Features
Explore our writing, talks, collaborations, and opportunities
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Welcome Drinks and Research Exchange
Welcome Drinks, Monday 3 October 2022, 5pm, Arts Building 224
Trees of History
Readings and Discussion, 5 July 2022 5.45-7.30, Barber Gallery
“Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap…”
Monday Conversation, 30 May 2022, 5-6pm online.
Daisy Hay: Stories of Romantic Birmingham
Lecture and reception: Tuesday 3 May, 5.30, Arts Building Lecture Room 3.
Songs of Spring
Monday Conversation 25 April 2022, 5-6pm online. With Bethan Roberts and Francesca MacKenney
On Place Value
Monday Conversation 7 February 2022, 6-7pm online: On Place Value
Fire and Ochre: Films by Julie Brook
Video Screening on campus 22 November 5pm: Julie Brook talks on film about labour, rhythm, and the materials of the earth
Tobacco and Feathers… The Art of Looking
Conversation 15 November online: Lauren Working and Lucy Powell discuss art, literature, and colonialism with art historian Stephanie Pratt.
Profiles
Meet our collaborators
Alexandra Harris
Professorial Fellow in English at the University of Birmingham.
Jessica Fay
Teaching Fellow in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham
James Metcalf
Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, King’s College London
Jon Stevens
MRes History of Art, University of Birmingham
What’s on your bookshelf?
Arts of Place members and friends offer a trove of short reflections on items from their bookshelves that have shaped their thinking about place. From classic pieces of nature writing, to contemporary works of criticism and theory, via local history, poetry and novels, we are creating an archive of book recommendations that will help enrich our perspectives.
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Featured image: David Cox, The Cross Roads, oil on panel, 1850, Birmingham Museums and Art Galleries.
Find out more in our Bookshelf entry on Common Land in English Painting, 1700-1850