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No 6202

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Vol cxli No 6

pp. 141–180

Events, courses, etc.

Kettle’s Yard: Exhibition

An exhibition of film and video works curated by Tanya Leighton, entitled AS SO CI ATIONS, will run from 21 November 2010 to 9 January 2011.

This exhibition brings together film, video, and 35 mm slide installations by an international group of artists (Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Büchler, Matthew Buckingham, Sharon Hayes, John Smith, and Michael Snow) to explore relationships between language and the projected image.

Further information is available at http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/as_so_ci_ations.html.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

German. Award-winning German writer Kai Weyand will visit the Department of German and Dutch on Thursday, 25 November. He will give a lecture in German in the series Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des heutigen Deutschlands, at 11 a.m. in Lecture Block Room 5, Sidgwick Avenue. His topic will be the relationship between lector and writer in the world of contemporary German literature. At 5 p.m. in the Raised Faculty Building Room 106, he will read from his latest novel Schiefer eröffnet spanisch. All are welcome. For further information about Kai Weyand, see http://www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/research/anglogerman/writers/kw.shtml.

Philosophy. Professor Tim Crane, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, will deliver his inaugural Lecture entitled What is distinctive about human thought? on Wednesday, 1 December 2010, at 5.15 p.m., in Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. All are welcome.