ENGLISH SHARED FUTURES CONF.NEWCASTLE 5TH-7TH JULY
‘THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CREATIVE WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT AND DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE. We will celebrate the discipline’s intellectual strength, diversity and creativity and explore its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world.’ Wednesday
The Future of Aural Skills in Universities and Conservatoires
by Paul Fleet, AHHE Associate Editor for Music Hello again. My first blog highlighted particular upcoming music conferences, and in keeping with this I wanted to report to you my thoughts from a recent Aural Skills Pedagogy Symposium that was
Translating Theatre: an update by Margherita Laera and Flora Pitrolo
by Margherita Laera and Flora Pitrolo, University of Kent A few months ago Jan Parker wrote a blog [TRANSLATING THEATRE: ‘FOREIGNISATION’ ON STAGE] about our AHRC-sponsored project entitled ‘Translation, Adaptation, Otherness’, following her attendance of our symposium on theatre
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Karen J Leader (Art History class at Mount Holyoke) The photograph reproduced above drives me bonkers. Every time I see it, I have a conniption. Why, you might ask. It seems innocuous; playful and inoffensive. A cute youngish looking
‘Intercultural university models for the 21st century’- Editor’s introduction
WINDS OF THE SOUTH Intercultural university models for the 21st century By Manuela Guillerne, Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra Winds of change are whistling through social, political and cultural institutions, all over the
English: Shared Futures conference programme 5th-7th July
English: Shared Futures Conference THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CREATIVE WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT AND DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE. ‘We will celebrate the discipline’s intellectual strength, diversity and creativity and explore its futures in the nations of the UK
Teaching French History: An IHR Roundtable by Andrew WM Smith
Time is at the heart of what we do as historians, and how we teach our students. Daily, we’re confronted with a wide array of past presents and expired futures. Conceptually, our teaching is also committed to a belief
The evil of banality: Arendt revisited by Elizabeth Minnich
‘Is our ability to judge, to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly, dependent upon our faculty of thought? Do the inability to think and a disastrous failure of what we commonly call conscience coincide?…. An answer, if at all,
Highly Personal Exceptional Visions…
Karen J Leader I admit to being unusually disarmed by the pairing of a film still of the young and brilliant John Berger (1926-2017) with a distinctly unflattering photo of the then president-elect of the United States, Donald J. Trump.