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In conversation with Professor Tim Flannery
No full textThe inaugural Mick Dark Talk for the Future was given in 2015 by Professor Tim Flannery (Climate Council), one of Australia’s preeminent writers on climate change. The event was hosted by Varuna Writers’ House in partnership with the Blue Mountains Conservation Society and took place at the Wentworth Falls School of Arts. The Mick Dark Talk for the Future was founded after Mick Dark’s passing, to honour his legacy in environmental activism and his generosity in bequeathing the Dark family home to the NSW Government for use as a national writers’ centre. After his talk, Professor Flannery spoke about his new book Atmosphere of Hope (2015) with author and academic Dr Kate Fagan. The following is a transcript of their conversation. The complete audio version of Professor Flannery’s talk and the Q&A session following was broadcast on ABC Radio National’s “Big Ideas” program in October 2015
Tim Seibles, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. In 2013 he received both the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Misericordia University for his literary accomplishments. His latest collection, One Turn Around the Sun, has just been released. Tim is the current Poet Laureate of Virginia and is a Professor of English at Old Dominion University where he teaches literature as well as classes in the MFA in writing program
Tim Seibles, 39th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. In 2013 he received both the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Misericordia University for his literary accomplishments. His latest collection, One Turn Around the Sun, has just been released. Tim is the current Poet Laureate of Virginia and is a Professor of English at Old Dominion University where he teaches literature as well as classes in the MFA in writing program
Tim Seibles: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTim Seibles, the former Poet Laureate of Virginia, was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books of poetry including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, and Buffalo Head Solos. His first collection, Body Moves, (1988) was re-released by the Carnegie Mellon University Press as part of their Contemporary Classics series. Fast Animal was one of five poetry finalists for the 2012 National Book Award. In 2013 he received the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry. In 2014 Tim received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Misericordia University for his literary accomplishments. During that same year, he won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award for Fast Animal, a prize given triennially for a collection of poems. In 2015, he chaired the panel of judges that decided the winner of the National Book Award in poetry. One Turn Around the Sun was published in 2017. His most recent collection, Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems, was released in 2022. He has been a workshop leader for Cave Canem, a writer’s retreat for African American poets, and for the Hurston/Wright Foundation, another organization dedicated to developing black writers. Tim Seibles lives in Norfolk and is now an Emeritus Professor of English at ODU
Interview: Tim Bale on comparisons between Ed Miliband and David Cameron as Leader of the Opposition
No full textEd Miliband could be about the become the UK’s Prime Minister – equally he could be about to be consigned to history as a footnote, known only an another unsuccessful Leader of the Opposition. Sean Kippin interviewed Professor Tim Bale, author of a book on Ed Miliband’s period as Labour leader, and asked about comparisons between the two men, and what a defeated Miliband’s legacy to his party might be. This is part three of a three part interview. Part one can be found here, and part two can be found here
Circles and Mistakes: Interview with Tim Ingold
No full textTim Ingold is a British anthropologist, Social Anthropology Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Fellow of the British Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has explored the relationship between anthropology, architecture, art, and design; and through his work, has invited us to ‘think through making’ and ‘learn by doing’.
Ingold is the author of Evolution and Social Life (Cambridge University Press, 1986); Lines: A Brief History (Routledge, 2007); Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture (Routledge, 2010); and Anthropology: Why it Matters (Polity, 2018), among many other books. In this interview he responds to some questions about the practice of repair in his own daily life, but also the role and comprehension of repair in his intellectual work, and the possible connection between such action and the act of design
Circles and Mistakes: Interview with Tim Ingold
No full textTim Ingold is a British anthropologist, Social Anthropology Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Fellow of the British Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has explored the relationship between anthropology, architecture, art, and design; and through his work, has invited us to ‘think through making’ and ‘learn by doing’.
Ingold is the author of Evolution and Social Life (Cambridge University Press, 1986); Lines: A Brief History (Routledge, 2007); Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture (Routledge, 2010); and Anthropology: Why it Matters (Polity, 2018), among many other books. In this interview he responds to some questions about the practice of repair in his own daily life, but also the role and comprehension of repair in his intellectual work, and the possible connection between such action and the act of design
GWU Professor Dr. Tim Vanderburg Shares Insights on Cannon Mills Leader in New Documentary
No full textComments from a Gardner-Webb University history professor are included in a new documentary film on the life and work of notable industrialist, Charles A. Cannon. Dr. Tim Vanderburg, author of “Cannon Mills and Kannapolis: Persistent Paternalism in a Textile Town,” was interviewed on the GWU campus last November by the film crew. The 60-minute documentary, “Charles A. Cannon: A Mind for Business, A Heart for People,” takes an in-depth look at the life of the visionary whose leadership and philanthropy played out on a global stage.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/1548/thumbnail.jp
Fashion and Physique Symposium:Tim Gunn in conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele
No full textTim Gunn in conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele at The Museum at FIT's 19th fashion symposium, Fashion and Physique, held on Friday, February 23, 2018.The one-day symposium featured lectures and panels on topics such as the emergence of the plus-size fashion industry in the early twentieth century, the impact of popular culture on how we assess the female body, and fashion accessibility for the disabled in the technological age.Tim Gunn is the Emmy-winning co-host of Project Runway. The honorary chair of fashion design at Parsons School of Design, he is also author of "Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor."Dr. Valerie Steele is director and chief curator at The Museum at FIT, where she has organized more than 25 exhibitions since 1997. She is the author of numerous books, including "The Corset.
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