The Arts and their Audiences’ fourth workshop, Genius, is to be held on Friday 21 June.
Whether we like it or not within the academy, popular culture still thinks of the arts and the sciences in terms of great individual talents. The term may be old-fashioned, but our culture continues to identify, admire, and elevate something called ‘genius’. This workshop aims to bring together scholars from right across the university to explore the history and incidence of concepts of genius. We will be sharing current research and enthusiasms, generating a collective bibliography, and exploring the possibility of developing a funding bid for a series of short audio programmes supported by visuals housed on a companion website, provisionally entitled ‘A Short History of Genius’.
Further details can be obtained from Prof Nicola Watson, Department of English, Arts Faculty.