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Mapping Tyneside Radicalism
The ‘Histories of Activism’ group is currently putting together a website that maps moments of radical activity that have occurred on Tyneside since the seventeenth century. Mapping Tyneside Radicalism is designed to create a space where academics, researchers and local … Continue reading
Portraits of Integrity Conference
We are pleased to announce a 2-day conference, Portraits of Integrity, to take place in Newcastle on December 11-12th 2015. Further details and speakers to follow. Please do get in touch if you are interested in presenting your work, or would like to hear about ways … Continue reading
‘The Vile Ingredients’ of the ‘Wholesome Mixture’: A Portrait of Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith
Leanne Stokoe’s introduction to our Portraits of Integrity meeting is now available.
30th January — Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith workshop
The first Portraits meeting of the 2015 is next Friday, 30th January. We’re looking at Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith with Dr Leanne Stokoe. Readings and intro are all available here. Drop us a note if you’d like to join … Continue reading
Henry James: Portraits of Integrity
Danielle Petherbridge’s introduction to our Portraits of Integrity meeting on Henry James is now available. Readings Henry James, The Ambassadors, (New York: Modern Library, 2011); Chapter 1, Book First, pp. 5-19; Chapter 2, Book Second, pp. 65-83; Chapter 2, Book … Continue reading
Henry James seminar — Friday 28th November
Danielle Petherbridge, UCD, will be leading a seminar on Henry James for our Portraits of Integrity series, this Friday 2-5pm. More information here. Please do get in touch if you’d like to participate.
Simone Weil workshop with David Levy, 26th September
Our Portraits of Integrity workshops restart this month with Dr David Levy (Edinburgh University) on Simone Weil. As usual we meet 2-5pm in Newcastle. Full details of the meeting here and a full meeting schedule for this semester here. Please … Continue reading
Art and Subculture: Protecting integrity in the marketplace — Call for help
I am considering submitting a proposal to run a Cumberland Lodge Colloquium on the above topic. The starting point is this extract Grayson Perry’s 2013 Reith Lectures: And this idea of being sincere, real, being realness, having integrity, sincerity, authenticity – these are qualities … Continue reading
Portraits of Integrity: Autumn / Winter programme
After the summer we’ll be resuming our meetings for the Portraits of Integrity project. Over the autumn / winter we have a number of guest conveners joining us. Pages with readings will appear on the Project pages soon. 26th September … Continue reading
Saints and Madmen: 4 – 6 June
We’re in Berlin at the Einstein Forum this week for the Saints and Madmen: Integrity at its Limits conference. We have some wonderful speakers on Wednesday and Thursday, plus a day of workshops on Friday. The full programme is here.