Crossroads of Knowledge team present a panel on ‘Knowledge at the Crossroads’ at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference in Toronto, March 17-19, 2019

Crossroads of Knowledge team present a panel on ‘Knowledge at the Crossroads’ at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference in Toronto, March 17-19, 2019 https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Session/1770 March 19, 2-3.30, Knowledge at the Crossroads. Organiser, Chair and Respondent: Subha Mukherji. Speakers: Joe Jarrett, George Oppitz-Trotman, Regina Schwartz .

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Professor Steven Connor’s book ‘The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing’ is published by Reaktion, 11th March 2019

Steven Connor’s book The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing is published by Reaktion on 11th March. The book is a psychopathology of intellectual life, which explores the emotional inner life of knowledge—the lusts, fantasies, dreams, and fears that the idea of knowing provokes. It includes discussions of the imperious will […]

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Dr Amy Morris joins artists, activists, and scholars to launch the book ‘Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues’, Essex Book Festival, Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, 12 March 2019

Amy Morris joins artists, activists and scholars at the Essex Book Festival on 12 March 2019. She will be participating in a roundtable, during an evening of film, poetry, photography and discussion to launch the book Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues edited by Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petrić. The event will take place in the Lakeside […]

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Dr Zoë Svendsen takes part in a panel discussion at ‘Creative Economy: Critical Perspectives’ Workshop’, Glasgow, 1 March 2019

Dr Zoë Svendsen is a member of the panel discussing Environmental Issues at a Workshop on ‘Creative Economy: Critical Perspectives’. organised by the  Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) at The Lighthouse, Glasgow, on Friday 1 March 2019 Agenda 10.30: Coffee and registration 11.0: Plenary talk—Kate Oakley 11.45:Environmental Issues—Panel discussion w Mark Banks, […]

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Sophie Seita in conversation with Joanna Walsh, 8 March 2019

Sophie Seita and Joanna Walsh will be in conversation at Bletchley Park, talking about technological futures, feminism, and their own creative practices. https://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-humanities-and-social-science/school-of-literatures-languages-and-cultures/literatures-languages-cultures/out-of-the-air-women-creativity-and-intelligence-work

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Call For Papers: Re-Orientating E. M. Forster: Texts, Contexts, Receptions – An international anniversary conference, Cambridge, 2-4 April 2020

RE-ORIENTATING E. M. FORSTER Texts, Contexts, Receptions An international anniversary conference Cambridge, Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 April 2020 Confirmed speakers: Paul Armstrong (Brown), Stefan Collini (Cambridge), Santanu Das (Oxford), Leela Gandhi (Brown), Jane Goldman (Glasgow), Stefania Michelucci (Genoa), Rachel Potter (East Anglia), and David Trotter (Cambridge). E. M. Forster, one of the major British […]

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Dr Jenny Wallace gives opening keynote lecture at “Art and the Archaeological Imagination”, Aberystwyth University, 27-28 February, 2019

Dr Jenny Wallace gives the opening keynote lecture at the “Art and the Archaeological Imagination” conference, held jointly by the Aberystwyth University School of Art and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, on February 27th and 28th. The title of Dr Wallace’s lecture is “Beachy Head, Romantic Barrows and the […]

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