Upcoming Arts and Humanities Events September – December 2019

  The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. Arts Institute Public Programme  Fri 29 Nov – Sat 11 Jan – Exhibition: Future History,The Levinsky Gallery Sat 7 Dec – Music – University of Plymouth Choral Society and Sinfonia… Continue reading Upcoming Arts and Humanities Events September – December 2019

Upcoming Arts and Humanities Events September – October 2019

    The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information.   Arts Institute Public Programme  Mon 23 Sep – Sat 16 Nov – Exhibition: Mariner: A Painted Ship Upon A Painted Ocean | The Levinsky Gallery  Tue 1 Oct –… Continue reading Upcoming Arts and Humanities Events September – October 2019

Book Review: “Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker”

Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker. By Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff. University of Texas Press, 2018. 275 pp., ISBN 978-4773-1236-0 (hc).  reviewed by Roberta Mock Sophie Tucker was an entertainer. It’s not a term we use much anymore. We now tend to use words like celebrity – and she was certainly that too. In… Continue reading Book Review: “Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker”

Arts and 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. 16th May 2017, 7pm in Roland Levinsky Building Lecture Theatre 2 – Prof Lucy Bland on “Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’: The Children of Black GIs and White Women Born in World War… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

Registration now open: On the Moors Postgraduate Research Conference

On The Moors: Performance.Experience.Presence Postgraduate Research Conference 10-11 June 2017 on Dartmoor Keynotes by Roberta Mock, Phil Smith and Claudia Zeiske Registration now open! The University of Plymouth annual transdisciplinary practice-research postgraduate conference this year takes place in Dartmoor National Park over the weekend of 10-11 June 2017, and is now open for booking.  Following the… Continue reading Registration now open: On the Moors Postgraduate Research Conference

Arts and Humanities research events this week

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. 2nd May 2017, 12.30pm, Roland Levinsky Building 213- Hannah Drayson and Mike Blow, a Design Knowledge seminar 3rd May 2017, 4.30pm, in Roland Levinsky Building 306 – Steven Paige on archives,… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week

3 May 2017: Artistic research seminar on archives and digitality

Steven Paige, "Antinous/Acrobats", 2015

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group Plymouth University, all welcome: Steven Paige: “Anxious Archives? How we might try and not forget, and it does not always have to be digital” Wednesday, 3rd May 2017, 4.30 – 5.30pm In Roland Levinsky Building (RLB) 306, Plymouth University Does the… Continue reading 3 May 2017: Artistic research seminar on archives and digitality

Arts and Humanities research events this week

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. 26th April 2017, 4.30pm- Chris Green and Katheryn Owens,Teri Bailie and James Harper, a Performance. Experience. Presence. seminar 26th April 2017, 4pm- Dr Elaine Murphy: ‘A Water Baudie House: Women and the… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week

Adam Benjamin featured in new book about international dance leadership

Adam Benjamin, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, is one of six international dance artists featured in a new publication entitled Dance Leadership: Theory into Practice by Jane Alexandre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) This “what is”—rather than “how to”— volume proposes a theoretical framework for understanding dance leadership for dancers, leaders, and students of both domains, illustrated by… Continue reading Adam Benjamin featured in new book about international dance leadership

Arts and 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. 28th March 2017 at 12.30pm, Roland Levinsky Building (RLB) 213 – Helen Walter on The Body and Design, a Design Knowledge seminar 29th March at 3pm in Rolle Building 018 – Embodied… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University