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”
Category: Histories, Memory & Memorialisation
One of the 3 key themes of The Arts Institute at Plymouth University.
Arts and Humanities research events in June and July
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in June and July. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 20th June 2018, 1pm, Portland Square, Room B312 Transtechnology- Revisiting ideoplasticity: contingency, action, and imagination 23rd June 2018, 10am – 4pm, Roland Levinsky Building Design Lab Message, Design knowledge and… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events in June and July
15th March 2018: Cornish Mining- UNESCO World Heritage Site talk
Join us at 5pm on Thursday 15 March for drinks and a talk by Deborah Boden, Director of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. Deborah will talk about the aims and operations of the WHS including its huge success attracting external funding and running projects with a diversity of partners from archaeologists to installation artists The… Continue reading 15th March 2018: Cornish Mining- UNESCO World Heritage Site talk
Arts and Humanities research events this March
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. 6th March 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Scott, Room 105 ICCMR- Dr Marcelo Gimenes: Experiments in Machine Learning of Musical Style 6th March 2018, 2pm, Rolle 015 Music- Nic Pillai (BCU) “I… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this March
Arts and Humanities research events this February
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. 13th February 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Scott, Room 105 ICCMR- Mr Jared Drayton- An Evolutionary Computing Approach to Singing Synthesis 14th February 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Roland Levinsky, Room 303 Performance.… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this February
20th March 2018: Audiences for Tate Research: Exhibitions, Archives and Publication
Rolle 211 | 3pm – 5pm Over the last decade the role of the national museums as centres for organised research has been transformed out of all recognition. The exploitation of new technologies and access to new streams of funding have encouraged these changes as has new thinking about the role of museums and of… Continue reading 20th March 2018: Audiences for Tate Research: Exhibitions, Archives and Publication
Arts and Humanities Research events this January
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. 3rd January 2018, 10am – 1pm, Roland Levinsky Design Lab Message, Design Knowledge and i-DAT- Design Research Seminar 3 16th January 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Scott, Room 105 ICCMR- Dr Alexis… Continue reading Arts and Humanities Research events this January
Arts and Humanities research events this December
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. 6th December 2017, 4.30pm – 6pm, Roland Levinksy, Room 303 Performance. Experience. Presence.- Chris Green & Katheryn Owens: “Performing the Millennial: Precarity and the Domestic” Jonathan Cripps: “Pedagogy of Presence: Examining… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this December
5th December 2017: Speaking Research- approaches to contemporary research in and out of evaluation structures.
10am-1pm | Rolle 116 Professor Irit Rogoff will talk about her experience of REF and the founding of the new European Forum for Advanced Practices. Irit Rogoff is a writer, educator, curator and organisor. She is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, a department she founded in 2002.Rogoff works at the meeting… Continue reading 5th December 2017: Speaking Research- approaches to contemporary research in and out of evaluation structures.
22nd November 2017: PEP Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning
5pm – 7pm, Roland Levinsky Building Room 306 For 2017’s US Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning, the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at the University of Plymouth invites arts researchers to look towards Plymouth’s commemorations of the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower from Plymouth, UK to Massachusetts, USA. Plymouth, along with 10 other UK towns,… Continue reading 22nd November 2017: PEP Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning