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Precision Teaching Workshop
Precision Teaching Workshop (as seen on BBC News Dr Carl Hughes and Mike Beverley Bangor University, Wales will follow up QUART conference presentation on Precision Teaching with a full-day workshop. Details to follow.
Helping school-aged pupils with Autism succeed in mainstream classrooms
Professor Bill Heward (Ohio State University) Professor Heward is co-author of Cooper, Heron and Heward "Applied Behavior Analysis". This workshop addresses issues related to the question: What behavior changes produced by what techniques will accrue maximal success for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in regular classrooms?This workshop will examine research-based interventions that help students with ASD learn a number of skill sets that autism experts consider critical for success in inclusive classrooms. Target Audience - general and special education teachers, teacher supervisors, school psychologists, school administrators, teacher education faculty,educational policy makers. 5 CEUs Cost: Full fee £60 / Concession £30 (individuals with ASD, parents, students, tutors, 3+ group/team
QUMS Undergraduate Open Day
The purpose of this half-day event is to allow you to gain further information about your potential course and to seek clarification and/or advice on any queries you might have. There are opportunities to speak informally with staff and students within the School, to find out more about the specific degree programmes for which you are holding offers, to learn more about Queen’s University Management School and life at Queen’s University in general.
PLAY: WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY by Brian Clark
5th - 7th March 2013 7:30pm Adapted from his TV movie of the same name, Brian Clark's Whose Life is it Anyway? is the story of sculptor Ken Harrison who, after a car accident, finds himself quadriplegic. After coming to the realisation that he will never move again, Ken decides to start putting together a legal case that will allow him his ultimate peace. Clark presents a gripping and honest tale about one man’s battle to make his life his own. As he stays in the hospital Ken forges a close friendship with Doctor Scott who finds herself in emotional turmoil as she battles between her conscience and her Hippocratic oath, Clark presents us with arguments both for and against euthanasia. But surely, if you're clever enough to put up an invincible case for suicide then that demonstrates you ought not die? 5th - 7th March 2013 7:30pm
PLAY: SHOOT/GET TREASURE/REPEAT
19th – 21st March 7:30pm ‘The Odyssey’, ‘Yesterday an Incident Occurred’, ‘War and Peace’ & ‘Love (But I won’t do that)’ from SHOOT/GET TREASURE/REPEAT by Mark Ravenhill 19th – 21st March 7:30pm £7/£5
PLAY: ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett
Showing 23rd - 25th April, 7:30pm In Endgame, Samuel Beckett’s famous characters, Hamm, Clov, Nag and Nell engage us in fundamental questions about the nature of existence. What is it to be human? Are we moral beings? Is there a purpose? Can we be free of suffering? Endgame tries to rid itself of all meaning, except the one: Everything is meaningless. Showing 23rd - 25th April, 7:30pm
The 44th Larmor Lecture
What happened in the early universe just after the Big Bang? This is one of the most intriguing basic questions in all of science, but it is extraordinarily difficult to answer because of insurmountable issues associated with replaying the Big Bang in the laboratory. One route to the answer -- which lies at the intersection between cosmology and condensed-matter physics -- is to use laboratory materials to test the so-called "Kibble-Zurek" scaling laws proposed for the formation of defects such as cosmic strings in the early universe. In this lecture I will show that a popular multiferroic material -- with its coexisting magnetic, ferroelectric and structural phase transitions -- generates the crystallographic equivalent of cosmic strings. I will describe how straightforward solution of the Schroedinger equation for the material allows the important features of its behavior to be identified and quantified, and present experimental results of the first unambiguous demonstration of Kibble-Zurek scaling.
CResPP Seminar: Revisiting North-South differences and distinctions
The Centre for Research in Political Psychology (CResPP) welcomes Prof Jennifer Todd from School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin who will present a seminar titled "Revisiting North-South differences and distinctions". http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/CResPP/
CResPP Seminar: School-based intergroup contact in Northern Ireland
The Centre for Research in Political Psychology (CResPP) welcomes Prof Joanne Hughes, School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast who will present a seminar titled "School-based intergroup contact in Northern Ireland: Findings from two studies". http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/CResPP/
CResPP Seminar: Intergroup contact for collective action & social change
The Centre for Research in Political Psychology (CResPP) welcomes Dr Nicole Tausch, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews who will present a seminar titled "Implications of intergroup contact for collective action and social change". http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/CResPP/
CResPP Seminar: Policing, perception and signal
The Centre for Research in Political Psychology (CResPP) welcomes Prof Pete Shirlow, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast who will present a seminar titled "Policing, perception and signal". http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/CResPP/
Dangerous Women and Women in Danger
In celebration of International Women’s Day, the conference will focus on the related theme of dangerous women and women facing peril
Institute of Irish Studies : Spring Semeter Seminar Series 2013
Talk by Cathal McManus, School of Education, QUB 'Language and National Identity: The Complexities of Modern Irish Nationalism' See website for details of all seminars: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/Research/SeminarProgrammes/
BSc Accounting+ Evening
This event is specifically designed for students who are holding an offer for BSc Accounting (or a related Accounting course) for September 2013 entry. This informal event will allow you to meet the staff who will teach you (in the place where they are located) and students who are on the Accounting programmes at present. You will get a chance to hear an employer perspective on our courses, ask questions to staff and students alike.
Dreams & Realities in University Access in England -
Title: Dreams & Realities in University Access in England – along the ethno-religious cleavage. Presenter: Sean Demack, Sheffield Hallam University, Centre for Education and Inclusion Research (CEIR) Abstract: In the seminar I will present an overview of the larger ‘Dreams & Realities’ research project I was involved in last year that was funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The project drew on data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) to explore aspirations towards higher education (at ages 13/14, 14/15 and 15/16) and participation in higher education (at ages 18/19 and 19/20). The project explored how these dreams and realities are shaped by socio-economics (which drew on the ‘Capital’ and ‘habitus’ ideas of Pierre Bourdieu), ethnicity and social background. In the seminar I want to focus on the role of ethnicity (which is operationalized using ethnic group, religion and use of English). Participation in higher education is examined with respect to Russell Group and none Russell Group institutions and some interesting contrasts emerged around the ethnicity cleavage.
SEMINAR SERIES: PhD Roundtable
Speakers: Kevin McCluskey, Joseph Greenwood, Niall Rea 1) “They’ll all have seen King Kong” 2) ’Tis the changing of the times’ 3) Towards an Obscenography: Queering Performance Design.
Simon Waters: Works
Férdia Stone-Davis, Simon Waters, others tbc. A concert of works exploring different aspects of music’s relationship with technology, and with its own history. The programme will include the recent (2012) Folly, for voice flute, live electronics, fixed media and wine glasses, performed by Férdia Stone-Davis. Also featured are an earlier (1992) acousmatic work Drift (in a new manifestation) and AfterImage (1993) for baroque flute and tape, performed by the composer.
The development and differentiation of inhibitory control
Psychology Research Seminar Series - Lucy Cragg, University of Nottingham presents a research seminar titled: "The development and differentiation of inhibitory control". Hosted by Dr Tim Fosker. http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/psy/Research/Seminars/
Enrolment and Registration 2013 Focus Group
Are you interested in improving the E&R experience for all students? Would you like to have an input into the E&R Wizard and Registration process for 2013? Student Records are holding a focus group on the 8th March from 10am-12pm and are keen to gather feedback from students on their previous E&R experiences. If you are interested in getting involved and helping to improve the experience for you and the entire Student Body please contact s.carvill@qub.ac.uk for more detail. Come and tell us what you think!
CONFERENCE: Ethnomusicology in the Digital Arts
Queen's University, British Forum for Ethnomusicology: www.bfe.org.uk www.ictm.ie
Voices of Queen's
Chamber Choir Spring Concert A selection of some of the finest vocal sonorities that will both move and entertain all who pause a while to listen. £6 (£4)
Moore’s Melodies and National Airs Music for piano and voice
Pianist Úna Hunt and soprano Katy Kelly offer a selection of songs from Moore’s Irish Melodies and his National Airs, as well as piano music based on Moore's songs by Vincent Wallace, Mikhail Glinka, and others.
Queen's University Brass Band
The University Brass Band, under the direction of visiting conductor, Richard Evans, will showcase the results of an intensive weekend of rehearsals on major works from the brass band repertoire. The weekend is open to participants from outside the University. For further details contact: brass@qub.ac.uk
SEMINAR: Luxembourg calling: What is the European horror film?
Speaker: Dr. Russ Hunter (Northumbria University)"What is a European horror film? The paper will explore the inherent difficulty in answering this question. It focuses upon the ways in which European horror has been characterized variously by international co-productions, the movement of creative personnel between countries, international markets for films and international influences. In particular, it will stress the productive tensions between notions of the national and the continental being worked out throughout the history of European horror. In this way it will interrogate ideas surrounding the idea of a ‘European’ horror cinema as opposed to purely nationally differentiated and discreet cinemas. It will argue that Europe represents more than a discursively created category linking a loosely connected group of films and filmmakers. The factors outlined above will be explored to demonstrate the complex inter-relationship European horror producers have always operated under. Creep (Christopher Smith, 2004) will be used to help exemplify these issues. As a UK/Germay co-production set on the London Underground with a German lead actress, it offers an example of the problematic nature of nationally and collectively designated cinema. "
SEMINAR: Experiment and Experimental Music
Speaker: Fernando Iazzetta Within the MOBILE Project we have produced a series of works that result from academic research coupled with the development of creative processes in which scientific experiment and aesthetic experimentalism are interwoven. After presenting some of these works and processes we will discuss the convergence between academic research and artistic creation.
Big Ears - Sonic art for public ears - Panel Discussion
Sound Art and Community Engagement
Malaysian Night: Legend of Ledang
Legend of Ledang. Once upon a time, in a land far from Northern Ireland, a mighty warrior and a princess fell in love. The land was called Melaka; the warrior, Hang Tuah; and the princess was better known as Puteri. However, the Puteri was then involuntarily offered to the Sultan as a marriage offering by her brother, the Prince of Majapahit. Despite it being a noble intention to protect his land from war, it also threatened to tear the lovers apart. This is a story about the choice between love and duty. Puteri fled to Mount Ledang to follow her heart, however, Hang Tuah is torn between his loyalty towards the Sultan and his affection towards Puteri. How will he choose without disappointing the Sultan or Puteri? It has been said that our choices are what shape our life stories It is now your turn to decide: will you join us at this legendary theatrical play, or not? Date : 9th March 2013 - Saturday Time: 7.00pm - 11.00pm Venue : Sir William Whitla Hall Queen's University of Belfast, University Rd, Belfast, BT7 1NN Dress code: Formal Ticket Price:- MSSNI members: £11 Non-members: £13 FOR Members, just key in your STUDENT ID at the "enter promotional code" above ORDER NOW Malaysian night is a part of ‘Malaysia and You 2013’, an event designed to promote Malaysia’s rich culture while celebrating and fostering friendships. So come and experience it yourself and bring your friends along for some well-spent time!
Centre for Infection & Immunity, Research Seminar
Dr Marjan Van der Woude, University of York, will talk on 'Epigenetic regulation in bacteria: a rich source for generating phenotypic heterogeneity'.
Centre for Infection & Immunity, Research Seminar
Dr Malcolm Brodlie, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne will give a Seminar on ''Sphingolipids and inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis lung disease'
Spyfest 7
Theme - Signals Intelligence Participants include: Peter Hennessy, Christopher Andrew, David Gioe and Richard Aldrick among many others. Directed primarily at undergraduate history audience, however, Queen's postgraduates and staff are welcome.
Irish History Students Association Conference
The IHSA organising committee, on behalf of the School of History and Anthropology, is pleased to announce that the Irish History Students’ Association annual conference will be held at Queen’s University Belfast, on 1–3 March 2013. More information at: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/NewsandEvents/Conferences/IrishHistoryStudentsAssociation-AnnualConference/
The Wiles Lectures 2013
The Wiles Lectures in 2013 will be given by Professor Robert Gildea. Robert Gildea, FBA, is a Fellow of Worcester College and Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His four-lecture series will be on 'Remembering and Repetition in France: Defeat, Colonialism and Resistance since 1940' and will be held from Wednesday 15 May to Saturday 18 May 2013 at Queen's University Belfast. For more information, see: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/NewsandEvents/WilesLectureSeries/WilesLectures2013/
Northern Rhythm: The Art of John Luke 1906 - 1975
John Luke is one of Northern Ireland’s most celebrated artists. He was a painter, muralist, sculptor and printmaker, who began his life working in the city’s shipyards. A modernist who was dedicated to craftsmanship, Luke’s work is characterised by a unique sense of ‘rhythm’ that he found in Ulster as a region. This exhibition, curated by Joseph McBrinn of the University of Ulster, is the most comprehensive retrospective and critical assessment of John Luke’s work ever mounted, and will include examples of Luke’s most important portraits, landscapes, drawings, designs for murals and sculptures, as well as examples of his woodcut and linocut prints. www.nmni.com/um
The 11th International Mammalogical Congress 2013
Queen's University is pleased to host the 11th International Mammalogical Congress on behalf of the International Federation of Mammalogists and The Mammal Society. Additional information may be obtained from the Congress web site at: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/IMC11/
Centre for Infection & Immunity, Research Seminar
Dr Istvan Nagy, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary will give a seminar on ‘Genomics and transcriptomics of Propionibacterium acnes’.
The Role of Heritage in Post-conflict Reconstruction
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (University of Cambridge) will outline the role of heritage in post-conflict reconstruction efforts, and identify the challenges encountered when attempting to translate research into policy statements and recommendations.
SEMINAR: "Roger Casement: Controversies in Script and Image"
Speaker: Jeff Dudgeon Roger Casement: Controversies in Script and Image No Irish revolutionary and certainly no gay Irishman (Wilde excluded) has had more books written about him than Roger Casement, the latest being Dream of the Celt by the Nobel prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa. Casment has attracted the best writers and historians: Brian Inglis, Séamas O Síocháin, Roger Sawyer, Montgomery Hyde, and some less so. Five TV programmes have been made about his career though none have touched on his Ulster politics or his gay life, just the diaries, whose authenticity continues to be a subject of heated dispute. Portraits, by Sarah Purser, when alive, and mostly hagiographic since death, are rarer; feature films never materialised as family and friends successfully objecting to Hollywood biopics, and we have only 30 seconds of actual moving images of Casement, in Berlin in 1915. Casement sometimes turns up incognito, as in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness or Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. However David Rudkin’s Cries of Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin’ is a rare theatrical production, outside of the court room or condemned cell, that captures Casement as human rather than heroic, although never as villain. Jeffrey Dudgeon MBE was the successful plaintiff at the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg in a six-year case whose 1981 judgment relating to the right to a private life led to the 1982 law decriminalising male homosexual behaviour in Northern Ireland. The case started after his arrest in 1976 and the rounding-up that year of all the members of the two fledgling gay groups in Belfast. Jeff’s book on the life of Roger Casement and the authenticity of his famous diaries was published in 2002, entitled Roger Casement: The Black Diarie and deals extensively with their authenticity. See jeffdudgeon.com
SEMINAR: Music and Politics In Croatia
Speaker: Dr Stanislav Tuksar "Music and Politics in Croatia between 1941 and 1952. Arts between the Rightest and Leftist Extreme Regimes - Parallels and Differences"
CONCERT: Clare Hammond (piano solo)
This is the final recital in the 2012-13 series by popular young artist in residence Clare Hammond . Her programme includes Schubert’s evergreen Sonata in A major D664, along with a less familiar work by modern French master Dutilleux and a recent piece by young Irish composer Ryan Molloy. The programme opens with a rare chance to hear Brahms’ left-hand transcription of Bach’s mighty D minor Chaconne for violin. Presented in association with Moving On Music.
Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music
Soundscape and beyond This year’s festival takes Soundscape, in the broadest sense, as its starting point, featuring works which exemplify the genre and critical responses to the concept. Barry Truax – one of the original members of the World Soundscape Project, and pioneer of granular synthesis – premieres his latest 8-channel work Aeolian Voices in the Sonic Lab, and performs his From the Unseen World for piano and six digital soundtracks. Agostino di Scipio presents some of his Audible Ecosystemics, and there are concerts from metatrumpeter Jonathan Impett and virtuoso hurdy-gurdy player and violinist Stevie Wishart. The festival moves outside SARC in variety of ways, featuring Luke Abbott’s beautifully heard electronica, and installations in local gallery spaces and outside. A symposium on Saturday 27 April will include papers from Barry Truax, and other practitioners and theorists engaged with soundscape.
CONCERT: JUICE Vocal Ensemble
A welcome return to the Harty Room for the outstandingly colourful and virtuosic JUICE vocal ensemble, who bring their astonishingly diverse songbook of ten short a cappella love songs. Commissioned in 2010, artists include renowned British composers Gavin Bryars, Anna Meredith, Errollyn Wallen and Roxanna Panufnik, award-winning UK folk artist Jim Moray and art-pop star Micachu (aka Mica Levi). The songbook also features Dai Fujikura’s virtuosic away we play, shortlisted for a British composer Award in 2011.
Moore’s Roots
The Queen’s Irish Traditional Music Society will perform a selection of tunes used by Moore in wildly popular series such as the Irish Melodies. Thomas Moore Festival (26 April - 17 May) A month-long event dedicated to this celebrated Irish figure. For further details contact audrey.smyth@qub.ac.uk The Queen’s Irish Traditional Music Society will perform a selection of tunes used by Moore in wildly popular series such as the Irish Melodies.
CONCERT: Drive-time Concert
Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman (Irish Harp & Guitar) Máire is the 2001 recipient of Irish music’s most prestigious Award, Gradam Cheoil TG4 (Traditional Musician of the Year). A multiple All-Ireland and Pan-Celtic winner, she developed profoundly influential techniques for harp performance of traditional Irish music, heard on her pioneering New-Strung Harp (1985) and subsequent six recordings with Chris Newman - with whom she tours worldwide. Chris is “one of the UK’s most staggering and influential acoustic guitarists” (fROOTS), who has played with luminaries of many musical worlds: folk (harper Máire and Boys of the Lough), jazz (Stéphane Grappelli and Diz Disley) and comedy (Fred Wedlock) - composing the tune for and producing Fred's hit Oldest Swinger in Town, which reached No 2 in the charts in the UK and No 1 in several other countries and brought him a silver disc. He has been principal guitar tutor for Newcastle University’s Folk B.Mus course since its inception
CONCERT: Royal String Quartet
The Royal Quartet continue their Polish + season with Gorecki's 1st Quartet, Gra yna Bacewicz's prize winning 4th quartet and Borodin's 2nd Quartet.
CONCERT: ‘Before And After The End Of Time’
FIDELIO TRIO, ROBERT PLANE (clarinet) This, the first of two exciting concerts by Fidelio Trio and Robert Plane (clarinet), forms part of a study programme on the impact of Messiaen’s 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps', perhaps the most enduring chamber work of the last century. The mini-festival also includes a keynote talk at 1pm today by Messiaen authority Dr Caroline Rae, a young composers’ workshop and, as climax, a performance in tomorrow’s lunchtime concert of the Quatuor itself. Fidelio Trio are among the leading younger new music ensembles of today, taking a huge repertoire of new and commissioned works around the world; currently the Trio is the ensemble in residence at St Patrick’s Drumcondra (Dublin City University). Robert Plane is one of Europe’s most celebrated clarinet soloists, as well as being principal clarinet of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales; a frequent visitor to these shores, he was from 2002 to 2009 an artist in residence in Queen’s School of Music and Sonic Arts.
CONCERT: Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps
As the final event of our feature around a great classic, this programme presents that single work, Messiaen’s 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps', perhaps the most enduring chamber work of the last century. Despite the immense influence of the work and its famously unusual birth, premiered in freezing conditions in a Silesian prison camp, a live performance is a rare treat and certainly a major event, given the work’s eight-movement substance. In the final movement, Louange a l’Éternité de Jésus, the solo violin rides into the ether upon a pulsating halo of shining chords, and musical time is truly suspended. It is an unmissable experience.
SEMINAR: Cities of Memory: Performing and Media Arts in the Post-Conflict City
Cities of Memory: Performing and Media Arts in the Post-Conflict City Speaker: Professor Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam) Dr Colin Graham (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) Professor Jane Taylor (University of Chicago) Developing from the work of the Belfast-Sarajevo Initiative (2007-2010), the School of Creative Arts at Queen's, in association with the British Academy, is hosting this conference to examine how theatre, performance, film, and the visual arts address post-conflict situations. We will consider proposals that focus on any post-conflict city, or region, and intend the Cities of Memory project to encourage interdisciplinary discussion on the contemporary arts and their relation to issues of testimony, witnessing, forgetting, representation, healing, reconciliation, agency, and metaphor. QUB Drama is delighted to host Professor Shaun Richards who will deliver the Fourth Annual Brian Friel Lecture. Shaun Richards is a recognised authority on Irish drama and has published on the subject in major journals and edited collections. His latest book is on Space, Place and Time in Irish drama which is being co-authored with Professor Chris Morash for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2013. He has lectured on Irish drama at a number of European and international universities, including the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Waseda University, Tokyo. In 2012-2013 he held visiting research fellowships at NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin. He is on the editorial board of Irish Studies Review, the editorial advisory board of Irish University Review and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and the IRCHSS Postgraduate International Panel. He is also an elected member of the council of the British Association for Irish Studies and the executive of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. His publications include: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama which he edited in 2004 and Writing Ireland: Literature, Nationalism and Colonialism (1988) which he co-authored with David Cairns.
2013 Golden Reunion
The Development and Alumni Relations Office is currently planning a reunion for the classes of 1957-1967. This exciting event will take place from Friday 14th June-Sunday 16th June 2013 and will give alumni an opportunity to reconnect on campus and beyond. If you would like more information please contact Adele Ward, Events & Reunions Officer on 028 9097 5289 or visit the website.
CONCERT: Transparency
MOBILE: Fernando Iazzetta et al. Transparency is a performance that brings some of the artistic outcomes of MOBILE, a research project focused on exploring interactive processes in artistic creation. The project is carried out at the University of São Paulo, Brazil under the direction of Fernando Iazzetta. One of the main goals of this project is to create an interface between technological research, critical reflection and the exploration of creative processes. The interdisciplinary nature of the group is revealed by its academic production as well as by the collaborative processes that give rise to artistic works.
QUSO - Queen's University Symphony Orchestra
Brahms once said that he would ‘walk over hot coals’ in order to meet Bizet, such was his regard for his fellow composer. Under the baton of conductor Ciaran Kennedy, QUSO bring together the works of these two composers for their end of year concert for what will be an exciting evening of music-making. Programme: Bizet – L’Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2 Brahms – Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 £6 (£4)
Student Performers' Showcase
Music Showcase Concert Students in the Classical music performance programme in the School of Creative Arts present an eclectic concert of solo and ensemble works that span the Baroque period to the modern. A wonderful opportunity to celebrate the talents of emerging artists from the Queen's community.
Auditory factors in the timing and control of action
Dr Matthew Rodger (QUB) presents a research seminar titled "Auditory factors in the timing and control of action".
Direct learning: Introduction and application to the design of training methods
David Jacobs, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM) presents a research seminar titled "Direct learning: An introduction and a tentative application to the design of training methods", hosted by Professor Cathy Craig.
SEMINAR: Stumbling' - David Fennessy discusses his recent music
Speaker: David Fennessy
SEMINAR: The Digitisation of the Abbey Theatre's Archive
Speaker: Dr Patrick Lonergan, NUI Galway
SEMINAR: Performance practice and distributed creativity in Stockhausen’s...
SEMINAR: Performance practice and distributed creativity in Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge. Speaker: Dr Sean Williams (Edinburgh) Through interviews, documents, recordings, and practice led research I discuss some of the creative relationships between Tonographie Apparatebau, Rohde und Schwarz, Maihak, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Heinz Schütz, Hugh Davies, Josef Protschka and Karlheinz Stockhausen that have contributed to what we know as Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge. ////// Dr. Sean Williams is a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, researching by practice the live and studio performance practices of early electronic music, mainly that made at the WDR Studio for Electronic Music, Cologne from 1952 to 1974. He builds electronic instruments with which he makes sound art and also performs in various ensembles. He has produced and presented a radio show Voice On Record, for Resonance FM and has DJed and performed his own electronic music In Europe, Japan and the USA.
SEMINAR: Myths and Miracles: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps as Musical Icon'
Speaker: Dr Caroline Rae
The Annual Brian Friel Lecture
Speaker: Professor Shaun Richards QUB Drama is delighted to host Professor Shaun Richards who will deliver the Fourth Annual Brian Friel Lecture. Shaun Richards is a recognised authority on Irish drama and has published on the subject in major journals and edited collections. His latest book is on Space, Place and Time in Irish drama which is being co-authored with Professor Chris Morash for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2013. He has lectured on Irish drama at a number of European and international universities, including the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Waseda University, Tokyo. In 2012-2013 he held visiting research fellowships at NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin. He is on the editorial board of Irish Studies Review, the editorial advisory board of Irish University Review and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and the IRCHSS Postgraduate International Panel. He is also an elected member of the council of the British Association for Irish Studies and the executive of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. His publications include: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama which he edited in 2004 and Writing Ireland: Literature, Nationalism and Colonialism (1988) which he co-authored with David Cairns.
SEMINAR: ‘"How I wonder what you're at!"
‘"How I wonder what you're at!" Sketch Studies of György Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals’ Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Marx "What is a European horror film? The paper will explore the inherent difficulty in answering this question. It focuses upon the ways in which European horror has been characterized variously by international co-productions, the movement of creative personnel between countries, international markets for films and international influences. In particular, it will stress the productive tensions between notions of the national and the continental being worked out throughout the history of European horror. In this way it will interrogate ideas surrounding the idea of a ‘European’ horror cinema as opposed to purely nationally differentiated and discreet cinemas. It will argue that Europe represents more than a discursively created category linking a loosely connected group of films and filmmakers. The factors outlined above will be explored to demonstrate the complex inter-relationship European horror producers have always operated under. Creep (Christopher Smith, 2004) will be used to help exemplify these issues. As a UK/Germay co-production set on the London Underground with a German lead actress, it offers an example of the problematic nature of nationally and collectively designated cinema. "
SEMINAR:Screen education: The development of film schools in Britain.
Speaker: Prof. Duncan Petrie (University of York) This paper discusses the significance of film schools to the wider fields of British film and media history, and the development of its cinema as a creative and cultural form. Although Film Schools have had an important impact on wider stylistic trends, production practices, and film-making movements in Britain, within most historical accounts of cinema, film-makers’ education has tended to be treated as a minor biographical detail or is simply assumed to be one aspect of on-the-job skills-acquisition. This paper examines these issues, and also looks at the Scottish Film School experience, and it relevance to Northern Ireland
CONCERT: MA Students Sonic Arts Showcase
Come and see the projects the Sonic Arts Masters students have to show in their annual Showcase event.
CONCERT: Queen's Junior Academy of Music
Come and see the prA showcase of our young talented musicians, the Junior Academy of Music Spring Concert features young performers ranging from 4 to 14 years.ojects the Sonic Arts Masters students have to show in their annual Showcase event.
CONCERT: Poet Sinead Morrissey (QUB) and students
Poet Sinead Morrissey (QUB) will recite a selection of Moore’s poems, while students from the School of Creative Arts will perform some of his songs.
CONCERT: Mixed-Reality Music
Network Concert between the Sonic Arts Research Centre and Bournemouth University This concert will present music created at the intersection between the virtual and the real. The programme will include works by researchers at SARC and Bournemouth University that explore new strategies for performing music across the network. Ambiguous Devices will feature Paul Stapleton & Tom Davis's latest version of their distributed instrument, which allows the duo to physically alter and augment each other's musical interactions while improvising in two geographically separate locations.
CONCERT: Battle of the Bands: An Open Competition
"Battle of the Bands: An Open Competition" Musicians of any tradition (Irish traditional, classical, electroacoustic, popular) are invited to present a cover version of a Moore tune. The best version (voted by the audience) receives a £400 prize. Interested groups should contact audrey.smyth@qub.ac.uk by 15 March 2013 in order to secure a place.
CONCERT: Queen's University Big Band, directed by Stephen Barnett
The programme includes a selection of classics from the likes of Miller, Nestico, Hefti and other stars of the band firmament.
Jaap Blonk in concert and conversation
Experimental vocalist Jaap Blonk will give a concert followed by a Voice / Text-Sound / Improvisation Workshop (All welcome)
CONCERT: Breanndán Ó Beaghlaoich, Tommy Peoples, and Laoise Kelly
A trio of Irish traditional music’s finest join forces, with three very distinct regional styles bringing adventure to every set of tunes. Representing the Dingle Peninsula is Breanndán Ó Beaghlaoich, whose fiery button accordion playing and heartfelt singing echo the stormy beauty of the West Kerry coastline. He has three acclaimed solo albums to his name, as well as numerous recordings with the groups Boys of the Lough. The legendary Tommy Peoples brings the rabble-rousing Donegal fiddle style to the party. Tommy became renowned as a founding member of The Bothy Band and half of a powerful duet with Chieftains flute player Matt Molloy. He subsequently moved to County Clare, and in more recent years has performed primarily as a solo musician. His most recent recording was ""The Quiet Glen,"" which includes a number of his own compositions. Equally influential is virtuoso harpist Laoise Kelly, who has breathed new life into the national instrument with her reinterpretation of dance music and the O'Carolan canon. A founding member of The Bumblebees with whom she recorded two albums and toured worldwide, she collaborates regularly with Scottish Gaidhlig singer Kathleen MacInnes and Clare fiddler Michelle O’Brien.
The telesonorous body - network performance between Belfast and Brazil
Ivani Santana and SARC musicians "The 'telesonorous body' is a dialogue between the sonorities of two remote dancers (one in Belfast, one in Brazil) immersed into an acoustic environment and the feedback produced by these two bodies. In this work dance and music are combined to expose the bodies of the dancers as sonorous bodies.
CONCERT:Franziska Schroeder performes new works by PhD composers
Since 2009, Franziska has been presenting an annual showcase of new works by PhD composers from the School of Creative Arts. This initiative was developed to showcase current compositional work, but more importantly to allow PhD students to work closely with a performer on the development of their creative practice.The main stipulation for this process is that the works be written in close contact between the composer and the performers involved. In this way, the performers can provide input into the creative development of the work, record source sounds, and develop notational strategies for the pieces. Franziska's interest in new technologies and digital media has been a driving factor for this working process, and as such composers are encouraged to explore their musical language in this context. In recent years, the showcase concert has included works for the four main saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone), accordion, bagpipes, live- electronics, visuals, networked instruments, resonating metal plates and cardboard boxes. All compositions have been premiered in the world-renowned Sonic Lab. Today's concert will include works that explore the timbral idiosyncrasies of the saxophone through extended techniques and live electronics as well as more traditional approaches to the instrument. For more info and archived recordings, please see: http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~fschroeder/Showcase.html
CONCERT:Big Ears - Sonic art for public ears - final showcase event
The Big Ears training course runs March 8-10, 2013. The showcase will take place at 7pm on Sunday, March 10, in the Sonic Lab. Big Ears is a public engagement training course for PhD students in the UK. It provides an opportunity for sonic arts researchers and local children to learn from each other, while producing a unique showcase event in the cutting-edge performance space of the Sonic Arts Research Centre. Big Ears is facilitated by Northern Ireland's leading children's arts organisation, “Young at Art” (www.youngatart.co.uk), and it allows 8 funded researchers to work alongside the renowned Belfast Children’s Festival. Supported by experts in the areas of performance, composition, mobile and gaming technologies, community projects, and public engagement, Big Ears enables participating children and researchers to play with sounds, images and lots of gadgets in a collaborative environment. Together, they produce ear-opening audio stories of faraway worlds, incredible adventures, gooey monsters, and sonic dragons. The project was funded by the HEA and conceived by Dr. Franziska Schroeder. Two PhD researchers, Emily Robertson and Enrico Bertelli, are leading the 2013 event. For more information, see the Big Ears website (www.bigearsbelfast.tumblr.com and http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~BigEars/index.html
Bumbos Belfast - devised street theatre performance
Students from school of Creative Arts “BUMBOS BELFAST” – Students from across Queen’s University’s School of Creative Arts present a newly devised street theatre performance based on a Brazilian street folk drama involving the death and resurrection of an ox, and adapted to reflect the students’ own experience in a flurry of music, singing, drama and dance.
57th meeting of the Ecological Genetics Group
Queen's University is pleased to host the 57th meeting of the Ecological Genetics Group, 2013.
Sport @ QUB
The hub of Queen's Sport is the Physical Education Centre (PEC) located in Belfast's beautiful Botanic Park. Opened in 1971, the facility boasts an amazing range of sporting facilities, services and programmes to meet the needs of first time users, casual users, top class athletes and life-long regulars. The PEC provides both an administrative and management base for Queen's Sport and plays host to most of the University's sporting clubs. The vision for Queen's Sport is to be: "The premier University in Ireland (and beyond) for sporting opportunities which are appealing, inclusive and progressive" In order to achieve this vision there has been an investment of over £10 million over the last few years in the Physical Education Centre, including: •Ultramodern, state of the art, 120 station fitness suite with climate control •Strength & Conditioning suite •Airconditioned dance studios with full length mirrors •Increased number of classes and courses with popular options such as Yoga, Bootcamp, Bodytone and more. •Dedicated indoor cycling studio •Two storey central climbing wall •Outdoor training facilities •Health & safety upgrades to the swimming and diving pools •New unisex poolside sauna •Improved sports science/medical support facilities •High performance and lifestyle centre •Disabled changing provision and toilets •Extended opening hours - weekdays 6.30am - 10.00pm; Saturday & Sundays 9.00am - 6.00pm.
