April 2013

Newsletter Graduate School of Arts and Humanities

As we draw to the end of the Spring term, we wanted to let you know about some of the Internships postgraduate events and activities that have been Rhain Addison, MA History of Art graduate, has been working on an taking place within the Graduate School of Arts internship at the Piano Nobile Gallery in London, researching for an and Humanities. exhibition on L.S. Lowry. Alex Brisland, MA History graduate, is now working as an intern at Icon Films in . This grew out of his placement there which was Student news part of one of the key elements of his Public History pathway.

A free concert series has been launched in Bristol, bringing contemporary music to the public and showcasing the musical stars of the future. The Contemporary Music Venture (CMV) is a series of four concerts which promise to combine exciting premieres from some of the Projects country’s top music students with some well-known contemporary classics. CMV is the brainchild of PhD students Arthur Keegan-Bole and David Fay, The Next Time(line) project, brings together Dr Bradley Stephens, a who wanted to share contemporary music with a wider audience outside lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Alex Butterworth, the University. They started the project in 2011 as a stand-alone series of founder and managing/creative director of Amblr, and is one of eight four concerts but, thanks to its success, the concert series has now new collaborations exploring books and print as historical, become an annual event. contemporary and future phenomena to receive funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The collaborations between creative economy partners and academic researchers will engage with the history and concept of the book and aim to ensure the act of reading remains exciting through the use of new technologies. Using data visualisation and the affordance of the touch screen, Amblr and Dr Stephens will work with three classic literary texts to create a more dynamic, malleable and compelling form of timeline for the digital world.

A fascinating archive of material including props, prompt scripts and photos from every production in the history of one of Bristol's premier arts organisations, Shakespeare at the (SATTF), has been donated to the Theatre Collection, one of the world’s largest theatre collections dedicated to British theatre history. Andrew Hilton, Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, said: “We are delighted that the records, such as they are – prompt scripts, photographs, designs and a number of props – of our ephemeral art are going to find a permanent home at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection. It will cover nearly thirty productions from our very first in February 2000 and will be added to year by year.” Jo Elsworth, Director of the Theatre Collection, said: “We are very honoured that this For further information, please see: www.cmvconcerts.weebly.com prestigious theatre company’s archive has been donated to us. It will help bring the long and illustrious story of Bristol’s theatrical heritage right up to Bristol doctoral student Erica Harrison joined the Czech Foreign date and, once again, show that Bristol is at the forefront of producing high Minister, Karel Schwarzenberg, and speakers from London and quality theatre.” Prague to mark the 65th anniversary of the death of Jan Masaryk, the hugely popular Foreign Minister of the Czechoslovak Catherine O’Rawe was recently given an AHRC award of £690,000 Government in exile in London during World War Two. The prestigious for the project ‘In Search of Italian Cinema Audiences in the 1940s event, hosted by the Czech Embassy, was attended by over a hundred and 1950s: Gender, Genre and National Identity’. The project will begin people, including current and former diplomats, ‘Winton’s children’ rescued in September 2013 and brings a funded PhD studentship to Bristol. The from German-occupied Czechoslovakia and former employees of the BBC project focuses on the gap in knowledge surrounding the Italian Czechoslovak Service and their descendants. Erica, who holds an cinema-going public of the 1940s and 1950s, for whom cinema was by far AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award, is working with Czech Radio to the most popular pastime. It will involve conducting interviews of Italians in catalogue and study an archive of recently rediscovered BBC their 70s and 80s about their memories of cinema-going in the 1940s and Czech-language recordings broadcast to occupied Czechoslovakia. 50s, as well as a national survey of over 1000 Italians.

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Events

Popular classicist Professor Mary Beard delivered the first of Staff news and three public lectures for history festival — Past Matters — on the popularity of Pompeii. Professor Beard is well-known as the publications Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and author of the blog ‘A Don’s Life’, which appears in The Times as a regular The Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol has appointed column. three new Chairs: Professor Shane Butler (Chair in Latin Language and Literature), Professor Katharine Ellis (Stanley Hugh Badock Chair in Music) and Professor Simon Shaw-Miller (Chair in History of Art).

The second talk in the Past Matters series was given by Bristol University’s Professor Robert Bickers, author of the prize-winning ‘Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai’. Professor Bickers’ talk at the Watershed on Thursday, 21 March, explored the foreign impact on the 19th century Chinese empire, a tale largely forgotten overseas but which remains evident in modern-day China. Cassie Newland, Martyn Brabbins, www.bristol.ac.uk/public-engagement/events/past-matters Teaching Fellow Conductor Dr Dorothy Rowe and Dr Barnaby Haran, and MA student, Sarah Dr Cassie Newland, a teaching We are delighted to announce Kew, from the Department of History of Art will be giving public fellow in the Department of that the internationally gallery talks, lectures and seminars around Bristol Museum and Archaeology and renowned conductor Martyn Art Gallery's current display of contemporary art - No Borders: Anthropology, has been Brabbins was awarded an Global to Local. No Borders considers how we are all linked involved with the new Honorary DMus by the internationally and politically, through our histories and the economic landmark BBC Two series, University of Bristol on 31 system that increasingly dominates the world. From the East India The Genius of Invention. January. Company to the trading of tea; from the working conditions of a South African sugar cane cutter to the ‘sleepers’ who burn their passports to Dr Newland, joined Michael One of the UK's most travel for work; from India's Independence to Partition; from the Moseley and Professor Mark distinguished musicians, Martyn Lebanese Civil Wars to life in the newbuilds on the outskirts of Cairo; Miodownik as they unlocked the Brabbins, Chief Conductor of the from sexual politics to alienation: the art in the exhibition is intertwined nature of invention and explored Nagoya Philharmonic (from 2013) with the conditions in which we live. Art Beyond Borders is the subject how these have changed the lives and Principal Guest Conductor of of a talk by Dr Dorothy Rowe on Friday 26 April at 1 pm. No Borders of ordinary people over the the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. runs until Sunday 2 June 2013 at the Bristol City Museum and Art centuries. Dr Newland an expert He was previously Artistic Director Gallery. on the development of telegraphy of the Cheltenham International during the nineteenth century, Festival of Music 2005-2007 and A three-month celebration of Latin American culture in Bristol, completed her PhD in Bristol’s Associate Principal Conductor of organised by the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin Department of Archaeology in the BBC Scottish Symphony American Studies, began on 7 March with a week of artistic 2006, and now teaches on the Orchestra 1994-2005. events open to the public. The project aims to strengthen MA in Historical and Landscape cross-cultural links among Latin Americans in Bristol and stimulate a Archaeology. She has previously deeper awareness of Latin American culture within the city's already appeared on Time Team and diverse population. Coast but this series is her first real opportunity to present archaeology. Dr Newland said: “It was a fantastic series to make that really got into the nature of invention.”

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