News in Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

Race, Biopolitics and Violence in Francophone Postcolonial Studies

Race, Biopolitics and Violence in Francophone Postcolonial Studies
Description
French Studies is hosting this interdisciplinary colloquium aimed to explore the interlocking and myriad intersections between race, biopolitics and violence in Francophone postcolonial culture, politics and thought, considering Caribbean, African and American contexts.
Date:
19/06/2013

Birmingham's Barber Institute and London's National Gallery swap masterpieces to celebrate anniversary

Birmingham's Barber Institute and London's National Gallery swap masterpieces to celebrate anniversary
Description
An outstanding group of Old Master and 19th-century paintings – including masterpieces by Poussin, Turner, Monet and Manet – go on show at the National Gallery, London this summer as part of the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the foundation of Birmingham's Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Birth of a Collection: Masterpieces from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts runs from 22 May to 1 September 2013.
Date:
18/06/2013

Rob Stone interviewed about Richard Linklater

Rob Stone interviewed about Richard Linklater
Description
An interview with Rob Stone about Richard Linklater and his recent book on the filmmaker has just been published by Columbia University Press.
Date:
14/06/2013

Stephen Forcer interviewed about Conroy Maddox

Stephen Forcer interviewed about Conroy Maddox
Description
Stephen Forcer was recently interviewed about the Birmingham surrealist Conroy Maddox for a documentary about the city produced by Rainbow Films entitled More Canals than Venice. The documentary should be complete and ready for release by the end of the year.
Date:
14/06/2013

Silvio Carta publishes Ethnographic Film article in Visual Studies

Description
Silvio Carta has just published a new article entitled 'Ethnographic Film as Filmic Autobiography: David MacDougall's The Age of Reason' in the journal Visual Studies.
Date:
14/06/2013

RIBA Awards 2013

RIBA Awards 2013
Description
The Bramall Music Building won a RIBA Award, the most rigorously-judged awards for architectural excellence.
Date:
14/06/2013

University of Birmingham at the BBC Proms

University of Birmingham at the BBC Proms
Description
As part of the BBC Proms Youth Choir, Birmingham University Singers will be performing on the opening night of the BBC Proms.
Date:
04/06/2013

Diana Spencer participates in the 'Encounters with Popular Pasts' workshop

Diana Spencer participates in the 'Encounters with Popular Pasts' workshop
Description
Dr Diana Spencer delivered a paper entitled 'Antiquity from Site to Vision: Understanding Technicolor Rome'.
Date:
04/06/2013

Kate Ince presents at Queen Mary Study Day

Description
Kate Ince was among the presenters at 'The Phenomenological Turn'.
Date:
04/06/2013

New book by Russell Jackson on Theatres on Film published

New book by Russell Jackson on Theatres on Film published
Description
Out now from Manchester University Press is the new monograph by Professor Russell Jackson, Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage.
Date:
03/06/2013
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