Find out about the certificate (for staff and students), programme of events, Showcase competition, and more. Followed by an Immersive Showcase in FAB1.63.

Module Fair

The Arts Faculty is holding a UG elective choice module fair on Tuesday, 30th April 2024 from 13.00 - 16.00 in the FAB on the ground floor and on the mezzanine.

The fair is aimed at first year and intermediate UG students choosing their elective modules for the following year.

Also at the fair will be representatives from a range of University student opportunity providers for all to find out about.

The Arts Faculty will be holding an undergraduate Module Fair for students choosing modules for the 24/25 academic session. Watch this space for further information.

Booking not necessary, but as we will be using 6 headsets at a time, you may have to wait.

2 VR experiences by MBD.

Empire Soldiers: A Caribbean Story is a VR Short-Film that pays tribute to the forgotten contribution of Caribbean Soldiers in World War One. Through VR and 360° video, hear the captivating stories of the battlefield as you are joined by a returning soldier and share the emotional experience of the return home. As the journey continues to the present day, focus turns to the changes of the last 100 years, and the impact of migration on the world today. Note: This film contains racially sensitive language.

Empire Soldiers: A South Asian Story, is a VR short-film that pays tribute to the forgotten contribution of South Asian Soldiers in World War One. Through VR and 360°, hear the captivating stories of the battlefield as you are joined by a returning soldier and share the emotional experience of the return home. As the journey continues to the present day, focus turns to the changes of the last 100 years, and the impact of migration on the world today.

Sophocles, Freud and Robert Wilson: A Spectacle of Our Inner Abyss

Sophocles' King Oedipus seems an absurd story, a tragic nonsense, yet for 2500 years it has fascinated people past and present. Perhaps because it is the deepest, most ancient insight into how our personalities are born and how we are confronted with decay and tragedy in our proudly confessed inner lives, loves, hates, and sins.

In my talk I will be interpreting two different but related readings of King Oedipus. The first is Sigmund Freud's experience, articulated in the idea of the Oedipus complex. The Oedipus complex in psychoanalytic theory and also in the theatre of therapy shows the creation of the self in the extreme duality of incest and death. Another more definitive example is Robert Wilson's theatrical vision of Oedipus, filtered through the Freudian experience of existence. In his work, the primordial story is transcribed into a 21st century experience of the disintegrating person, of dissipating passion, a physical and spiritual irredeemability mediated through images and texts. I will present excerpts from Wilson's Oedipus at Epidaurus. I will interpret his transgressive allegories of Apollonian prophecy, Oedipal fate, and the role of pre-symbolic language as they represent the entanglements of our joys and sufferings.

https://aefestival.gr/festival_events/oedipus/?lang=en

Note: the talk will include showing some clips from the Wilson production.

Biographical Note

Antal Bókay is a full professor at the University of Pécs in the Department of Literary Theory and the founder of the Psychoanalytic Ph.D. program. His writings and books, published in Hungarian and English, deal with contemporary cultural processes, psychoanalytic theory, and postmodern theatre, using deconstruction and psychoanalysis as methodological bases. In addition to several British, Austrian, and US visiting professorships, he is secretary of the US-based international research forum PSYART Foundation.

WEEK 2 - SHOW AND TELL - Tuesday 30th April, 5.15pm (FAB 5.49)

• Dr David Coates (SCAPVC) "The Material Traces of Britain’s Amateur Theatrical Past (1780-1914)"

In this show-and-tell session, David will share his private collection which contains an array of materials that document a history of amateur theatre in Britain pre-1914. It includes playbills, acting manuals, newspaper cuttings, prints and manuscript items. Alongside this he’ll discuss a range of findings from archives and collections across Britain and the USA to highlight the historiographical challenges of using some of this material and of researching the amateur theatrical past.

• Dr Federica Coluzzi (SMLC) "Dante…di giorno in giorno: Family History and Printed Ephemera in nineteenth-century Italy"

In the late nineteenth century, Italian women writers entered the overwhelmingly masculine and fiercely competitive field of Dante studies by authoring a vast and diverse body of works. Along with handbooks, translations, critical studies and creative adaptations, they contributed to the wider popularisation of Dante’s works through printed ephemera such as maps, diaries and calendars launched on the market by major publishes. Eugenia Levi’s Dante…di giorno in giorno presents Dante quotations, translated in French, German and English, for each day. First published in 1893, it went through three consecutive editions with Loescher & Seeber, before being re-issued in a new miniature format in 1903. In this seminar, I will invite participants to engage in a collaborative material study of personal copy of Levi’s book, paying particular attention to the marginalia inscribed in its pages to reflect on its intergenerational uses as a visitors’ book and sentiment album within a family from Trentino Alto Adige.