggan will discuss his research for a new book to be published next year on five contemporary celebrity conservationists: David Attenborough, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Dian Fossey, David Suzuki and Steve Irwin. The book argues that celebrity and conservation are intertwined at…
From egalitarian to elite and back: Recent policy shifts in higher education in Germany
Lecture
The aims of the “Excellence Initiative” policy include: improving the global attractiveness and rankings of the “excellent” universities sustainable structural change in universities, while maintaining the Humboldtian principles that excellent teaching is based on excellent research and of…
Matisse between North Africa and Oceania: Orientalism, Modernism and Artistic Métissage
Lecture
Unlike Gauguin who was a long term settler in Tahiti and the Marquesas, Matisse spent a fleeting eleven weeks there in 1930. Intriguingly, his drawings from that visit include few portraits of women and no nudes. His major later works inspired by that sojourn, Oceania, the Sky and Oceania, the Sea…
How to paint a landscape
Exhibition
A selection of paintings by seventeen artists whose work responds to the natural environment and engages with the tradition of painting the landscape. For more information see: /event/how-paint-landscape
Keywords Public Lecture Series: Ned Curthoys on Character
Lecture
Character is a Janus-faced concept that transgresses the border between the fictional and real, the performed and the authentic. From the Greek word kharattein, to engrave, the word suggests a mark or sign, something imprinted, hence indelible. Since The Characters of Theophrastus, a disciple of…
European Cultural Policy: An Oxymoron?
Lecture
His analysis and observation are based on his experiences both as a practitioner of cultural policy and as a theorist of cultural studies. He was President of the arts platform called Culture Action Europe in 2004-2008. He was also a senior official at UNESCO, inter alia Secretary of the World…
Culture and Humanitarian Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Workshop
With the rise in civil wars and natural disasters in the 1990s and 2000s, refugee camps, extreme poverty, and chronic violence are now the norm for millions. New global genres representing humanitarian crisis are emerging within fiction, memoir, film, art, theatre, and the internet, while…