Browse events by 'Art and Architecture'
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'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London is pleased to announce a forthcoming lecture in its StrandLives series: six distinguished lectures, discussing life stories associated... |
London , United Kingdom |
| 15 - 17 |
Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of... |
London, United Kingdom |
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Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe This one-day symposium on Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent... |
Alton, United Kingdom |
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Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the date for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, the theme of which... |
Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage We are very pleased to announce that The University of York, UK, will be hosting the event Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage on the 25th of February 2012. This event... |
York, United Kingdom |
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Mondrian, Nicholson and 20th Century Abstraction 09.30 – 18.00 (with registration from 09.00) Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN In 1936 Alfred H. Barr Jr’s history-... |
London, United Kingdom |
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Meet the Historian: Mary Beard 'Meet the Historian’ events are an opportunity to hear at first hand from noted historians how and why they became historians in the first place, their thoughts on research and the discipline... |
London, United Kingdom |
| 08 - 10 | New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012 | Sarasota, United States |
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Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions (Day 2) 10.15 – 17.00 (with registration from 09.45) Gothic ivory sculpture, surviving in large numbers in collections around the world, has thus far not received all the attention it deserves... |
London, United Kingdom |
| 25 - 27 |
Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest This conference brings together some leading authorities to examine the relative importance of the Norman Conquest in shaping the fortunes of St Edmund's monastic community. Hosted at the... |
Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom |
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| 02 - 04 |
The Royal Body The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of... |
Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom |
| 13 - 14 |
Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century A two-day international conference to be held at the University of Kent featuring keynotes by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Professor Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Dr A.V. Murray (Leeds... |
Canterbury, United Kingdom |
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The Oxford Movement & its Legacy A Kent Archaeological Society study day looking at the Oxford Movement and its legacy, especially in Kent, through a combination of lectures (in the morning) and workshops (in the afternoon).... |
Folkestone, United Kingdom |
| 18 - 19 |
Consuming the country house: from acquisition to presentation The country house can be seen as a palimpsest: generations of owners adding their own material objects and layers of meaning. This presents challenges to both historians and curators – how to... |
Northampton, United Kingdom |
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Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History Statuary has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and ideas, and the formation of sexual knowledge. From prehistoric phallic stones, mythological representations of... |
Exeter, United Kingdom |
| 27 - 29 |
Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages This conference seeks to explore the functions of seals in medieval Britain and Western Europe in the broadest possible context. Themes will include the use of seals in law and administration, the... |
Aberystwyth, United Kingdom |
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Cradled in Caricature - a multidisciplinary event Call for Contributions This one-day event will approach the notion of ‘caricature’ in its broadest sense, using it as a jumping-off point for discussions on exaggeration,... |
Canterbury, United Kingdom |
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History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the 'New Science' The day conference 'History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the "New Science"' will be held on Friday, 27 April 2012, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Royal Society,... |
London, United Kingdom |
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Spaces of Work 1770-1830 Spaces of Work 1770-1830 will address the relationships between workers and spaces in Britain. We aim to showcase current research and are particularly interested in interrogating... |
Coventry, United Kingdom |
| 28 | The First Annual Postgraduate Renaissance Symposium: 'Beyond the Frame: Portraits and Personal Experience in Renaissance Europe, c.1400 – 1650' | London, United Kingdom |
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Hearing Landscape Critically: Sense, Text, Ideology ‘Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are’ (José Ortega y Gasset). *** Nowhere is the only unattainable elsewhere; people are always already... |
Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 18 - 19 |
The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, (Trans)National and Global Perspectives Event Announcement Centre for Transnational History University of St Andrews Date of Event: 18/19 May, 2012 The two-day interdisciplinary workshop THE CHANGING... |
St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom |
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Performing Art History II: Conveying Research, Communicating Collaboration A conference organised by the Performing Art History Special Interest Group to be held on Friday 18 May 2012 Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House,... |
London, United Kingdom |
| 25 | Probing the Interior 1800-2012 | London, United Kingdom |
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| 06 - 08 |
The making of a monarchy for the modern world A conference at Kensington Palace ‘THERE will soon be only five kings left - the Kings of Diamonds, Heart, Spades and Clubs, and the King of England’. King Farouk... |
London, United Kingdom |
| 13 - 14 |
AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012 Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab... |
London, United Kingdom |
| 14 - 16 |
Money, Power and Print: interdisciplinary studies in the financial revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776 This colloquium, the fifth in a biennial series, offers an opportunity for scholars from a variety of disciplines to work together to enrich their mutual understanding of the intersections between... |
Halifax, Canada |
| 15 - 16 |
European Painted Cloths C14th-C21st: Pageantry, Ceremony, Theatre and the Domestic Interior This two day conference will explore the use of painted cloths in religious ceremony, pageantry, domestic interiors and scenic art. It will focus on their change of context and significance from... |
London, United Kingdom |
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E. A. Freeman: The Life and Times of a Victorian Intellectual 'History is past politics, politics is present history'. Edward Augustus Freeman's activities as a scholar are widely acknowledged for having helped establish the study of medieval history... |
Hawarden, United Kingdom |
| 21 - 23 |
Call for Papers: 2012 British Scholar Conference (Britain and the World) This serves as a call for papers for the fifth annual British Scholar Conference. The conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from Thursday, 21 June through Saturday, 23 June, 2012. This... |
Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
