Postwar Conference,
The Artist Under the Microscope, c. 1950 – present day
An Interdisciplinary Regional Conference in the North East of England at Ustinov College, University of Durham
Saturday 13-14th November 2009
The conference opens with a 7pm Concert to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Dr. James Macmillan CBE, (St Cuthbert’s Church, Old Elvet), £5/£3
Followed by a drinks reception in the parish hall, kindly sponsored by
the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University.
Keynote speakers:
James MacMillan (Composer and Conductor, Glasgow)
Nathaniel Coleman (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University)
Gareth Reeves (Department of English Studies, Durham University)
As we approach the centenary of the birth of Modernism, this conference brings together artists and academics of all disciplines to discuss the nature of cultural theory and artistic practice and the relationship between them. Our plenary theme is ‘The 1950s and Beyond’. This decade was characterised by several key Modernist movements including abstract expressionism and the International Style of architecture. However, the 1950s also witnessed a growth in questioning the values and presuppositions of Modernism which would later develop into Postmodernism. The 1950s was a time of confrontation, as much in the political and social realms as in cultural theory and praxis. The Cold War presented a stark challenge: how should aesthetic theory and artistic practice engage with politics, if at all? What did the traumas and crises of recent history that were sometimes shrouded in silence mean for art?
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For a perliminary conference program: Postwar_Conference_Programme
THE JESUITS
OF THE LOW COUNTRIES:
Identity and Impact (1540 – 1773)
Leuven, Belgium – 3-5 December, 2009
On December 3-5, 2009, the Jesuitica Project (Institute for the Study of Spirituality / K.U.Leuven – Faculty of Theology), together with the Netherlands Institute of Jesuit Studies (NIJS, Amsterdam) is organizing an International Conference, entitled “THE JESUITS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES: Identity and Impact (1540 – 1773),”to be held at the premises of the Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven, Belgium. The conference is sponsored by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and the Flemish-Dutch Committee for the Dutch Language and Culture (VNC).
This international conference will be focusing on the Jesuits of the Low Countries (1540-1773), their multiple identities and their impact on society, with particular emphasis on recent research and newly available methodologies. We hope to bring together junior and senior researchers, from all countries, with a special interest in the Jesuits of the Low Countries (Old Society). The topics of the interventions are chosen in such a way that both ends of the information chain should be able to meet: archivists, librarians, and book historians, on the one hand, and researchers, on the other hand.
To dowload a complete program please click here.flyerel_jesuits_in_the_lc_0912 eng_article_-with_programme-final_cor_090624_promo
The stories of the nativity representsome of the most beautiful and intriguing passages in the Gospels. However, there have been relatively few attempts to consider these texts from modern academic perspectives. Jeremy Corley, of Ushaw College, assembles a cast of internationally renowned contributors to redress this, including Warren Carter, John Kaltner, Nicholas King, Ann Loades,Thomas O’Loughlin, Benedict Viviano and Henry Wansbrough.
‘An unrivalled complement to and extension of Raymond E. Brown’s The Birth of the Messiah. Sharing Brown’s onviction as to the priority of theological over purely historical analyses, the contributors pursue this intent through a refreshing range of literary, cultural, socio-political, feminist, inter-religious and liturgical readings. The ssays bear witness to the remarkable vitality of contemporary biblical scholarship and evince a concern to place the best of scholarship at the service of as broad a readership as possible.’ Paul D. Murray, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK
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