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Interview of Jonathan Benthall
No full textInterview of Jonathan Benthall on his life and work, in particular as Director of the Royal Anthropological Institut
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Yehudi Menuhin: Violinist and Visionary
No full text"Yehudi Menuhin: Violinist and Visionary"
The 9th Annual Nilsson Lecture in Contemporary
Drama and Literature was held in conjunction
with the international Menuhin Competition
taking place at UT from February 21-March 2,
2014. The Fine Arts Library hosted a lecture by
Jonathan Benthall Friday, February 28, 2014 -
5:30pm.
Founded in 1983, the Yehudi Menuhin
International Competition for Young Violinists — hosted this year by the Butler School of Music —
attracts some of the world’s best violinists under the age of 22. The competition helps exceptionally
talented young musicians from around the world to develop into artists of the highest caliber.
Learn about the competition’s founder from Jonathan Benthall, Yehudi Menuhin’s son-in-law, as he
talks about the violin legend’s collaborations with talents such as Ravi Shankar as well as his unique
approaches to music education.
Benthall, who is also an author and former head of the Royal Anthropological Institute in Great Britain,
will provide the talk “Yehudi Menuhin: Violinist and Visionary,” in the Fine Arts Library at 5:30 p.m. on
Friday, February 28, during the dinner break of the Junior Finals competition. The event is free and
open to the public.
The Nilsson Lecture was founded through the generosity of Dr. David O. Nilsson, a retired mathematics
professor at The University of Texas at Austin, independent scholar and Henrik Ibsen aficionado. Past
lectures have featured the Swedish novelist Lars Gustaffson (speaking on paradox in Ibsen’s "The Wild
Duck"), and director of Shakespeare at Winedale James Loehlin (on Stanislavski’s contrarian production
of "The Cherry Orchard"), and an entertaining panel of local playwrights including internationallyrenowned
Kirk Lynn and Keene Prize winner George Brant (discussing the state and fate of theater), a
master class on Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing featuring noted British and local thespians and a lecture
featuring Robert Faires reprising an excerpted version of his notable one-man take on Henry V.
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Tsai : sculptures cybernétiques, environnement = Tsai : Cybernetic Sculpture, Environnement
No full textThe authors expose the creative vision of Tsai. Benthall examines the problems associated with the use of technology for artistic ends and highlights the organic and metaphoric character of the sculptor's kinetic apparatuses. Biographical notes. 16 bibl. ref
Anthropology, Anti-Racism and Schools in the 1970s: An interview with Jonathan Benthall
No full textThis interview with a former director of the Royal Anthropological Institute offers an insight into the very start of conversations about an Anthropology A-level in the 1970s.</jats:p
A REPLY TO JONATHAN BENTHALL
No full textJonathan Benthall's stimulating comment on my essay on civil society and tribal process
in Jordan has five specific criticisms: I pay no attention to gender; I underestimate the importance
of mass media; I neglect the fact that Jordan is an aid economy with the implied necessity of
finding formal organizations through which to funnel spending; I emphasize the importance of
kinship ties, although kinship puts a brake on the country's progress and on meritocracy;
and I emphasize the importance of tribal process when it is precisely that process that reinforces
reactionary trends. I shall briefly address these matters, then focus on the issues underlying our
differences. In that way, I hope to advance the discourse.</jats:p
The Tariq Ramadan visa case
No full textThis Chapter describes the case of Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-born academic and commentator on Islamic matters, who was refused a non-immigrant visa in 2005 to enter the USA in order to accept a professorship in peace studies. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) took up his case. Though it is probable that the real reason for his exclusion was opposition to Ramadan’s political opinions, the reason given was that between 1998 and July 2002 he had made donations totalling the equivalent of US$940 to a charity registered in Switzerland (the Association de Secours aux Palestiniens). In August 2003 this charity was designated by the USA as a terrorist fundraising entity, on account of its alleged links to Hamas-linked Palestinian charities (including zakat committees). Eventually, after two court hearings, the State Department decided in January 2010, in a document signed by Secretary Clinton, to lift the ban against Ramadan’s entering the USA. This Chapter recounts the progress of the case, and reproduces a letter sent by Benthall to Secretary Clinton in October 2009 in support of the ACLU’s representation of Ramadan.</p
'The Mountain People' as tribal mirror
No full textThis article was originally published in Anthropology Today (1994), vol. 10, issue 6, p. 1-3
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