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Brookes Music lecturer presents Proms on Radio 3
This summer Senior Lecturer in Musicology Dr Alexandra Wilson will present two Proms live from the Royal Albert Hall on BBC Radio 3. She will present the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Prom on Monday 4 August (a concert featuring works by Bach, Rachmaninov and Ethel Smyth) and the Ulster Orchestra Prom on Thursday 7th August (featuring music by Ferguson, Stanford, Smetana and Dvorak). Alexandra Wilson's other presenting work for Radio 3 has included Building a Library, Opera on 3 and the Breakfast show. She will also take part in a live pre-Prom discussion about Puccini's opera "Il tabarro" on 11 August, to be broadcast during the interval of that night's Prom.
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Dr Gail Marshall Secures Prestigious Fellowship in Washington DC
Oxford Brookes University’s Head of English Studies, Dr Gail Marshall has successfully secured a one-month fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC in order to carry out work on Ellen Terry, for a major essay on the actress in a volume in the new Continuum series, Great Shakespeareans. Series editors are Peter Holland and Adrian Poole.
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Book Launch - ‘Inside Book Publishing’
Routledge and the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies held a reception on Monday 14 July 2008 to celebrate the publication of the fourth edition of Inside Book Publishing by Giles Clark and Angus Phillips. The reception was held at Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University. Many publishing professionals attended, together with Oxford Brookes alumni and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Janet Beer.
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Dr Tom Betteridge Secures Award to Restage The Play of the Weather at Hampton Court
Oxford Brookes English Department Reader Dr Tom Betteridge has secured a prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant for a project examining the Court Drama of the Reign of Henry VIII. The project includes restaging John Heywood’s the Play of the Weather at Hampton Court Palace in 2009.
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Brookes Modern Languages Initiative expected to feed into international collaboration
A one-day interdisciplinary workshop took place at Brookes on 12th June 2008 entitled ‘Urban Spaces: Cultural Dynamics in the modern Metropolis'. Organised by Dr Christina Horvath and Dr Dervila Cooke (French), the event was funded by the Institute of Historical and Cultural Research and the British Academy. The overarching aim of the initiative was to promote progressive urban research across disciplines in the urban arena. The workshop attracted researchers from Belgium, France, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Finland and various institutions across UK.
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Fabrizio Nevola awarded RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner Award for Architecture
RIBA Bookshops has announced the winner of the 2008 RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture as Fabrizio Nevola for his book 'Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City' (Yale UP, 2007)
The winning books were announced on Wednesday 28th May at a prestigious
ceremony at the The Athaeneum Club in Pall Mall, London. The event was
attended by a large number of people representing the worlds of
architecture, construction, interior design and publishing. Speaking at
the ceremony and representing the awards juries were Max Fordham,
Dikkie Scipio, Doug Atherley, and Adrian Forty, who provided the
reasons why the judges chose the winning titles.
Also speaking was the RIBA President Sunand Prasad who described the evening as one of his favourite RIBA events of the year.
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‘Modernism: A Sourcebook’ by Steven Matthews published
Prof. Steven Matthews' new book, 'Modernism: A Sourcebook' will be published on 13th June 2008.
The book is described as 'A wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. Documents are supported by substantial editorial material drawing connections to the major Modernist texts, and a full introduction outlining the key events, social and political movements, and cultural issues of the time.'
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Dr Joanne Bailey awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship
Dr Joanne Bailey, Senior Lecturer in History, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to the value of £34,474.00 over two years to fund research on parenting in England c. 1760-1830. One over-arching question stands at the heart of her project, which will be published as articles and a monograph: what did the two generations of men and women born and reaching adulthood between 1760 and 1830 feel and think about being parents? In addressing this question several inter-connecting themes are uncovered: the history of parenting as an idea, the emotional and material worlds of motherhood and fatherhood, the construction of the self as a parent and through being parented, and the parent-child relationship as a conduit for the transfer of social and cultural values. The study’s investigative strategies stem from a specific set of new historical questions which are broadly directed by the themes of gender, identity and generation.
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ASECS Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship
The ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Women's Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship, is an annual award of $1000 to support an editing or a translation work in progress of an eighteenth-century primary text on a feminist or a Women's Studies subject. This year it has been awarded to Nicole Pohl in the Department of English. The award will be used to support her edition of the Collected Letters of Sarah Scott (Huntington Library Press, forthcoming).
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Dai Griffiths Appointed a Fellow of the Mannes Institute in Rochester, New York.
Dai Griffiths (Arts) has been appointed a Fellow of the Mannes Institute for 2008, held at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, June 15-18.
'The Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory is an exclusive musical think-tank dedicated to communal exploration at the highest level of inquiry. It offers distinguished professional music scholars from around the world a unique opportunity to gather together in an intensive collegial setting outside of the conventional conference format to teach, challenge, and learn from each other in a sustained and interactive way. The Mannes Institute has achieved international recognition as a preeminent vehicle for synergy and collaboration in the domain of music scholarship.
This year's Institute explores the dynamic fields of jazz and popular music in depth from a variety of theoretical, analytical, and historical perspectives. An outstanding faculty of experts will conduct a series of high-level participatory workshops limited to fifteen scholars each, with a number of special plenary presentations. The total membership is forty-five colleagues constituting the Fellows of the 2008 Mannes Institute.’
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