IAS Endorsed Events
Durham Bluff: enabling creative collaboration through play - Institute of Advanced Study
Durham Bluff is an informal game with both social and intellectual intent: it is designed to facilitate cross- disciplinary understandings of the concepts and terms prevailing in multiple disciplinary areas, and to encourage Researchers to become familiar with colleagues working in different disciplinary areas.
Based along the lines of Call My Bluff, the Durham Bluff will be set for a 1 hour period on 30th October 2012 (6.00pm). The team members offering definitions will elaborate and the opposing side will in turn decide which definition is true. A referee/host of the event will keep time, keep score, and make any rulings necessary. Prizes will be awarded to the winning team, and one (awarded by the organisers) for the person(s) coming up with the most innovative and entertaining bluff.
This event is free and open to all members of Durham University. Places are limited and therefore must be registered with Linda Crowe (
linda.crowe@
durham.ac.uk).
IAS Public Lecture Series
Each year the Institute organises a series of public lectures given by renowned individuals around its annual theme. These lectures are free and open to all. For further information contact the IAS (
enquiries.ias@durham.ac.uk). Details, dates and times of these lectures will appear on the IAS website (
www.durham.ac.uk/ias).
Earthquake Proof Music
flexible time in the late music of John Cage A workshop lecture within the framework of from zerO, a five day festival organized by MUSICON, celebrating the 100th anniversary of John Cage in ten thunderclaps. It discusses the unique and innovative ways as invented by the American composer John Cage (1912-1992), providing performing musicians with freedom in dealing with time structures on macro and microlevels. It examines the use of so-called ‘time brackets,’ making each subsequent performance similar in pitch but unique in time, a structural device Cage himself labelled ‘earthquake proof.’ The technique investigates how, through the use of
mechanical or other time keeping devices, such as stopwatches, large groups of musicians can be synchronized without the need of a conductor, and how this influences the ways musicians individually shape the progress of time within the given musical material. The workshop will focus on the body of work Cage created in the final years of his life and in particular on compositions performed during the festival: Music for..., ASLSP
Etudes, Thirty Pieces for String Quartet. The session will be led by John Snijders, pianist and artistic director of the Amsterdam based Ives Ensemble, specialized o.a. in performing the music of John Cage.
This workshop will take place on 27 November 2012, 1.00 – 3.00pm at the Institute of Advanced Study and is open to all. Please contact Dr Richard Rijnvos for additional information (
richard.rijnvos@durham.ac.uk / 0191 334 3142).
Durham Book Festival: in Partnership with the IAS
Meet the Authors Writing in the university requires a particular set of skills and is shaped by some very particular pressures. Academic authors need to present original research, to respond to the cut and thrust of peer reviews, to engage in scholarly debate with colleagues, and to be accessible to wider audiences. What is it like to write in this context? Find out more by meeting a range of Durham University authors at these events. Tuesday 23rd – Friday 26th October 2012, 12.30pm, Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin’s Hall, Palace Green. For additional information contact: Linda Crowe (
linda.crowe@
durham.ac.uk).
Time to Think: Meet the Fellows We are all acutely conscious of time: its passing at various speeds; its promise for the future; its measurement and regulation. But what exactly is time? What properties does it have, what meanings does it hold? Join IAS Fellows and their Durham University collaborators as they talk about their ideas surrounding this inspiring theme. Friday 26th October 2012, 5.30pm, Durham Town Hall Tickets: £6 - £4 (Full – Concessions/Festival Friends/under 16s) See:
www.durhambookfestival.com
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