Beyond the Frame is touring an expanded twelve panel facsimile exhibition to seven cities in India in 2011-12.
Managed by the British Council in collaboration with The Open University and the British Library, this exhibition tour was launched at the British Council in Delhi on 25 November 2011. The display was hosted simultaneously by the National Archives of India in Delhi, where it launched on 29 November. The exhibition then moved to British Council libraries in Kolkata and Ahmedabad.
The second phase of the exhibition will launch at the British Council library in Mumbai, with further stops in Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai. Find out more from the project website.
Follow the links below for details of conferences, seminars and other events associated with department staff.
The ‘Arts and their Audiences’ is running a one-day workshop focussing on the range of methodologies we use to study audiences of the past, as well as to consider how audiences of the present and the future can be studied. Ultimately we seek to explore why we are undertaking the study of audiences and how it enriches our work as researchers and teachers. The general questions we will be tackling include:
Speakers:
Dr Emma Barker (Art History)
Dr Sara Haslam (English)
Dr Edmund King (English)
Professor Helen King (Classical Studies),
Professor Gillian Rose (Geography)
Jane Wilson (Social Sciences)
A sandwich lunch will be provided. To register, please contact Anastasia Bakogianni a.bakogianni@open.ac.uk by 15th February at the latest.
The spring 2012 seminar series is organised under the theme ‘Romantic Lives’ and will be meeting at the Institute for English Studies, Senate House, on three occasions, 29 February, 14 March and 25 April, each time on a Wednesday between 5.30 and 7.
The series focuses on ways in which the lives and work of romantic writers are being imagined in and for the early twenty-first century. We will be exploring three facets of the continuing life of romantic writers: the revivification of the writer’s life and working practices in the shape of the modern writer’s house museum; the display of writers’ manuscripts and personal relics; and the art and craft of writing new literary biographies of well-known subjects. In these three seminars we will be bringing together two curators and a biographer to discuss how romantic writers are being presented to today’s audiences. Further details and the programme are available from the Romantic Period Research website.
The seminar series, organised in collaboration with the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, will enable established critics of South Asian literature to locate and reflect on new concerns and developments in the field, and their implications for postcolonial reading practices. Further information and schedule.
The 'Making Britain' team in partnership with the British Library is delighted to present the touring panel exhibition 'South Asians Making Britain, 1858-1950'. The exhibition focuses on a wide range of South Asian-British networks and interactions including South Asian contributions to sport, the arts, domestic, cultural and intellectual life, resistance and activism, as well as national and global politics. It has been developed from the extensive research of the project, examining a wealth of new material from archives in India, Sri Lanka, the United States and Britain. The exhibition has been funded by the AHRC, The Open University and The British Library. The exhibition will visit regional venues across the UK throughout 2010-11. Find out more from the project website.
Details of events for postgraduate students can be found on our postgraduate information page.