The Ordered Universe project featured today at Durham University’s Celebrating Arts and Humanities Research Day. The second annual event of its kind, the day showcased research from the past year from all of the departments within the Faculty (History, English, Classics, Theology and Religion, Music, Philosophy, and Modern Languages and Cultures).
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Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)
A short notice to say that our informal reading group will be continuing during Easter term at Durham University. Our first meeting of the term will take place on the 22nd May at 3pm in Seminar Room 2 at Durham University’s Department of History. The reading group will examine the Natural Questions of Seneca (c.Continue reading “Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)”
Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)
The Durham Ordered Universe group completes its second term next week. We had great fun with Adelard of Bath’s Natural Questions – from the smallest seed to the food which stars might eat, and Adelard’s fierce insistence on reason and the authority of, what he calls, the Arabic learning he had encountered on his travels inContinue reading “Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)”
Ordered Universe at Cambridge e-luminate – Spiritus: Light and Dark
An absolutely fantastic day in Cambridge on February 10th, with the launch of the e-luminate festival. Ordered Universe team members, Giles Gasper, Tom McLeish, Richard Bower, Hannah Smithson and Sebastian Falk presented the project, and interactive activities on medieval and modern science to the public at Great St Mary’s Church. With over 250 visitors toContinue reading “Ordered Universe at Cambridge e-luminate – Spiritus: Light and Dark”
Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)
Just a short notice to say that our informal reading group will continue during Epiphany Term at Durham University. The first meeting of the term will be tomorrow, 17th January, from 15.00-17.00 in the Department of History, Seminar Room 1 and the programme for the term is embedded above. The Reading Group will continue toContinue reading “Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)”
Through a Glass Darkly: Creative Collaborative Seminar
The next in the Ordered Universe Through a Glass Darkly Creative Collaboration Seminars with the National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, takes place next week, on January 10th. This time we will be in Durham, at the Department of History and, to top the day off, at the Palace Green Library learning centre to be introduced toContinue reading “Through a Glass Darkly: Creative Collaborative Seminar”
New Members of the Ordered Universe Team
Ordered Universe has two new members of the team starting this month, whom we can welcome officially to their respective roles. Our Administrative Co-ordinator Dr Rachael Matthews stood down at the end of 2016. We all owe Rachael a enormous debt of gratitude for her tireless work in ensuring a proper platform for the project, designing theContinue reading “New Members of the Ordered Universe Team”
Heaven’s Above! An Interactive Exhibition
Well, it has been about three weeks since the Being Human, National Festival of Humanities activities took place in Durham. Philipp Nothaft’s magnificent lecture on the dating of Easter (just before Advent, appropriately) on the 18th November, which attracted an audience of over 80 and is available in video form, began events. The lecture took place
Events this week! Heaven’s Above
Being Human, the National Festival of Humanities, opens across the UK on the 17th November, this Thursday. With nine days of events from Scotland to Cornwall, Northern Ireland to London this year is as diverse in the range of research inspired by the humanities, as it is in geography! There are a number of events takingContinue reading “Events this week! Heaven’s Above”
Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)
A short notice to say that an informal reading group will be taking place, under the aegis of the Ordered Universe, at Durham, over the rest of Michaelmas Term, and then again in Epiphany and Easter. The first meeting to register interest and draw up plans takes place tomorrow, at 16.00 in the Department ofContinue reading “Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)”