Events 2009

Monday 21st September 2009

16.30 - 18.00

2009-2010: Research Seminar Series

Inaugural research seminar – part of the PG welcome day

Professor Michael Newman
Dispersion after Appropriation – Seth Price and New Art Work

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Lecture Theatre 2.01
Old Mining Building, University of Leeds

Monday 21st - Friday 25th September 2009

Various times

Induction week / week zero

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New First Year BA Students (single and joint honours, full and part-time, international and mature students)
Returning BA Part-timers and Level Two Students
Returning BA Level Three Students (including Year Abroad returnees)
MA & PhD Students

Various locations

Thursday 17th September 2009

10.00 - 17.00

Postcolonizing the Medieval Image
Postgraduate Study day

Keynote Lecturer: Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, co-editor of Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages

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Old Mining Building, University of Leeds

Saturday 4th July 2009 - Thursday 9th July 2009

Preview Friday 3rd July 2009
6 - 8pm

MA Fine Art and Masters in Fine Art Degree Show - Octopus

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4,5 & 7 Lifton Place(Off Clarendon Road)

Thursday 11th June 2009 - Friday 16th June 2009

University of Leeds Fine Art Degree Show - LDS09

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4,5 & 7 Lifton Place(Off Clarendon Road)

Museology Seminar Series

Dr Kostas Arvantitis
Centre for Museology, University of Manchester :

'Domestic Gods' or a 'museology of the invisible' : public archaelogical sites in private modern homes'

12th March 2009

Museology Seminar Series

Dr Anna Catalani
Centre for Heritage Studies, University of Salford :

'Displaying traditional Yoruba Religious objects in British Museums'

Perspectives on the Art Market Series

Peter Martic
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York :

'The export of the Altenburg Abbey Stained Glass to England'

Friday 6 & Saturday 7th March 2009

11.00 - 18.00

12th International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair

An accompanying programme of related exhibitions and live art performances at
the University of Leeds:
                  
15 to 1 – artists’ books from China
School of Fine Art, Old Mining Building
6–20 March, Monday to Friday, 10am–5pm
                                                                         
Starting Point – artists’ books, musical scores and concrete poetry
Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
3–7 March, 10am–5pm

sub(Missive) – collaborative mail art book project
The Corridor Gallery, School of Design, Wool Division
6–18 March, Monday to Friday, 10am–5pm

Concerto for Penquins – a reading performance
during the book fair

Artists’ Books from Special Collections –
Bielli, Bodman, Douglas, Duchamp, Kermaire, Ohtake
Special Collections, Brotherton Library, ongoing
Uncovering Duchamp, talk by Glyn Thompson, Friday 6 March, 12noon, 2pm and 4pm
(reserve a place at the book fair catalogue table)

Book making workshop for young people –
led by artist Sarah Mitchell
Saturday 7 March, 11-5pm, Parkinson Court

At Leeds Central Library:
Biblio, Book, Buch, Livre, Libro– four artists explore the form
6 March, 9am-5pm & 7 March, 10am-5pm

Free admission to the fair and events

HOW TO FIND US

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Parkinson Court, University of Leeds