The music of Noel Coward, a timeless cinema classic and the boundless energy of the Charleston will be among the highlights as the spirit of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ comes alive once again. The Festival, organised by Peninsula Arts, will showcase the best entertainment of the 1920s, including performances by celebrated cabaret duo Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel and… Continue reading 22nd May – 11th June 2017: Words and Music Festival
Category: Histories, Memory & Memorialisation
One of the 3 key themes of The Arts Institute at Plymouth University.
Cornerstone Heritage at Powderham Castle-Summer Lectures
This May and June Cornerstone Heritage, the University of Plymouth’s heritage research group, presents three weeks of (almost) daily talks by leading experts on the history and heritage of the historic built environment hosted by the Earl of Devon at Powderham Castle. ‘Cornerstone at Powderham’ is part of the University of Plymouth’s wider on-site investigation… Continue reading Cornerstone Heritage at Powderham Castle-Summer Lectures
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
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. 9th May 2017, 12.30pm, Roland Levinsky Building 213 – Keith Brown, a Design Knowledge seminar 10th May, 1pm, Scott 102 – Land/Water round table discussion 10th May, 2pm – ‘Ubiquity’, an… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University
18th May 2017: Photographies
18 May & 19 May, 2017 309 Regent St, University of Westminster, London UK To celebrate their tenth anniversary, photographies journal is holding a two-day conference. Bringing together a range of international speakers, it promises to be a defining event engaging and interrogating the contemporary condition and currency of the photographic image. Talks will address… Continue reading 18th May 2017: Photographies
Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century: early bird extended
22nd and 23rd June | Plymouth University The first international conference hosted by Plymouth Nineteenth Century Studies (PUNCS) began on the day of the Brexit referendum, and commentators have seen that event in the context of other signs of anti-globalisation and in a landscape of violent disintegrations or forcible integrations in the Twenty-first century. This… Continue reading Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century: early bird extended
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
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
4th May 2017: Histories of the Unexpected Live
7.30pm | The House | Plymouth University As a curtain raiser for Plymouth History Month, BBC’s Sam Willis and Plymouth University’s James Daybell present Histories of the Unexpected Live, the chart-topping, history podcast that features on Dan Snow’s History Hit Network, Histories of the Unexpected Live. There is a new buzz about history – the new rock… Continue reading 4th May 2017: Histories of the Unexpected Live
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