BY JAMES GREGORY Devonport in the early 1870s. A former Baptist minister from Bristol leads meetings in the gas-lit parlour of a tradesman. The audience gather around an ordinary cloth-covered table. But the phenomena that they are there to experience will be decidedly out of the ordinary. Over the next few years, members of various… Continue reading Feature: “Who ya gonna call? Spiritualism in Victorian Plymouth & Exeter”
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23-24 June 2016: What did ‘Judgement’ mean in the 19th century?
Registration is now open for ‘A Time of Judgement: The Operation and Representation of Judgement in 19th century Cultures’ to be held on 23 and 24 June 2016 at Plymouth University. Please note that you can benefit from the Early Bird Delegate rate and save £25 by booking before 31 May. This international, interdisciplinary conference seeks… Continue reading 23-24 June 2016: What did ‘Judgement’ mean in the 19th century?
Feature: “Milton, Woolf and the mad Magnificat”
BY MIN WILD Because what we do as academics is demanding, and coercive in so many ways – ways both good and bad – there is seldom any time for play, or experiment, or sheer foolery. Even when the day-to-day demands of teaching or admin ease, our own research involves restrictions, parameters, duties and certain… Continue reading Feature: “Milton, Woolf and the mad Magnificat”
Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements
Two doctoral researchers in the arts at Plymouth University have been awarded prestigious placements to complement their programmes of study. Coral Manton has been awarded a placement by the British Library to investigate possibilities for the PhD thesis in multimedia and non-text forms, and how a national database of UK doctoral theses can record and make accessible… Continue reading Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements
Book now for the next showing of ‘The Cosmic Perspective’
i-DAT proudly presents Plymouth University’s Immersive Vision Theatre, a planetarium reborn as a transdisciplinary instrument for creating and exploring science and art. Come and witness our most popular show, The Cosmic Perspective, a live and interactive demonstration with Luke Christison, tracking the frontiers of cosmic discovery and understanding. This is a journey from Earth to the edge of… Continue reading Book now for the next showing of ‘The Cosmic Perspective’
Feature: “Sian Davey: Looking For Alice”
BY DAVID CHANDLER During the 1980s, as the domestic realm increasingly became one of its primary subjects, photographic art began to add a new critical dimension to what experience had already seared into the core of our collective being: that the models of family life propagated by advertising and the media, were, on almost every… Continue reading Feature: “Sian Davey: Looking For Alice”
19 May 2016: What does a 3* or 4* research output look like in the arts & design?
19 May 2016, starting at 10 am Roland Levinsky Building, room 209, at Plymouth University In this session, Professor Naren Barfield will discuss how we might recognise and understand what constitutes an ‘internationally-excellent’ or ‘world-leading’ research output in the fields of art and design. More generally, for those who might not be located within this… Continue reading 19 May 2016: What does a 3* or 4* research output look like in the arts & design?
Feature: “The Challenge of Connecting Communities”
BY ALAN BUTLER In retrospect, one of the more surprising things that characterised my PhD project was the need to continuously negotiate and renegotiate a variety roles, along with their associated labels. Some of these, I must admit, did not always automatically sit comfortably with me. My thesis, “Performing LGBT Pride in Plymouth, 1950 to 2012,” considered how… Continue reading Feature: “The Challenge of Connecting Communities”
11 May 2016: seminar on music of English folk song
You are welcome to attend the following MUSIC RESEARCH SEMINAR by Paul Wilson (Wren Music) Wednesday 11 May 2016 at 2 pm in Rolle 015, Plymouth University “Moving Modes: Truths and questions about the Music of English Folk Song” This talk investigates some of the truths and myths about the musical modes of English Folk Song.… Continue reading 11 May 2016: seminar on music of English folk song
Feature: “Performing the Toxic Body”
BY ROBERTA MOCK While so many of us mourn and remember Prince, who died on 21 April, the global media drips the details of his final days, expressing our collective surprise that his death appears to have been due to an overdose, the consequence of long term addiction to prescription painkillers. Over and over we read… Continue reading Feature: “Performing the Toxic Body”