Issue 3 of Rebus: An Online Journal of Art History & Theory is online now featuring most of the papers presented at last year’s conference.
Pulling this issue together took a lot of work and dedication, so many thanks to all the writers along with the fantastic editorial board at Rebus!
Check out the issue here!
Notes Towards a Definition of Communist Culture
The master class will analyse phenomena of modern thought and
culture with the intention to discern elements of possible Communist
culture. It will move at two levels: first, it will interpret some
cultural phenomena (from today’s architecture to classic literary
works like Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Heloise) as failures to imagine or
enact a Communist culture; second, it will explore attempts at
imagining how a Communist culture could look, from Wagner’s Ring to
Kafka’s and Beckett’s short stories and contemporary science fiction
novels.
1. Architecture as Ideology: the Failure of Performance-Arts Venues
to construct a Communal Space
2. Narrative as an Ideological Category: Literary References in
Hegel’s Phenomenology
3. The Failure of Nietzsche’s Critique of the Hegelian Narrative
4. Wagner’s Ring as a Communist narrative
5. Narrative Germs of Communism: from Kafka, Beckett, Sturgeon
Monday 15th June - Friday 19th June 2.30pm (Wednesday 17th @
2pm) Room B34 Birkbeck Main Building
Registration essential - please go to: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/news/zizekmasterclass
Tate Britain, 3 June – 6 September 2009
This major exhibition is Richard Long’s first survey in London for eighteen years and is a unique opportunity to understand afresh the artist’s radical rethinking of the relationship between art and landscape.
Long’s work comes from his love of nature and through the experience of making solitary walks. These take him through rural and remote areas in Britain, or as far afield as the plains of Canada, Mongolia and Bolivia. Long never makes significant alterations to the landscapes he passes through. Instead he marks the ground or adjusts the natural features of a place by up-ending stones for example, or making simple traces. He usually works in the landscape but sometimes uses natural materials in the gallery. His work explores relationships between time, distance, geography, measurement and movement.
Featuring over 80 works, Heaven and Earth includes sculptures, large-scale mud wall works, and new photographic and text works documenting walks around the world, plus a big selection of the artists’ books, postcards and other printed matter.
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Re:Design is a fascinating and entertaining dramatization of the thirty years of correspondence between Charles Darwin in Kent (England) and Asa Gray in Boston (United States).
Adapted exclusively from their own written words, we enter the minds and worlds of these two groundbreaking nineteenth-century naturalists as they struggle to reconcile orthodox Christian beliefs with Darwin’s new theory of evolution by natural selection. The intellectual debate surrounding science and religion is interwoven with gossip, opinion and anecdotes about everything from war and slavery, to family incidents, post-office inefficiencies and unfortunate gardening accidents!
Menagerie is the East of England’s leading producer of new writing for the stage and producers of the nationally renowned Hotbed Festival of new writing.
The Lakeside Theatre is proud to present Menagerie’s latest offering as a developed work in progress – grab the chance to see it here before it heads out on a national tour.
Tickets: ALL TICKETS ARE BUY ONE GET ONE FREE
Full: £7.00, Concs: £5.00, UoE students: £3.00
Booking information:
Ticket Hotline: 01206 573948
Book Online: www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/artson5
In person: University Gallery, Square 5
Monday – Friday 11 – 5, Saturday 12 – 4
The general consensus of the contemporary mass media is that the return of religion has emerged as the most important factor in global politics and culture today. Now, those who currently refer to a revival of religion clearly do not mean anything like the second coming of the Messiah or the appearance of new gods and prophets. What they are referring to rather is that religious attitudes have moved from culturally marginal zones into the mainstream. If this is the case, and statistics would seem to corroborate the claim, the question then arises as to what may have caused religious attitudes to become mainstream. [Read More…]
Sacred and Profane in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Indianapolis Museum of Art and Indiana University, Bloomington,
Oct. 16-17, 2009
We are seeking abstracts for papers to be presented at this two-day
interdisciplinary conference centered on religiosity in the Hispanic
world from 1492-1680. Submissions should represent the fields of
literature, art, religion, politics and/or history. The symposium will
coincide with the opening of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s special
exhibition, Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World, which
examines the religious visual culture of 17th-century Spain and its
American colonies through the lens of belief and its lived experience.
This exclusive exhibition includes works from collections throughout
Spain and Latin America, many of which have never been exhibited in
the US. At the IMA, curators and scholars directly involved with the
organization of the exhibition will speak about the show, which
visiting scholars and other participants will have a chance to see
and discuss in the galleries. The symposium will draw synergistically
on this exhibition, while seeking to establish a spectrum of other
approaches to this cultural production, including but not limited to
the following:
1. The Irreligious, dealing with cultural production that rejected
Catholic orthodoxy;
2. The Non-religious, in which the discourse of religion stands aside
from cultural production;
3. Classical Myth and its engagement and/or distancing from Catholic
culture;
4. Sacred Others: Jewish, Islamic and Pre-Columbian religious
perspectives
5. Empire and Religion, on the implication of religion into this
expansive mindset;
6. Text and the Sacred Image, investigating interrelationships among
texts and the visual.
The first day will take place at the IMA and the second day at
Indiana University at Bloomington. Hotel rooms will be available for
participants at conference rates and a free service will transport
participants between the two venues. Please e-mail 250-500 word
abstracts or panel proposals (three abstracts and panel description),
along with a brief CV, by May 15, 2009 to Prof. Steven Wagschal
(swagscha@indiana.edu) and Prof. Giles Knox (gknox@indiana.edu).
Inquiries welcome.
Please see www.indiana.edu/~spanport/sacredandprofane.shtml for more
information and a printable Call for Papers.
A Capuchin monk, Brother Cesare Bonizzi, is the lead singer in a heavy metal band which has just released its second album.
The 62-year-old monk’s love affair with heavy metal began when he attended a Metallica concert some 15 years ago.
The Florida State University Department of Religion is pleased to announce its eighth annual Graduate Student Symposium, to be held February 20-22; 2009. Graduate students are invited to submit proposals that engage this year’s theme, “Identity, boundaries and movement in religion”. Topics may include but are not limited to: mirroring, migration of ideas and peoples, pilgrimage, polemics, and inter-religious dialogue. Other papers relevant to the study of religion are welcome under an open call.
Submissions are encouraged from all graduate students in religion or other fields with interdisciplinary interest in the study of religion. We welcome a variety of approaches, with particular interests in papers pertaining to the following subfields: 1) Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy; 2) American Religious History; 3) Religions of Asia; 4) Religions of Western Antiquity. Presentations should be approximately 15 to 20 minutes in length and will have faculty responses at the conclusion of the panel. An award will be given for the best paper.
Submission of an abstract (roughly 300 words) is required for review. Abstracts must be accompanied by a CV.
Proposals should be sent by e-mail to Lauren Gray at fsureligionsymposium@gmail.com.
The deadline for proposal submission is December 1, 2008. Final papers should be submitted by January 15, 2009.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Russell T. McCutcheon, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, and author of such works as “The Discipline of Religion” and “Manufacturing Religion”.
Lauren Gray
Florida State University
101 Dodd Hall
Email: lauren gray, fsureligionsymposium@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://fsureligionsymposium@gmail.com
The Beatles started out as atheists and agnostics and I think as everybody knows they became more interested in spiritual things. They went out to India in 1968 and I think in a way the Beatles became a spiritual force themselves. And I think that John actually saw that. He saw Christianity and rock ‘n’ roll as competitors. Only three years later, after 1966, you had the Woodstock festival and you get rock music almost performing a religious function. So I think in a way he was aware of what was happening. The Beatles were almost becoming a religion and exerting a spiritual force over people…[Read the Full Article]
