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Since 1967 the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ History Department, joined later by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Art History Department, has sent a group of undergraduates to Venice every autumn term for a unique educational experience. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the History programme, a series of events will be held in Venice on Friday, 1 December and Saturday, 2 December 2017. These will include a lecture by one of the leading historians of Renaissance Venice, , tours of Venice led by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ staff, a meeting of current and former staff and students, receptions, and a dinner on the Saturday evening. For full details, please click .

Held in co-operation with the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Memory Group, this workshop will explore concepts such as attentiveness mindfulness, contemplation, immersion and slowness from a multi-disciplinary angle. The programme consists of three panels, one on the psychology of attentiveness, one on attentiveness in the arts and a third one on philosophical perspectives. Led by ECF Maria Roca Lizarazu.

10.00 – 10.30: Morning Coffee and Welcome

10.30-11.30: Panel One: Attentiveness – Therapeutic and Pedagogical Perspectives

Kitty Wheater (Oxford): ‘The Therapeutic Uses of Attention in Mindfulness-based Interventions for Health and Wellbeing’

Sarah Stewart-Brown (¹û¶³´«Ã½): ‘Experiences in Medical Education’

11.30-11.45: Learning to Pay Attention I: Mindfulness Meditation

11.45-12.45: Panel Two: Attentiveness in the Arts

James Hodkinson (¹û¶³´«Ã½): ‘Levels of Listening. Time, Space and Modalities of Attentiveness in Brian Eno’s Sonic Art’

Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford): ‘Exercising Concentration: Self-Help Literature in the Weimar Republic’

12.45-2.00: Lunch

2.00-2.15: Learning to Pay Attention II: Brian Eno

2.15-3.15: Panel Three: Attentiveness - Philosophical Perspectives

Tim Crowther (¹û¶³´«Ã½): ‘Attention in the Philosophy of Mind’

Hemdat Lerman (¹û¶³´«Ã½): ‘Visual Attention’

3.15-4.00: Roundtable Discussion and Afternoon Coffee: Discussion of Possibilities for Collaboration

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Join us at SO,13 Social Studies Building for a special writers’ soirée, with wine, snacks, good company, and readings from celebrated poets and novelists at The ¹û¶³´«Ã½: David Vann, Gonzalo Garcia Ceron, David Morley, and Jack McGowan, our host for the evening.

The evening has been organised in support of Manifest, an anthology of the very best writing of students currently studying ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s MA in Writing course. The book will be produced in-house by the students themselves and published in mid-2018.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ has been rated no.1 for creative writing in The Times / Sunday Times Good University Guide for 3 years running. Recent graduates have won the 2016 Beverly Series (Sohini Basak) and the 2017 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize (Katy Whitehead).

***AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES***

Published in 23 languages, DAVID VANN’s internationally-bestselling books have won 14 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain, and appeared on 83 Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. The Observer called David’s latest novel, Bright Air Black, a ‘compelling study of human nature stripped to its most elemental.’ A former Guggenheim fellow, National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Wallace Stegner fellow, and John L’Heureux fellow, he holds degrees from Stanford and Cornell and is currently a Professor at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ in England and Honorary Professor at the University of Franche-Comté in France.

GONZALO GARCIA CERON studied English and American Literature at the University of Kent, where he also taught Creative Writing. He is now a Teaching Fellow in the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Writing Programme. His first novel, We Are The End, reflects his interest in the relationship between video games, digital culture, and the construction of narrative. It is published by Galley Beggar Press and has been shortlisted for the EIBF First Book Award 2017.

DAVID MORLEY is an award-winning poet and critic who has published over twenty books including ten collections of poetry. The Invisible Gift won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry in 2016. He was awarded a Cholmondeley Award from The Society of Authors for his body of work and contribution to poetry. He won a National Teaching Fellowship the most prestigious award for teaching in higher education. David is a Fellow of the English Association, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds the Alliance Professorship in Writing at Monash University, Melbourne.

JACK MCGOWAN is a performance poet with over a decade of experience in the UK spoken word scene. He has performed at a number of high profile events including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, StAnza International Poetry Festival, and Ilkley Literature Festival. His poetry appears in a number of online and print publications and he has been interviewed by major outlets such as the BBC regarding his work on UK spoken word. Jack studied his undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ University and returned in 2013 to conduct doctoral research for a Ph.D. in contemporary performance poetics. He is now a tutor on the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Writing Programme and hosts 'Shoot from the Lip' - one of the largest spoken word collectives in the West Midlands. (Find them on Facebook:)