EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

This index comprises selected entries from H-Net's events database on the indicated dates. For further entries see: http://www.h-net.org/announce/

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2013-05-07 and 2013-05-08.

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Title: UCC Art Symposium - Doubt and Visual Representation
Date: 2013-05-10
Description: If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is
necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as
possible, all things.REN DESCARTES We encounter doubt every
day. From the inane to the important, doubt infiltrates almost
every thought, feeling and circumstance. Yet, what is doubt?
Can ...
Contact: infoucc-art-symposium.com
URL: ucc-art-symposium.com
Announcement ID: 203547
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=203547

Title: Public Engagement and Impact: Articulating Value in Art and
Design (Conference at the ICA London)
Date: 2013-05-23
Description: In 2010 The Work Foundation published a report
entitled A Creative Block? The Future of the UK Creative
Industries, which stated, "the UK creative industries are now
under threat from a combination of recession induced cuts,
[and] the global trends towards convergence and
digitalization", adding tha ...
Contact: A.Powellhud.ac.uk
URL: www.ica.org.uk/37062/Talks/Public-Engagement-and-Impact-Articulating-Value-in-Art-and-Design.html
Announcement ID: 203301
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=203301

Title: Ephemerality and Durability in Early-Modern Visual and
Material Culture
Date: 2013-05-24
Description: Studies in the visual and material culture of the
early modern world have recently focused on the concrete
materiality or thingness of things. But why is it that certain
early modern things endured while others did not? 24-25 May
2013 at CRASSH, University of Cambridge. ...
Contact: rhr32cam.ac.uk
URL: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2408/
Announcement ID: 203430
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=203430

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Title: Early Modern Orientations: Symposium on the Arts and
Humanities, 1500-1800 (University of East Anglia, UK. Friday 17
May 2013)
Date: 2013-05-17
Description: This symposium is an opportunity to consider present
and future orientations in the study of the arts and humanities
c.1500-1800, within a variety of disciplines. Leading
historians of art, literature, performance and cultural
experience from the UK and North America will present aspects
of their cu ...
Contact: s.monkuea.ac.uk
URL: sifa.uea.ac.uk/news-and-events/orientations
Announcement ID: 203577
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=203577

Title: Newberry Symposium- "Pictures from an Expedition:
Aesthetics of Cartographic Exploration in the Americas"
Location: Illinois
Date: 2013-06-20
Description: Pictures from an Expedition: Aesthetics of
Cartographic Exploration in the Americas A Symposium at the
Newberry Library, Chicago, June 20-21, 2013 This symposium is
made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for
American Art The Newberry Librarys Hermon Dunlap Smith Center
for the Histo ...
Contact: emeryknewberry.org
URL: www.newberry.org/hermon-dunlap-smith-center-history-cartography
Announcement ID: 203509
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=203509