Arts & 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. 17th January 2017 at 7pm in Roland Levinsky Building, RLB LT2. Professor James Daybel on ‘Gender, Power and Early Modern Gloves’, a History with Pen Arts lecture 18th January, 1pm, CogNovo… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research Events This Week at Plymouth University

Art Outside the Gallery: New Voices Conference at Plymouth by the Association of Art Historians

By Nicola Wakeham On 25th November 2016, Plymouth University had the honour of holding the latest New Voices Conference, organised by the Association of Art Historians (AAH). This whole day took place in the university’s beautiful Mast House building, located in Sutton Harbour, with stunning views across the waterside. The title for the conference was Art… Continue reading Art Outside the Gallery: New Voices Conference at Plymouth by the Association of Art Historians

Plymouth LGBT dance film exhibited in Venice until 16 January 2017

Adam Whiting in Heaven is a Place (2014)

A film made by Plymouth University practitioner-researchers, Kayla Parker, Roberta Mock and Ruth Way, is currently screening for a month as part of the Out of Borders Venice International Experimental Art Festival. Heaven is a Place is a community dance film made in collaboration with the advocacy organisation, Pride in Plymouth. It was part of an EU-funded cultural project… Continue reading Plymouth LGBT dance film exhibited in Venice until 16 January 2017

Saying goodbye to ’16 via Mr Key’s Brief Lives

Drawing of Ronald Firbank by Augustus John

Throughout this frankly challenging year, we have gained frequent strength and fortitude by regularly flipping through the pages of Mr Key’s Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives (Little Brown, 2015). Its author and compiler, Frank Key, is a small press legend, blogger and radio personality. Taking as its starting point John Aubrey’s Brief Lives, Mr Key has attempted… Continue reading Saying goodbye to ’16 via Mr Key’s Brief Lives

Feature: “The Political History of the English Plum Pudding in the Long Nineteenth Century”

BY JAMES GREGORY   One enduring item in the British culinary self-imagination has been the plum pudding – often closely associated in festivities with the roast beef (of old England). The pudding – so named for the dried fruits which may have included fruit other than prunes – was not just for Christmas time but… Continue reading Feature: “The Political History of the English Plum Pudding in the Long Nineteenth Century”

24 January 2017: Talk on Museums & the Role of a Curator

Led by Joanna Norman (Deputy Head of Research, Victoria & Albert Museum) 2.30pm-4.30pm at Plymouth University What does a curator actually do, and how does their role fit into the work of a museum as a whole? This session – co-organised by the Arts Institute, Doctoral Training Centre in the Arts & Humanities and the Graduate… Continue reading 24 January 2017: Talk on Museums & the Role of a Curator

14th December 2016: Art History Research Seminar

Peace - Burial at Sea exhibited 1842 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N00528

Professor Sam Smiles, an internationally-recognised expert on British painter J.M.W. Turner, will be giving a paper in next week’s Art History Research Seminar. Professor Smiles will be discussing the critically-acclaimed exhibition he co-curated at Tate Britain, ‘Late Turner: Painting Set Free’ of 2014, and the challenges he faced as an academic-curator in meeting the museum’s… Continue reading 14th December 2016: Art History Research Seminar

Arts & 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. MIA (Moving Image Arts) Seminar: Tom Trevor on ‘The River Tamar Project’. 4pm on 6th December 2016 in Jill Craigie Cinema  ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) Seminar: Edward Braund on ‘Music… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

7 December 2016: Practice-research seminar with Anya Lewin & Roberta Mock

Roberta Mock, A Trip Around the World is Not a Cruise (2016). Photo: Benjamin Graham

You are welcome to join the following research seminar, co-hosted by ARC (Artistic Research Cluster) and PEP (Performance.Experience.Presence research group) at Plymouth University: 7th December 2016, 4.30 – 6.00 pm in Scott 109, Plymouth University Presentations by Dr Anya Lewin & Prof Roberta Mock Fez: The Royal Scent opening up process when you don’t like… Continue reading 7 December 2016: Practice-research seminar with Anya Lewin & Roberta Mock

Advice & Support Sessions for Researchers at Plymouth University: December 2016

Spaces are available on the following Research Support Programme sessions taking place during December: Writing an effective research funding proposal 7th December 2016, 1000 – 1200 Submitting Applications and Resource Planning for Research Projects 7th December 2016, 1100 – 1230 Research Advice – Surgeries: How to cost your project and obtain internal approval for externally… Continue reading Advice & Support Sessions for Researchers at Plymouth University: December 2016