Cy Bonnet is studying on the MA in Public Art and is proposing a piece of public art for inclusion in the Student Learning Zone and would love to receive feedback from staff and students across campus
‘Live Wall’ provides a window for the student and staff to experience and explore the rich content, diversity, sheer hard work and commitment that makes up our unique university culture. Dynamically it will provide a visual portal, the means by which we, within the university can view, peruse, understand and critique the commitment and diversity within our community and culture.
The potential of Live Wall is only limited by the imagination of more than 11,000 students.
The focus is not about ‘Higher Education or E-Learning’ alone but the infrastructure for a more holistic approach. Showing the Cybonnetic project is helping to deliver the academic vision of the University.
To find out more see Cy Bonnet’s Blog http://cybonnetics.wordpress.com/
Professor of Children’s Literature at the University of Bolton, David Rudd, is the editor of a new collection of essays exploring his subject.
The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature is a comprehensive, contemporary investigation of children’s literature, exploring its various genres and qualities. Expert contributors worldwide provide in-depth analyses of why children’s literature is the way it is.
The book’s cover was also illustrated by a member of University staff, Art and Design Foundation diploma programme leader, Julie Brown.
Said Professor Rudd: ‘As far as I’m concerned, it’s the most up-to-date and thorough study of this rapidly expanding field that there’s been – although I might be slightly biased!’
Added Julie Brown: ‘I’m very pleased with the cover. It seems to capture that mix of edginess, innocence and allusion that characterises so much modern children’s literature.’
Anna Zaluczkowska, Programme Leader for Media, Writing and Production has recently attended the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in New Orleans. The theme for this year meeting was Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanism. Anna presented a paper entitled “Whatever you Say Say Nothing” (Northern Irish Cinema) to delegates who had attended the meeting to debate “National Traumas, Diasporic Encounters: Violence, Memory, and Literary/Visual Culture”.
Said Anna; “It was a fantastic experience and the organisation of the conference into small group discussions sessions was particularly suitable for someone, such as myself, who is new to research. I met many academics who were studying Lebanese film, Argentinean film and films about or relating to conflict. We were able to have a very fruitful discussion about the connections we discovered and I have been able to make a range of very useful contacts to help me develop this research further.”
Suzanne Stern-Gillet was invited to present a paper at the conference of the Renaissance Society of America, held in Venice from 7th to 11th April. She spoke on ‘Beauty Simple and Incorporeal: Ficino against the Stoics.’
