HRC Seminar - Writing History Across Generations
Seminar
In my recently published book A Private Empire, I explore the British empire through the eyes and experiences of a single Scottish family. Beginning in 1757, successive generations of the Macphersons of Blairgowrie travelled the world, with lengthy stays in India, Guyana and Australia, leaving a…
HRC Seminar - The Two Meanings of 'World' in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
Seminar
The concept of "World" is central in Hannah Arendt's thought but it is nowhere very clearly defined. In general, the concept refers to that which has to do with specifically human affairs and thus encompasses neither the natural world or a possible, transcendent spiritual world as such. Yet…
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…