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Centre for Medical Humanities

The Recovery of Beauty

'Stand up Straight': Posture, its History and the Meanings attributed to the Upright Body

Professor Sander Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta and IAS Fellow, University of Durham.

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Beauty is in the Brain of the Beholder

Professor John Onians, Emeritus Professor of World Art, University of East Anglia.

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The Pendulum of Tast: Architectural Protection and the Rise of a State Aesthetic

Dr. Simon Thurley, Chief Executive, English Heritage.

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Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages

14th November 2011, 6.15pm, Lecture Room 201, Elvet Riverside, University of Durham

Professor Elizabeth Archibald, Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Bristol and IAS Fellow, University of Durham.

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I ♥ Fake Beauty

28th November 2011, 6.15pm, Lecture Room 201, Elvet Riverside, University of Durham

Professor Ruth Holliday, Professor of Gender and Culture, University of Leeds.

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'Elegant Surgery': The Beauty of Clinical Expertise

30th January 2012, 6.15pm, Lecture Room 201, Elvet Riverside, University of Durham

Professor Jane Macnaughton, Professor of Medical Humanities, University of Durham.

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Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth

Professor Mark McIntosh, Van Mildert Canon Professor of Divinity, University of Durham.

Mindful Beauty: Ideas and Ideals in Medieval Literature

13th February 2012, 6.15pm, Lecture Room 201, Elvet Riverside, University of Durham

Professor Corinne Saunders, Department of English Studies, University of Durham.

Poetry Reading

Kathleen Jamie. 27th February 2011, 6.15pm Senate Suite, Durham Castle

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Bloomsbury, Beauty and After: Idealist Aesthetics in Materialist Times

5th March 2012, 6.15pm, Lecture Room 201, Elvet Riverside, University of Durham

Professor Pat Waugh, Department of English Studies, University of Durham.

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Violence, Pain and Beauty: Through Lessing to King Lear

12th March 2012, 6.15pm, Lecture Room 201, Elvet Riverside, University of Durham

Professor David Fuller, Emeritus Professor, Department of English Studies, University of Durham.

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On Beauty

30th April 2012, 6.15pm, Lecture Room 201, Elvet Riverside, University of Durham

Professor Roger Scruton, Research Professor for the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Washington and Oxford.

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