International Public Lecture Series: The Recovery of Beauty

The series will include contributions from high status national and international speakers, including five from within Durham as well as at least seven external speakers. The series will run during Michaelmas and Epiphany Terms 2011-12. It is envisaged that the series will be published as a collection of essays, and speakers have been asked to commit to publication.

All lectures to take place at 6.15pm in Room 201, Elvet Riverside Building

Date	Speaker	Title
18 October 2011	Professor Sander Gilman	"Stand up Straight": Posture, its History and the Meanings attributed to the Upright Body
24 October 2011	Professor John Onians	Beauty is in the Brain of the Beholder
7 November 2011	Dr Simon Thurley	The pendulum of taste: architecture and the rise of a State aesthetic
14 November 2011	Professor Elizabeth Archibald	Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages
28 November 2011	Professor Ruth Holliday	I Love Fake Beauty
30 January 2012	Professor Jane Macnaughton	Elegant Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise
6 February 2012	Professor Mark McIntosh	Beautiful Ideas: the Visibility of Truth
13 February 2012	Professor Corinne Saunders	Mindful Beauty: Ideas and Ideals in Medieval Literature
27 February 2012	Kathleen Jamie	Poetry Reading
5 March 2012	Professor Pat Waugh	Bloomsbury, beauty and after: Idealist aesthetics in materialist times
12 March 2012	Professor David Fuller	Beauty, Pain and Violence: Through Lessing to King Lear
30 April 2012	Professor Roger Scruton	On Beauty