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2013–14 international connections and relationship with the sea
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Maritime Stories from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Tell the World
Tell the World Welcome to a season of events inspired by stories from the sea and overseas. In this season we would like to give you a little taste of the connection between our faculty and the sea and beyond to places overseas. Whether these are stories emerging from our research, expressed through music, explored in poetry, dramatized through plays or analysed in films you are invited to come along and get a sense for this element and where it can take you, to Far Horizons. As put so eloquently on the website of our Maritime Historical Studies Centre, which is located at Blaydes House: ‘Seas and oceans have played a profound role in human history. Human societies have long since interacted with the sea and its resources. They have used the sea’s surface to transport goods and people to near and distant shores in their quest to trade, explore and wage war. They have harvested fish and other forms of marine life from the depths of the sea, and extracted oil and gas from the ocean floor. They have also adapted the coast, the interface between sea and land, for the loading, discharge and construction of sea-going vessels, and resorted to that particular environment to meet their needs for recreation, recuperation and retirement.’ Dr Alec Gill will be sharing with us his thoughts on the Hessle Road Millionaires, Tchaikovsky’s The Tempest will be performed by the University Orchestra together with school children, amateurs and teachers and Dr Christopher Wilson will give an introduction exploring the link with Shakespeare.
Her work can be viewed in there as well as at Blaydes House, the Maritime Museum, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull History Centre and Artlink. Plus your first chance to view the digitized Boxing Fleet images – a set of black and white photographs from the beginning of the 20th century which have been masterfully tinted and give a wonderful glimpse of what life used to be like on these fleets. And much more! The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has a long history of presenting great music concerts, foreign language films, talks with renowned authors and offering an inspiring range of educational public lectures. We hope you enjoy our range of events and your time on the University campus.
Enquiries
For further information on any of our events, visit our website www.culturenet.co.uk or contact: Marianne Lewsley-Stier Events Office Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Larkin Building Hull, HU6 7RX T +44 (0)1482 465620 E fass-events@hull.ac.uk
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A shipping container usually travelling the sea, will be interrupting its journey to play host to an exhibition by Hondartza Fraga, our Artist in Residence at Blaydes House. She is creating works in response to the city’s archives and collections concerned with Hull’s whaling past. A Still Better Seaward Peep is the resulting exhibition of the project.
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Oct–Dec
Please contact Marianne on 01482 465620 for opening times
A still better seaward peep
This exhibition is the result of a 10-month residency at Blaydes House by Hondartza Fraga, a professional visual artist, whose work references the marine environment. Her recent work has focused on whales, whale carcasses, whale products and the place these mammals have got in the human imagination. During the residency she has developed these themes further, giving particular attention to the leading role in whaling undertaken by the port of Hull from 1770 – 1850.
Larkin Plaza, Blaydes House, Maritime Museum and Hull History Centre
9 Oct
6.30 pm
C K Stead and Michael Hulse – The Very Best of World Poetry
New Zealand’s world-leading writer, C K Stead invites us to come along a journey through his poems in his new collection ‘Yellow Buoy’ which offer compelling journeys across the world and through history. Michael Hulse’s vivid new collection ‘Half-Life’ takes us to Mexico, Greece, New York … and Staffordshire. Grab this opportunity to meet two of the world’s finest poets and good friends, reading from their latest work and joining in a public Q&A.
Art Gallery, Middleton Hall University of Hull
12 Oct – 9 Nov
10 am – 4 pm
Hong Kong: Made in Britain? Made in China?
This photographic exhibition explores the British and Chinese cultural heritage of Hong Kong. Like Hull, Hong Kong is a global city, defined by its geographical position to drive its key industries. The city has its own unique culture, distinguishable in the language, social habits, celebrations and beliefs of its residents. Social scientists at the University of Hull have taught a range of criminology and sociology degree programmes in Hong Kong since 2009, and these photographs have been produced during periods of teaching and research in the city from 2009 to 2013.
Artlink, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP
16 Oct– 1 Nov
10 am – 4 pm
Exhibition of Edwardian North Sea Trawlers from the Hull boxing fleet.
A collection of tinted glass plate images discovered at an auction in London by James Morley, a collector of historic photographs. These have been digitised by James Morley and a digital display of these unique and often informal images of North Sea life and labour has been created by Robb Robinson. The exhibition is accompanied by a week-long feature on Radio Humberside in their Hidden History series, using audio tapes of Herbert Johnson, which Dr Robinson provided them with. Herbert Johnson went to sea on the boxing fleets and became a skipper.
Art Gallery, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus
22 Oct – 15 Dec
9 am – 5.30 pm
After the Trawl: Hull and Fishing after 1976
Exhibition highlighting the period after the collapse of Hull’s distant-water trawling industry in 1976. How the fisheries adapted and the affect that it had on Hull and Hessle Road. The exhibition focusses on changes in working lives and changes to the fishing district. Following from a successful exhibition in the Maritime History Museum the panels are being shown on Hull Campus.
Lower Ground Floor, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus
25 Oct
1.15 pm
Back to the Future: Twentieth Century American Song
Concert featuring Sarah Leonard and Stephen Gutman, Music Department, 1:15 pm Middleton Hall (tickets at door or by advance purchase)
Middleton Hall, Hull Campus
5 Nov
6 pm
The Dutch in the ‘Northern A Seminar by Tijl Vanneste from CMHS at the University of Exeter. The Seminars are free of charge and will meet at 6.00 Invasion’:Some New pm at Blaydes House. Coffee and biscuits will be available from 5.30 pm. All persons interested in maritime history in Perspectives any of its aspects are warmly invited to attend.
Blaydes House, 6 High Street
13 Nov
6.30 – 8.30 pm
Winter History Course: Sailing into History: Britain’s Maritime Heritage in Popular Culture (6 evenings)
Popular culture has been extensively informed by (in)famous people and/or events connected with the seas. Wideranging in terms of subject matter and mode of delivery, more recent representations of Britain’s maritime heritage include written accounts of life and work at sea such as the C.S. Forrestor’s Hornblower series (which inspired the TV series) and a significant number of filmic accounts - including Hollywood blockbusters such as the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. This course explores what can be learnt about British history generally – and our maritime heritage in particular – from these representations, with a particular emphasis upon questioning the notion of historical ‘truth’.
Room TBC
15 Nov
4 – 5 pm
Rehearsal Orchestra Day: Tchaikovsky: The Tempest
This performance of Tchaikovsky’s dramatic and alluring orchestral work will be led by members of Hull Sinfonietta and will feature school pupils, members of the University Orchestra, teachers and local amateurs. External players who are interested in participating on the day (9.45 am – 5 pm) should contact Dr Tsang as soon as possible on 01482 465019 or at l.tsang@hull.ac.uk.The performance will be preceded by an introductory talk by Professor Christopher Wilson of the University’s Department of Drama and Music.
Middleton Hall, Hull Campus
20 Nov
6.30 pm
Plotting the Kennedy Assasination
By Dr Peter Knight, University of Manchester. This November marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy. In this talk, Dr Peter Knight explores how this event has been imagined and plotted in a wide variety of films, novels, memoirs and conspiracy theories. One of the key questions raised by this vast outpouring of factual and fictional engagements with the assassination is the question of who should be trusted to tell a nation’s history.
Middleton Hall, Hull Campus
20 Nov
1.30 – 3.30 pm
Governing Stateless Spaces: putting maritime piracy into perspective
Modern maritime piracy has been categorised variously as a crime, terrorism, a security threat, a consequence of Derwent Building, the failed State, or a response to poverty and other social conditions. Historians, economists, political analysts, Seminar Room 1, Hull lawyers, and criminologists have tended to construct issues of piracy in different ways, and this has influenced broader Campus responses to the problem of piracy. This workshop brings together a range of experts to share and develop common understandings of the origins, causes and responses to maritime piracy. Workshop leaders: Dr Simon Green and Professor Richard Barnes.
22 Nov
6 pm
CIA and Kennedy Symposium
The symposium marks the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination and will explore the relationship between Kennedy and the CIA and the emergence of the CIA’s public reputation during this period. Professor Richard Aldrich will discuss the media reception of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Dr Christopher Moran will explore the relationship between the CIA and James Bond and Dr. Simon Willmetts will discuss the impact of Kennedy’s assassination upon subsequent popular beliefs about the Agency.
Wilberforce LT29, University of Hull
25 Nov
6.30 pm
Hessle Road: The 3 day Millionaires
Three-day millionaires is a story about Hull’s trawlermen between fishing trips to the dangerous Arctic waters. The crewmen often had lots of money to spend in a short time and lived live to the full in the port’s Hessle Road Fishing Community – all crammed into three days. Come along, view the film and meet the film maker Alec Gill.
Wilberforce LT 15, University of Hull
3 Dec
6 pm
The Weather of the Battle of Trafalgar: What can Nelson tell us about Climate Change?
Dennis Wheeler: University of Sunderland The Seminars are free of charge and will meet at 6 pm at Blaydes House. Coffee and biscuits will be available from 5.30 pm. All persons interested in maritime history in any of its aspects are warmly invited to attend.
Blaydes House, 6 High Street
5 Dec
6.30 pm
John Wedgwood Clarke and Poems on the North Yorkshire Coast
Rich in minerals, marine life and the cries of people and gulls, John Wedgwood Clarke’s debut collection, Ghost Tranby Suite, Pot, charts the ever-changing terrain and history of the North Yorkshire Coast between Flamborough and Saltburn. Staff House, Described as ‘a masterpiece that rewards continual rereading’ by Bernard O’Donoghue, his poems are as many layered Hull Campus as the places they investigate. John has recently completed a prestigious Leverhulme Artists’ Residency with the Centre for Environmental and Marine Science at the University of Hull, and will discuss the enduring influence of the sea on his writing.
10 Dec
6.30 pm
Humber Writers SLIPWAY
The Humber Writers present their new anthology of words and images together with a short film by Cliff Forshaw. Complimentary copies of the Slipway book and DVD. The Humber Writers wish you a Merry Christmas with special gifts!
Art Gallery, Middleton Hall University of Hull
15 Dec
4.30 pm
Real Life Sea Shanties
Bringing together research about Maritime related issues in an informal history meets music meets research event in one of the maritime pubs, musicians, local people and the University come together to share stories and uncover hidden histories.
Minerva, Nelson Street, Hull, HU1 1XE
20 Dec
1.15 pm
University Orchestra Concert with the Mackenzie, Britten and Korngold
A concert filled with music drawing on international maritime themes. The programme features an inventive sea-faring Middleton Hall, Hull overture; a musical response by David Gawthorpe to the attempted assassination of a 19th-century British Prince and Campus naval officer abroad; haunting and thrilling ‘sea interludes’ from Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes; and film music relating to a privateer’s defence of Britain.
20 Dec
2.15 pm
‘The Sea Hawk’
Released in 1940, The Sea Hawk encouraged isolationist Americans to root for plucky Britain at a time when, ‘the ruthless ambition of a man threatens to engulf the world’. Introduced by Dr David Eldridge, Senior Lecturer in American Studies and author of ‘Hollywood’s History Films’. Released in 1940 by Warner Bros, directed by Michael Curtiz, stars Errol Flynn as the ‘dashing and adventurous’ pirate Geoffrey Thorpe, and Flora Robson as Queen Elizabeth I. Erich Wolfgang Korngold received his third Oscar nomination for the score.
Middleton Hall, Hull Campus
14 Jan 2014
6 pm
Marine Insurance: A Naval Weapon of the Long Eighteenth Century
Adrian Leonard: University of Cambridge. The Seminars are free of charge and will meet at 6.00 pm at Blaydes House. Coffee and biscuits will be available from 5.30 pm. All persons interested in maritime history in any of its aspects are warmly invited to attend.
Blaydes House, 6 High Street
30 Jan – 1 Feb 2014
TBC
‘The Health and Welfare of Seafarers: Past, Present and Prospects’
A major international and interdisciplinary conference held across three full days, in which the health and welfare of those who work at sea will be explored in their broadest terms. Confirmed keynote speakers include Dr Alston Kennerley (University of Plymouth) and Professor Helen Sampson (Cardiff University). The conference will be distinctive in bringing historians together with scholars working on contemporary seafarers and stakeholders who work with them.
Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull