2009 News and Events from the Faculty of Arts

EARLY BIRD BOOKING RATE EXTENDED TO 31 AUGUST 2009 - £125/£95 CONCESSIONS. BOOK NOW TO SECURE YOUR

Book your place on the 'Living the City' conference taking place at the University of Plymouth Roland Levinsky Building on 11^th September 2009

The Living the City conference focuses on the 'post-regenerated' city and the themes of conservation, culture, transport, habitation and energy.

The speakers are significant makers and shapers of the modern city. The conference will be of interest to architects, planners, urban designers, design champions and national, regional and local policy makers.

Conference details and booking form at Living the City booking form and information or contact e: artsresearch@plymouth.ac.uk tel: 01752 585029

£125 booking until 31 July/ £155 booking after 31 July/ £95 Concessions

Price includes refreshments, lunch and drinks reception at 5.30pm

NB. Concession rate is available to Plymouth Architectural Trust and RIBA Plymouth Branch membersThis conference qualifies for 6 hours of formal RIBA CPD and covers parts of the RIBA Core Curriculum:

Professional Context; Sustainable Architecture, Cultural Context, Construction Skills; Cross Professional Knowledge

Speakers:-

Ben Hamilton-Baillie : cities and transport, streets, civility and quality of spaces. Architect and urban designer and expert in street design and transport

Didier Repellin : the role of conservation as regenerator. Inspector General of Historic Buildings /Chief Inspector of Historic Monuments, Lyon, France

Ton Schaap : habitation in the city. How can cities promote genuine mixed uses? Senior Urban Planner, City of Amsterdam

Gareth Hoskins : the role of culture and cultural institutions in regenerating cities. Architect and director of Gareth Hoskins Architects of Glasgow

Michael Pawlyn : the energy needs of the city and how these affect the shape of the city? Founder and Director of Exploration Architecture

Chaired by Jeremy Gould Professor of Architecture University of Plymouth

The conference is sponsored by University of Plymouth, Plymouth Architectural Trust, RIBA Plymouth Branch, Architecture Centre

Devon and Cornwall, First Great Western and supported by CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.)


Living the City conference flyer.pdf

http://www.acdandc.org.uk/3/architecture-news-and-events-2.html

‘Law, Literature and Film Symposium’ on Friday 4th September 2009 at the University of Plymouth.

This event is aimed at academics and students studying law, literature or film and examines the rich and diverse relationships between these disciplines.

Professor Melanie Williams (University of Exeter) will present a keynote paper on ‘Law and the Problem of Moral Luck in The Reader’.

Other papers (with screenings) include:

The Role of the Vigilante in the Law Film Women and Crime on Screen and Page The Death Penalty in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema The Death of the Author in the Law of Succession Teaching Law to the Facebook Generation via Film Legal Drama and the Challenges of New Hollywood Law and Science Fiction; a Methodology

All are welcome to attend. Entry is FREE and refreshments will be provided but booking is required.

Please email Dr Helen Thomas (helen.thomas@falmouth.ac.uk) and/or Hugo de Rijke (h.derijke@plymouth.ac.uk) to book or if you would like further details.

Draft Schedule of the event

University of Plymouth honours Yukio Ninagawa

Photo of Yukio Ninagawa with David Coslett, Dean of the Faculty of Arts

The director has a reputation for staging ground-breaking productions of Shakespeare's plays and first burst onto the international stage with his seminal, samurai Macbeth, which premiered in Tokyo in 1980. In his theatre company Ninagawa Studio, he continues to produce experimental productions with young people, and in 2006 he founded a new theatre group for people aged over 55, the Saitama Gold Theatre, based at Japan's Saitama Arts Theatre. 

For King and Country

Stefan Aloszko, a PhD research candidate in art history, is curating an exhibition titled Reception and Remembrance at the Theatre Royal 23-28 February 2009. He will present a paper on the 25 February at 6. 30 pm in the Pennon Room of the Theatre Royal, and will talk about how the general public reacted to images and texts generated by the First World War.

The talk is free and last 30 minutes, with a further 10 minutes for question.

   
Framing Time and Place: Repeats and returns in Photography
Land/Water & the visual arts.

The University of Plymouth is proud to present the Framing Time and Place Photography conference .

15th - 17th April 2009

The Framing Time and Place conference will address a number of research issues relating to capacities of photography as systematically generating narratives of stasis and change in relation to land and environment.

Featured Speakers:

Mark Klett ( Regents Professor of Photography and Director of the Third View project, Arizona State University. Publications include: Second View: the rephotographic survey project. (with Ellen Manchester, 1984); Third Views, Second Sights (2004); Yosemite in Time (2005); After the Ruins, 1996 and 2006: rephotographing the San Francisco earthquake and fire (2006).)

James Ryan ( School of Geography, University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus), Publications include Picturing Empire: photography and the visualization of the British Empire (1997) and Picturing Place: photography and the geographical imagination (with Joan M. Schwartz, 2003).)

Themes will include: