http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/ en chris.jennings@brookes.ac.uk 2011-09-13T09:00:37+00:00 } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } 13 - 09 - 2011 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/beyond_press_cuttings/ Tuesday 13 September 2011 Far from being a mere historical ‘footnote’, reception has come to be seen as central to the study of opera over the past decades. Reception studies have moved from the perfunctory inclusion of a few choice newspaper snippets to a fresh perspective on music that relocates the traditional focus on composers and works towards performances and audiences. The purpose of this conference is to consider the ways in which the parameters of operatic reception studies are shifting to include new sources, new media and new audiences, and in the process shedding new light on how societies have received and made use of opera, from the nineteenth century to the present day. This conference has received affiliation from the Royal Musical Association Music, Opera research unit AH } 02 - 09 - 2011 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/catholics_and_cinema/ 2nd and 3rd September 2011 There has been a renewed interest in how film and religion interconnect and how religious characters and rituals have been popular subject matters of movies. Books such as S. Brent Plate’s Representing religion in world cinema: filmmaking, mythmaking, culture making (2003), Colleen McDannell’s Catholics in the movies (2008) and Pamela Grace’s The religious film: Christianity and the hagiopic (2009) have provided an insight into the representation of religious people, places and symbols in world cinema. Film Studies AH } 11 - 04 - 2011 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/shifting_ground_2011/ 11th April 2011 from 9am to 6:30 pm Art, Music, Popular Music Research Unit, Publishing AH } 07 - 04 - 2011 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/arp_and_saru_present_badland/ April 7th 2011; 1500-1630 As part of the Oxford leg of their UK tour, These three leading exponents of free improvisation will perform for Oxford Brookes students and staff and discuss their ideas and experience of improvisation, including: Composition practice based on the integration of improvisation strategies; Research concerning improvisation’s relationship with education; Experience as a professional musician employing improvisation forms Arts Research Seminar, Brookes University, Music, Popular Music Research Unit, Outside the School of Arts and Humanities, Sonic Arts AH } 01 - 04 - 2011 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/adam_sonderberg_at_the_sonic_art_research_unit/ Friday 1st April Adam Sonderberg (b. 1978, Chicago) is a composer working predominantly with concrète-based compositions utilizing the computer as a discreet processing and assembly tool. His selected discography includes over two-dozen releases, both solo and ensemble work, published by a number of different labels including: Entr'acte, Absurd, Cathnor, Crouton, and/OAR, Compost and Height, FSS, and Longbox Recordings. He is the author of the forthcoming (March 2011) American Hours with German Efficiency (Entr’acte) and maintains a blog by the same name.  Sonderberg is one-third of Haptic (w/ Steven Hess and Joseph Clayton Mills), a texture-centric performing entity formed in 2005 that occasionally utilizes a rotating fourth member to augment the content of each concert. The UK label Entr’acte has published the majority of the group’s discography; their next partnership is the forthcoming (mid-2011) LP Scilens.  He is a former co-director, with Salvatore Dellaria, of the Dropp Ensemble (pronounced 'drope'), which consisted of an international grouping of musicians and technicians that worked together through mail-based data transfer and extensive post-production. Their final recording, Safety, was published in 2009 by either/OAR. Since 2003 Sonderberg has collaborated with theatrical and movement artists and ensembles by producing sound work for theatre, performance art, dance, and film. Selected collaborations (1998-present) include live and recorded work with Jon Mueller, Boris Hauf, Brendan Walls, Asimina Chremos, Mark Solotroff, Eric la Casa, Sandra Gibson / Luis Recoder, Chicago Sound Map, Joseph Clayton Mills, Carol Genetti, Tomas Korber, Civil War, Katherine Young, Michael Graeve, Olivia Block, and Tony Buck. As curator (1994-2007) of Longbox Recordings, he oversaw publications by, amongst others, Francisco López, Daniel Menche, Greg Davis, Paul Bradley, Mark Wastell, Aaron Siegel, Fred-Lonberg Holm, and Jason Kahn.  Art, Arts Research Seminar, Brookes University, Music, Popular Music Research Unit, Outside the School of Arts and Humanities, Sonic Arts AH } 29 - 03 - 2011 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/steve_roden_at_the_sonic_art_research_unit/ Tuesday 29th March steve roden is a visual and sound artist from los angeles. his work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance. roden's working process uses various forms of specific notation (words, musical scores, maps, etc.) and translates them through self invented systems into scores; which then influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound composition. these scores, rigid in terms of their parameters and rules, are also full of holes for intuitive decisions and left turns. the inspirational source material becomes a kind of formal skeleton that the abstract finished works are built upon. Art, Arts Research Seminar, Brookes University, Music, Outside the School of Arts and Humanities, Sonic Arts AH } 21 - 03 - 2011 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/brandon_labelle_at_the_sonic_art_research_unit/ Monday 21st March Art, Arts Research Seminar, Brookes University, Music, Outside the School of Arts and Humanities, Sonic Arts AH } 18 - 03 - 2011 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/arp_ssru_symposium_arts_and_sustainability/ March 18th 2011 The Symposium will run from 1100-1700 and will feature: Ecological citizenship and the Arts Dr. Arran Stibbe In this talk Arran will discuss ecological citizenship and its relationship with sustainable development, the transition movement and the Dark Mountain project. He will explore the role of the Arts in helping to break out of a set of social and cultural constructions that have placed humanity on a path to self-destruction and in helping to open up new, previously unimagined paths. He will raise questions of whether it is too late, or impossible, for the trajectory of society to change fast enough to avert ecological collapse of some kind, and the consequences for how we see our work. What has sustainability got to do with an expanded understanding of art? Dr. Hildegard Kurt  
In order to become sustainable, we need a viable understanding of the human being: an understanding which is strong, emphatic, but beyond anthropocentrism. The idea that every human being is an artist, based on the expanded concept of art or ‘social sculpture’, offers such a new, viable understanding of the human being. But what does the expanded concept of art mean? Why is it necessary in order to practice truly humane – and thus also ecological – forms of living and working, of economy, of science, of education and of politics? The idea of social sculpture corresponds with the “culture of the inner human being” that the economist and early promoter of sustainability, Ernst F. Schumacher, called for. If this culture is neglected, selfishness, according to Schumacher, remains the dominant power, especially in the economic system. Tipping Point: facilitating collaboration between artists and climate experts Peter Gingold  For six years, TippingPoint has been creating dialogue between artists and climate experts of all types, with the aim of creating new projects, collaborations and cross-fertilisations, first in the UK, and more recently internationally. Its activities have given and continue to offer artists and scientists the opportunity to explore the cultural challenges precipitated by climate change and the role of artists in this complex debate. Peter will be talking about what has come out of this programme, and where it is headed next. Art, Arts Research Seminar, Brookes University, Drama, English, Institute for Historical and Cultural Research, Music, Popular Music Research Unit, Outside the School of Arts and Humanities, Sonic Arts AH } 04 - 03 - 2011 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/the_disease_within/ 4-5th March 2011 Booking for this conference has now closed. This two-day conference will bring together leading scholars from medical history, early modern social history and architectural history to exchange and debate ideas regarding the relationship between health and architecture in institutions of confinement. Two central themes will be explored: the effect of confinement on the health of those within the institutions and debates about the potential effects of unhealthy bodies of the poor, sick, criminal and dangerous inmates on wider towns and cities. Despite the best attempts by authorities, inhabitants and their diseases continued to pose a risk to communities’ health and morality from behind closed doors and beyond high walls. Plenary Speaker: Dr Kevin Siena (Trent University and Oxford Brookes International Research Fellow 2010-11) History of Medicine AH } 09 - 12 - 2010 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/health_and_society/ 8 – 10 December 2010 This workshop aims to strengthen links between British scholars and institutions and those in Greece and the Balkans working on the social history of medicine – a collaboration that has already been explored over two conferences, one in London in January 2008 (organised in collaboration with the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL), the other in Vienna in November 2008 (organised in collaboration with the Medical University of Vienna). [For the full details on both, see: http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/research/project/hre/] To further and deepen this international debate, this workshop will use the opportunities created by the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society (Oxford Brookes University) and its Wellcome Trust's funded Strategic Award to build upon and extend the research foundations laid by previous activities, not only in terms of a transfer of knowledge, but also in terms of direct involvement in new collaborative endeavours with as diverse institutions as the British School at Athens, University of Athens and the Berendel Foundation (London). The symposium is organised and sponsored by: The Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics, Oxford Brookes University; the Faculty of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; the British School at Athens; and The Berendel Foundation, London History of Medicine AH } 07 - 10 - 2010 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/perspectives_on_mid-century_modernism/ Friday 12 November 2010 AH } 01 - 07 - 2010 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/oxford_brookes_the_culture_of_rowing_and_swimming/ 1st July - 18th July Art AH } 19 - 06 - 2010 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/symposium_early_modern_women1/ Saturday 19 June 2010 History AH } 01 - 03 - 2010 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/brookes_fine_art_lecturer_develops_new_hybrids_for_cultural_olympiad/ 12th - 26th July 2010 10am - 6pm 7 days a week New Hybrids 2010 is a progression from Clair's previous work 'Hybrids 1997' which aimed to make 'the familiar, un-familiar'.  The sculpture made direct reference to gymnasium equipment, household paraphernalia and animal husbandry. Art AH } 28 - 01 - 2010 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/sonicartoxford/ 25th-27th February 2010 An exciting and eclectic mix of contemporary and experimental music, including performances from ensembles Okeanos & [rout], pianist Catherine Laws, Dutch composer and flute virtuoso Jos Zwaanenburg, Diego Garro and improvising duo exquisite corpse. The event also features installation work from Stephen Cornford, alongside a sonic tuck shop and disfunctional disco. There's a call for short electroacoustic, computer music, and sound art works here. Art, Arts Research Seminar, Brookes University, Music, Outside the School of Arts and Humanities, Sonic Arts AH } 15 - 01 - 2010 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/film_genre_today/ 15 January 2010 This one-day conference, coinciding with the launch of the new MA in Popular Cinema at Oxford Brookes University, will look at the state of genres in contemporary cinema. Submission for proposals are invited, particularly those addressing issues such as: How have new technologies and cinema going habits affected genre? Which emerging trends can be identified? How do new trends relate to audience demands? How do new variations become established? Transformation of classical genres. What innovations have been introduced in traditional genre conventions. Are genres less stable than in the classic period? Are there "art film genres"? How do independent filmmakers react to the classical genre repertoire? Are there any genres which are more specific to European film cultures? Cross fertilization between specific world cinema practices and mainstream Hollywood (i.e. Slumdog Millionaire or Moulin Rouge! assimilating Bollywood). Influence of Hong Kong action movies on Hollywood. Film Studies AH } 18 - 12 - 2009 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/the_organiser_and_the_victim_power_relationships_in_the_colonial_world/ 9 January 2010 History AH } 04 - 12 - 2009 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/legal_medicine_and_expertise_in_history/ 4 December 2009 - 10:00 – 17:15 The workshop is designed to facilitate intellectual exchange and debate between academics working on the history of forensic medicine, by bringing together scholars who study the subject in a variety of national contexts and across a broad period of time. It will engage with two central themes: the character and role of forensic medicine in Europe since the medieval period; and the relationship between medicine, the law and wider society as illuminated by the notion of 'expertise' (a modern and highly contentious concept which does not map directly on to the pre-modern context). History of Medicine AH } 07 - 11 - 2009 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/the_vauxhall_pleasure_symposium/ November 7th 2009 Vauxhall Pleasure raises important issues surrounding sustainable transport, planning and pollution. In collaboration with researchers from the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Department of Planning at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit and Centre for the Environment (OUCE) we have invited artists, authors, campaigners and researchers to come and talk about their experiences and explore and debate these issues. The symposium is open to all and is free to attend but please book a place in advance. Art, Arts Management and Administration, Music, Outside the School of Arts and Humanities, Sonic Arts AH } 18 - 09 - 2009 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/sacred_modernities/ Thursday-Saturday, 17-19 September, 2009 The entire event can be listened to again, as a series of podcasts, at the following address: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/09/sacred-modernities-rethinking-modernity-in-a-post-secular-age/ Speakers include: Patrick Curry (University of Kent); Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University); Aristotle Kallis (Lancaster University); Vincent Lloyd (Georgia State University); Michael Saler (University of California, Davis); Graham Ward (University of Manchester). History AH } 26 - 06 - 2009 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/poverty_and_welfare_in_ireland_c1833_1948/ Friday 26 – Saturday 27 June 2009 This conference, which incorporates a Royal Historical Society regional symposium on Irish welfare history, will bring together a number of leading and emerging scholars currently researching different aspects of the history of welfare and poverty in modern Ireland, to exchange research findings and discuss agendas for future research. The chronological framework for the conference will be roughly the lifespan of the Irish poor law, from the initiation of the Whately inquiry into Irish poverty and its relief in 1833, through the establishment of the poor law in 1838, to its abolition in the Irish Free State after 1922 and in Northern Ireland in 1948. History, History of Welfare AH } 18 - 06 - 2009 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/paris_and_london_in_postcolonial_imagery/ 18-19 June 2009 One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is to understand how migrants, settled in multicultural metropolises, contribute to renewing literary canons and reshaping national identities. This international conference, held on 18th and 19th June 2009 at the French Institute in London, aims to explore the diverse ways in which contemporary Paris and London are experienced and portrayed by exogenous, first or second generation immigrant writers who address issues of citizenship, belonging, identity, displacement and trespassing of material and symbolic borders. Modern Languages, Outside the School of Arts and Humanities AH } 04 - 06 - 2009 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/sound_diaries_conference/ June 4th 2009 The Sonic Art Research Unit at Oxford Brookes is hosting a conference focusing on the collection, organisation and presentation of documentary sound building on the activities of the Sound Diaries website. The emphasis is on unprocessed everyday sounds alongside projects or practices that explore their use. The conference features contributions exploring: lost everyday soundscapes; hunting for sound; the sound of the unspectacular; sound and memory; sound as text; mobile soundscapes; and the documentation of experience through sound. The keynote speaker is Peter Cusack and other contributors include Felicity Ford, Adam Fowler, Jennie Savage, and Peter Stollery.   Art, Brookes University, Music, Outside the School of Arts and Humanities, Sonic Arts AH } 18 - 05 - 2009 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/symposium_on_health_and_philanthropy_in_early_modern_europe/ 18 May 2009, 10am-5pm This day symposium will focus on the relationship between health and philanthropy across Early Modern Europe. Themes for discussion will include the influence of religion on philanthropy, the private/public partnership in charity provision, regional and national differentials in health, and changes over time and space. Confirmed speakers include: Marco van Leeuwen (Utrecht University), Paul-Andre Rosental (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Ole Peter Grell (Open University), Tim McHugh (Oxford Brookes), Alannah Tomkins (Keele University) and Julie Marfany (University of Cambridge)This symposium is funded by the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, and the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine. All are welcome to attend: please RSVP to Dr Alysa Levene History of Medicine AH } 06 - 04 - 2009 http://poetry.brookes.ac.uk/conference/early_modern_parish_church/ 6 – 8 April, 2009 Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. History AH