The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. i-DAT+ Creative School + Tate Exchange: Creative Data Lab#1. 17th-21st October 2016 at Plymouth School of Creative Arts History Lecture with Peninsula Arts: Dr Jo Esra (University of Exeter): ‘Remembering and Memorializing… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University
Month: October 2016
20-22 October 2016: Free interactive playful technology workshops
You are invited to participate in a wide range of workshops during Off The Lip, which takes place from 20-22 October 2016 at Plymouth University. This event arises from CogNovo, which is a multidisciplinary and international research project exploring creativity, cognition, and innovation. Among the Off the Lip workshops are: A Space to Wonder: Interactive Improvisation Workshop with Movement… Continue reading 20-22 October 2016: Free interactive playful technology workshops
Feature: “What can Duke Ellington’s recordings tell us about jazz history?”
BY KATHERINE WILLIAMS Most people think of three things when they think of jazz history: jazz was made famous by a succession of individual musicians (Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins etc.) jazz is predominantly an improvised music, and jazz is an oral tradition (rather than notated art form), and we… Continue reading Feature: “What can Duke Ellington’s recordings tell us about jazz history?”
Dr Anya Lewin awarded Arts Council grant
Plymouth University researcher Dr Anya Lewin has been awarded an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts for her latest project, Fez:The Royal Scent. Fez: The Royal Scent will complete her trilogy of moving image installations inspired by family photographs and public archives, which are used to open up questions about historical context, narrative and… Continue reading Dr Anya Lewin awarded Arts Council grant
Lucy Durneen’s creative non-fiction on BBC Radio 4
A creative non-fiction piece written and performed by Lucy Durneen, Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, alongside Dr Adnan Mahmutović from Stockholm University, has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Comics, War & Ordinary Miracles was specially commissioned for the BBC, and explores the two academics’ very different lives in 1992 and their connection through… Continue reading Lucy Durneen’s creative non-fiction on BBC Radio 4
Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. ICCMR Seminar: Aurelien Antoine – ‘Designing a Sound Classification System’. 3.30pm on 11th October 2016 in Scott Building 105 Artist Talk: Tony Godfrey – ‘Painting in the age of Installation’. 4pm on… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University
12 October 2016: Interdisciplinary medical humanities seminar (on being a patient)
Please join us for the next PEP Talk (the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University) “Negotiating the Gap: Both-and approaches to the practice of being a patient” by Dr Lee Miller and Dr Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley Wednesday 12 October 2016, 4.30-6 pm Roland Levinsky Building room 309, Plymouth University What if… Continue reading 12 October 2016: Interdisciplinary medical humanities seminar (on being a patient)
Feature: “Perspectives on the 1620 Mayflower voyage”
BY KATHRYN N. GRAY In 1622, Mourt’s Relation, a narrative report on the Mayflower voyage and settlement in Plymouth, was published anonymously in London. In contrast to William Bradford’s more famous account of this colonial settlement, Of Plimouth Plantation, which he began in the 1630s in the form of a personal journal, Mourt’s Relation is… Continue reading Feature: “Perspectives on the 1620 Mayflower voyage”
Plymouth University Researcher awarded international book prize
Professor Daniel Maudlin, in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at Plymouth University, has been awarded a prestigious prize by the International Society for Landscape, Place and Material Culture. Known as the Allen G. Noble Book Award, the prize is given for the best edited book on material culture in North America. Professor Maudlin… Continue reading Plymouth University Researcher awarded international book prize
Artist Talks at Plymouth University 2016 – Free & All Welcome
FINE ART VISITING ARTIST SERIES 2016 TUESDAYS @ 4PM ROLAND LEVINSKY BUILDING, PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC October 11 (Jill Craigie Lecture Theatre) – Tony Godfrey Painting in the age of Installation October 18 (Lecture Theatre 1) – Sinta Tantra Flatlands: A Romance of Many Dimensions October 25 (Lecture Theatre 1) – presented by… Continue reading Artist Talks at Plymouth University 2016 – Free & All Welcome