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The School organises a full programme of events throughout the year.
Announcing a Digby Stuart Research Centre for Catholic Studies Public Lecture:
‘DID IT START WITH A BANG? COSMOLOGY AND CREATION’
GUEST LECTURE BY PROFESSOR MICHAEL HELLER OF THE PONTIFICIAL ACADEMY OF THEOLOGY IN CRACOW. ROEHAMPTON UNIVERSITY – CRUCIBLE LECTURE THEATRE, DUCHESNE BUILDING
TUESDAY, 10TH NOVEMBER 2009 AT 6.00 PM, FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION
Professor Michael Heller is an eminent philosopher and cosmologist, he was a personal friend of Pope John Paul II, and he was the winner of last year’s prestigious Templeton Prize. When he received the prize, he said:
"If we ask about the cause of the universe we should ask about the cause of mathematical laws. By doing so we are back in the great blueprint of God’s thinking about the universe; the question on ultimate causality: why is there something rather than nothing? When asking this question, we are not asking about a cause like all other causes. We are asking about the root of all possible causes. Science is but a collective effort of the human mind to read the mind of God from question marks out of which we and the world around us seem to be made."
All are welcome to attend Professor Heller’s lecture. Please contact Ms Nilou Hawthorne – n.hawthorne@roehampton.ac.uk, tel. 020 8392 3217, to reserve a free ticket.
Travesties of Media Theory: The Case of Semiotics
Dr Paul Cobley Reader in Communications London Metropolitan University
A Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures Research Seminar
Wednesday 11th November at 4.30pm in Du. 305
Everyone Welcome, refreshments provided.
Research Interests
Paul’s research interests include semiotics (including semiotics of nature and semiotics of culture), the work of Thomas A. Sebeok, subjectivity, communication theory (history and applications), narrative, genre theory, popular fiction in print, film and television (particularly the thriller genre). He is currently working on the following books Contemporary Semiotics (Mouton de Gruyter); The Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics (University of Scranton Press);The Semiotics of Paranoia: Re-contextualizing the Subject of the Thriller (forthcoming).
Enquiries to: a.biressi@roehampton.ac.uk
My brilliant career? Women in the academy: a symposium and networking event
Date: Friday 30th October 2009
Time: 10am-6pm
Venue: The Women’s Library, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT.
Organisers: Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn (Women’s Media Studies Network/ Roehampton University)
Enquiries to Anita Biressi at a.biressi@roehampton.ac.uk
Download booking form or poster.
National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature and Centre for Research in Renaissance Studies seminar
Date:Tuesday, 9 December 2008.
Time: 1pm.
Venue: Du201, Digby Stuart.
Speaker: Velma Bourgeois Richmond, Professor of English Emerita, Holy Names University, California.
Chivalric Stories Told to Edwardian Children
Medieval chivalric stories retold for Edwardian children appeal and significantly rival the imaginative books for which this Golden Age is noted. The Middle Ages inspired medievalists like Tolkien and Lewis, who influenced today’s fantasy. The point of medieval narratives – romance, epic, saga, chronicle, legend – is to evoke the past as inspiration toward an ideal that informs character and elevates action. Children’s books of chivalric stories afford breathtaking examples of Edwardian extravagance in publishing, and similarly attractive schoolbooks served those who could not afford fine editions. Their number and beauty show the appeal of old tales and their efficacy in communicating racial/national identity. Illustrations, including reproductions of historical paintings that provide acquaintance with great visual artists, reinforced and glossed verbal texts.
Philosophy and Dance Research Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 10 December 2008.Time: 1pm.
Venue: Du102, Dibgy Stuart.
Reading: Dale, Hyatt & Hollerman, ‘The Neuroscience of Dance & the Dance of Neuroscience: Defining a Path of Inquiry’ in Journal of Aesthetic Education Vol.41 No.3 Fall 2007.
A PDF of this paper is available on request from Dr Raj Sehgal, Philosophy Programme Convenor (r.sehgal@roehampton.ac.uk). Participants in the seminar should try to read this paper in advance of the seminar.
Centre for Research in Romanticism Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 10 December 2008.Time: 5pm.
Venue: Du001, Digby Stuart.
Speaker: Lynda Pratt, Nottingham University, Editor of the forthcoming electronic edition of the Collected Letters of Robert Southey.
Title: What Robert Southey did not write next.
Centre for Dance Research Seminar
Date: Thursday, 11 December 2008.Time: 6pm.
Venue: GH10, Froebel.
Speaker: Dr Sabine Wieber, Lecturer in Art History, Roehampton University.
Title: The Origins of Viennese Ausdruckstanz in Cabaret Culture.
Find out about more Research Seminars and Talks.