between painting, sculpture,
architecture, music, literature,
opera, theatre - and the ideas
and societies that shaped them
CONNEXIONS 2009-2010
From this year onwards Connexions will be offering one lecture on Tuesdays and two
seminars on Thursdays
LECTURES 2009-2010
All the Russias - Tuesdays
Arts and history from 862 to the present
SEMINARS 2009-2010
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:
2011-2011 Explosion of the Modern: from Monet to Brecht.
The arts of early modernism
2011-2012 Greece and Rome - the roots of our world
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
All the Russias - Arts and history from 862 to the present.
This 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 2009-2010 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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