between painting, sculpture,
architecture, music, literature,
opera, theatre - and the ideas
and societies that shaped them
CONNEXIONS 2011-2012
Connexions will be offering one lecture on Tuesdays and two
seminars on Thursdays
LECTURES 2011-2012
Greece and Rome - Tuesdays
The Roots of Our World
SEMINARS 2011-2012
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 LECTURES will include:
2012-2013 The classical tradition -
The Dark Ages to PostModernism
2013-2014 Theatre mirror of the world:
plays and playwrights, actors and directors,
theatres and design
2014-2015 Opera as Drama -
A history of the lyric stage 1590-2010
As these lectures will be given once only and there is likely to be heavy demand, you may wish to put your name on the advanced booking list.
To do so, please contact CONNEXIONS
Greece and Rome - is designed to introduce all the major events and figures of the Greek world up to its major shift after Alexander the Great, and the Roman world up to its change into the Augustan empire. In doing so we encounter major ideas, architectural forms, poetry and drama, sculpture, applied art and painting that have had the most profound effect on our own aesthetics and creativity. The result - with all its beauty, strangeness and contradictions – is both a fascinating study in its own right, and the uncovering of the roots of our own world.
SEMINARS 2011-2012 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 is again ongoing and studies 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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