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Boissonnas and Egypt Conference Invitation | 2 November 2017 | Royal Geographical Society

Boissonnas and Egypt Conference

Royal Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore
London, SW7 2AR
United Kingdom
2nd November 2017
10.00-17.30

The conference will present different perspectives on the context of 1920s Egypt in relation to Boissonnas’s work and explore wider debates around photography and cultural geography.

The conference will be followed by a private view of the exhibition from 17.30-19.30.

ONE OF A KIND - a celebration of Christopher Clarkson's life and work

A gathering of family, friends, colleagues and all who have learnt from him to celebrate the life and work of Christopher Clarkson.

Please book here: https://is.gd/Christopher_Clarkson

Lunch and refreshments will be available from 12.00 noon. In the afternoon, for those who would like to see them, there will be a showing in an adjoining room of two films which show Chris at work.
The event will draw to a close at around 16.45.

Ligatus Public Lecture: The Parthenon Restoration Project with Prof Petros Koufopoulos

Tuesday 9 February 2016
6-9PM
The Red Room
Chelsea College of Arts
16 John Islip St
London SW1P 4JU

The Ligatus Research Centre is delighted to announce a public lecture by Professor Petros Koufopoulos on the history and development of the Parthenon Restoration Project.
Professor Koufopoulos spent 10 years working on the conservation and restoration of the famous UNESCO World Heritage Site at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. He will speak about his experiences and the challenges and achievements of this ambitious project.

John Latham: Anarchive at Whitechapel Gallery

This Saturday, you are invited to two events that coincide with the final weekend of the exhibition 'John Latham: Anarchive' at the Whitechapel Gallery organised by the Ligatus Research Centre and supported by AHRC and PRS Foundation.

Saturday 4 September at 2pm

FLAT TIME/sounding

A composition and performance by composer/author David Toop based on John Latham's ideas of Flat Time.

Performers:

David Toop: laptops, flutes, strings, amplified processes, omnipresent score.

John Butcher: saxophones, etc...

Phil Durrant: Maschine, etc...

Panizzi Lectures

READING BINDINGS
Bindings as evidence of the culture and business of books

A series of three lectures by Nicholas Pickwoad

This series of lectures looks at different aspects of bookbinding to show how bindings can be interpreted and how physical evidence can offer a key not only to the history of individual books and bookbinding workshops, but also to a wider understanding of the function and value of books.

At 18.15 in the Conference Centre, British Library, Euston Road.

Lecture 1
Wednesday 26 November 2008