BY JAMESON TUCKER When I got into the office on Monday morning, I was happy (and a bit surprised) to find a box containing six copies of my book, The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespin’s Livre des Martyrs, which is coming out soon from Routledge. This is based on my PhD thesis, which… Continue reading Feature: “Writing about writing about dying: researching the Livre des Martyrs”
Category: Histories, Memory & Memorialisation
One of the 3 key themes of The Arts Institute at Plymouth University.
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. 19th April 2017, 1pm, CogNovo seminar room, Link buiding, 3rd Floor- Illusions, a Transtechnology seminar 20th April 2017, 1pm, Roland Levinksy Building 703- Jo Davies and Steven Smith, a Message seminar
20th April 2017: Out of Order Film Screening
6pm, Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building. Plymouth University Plymouth University in partnership with the University’s LGBT Forum will be showing the documentary Out of Order, followed by light refreshments and a Q&A session with Director/Producer Amanda Bluglass. Out of Order (2016) is a ground-breaking feature documentary directed by Plymouth University Associate Lecturer in Media… Continue reading 20th April 2017: Out of Order Film Screening
21st April 2017: Heritage Research Symposium
13.30-17.00, Room 108, Mast House The Arts Institute and School of Humanities and Performing Arts will be hosting a symposium around the theme of Heritage Research Programme 13.00-13.30: REF and Research Update (James Daybell) 13.30-13.45: Introduction and overview of ‘Cornerstone Heritage’ (James Daybell, History and Daniel Maudlin, History) 13.45-14.45: Session 1 Diana Walters (International Museums… Continue reading 21st April 2017: Heritage Research Symposium
Feature: “Waiting for a cure: Oskar Kokoschka’s Portraits of Tubercular Patients”
By GEMMA BLACKSHAW The modern period has been historicised as one of heroic advancement in the visual arts, a time marked by artists’ experimentation with new materials and methods, and representation of new ways of seeing. What is less acknowledged in this history is the role played by medicine, a field which was also marching forwards… Continue reading Feature: “Waiting for a cure: Oskar Kokoschka’s Portraits of Tubercular Patients”
Arts and Humanities research events this week at the University of Plymouth
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. 14th March, 2-4pm in Rolle Building room 204 – Impact Case Study workshop with Dr Rebecca Sullivan (CEO of the HIstorical Association and REF 2014 panellist), hosted by the Arts Institute.… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at the University of Plymouth
From digital to post-digital memory
On The Arts Institute Digital Memory Symposium: Monday, 16th January 2017 By Hannah Drayson and James Sweeting The University of Plymouth’s Art Institute’s first one-day research symposium brought together researchers from across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities to respond to the theme of Digital Memory. It aimed to explore how the ‘turn to the material’ across… Continue reading From digital to post-digital memory
15 March 2017: Seminar on Shakespeare’s King Henry V
Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. All welcome. Wednesday 15th March, 4.30 – 5.45pm in Roland Levinsky Building room 303 at the University of Plymouth The Christian King and his English Mercuries: The Juxtaposition of Catholicism and Roman Mythology in Shakespeare’s King Henry V by Dr… Continue reading 15 March 2017: Seminar on Shakespeare’s King Henry V
4 August 2017: “Queer Beyond London” event in Plymouth
Taking place at 2pm on Saturday 4th August is a Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery “Museum on Tour” event at The Council House, Armada Way, Plymouth PL1 2AA. Come and share your experiences of themes including family and kinship, migration and movement, activism and community building, and the uses of history. Queer Beyond London… Continue reading 4 August 2017: “Queer Beyond London” event in Plymouth
Call for Proposals: Routledge Book Series in ‘Material Readings in Early Modern Culture’
This series, edited by Professor James Daybell (University of Plymouth) and Professor Adam Smyth (Balliol College, University of Oxford), provides a forum for studies that consider the material forms of texts as part of an investigation into early modern English culture. The editors invite proposals of a multi- or interdisciplinary nature, and particularly welcome proposals that combine… Continue reading Call for Proposals: Routledge Book Series in ‘Material Readings in Early Modern Culture’