between painting, sculpture,
architecture, music, literature,
opera, theatre - and the ideas
and societies that shaped them
CONNEXIONS 2008-2009
offers two lecture courses and for
the first time two seminar series
LECTURES
Renaissance & Reformation - Tuesdays
the arts of Northern Europe 1300-1600
All the Russias - Wednesdays
Arts and history from 862 to the present
SEMINARS
Moral & political philosophy
Thursdays 10.30am to 12.30pm
from Plato to our time
The arts of poetry
Thursdays 2.00pm to 4.00pm
English and European poetry
Future Lecture Course will include:
Explosion of the Modern
Renaissance & Reformation is a unique course that
studies the full range of arts across Northern Europe in the
period we associate with the Italian Renaissance.
A general perception is that as Italian art and culture spread
the North was gradually enabled to participate in the new
humanist culture, shifting a mediaeval, Gothic world into
recognisable early modernism. Of course this is untrue.
The North had its own traditions and adventures, developing
architecture, painting and sculpture in ways that mirrored
its own radical priorities.
All the Russias This course is being brought back by popular
request. The course introduces the full range of Russian arts -
painting, sculpture and architecture;poetry, drama and the novel;
music and opera, against the developing history of a culture
that stands halfway between Europe and Asia. In recent years
Russian painting in particular has become a significant presence,
and this course will help us come to terms with a tradition
whose art and politics have such an important bearing on our
own world.
Seminars offer structured study courses within which students will be able to participate fully - discussing the texts in their own right and how their ideas affect our
own lives.
Moral & political philosophy is an ongoing course studying master texts from Plato to our own day. There
can never have been a time when an understanding of
the great ideas of the past and ways of clear thinking
have been more necessary. In this series we encounter
many of the major philosophers of the European
tradition and learn what they thought - and how to
think for ourselves in a world of growing conflict
and contradiction.
The arts of poetry will study a range of texts by the
great poets of the English, American and Europan traditions.The very richness of poetry often acts as a barrier. In this series we will examine the nature of
poetry and the poetic through the medium of some
of its greatest writers, opening up new worlds of artistic profundity and pleasure - and revisiting others to bring them back once again into our lives.
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