Lectures, talks and symposia archive
Cultural Heritage in Wartime: the work of Blue Shield
13 June 2013, 6.00pm | Kings College London
The Blue Shield symbol is the equivalent of the Red Cross, for culture and heritage.
It is the protective emblem specified in the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event ...
Haydn IN England; Haydn ON England. The ‘Shakespeare of Music’ in Piccadilly
4 June 2013, 7.00pm
Dr Derek McCulloch reveals Haydn’s observations on life in England and London in the 1790s as recorded in his ‘Notebooks’ and Correspondence
Aided and abetted on period instruments by CAFE MOZART
Emily Atkinson soprano ...
Emily Atkinson soprano ...
Postgraduate Conference 2013
3 – 4 June 2013 | Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
This annual conference offers postgraduate students working in the field of Austrian literature the opportunity to present their work and discuss aspects of it with colleagues and other specialists. Conference participants will also be invited ...
Mahler on Film. presented by Gavin Plumley
2 June 2013, 10.30am | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Many people's first experience of Mahler is in the cinema. Luchino Visconti's conspicuously sublime Death in Venice (1971) provided a version of the composer – death-addled, neurotic – which has prevailed. Ken Russell parodied Visconti ...
London: The Soul of the Streets. with Iain Sinclair, Andrea Zimmerman and Ken Worpole
23 May 2013, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
In conjunction with Hubert Blanz's Homeseekers exhibition.
London’s buildings, and the stories they contain, are central to the work of Iain Sinclair, Andrea Zimmerman and Ken Worpole. In this event they respond to ...
Private Theatre: Hysterical Opera in Freud's Vienna. An evening lecture by Gavin Plumley
9 May 2013, 7.00pm | Freud Museum London
Post-Wagnerian composers in Vienna, still immensely influenced by the Bayreuth behemoth, actively explored the kind of mental dissociation described in Freud and Breuer's Studies on Hysteria. Employing vast orchestras to create swirling psychodramas, their ...
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