 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Study Days
Mondays 10.45 - 12.45 & 14.00 - 16.00 21 September 2009 - 15 February 2010 |
|
|
Istanbul, City of the World's Desire: the story of Constantinople from its founding by Constantine the Great, its life as the capital of the Byzantine Empire and its renaissance as Ottoman Istanbul. Art goes to the movies: Two study days of lectures and film clips which explore some of the ways in which the film industry has depicted artists and how the visual arts have influenced the design of movies.
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
From Model To Maker
Tuesdays 10.45 - 12.45 22 September 2009 - 22 June 2010 |
|
|
Three linked programmes which examine the relationships between women and the arts. The Muse and the Ideal: How and why women have been idealised in art from the time of Classical Greece and how these ideas have persisted into the 21st century. Real Women: Why artists have chosen to present unidealised images of women and what these images imply. Women as Makers: This programme looks at the art and design made by women who have been working in the visual arts since the 19th century.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Ways Of Looking At The World
Wednesdays 10.45 - 12.45 23 September 2009 - 9 June 2010 |
|
|
How humankind has searched for ways to explain and understand the world, its inhabitants and its place in universal order. Gods and Men: How the highly evolved myth systems of the ancient world explained the creation of all things and the relationships between the gods and those whose destiny they controlled. The Philosophers: The ideas of those natural, speculative and moral philosophers who have offered alternative ways of understanding the world and the responsibilities of humanity. The Theologians: Theological views and how they have (or have not) changed in the modern world.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exploring London
Wednesdays 10.45 - 12.45 30 September 2009 - 23 June 2010 |
|
|
The London of Charles Dickens: Dickens was one of the great observers of life in the capital. This series of lectures and visits presents new themes drawn from the inexhaustible information to be found in his books and works of journalism. The Archaeology of London 600-1, 600 AD: As London is reinvented in the modern world, it reveals new evidence of its past. This series looks at the latest discoveries of sites and objects. 'The Silvery Thames': A celebration of the many faces of London's great river.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|